Pixels are art, and it was great to hear Capcom's composers working within the constraints put on them by the NES sound chip again.

The controls will never be that wonderfully precise if the levels aren't rendered with such clarity. Capcom went back to its roots, not only because it was retro-cool, but because Mega Man thrives in glorious 8-bit. Sheep Man, Commando Man, Blade Man, Strike One, Solar One, Chill Man, Nitro Man and Pump It stare at me from the screen that let me choose which of them I'll start out with, before I pick Sheep Man and another Mega Man adventure begins.Īfter Mega Man 2 (one of the best games ever) the 2008 hit Mega Man 9 is probably my favorite in the classic series. Wily is supposed to be innocent this time, Capcom tells us, but wise from experience I know that the last boss will be the good old doctor anyway. A bunch of robots are running wild, which has something to do with the robot virus Roboenza. Fortunately, CAPCOM finally realized their mistake years later and decided to develop Mega Man X and its sequels in-house.Here we go again. Overall, good examples of how to botch a blockbuster console license. The graphics are dull, and even the innovative gameplay that lets Mega Man transform himself into different robot types can't save these two Mega Man games from mediocrity.

a cabbage patch doll gone awry, so to speak. Instead of creating faithful reproductions, Hi-Tech reduced the excellent anime characters that NES fans have come to know and love to laughable animated blobs - with Mega Man himself looking like a broken-doll version of Commander Keen. In one of their worst marketing mistakes, CAPCOM gave the task of converting its hit series to the PC to Hi-Tech Expressions, who botched the job quite badly with both games (for some curious reason, Mega Man 2 was never ported to the PC). Mega Man and Mega Man 3 are two first PC versions of CAPCOM's blockbuster Mega Man ( Rockman in Asia) series of anime platform games.

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