Mega Man Dreams: synthwave/cyberpunk playlist with gameplay

Originally published in October 29th, 2025, in our Gaming Room channel, Mega Man Dreams is a video/playlist where I’ve put together a selection of synthwave songs—evoking nostalgia and/or cyberpunk themes—to accompany scenes from some Mega Man 8-Bit Deathmatch (MM8BDM) matches played by our friend mendHigor.

These are royalty-free tracks that can be used in other projects (provided the conditions/licenses are respected), including your Doom mods. It’s also an experiment: if this “album” format is successful, I’ll continue the Lost Doom Tapes video series, both to diversify the content, to make you come back and listen to the songs again, and to promote the work, whether it’s mods, fun channels like mendHigor’s, or the tracks themselves.

Regarding Mega Man 8-Bit Deathmatch, for those who don’t know, it’s a multiplayer mod for Doom developed by CutmanMike that brings, in the best possible way, the elements of the 8-bit Mega Man games to the id Software’s first-person shooter. The VHS effect used in the video is from a mod made by Lolo_is_cool & Ral22.

Playlist

1. 0:00:00 – 80s Sci Fi Movie Theme by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
2. 0:04:39 – Miami Justice by Karl Casey
3. 0:07:47 – Neon Metaphor by ESCP
4. 0:12:57 – Cyber Crime Story by | e s c p
5. 0:18:00 – Uma by “Matt “Darkvine” Posuniak @darkvinemusic.
6. 0:22:41 – Neonscapes by | e s c p |
7. 0:27:03 – Club in the Future City (AI generated)
8. 0:30:23 – Ghost Protocol by Karl Casey
9. 0:34:21 – Restless by “Matt “Darkvine” Posuniak
10. 0:40:14 – Synthetic by | e s c p |
11. 0:44:15 – Probe by Matt “Darkvine”
12. 0:48:27 – Odyssey by jiglr
13. 0:52:44 – The Engineer by Karl Casey
14. 0:56:50 – Sanctum by Karl Casey
15. 1:00:02 – The Sprawl by Karl Casey
16. 1:03:24 – Destiny by Electronic Senses
17. 1:07:32 – Trapped in the Simulation by Karl Casey

More info and music

• Mega Man 8-Bit Deathmatch @ Gaming Room – More info and media about this incredible mod. In Portuguese.
• mendHigor @ YouTube – The channel of the dude who conducted the gameplays of this video.
• VHS @ Gaming Room – The add-on for Doom that applies an (insufferable) VHS filter to the game. In Portuguese.
• Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio @ VaLeW – More about these songs. In Portuguese.
• Darkvine Music @ YouTube – These songs are presented as non AI generated, and their licenses work more or less like Karl Casey’s (100% royalty free with credits needed). It’s good stuff.
• Rocky (Sega Master System) – Original background music (MIDI version)
• Synthwave Gaming Music TV
• Shadowrun (SNES) – Morgue Theme
• Rocky training in Russia [Rocky IV]
• Arnold Vosloo Tribute – It’s My Life