Retro-Spective: The Bombastic Birth of the Blue Bomber

24th June, 1 replies

Mega Man, Mega Man

I've been confessing a lot of things lately concerning my history with gaming, so I'm going to follow my own trend and admit that I never did beat the original Mega Man for the NES. I was born in 1986 and started gaming when I was only two and a half years old, and the first major game that I played to completion was Mega Man 2. It was the first game I ever considered my favorite, and to-date remains one of my coveted top ten. Mega Man 2 is rightly seen as a bona fide classic, and not just through my appropriately rose-tinted glasses. From 1988 onward, I proceeded to play and beat Mega Man 2-6 at least once a piece, proclaiming myself the king of Mega Man, happily carrying on the tradition when Mega Man 9 and 10 came out for the seventh generation digital services. The truth is, the first time I'd ever played the original Mega Man was upon the release of the Mega Man Collection on PS2 and Gamecube, and I'd never beaten it.

Perhaps it was the fact that Mega Man was classic 'Nintendo-hard', or maybe it was just that I'd lost the patience to play and replay a game ad nauseam like I'd done as a child, but I just couldn't come to beat Mega Man. I played it dozens of times, never even getting so far as to beat all 6 robot masters (or 8 in the case of Mega Man Powered Up for PSP). However, now that I've had a chance to play Mega Man on the Wii U's Virtual console with the aid of save states (for science, I promise... mostly), I come to you truly humbled. I may have given up on it multiple times throughout my life, but now that I have beaten it I can say with utter certainty: “#^*& Mega Man”. Yes, I'm using profanity to describe a beloved classic, and I feel completely justified in doing so...

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  • Jarrod Garripoli
    I never did beat the original Mega Man either. I remember getting to the Yellow Devil and never could beat him.
    — 26th June

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