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The Intro Stage Underground music in Mega Man 8 is reminiscent of the Super Mario Bros.Doom would later do something similar for E2M1, I Sawed the Demons. The Stage Select music is highly reminiscent of the opening chords of AC/DC's Big Gun.Also in Mega Man 2, Crash Man's theme resembles "Love Roller Coaster" by The Ohio Players, as well as "Chinese Way" by Level 42.Strangely, it also bears a very close resemblance to Elton John's "I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That", which only came out a few months before Mega Man 2 was released.Wily Castle - Stage 1 theme from Mega Man 2 opens with nine notes that are remarkably similar to Michael Jackson's 'Beat It.' This same string of notes would go on to show up in Mother 3 in the music that plays during the 'Natural Killer Cyborg' fight. A riff from Cut Man's theme from the original sounds very similar to the character select screen music from X-Men: Children of the Atom.Wave Man's theme itself resembles Michael Jackson's "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" in certain parts.Slash Man's theme is reminiscent of "Magical Sound Shower" from OutRun, as well as Quick Man's theme from MM2 and Wave Man's theme from MM5.There are many songs using that four note jingle, some of which predate Journey.
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The video chalks this up to the phenomena that two people can independently create or discover something at the same time, listing various examples. Turns out, Journey was not on Matsumae's mind when she composed the music for Mega Man. This was finally put to rest when YouTube channel Gaijillionaire asked the original composer, Manami Matsumae, if the song was a homage to Journey.Elec Man's theme sounds like several different melodic rock songs.It sounds similar to Cheap Trick's "Way of the World" as well.The chorus of the Eurobeat song "Back to 80's" by Mega NRG Man and Domino also sounds like those.It further resembles the intro theme to the Saturday morning cartoon M.A.S.K. song at the time and had yet to appear on any official releases. "Faithfully" may be the more likely source, as "All The Right Friends" was a very obscure R.E.M. More blatantly, it also resembles "Faithfully" by Journey, which was written not long before the REM song.Electman's theme strongly resembles Bon Jovi's 'She don't know me', Paul Laine's ' Dorianna', and Laura Branigan's 'Spanish Eddie'.In Mega Man, the music in Elec Man's stage is pretty similar to "All the Right Friends" by REM.Therefore, similarities to rock songs are to be expected.
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Do note that the series is known as Rockman in Japan, and thus intentionally has rock music in its soundtrack.