This video was posted on youtube by downtowndanger and if you look though his videos there is a wealth of tunes bitcrushed to 8-bit which you may also enjoy.
Much thanks to Delsys32 over at Full Fat Promotions for bringing this excellent 8-bit artist to my attention
here is the original track so you can compare the difference
**please be warned the lyrics on this original track are definitely NSFW and not for the faint of heart**

*image courtesy of http://brbitrock.weebly.com*

This game has been ported on a few systems namely the Megadrive/Genesis(1991), Gamegear and the Master System (ick) but the platform I draw your attention to  is the Mega/Sega CD port (1993). Now we all know that this console was terrible because almost all of the games were awful but this is for one reason. Only a handful of publishers  could actually write for the hardware (Ok I will admit the unit had a few hard-wired fatal errors) one game that uses and aspect of the platform correctly is this one. The storage capability’s of the CD format are now well known (now) but back then technology hadn’t caught up. Using recordings of music is defiantly this game’s strong point and this particular track is full of guitar licks/widleywee/screeching. In fact the whole soundtrack is very rocking but this one is my favourites!

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*Spiderman has not and never will have existed and even if he did he would not frequent our Forum as he would be far too busy fighting crime and having great responsibility for great power (Read: Making really bad movies)

Ok I think I’ve filled my quota of Nintendo games with great music for now but before I move on to other platforms I need to mention (the award winning) Donkey Kong country (1894) by Rare on the SNES. When it came out we were all blown away by the amazing graphics and at the time of the bit wars this was the main concern of gamers but lets forget that and the play again and again gameplay for a moment and concentrate on the great music the game had to offer. Rare really pulled out all the stops when they released this game and it shows. Composers Robin Beanland, Eveline Fischer and David Wise really did a great job… and to be honest they had to as Nintendo and Rare took a huge gamble with this game… good for us they did!

this version is short but you can get hold of the CD of all 20 tracks called DK Jamz

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So I’m throwing you a curve ball here (wow check out the Brit using an American slang term) and using some music from an arcade game. X-Men (1992) was released by Konami and I’m almost positive that hardly anyone would have heard this at the arcade with all the many games shouting out their own form of musical advertisement.  I was lucky enough to visit a friend who owns a cabinet featuring this very game and was engrossed (I also laughed hard at the Magneto quote “welcome to die”). This is defiantly Japanese arcade music at its fullest and I think it has some Capcom influences . They were both using the Sound CPU: Z80 (all be it Konami at 8 MHz) and two Sound Chips: YM2151 and K054539. Ok I’m getting technical now I had better finish this here before the (Gweat and tewerble) editor Retroist decides to see if I have mutant healing powers by beating me with the business end of  a Mos technology SID chip still connected to his C64 and let me tell you, that will leave a mark (if not on your body then on your mind)

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