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Nostalgia kicks butt

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Everywhere I've seen this game for sale it has never been more than thirty dollars for a brand-new copy. There's a reason for this phenomenon ... supply and demand. These games are not even close to high-tech by today's standards. The graphics have not been polished or redone in any way. The MegaMan experience is, indeed, quite the same as it has always been. And, let's face it, that might not appeal to everyone. Therefore, the game is cheap.

But for those whose gaming life began with the MegaMan games, this collection is pure heaven. The games, from the controls to the music to the graphics, are exactly the way they've always been. And you don't have to pull any cartridges out to blow the dust out of the connectors. (C'mon, you old-school gamers know EXACTLY what I'm talking about)

I'll be honest: Because of its old-school nature, the collection will NOT live up to the expectations of the younger generation. It will do little to win over anyone who's used to the more aesthetically-appealing games now produced. Don't get me wrong ... the newer games are fun in their own right. But let's not forget where those games came from. History is important, people!

I have comments about a few of the games in particular ---

MegaMan --- This has always been (and it continues to be) the most difficult in the series. No Energy Tanks and no password feature. Those damn cyclops-ish hopping things that can kill you in three or four hits. Those floating platforms on IceMan's stage that also shoot out of both sides have always given me hell. And now it seems that the "pause the game repeatedly to kill difficult bosses" trick no longer works. It didn't for me, at any rate. Still stands out as the starting point of a great franchise.

MegaMan 2 --- *sigh* This is the game that really got me hooked on this series. And even after ten years or so I could still remember what order the levels are supposed to go. Is that sad? I could even whistle along with some of the music.

MegaMan 4 --- ToadMan is too easy. Honestly, if you can't defeat him, you're a loser. Sorry to sound mean, but it's the frikkin' truth.

MegaMan 6 --- FlameMan, on the other hand, is a hard one. His stage and the 'bot himself. Ah, well.

It seems to me that the programmers were probably running out of ideas for the 'bots by the end of the series. I mean, how many names can a robot who is affiliated with fire have, really? FireMan, HeatMan, FlameMan. I guess it's better than the Fire Manatee or whatever it was that showed up in the MegaMan X series.

But I digress.

If you're familiar with the games from your days of youth, pick up this collection. It's a lot of fun to relive your childhood, and you won't even have to go to the hassle of dusting off that old RF adaptor. Hee hee.

A whole batch of the Blue Bomber.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Many people will probably look at this game and just think whats the point. A simple 2D side-scrolling platform has the appeal of a walnut to a wolf. But to old school gamers this is our meat and potatos. For those of us that were sick to death of bashing bricks with our skulls and crushing mushrooms the Megaman series was our deliverance. I loved everyone of these games as a kid and I forgot about that until recently. I probably haven't played a side-scrolling game in over 12 years, adjusting to that alone was a challenge. Then after a few hours of playing my thumbs really start to hurt a strange yet oddly familiar type of pain. This created a strange nostalgia which may have been the true source of my enjoyment. I wouldn't recommend this game to anyone born after 94 but to any of us older gamers out there who started with pong, atari, caleco vision, and finally cut your teeth with MegaMan, it's definitely worth a 5 day rental at least.

The blue bomber is back

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

man has really been this long since i have played the first mega man game way back on the NES? well i guess it has. this collection simply put is one of the best compilations of a game series ever made.
This collection gives you every mega man that was ever made on the NES and the SNES(mega man 1-8) plus two additional "mini-games". and it includes a full length episode of the mega man cartoon show (which must be unlocked first). those familiar with the series will definitely love this collection. however its not for every one. the early games in the series tend to be a bit hard and can be very frustrating.
over all this is one of the best games i have ever bought. and especially with such a low price tag should be a part of every body's video game library

The Best Game Compilation Ever!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Megaman Anniversary Collection is quite possibly the best game compilation ever. All eight console Megaman games are included plus two arcade ports from Japan. On top of that there's artwork to be seen, remixed music to hear, a producer interview for the Gamecube version, the Megaman "anime" for the PS2, (the "anime" in question is actually an episode from the crappy American cartoon from the U.S.) and both for the Xbox. Capcom released Megaman Anniversay Collection on June 22nd, 2004 for GCN and PS2 and on Xbox on March 15th, 2005. I just couldn't wait...

Here's a synopsis of what you're getting:

Megaman - This is the rock-hard game that started it all back in 1987 on the NES. At the time of its release it was cutting edge.

Megaman 2 - The greatest Megaman game of all time! Even the series creator Keiji Inafune thinks so. MM2 perfected the Megaman formula, gave us two difficulty settings, has some of the best game music EVER, and a killer ending. If you play any Megaman game, play this one.

Megaman 3 - In contention for the title of best Megaman ever. Some fans like their Megaman a little harder and a little longer. This game also introduces the slide move and Rush the robodog.

Megaman 4, 5 and 6 - these are like extensions of Megaman 3 with steadily improving graphics. All good in their own right.

Megaman 7 - Megaman goes 16-bit on the SNES in 1995. One of the great platformers for SNES. This is the game that introduces the character of Bass.

Megaman 8 - Megaman goes 32-bit in one of the last great 2D platformers. This game features anime cut scenes and fantastic visuals. This might actually be my favorite game in the series, but one sore point; the Anniversary Collection emulates the inferior PS version of MM8, I don't understand why the Saturn version wasn't used.

Megaman:The Power Battle + Megaman:Power Fighters - These are coin-ops that were previously found only in Japan. If you beat all 8 bosses in MM3 you unlock Power Battle. If you beat all 8 bosses in MM7 you get Power Fighters. These unlockables are basically fighting-style arcade games. It's nice two have some 2-player games included.

No matter what system you own Anniversary Collection is a great value, especially if you've never played a Megaman game before. But beware, if you're a long-time fan you will be frustrated by the Gamecube's control scheme: The jump and fire buttons are reversed and there's no option available to change it. I don't see how such a simple design flaw could be overlooked, in any case; the PS2 or Xbox version is the way to go if you're stuck on the classic control scheme; the Xbox version being far and away the best due to improved extras... too bad I couldn't wait for it. GCN:B+ PS2:A- Xbox:A

Wow what a dream

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

About 2 years ago i was trying to buy all my nintendo games back. And when i saw how expensive the megaman games were (up to $20 a game) I thought I'd never get the whole collection. But this is unbelievable. There are 8 megaman games and 2 international ones. They are exactly like the nintendo games, sound, quality. There is a huge plus, you can save them!! Love it, i'm so happy i bought this.

Classic old-school at it's finest

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Mega Man might be old, but he's one tough little midget. Back in his heyday, he ran through a gauntlet of action platformers, foiling the ever-nefarious Dr. Wily and his band of unique henchmen over and over again. Unfortunately, there was one recurring frustration with Mega Man: his adventures had become too repetitive, each new game simply a mirror of the last.
In an ironic effort to keep the fading series fresh, Mega Man is constantly being re-imagined. Over the past few years, we've seen Mega Man X, Mega Man Legends, Mega Man EXE, Mega Man Zero, Mega Man Soccer, and coming soon, a Mega Man RPG. Cripes! All this for a robot-kid who didn't learn how to duck until Mega Man X5, some 20 games into the series? Rather than keep us interested, this overbearing diversity is enough to make us long for the simple action of the original games.

But have heart, young gunners - Mega Man Anniversary Collection hops aboard the time travel express and offers a nostalgic trip back to the classic Mega Man games. Newcomers might not get misty-eyed, but even they can't argue with the value-minded price. The collection includes all the classic games, Mega Man 1 through Mega Man 8, plus two average fighting games never before released in the U.S.

For newbies who don't know much about the series, Mega Man is a blue robot with a heart of gold. In Japan, his name was Rock Man. His sister robot was named Roll. Rock and Roll. Oh, the wit.

Anyway, Mega Man repeatedly fights against Dr. Wily, a crazed inventor who fashions eight evil robots of various talents. By beating these robots, Mega Man earns their weaponry, each of which is effective against some other major baddie. Eventually, Mega Man throws down against Wily in the evil scientist's skull fortress. Wily gets whooped, promises to always be good, brush his teeth, and never again wrong the world'and five seconds later, he does it again.

The good news is that there are no emulation problems in this collection - expect perfect 8-, 16- and 32-bit recreations all the way. You jump, you shoot, you gain new abilities, you jump and shoot some more. The games play just as they did originally, which means they're still hard, fun and classic.

That being said, some of the games are better than others. The original Mega Man was difficult and not particularly fun, and the same holds true today. Things pick up in Mega Man 2, 3 and 4, where the series truly found its groove and defined itself as a top-notch platformer.

Much of that has to do with the robots. Some of them look sharp, like the wicked Pharaoh Man and Snake Man, while others look improbably ridiculous, like the moronic Clown Man. As is usually the case with a series that has stuck around a little too long, the designs get less original and more far fetched as the years pass. The best robot designs, unsurprisingly, are in Mega Man 2, 3, and 4. With each new iteration, you can see Dr. Wily losing it more and more. Flower Man? Top Man? Wily, please.

Really only a few changes have been made to the games and they're very minor. The Navi remix mode that first appeared in Mega Man 8 is now in every game, which overlays intermittent, non-invasive directional arrows to help keep you from going the wrong way. Navi mode also replaces the original 8-bit midi tracks with actual instruments. The 8-bit versions still sound more fitting, but the remixes certainly aren't a problem.

A new quicksave memory card system has been grafted over the old password system, allowing easy automatic saves instead of the tedium of writing down all the grid information. Purists can still enter in the old passwords or start over if they die, however.

The interface wrapping everything together is kind of neat as well; instead of a normal menu, Mega Man runs through doors marked with the various games and options. While superficially clever, much more could have been done with this. Why not a museum for Mega Man to wander through?

It's a little hard to quibble about "extras' in a collection of this size, however. Mega Man Anniversary Collection does include plenty of art and audio to unlock as well as the two unreleased fighting games, both of which are pretty bad. The PS2 also enjoys a Mega Man cartoon episode.

For $30, there's no cheaper way to re-experience Capcom's mega-past. Though the series is pretty much stale these days, that wasn't always the case, and the Mega Man Anniversary Collection serves as a reminder that while the games might feel a little dated, the Blue Bomber still has some fight left.

Still Holding Its Own

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: June 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

There are probably new gamers out there who have never even heard of Mega Man and find 2D side scrollers to be boring. I think of games like music: in order to enjoy new music more thoroughly, it helps to have knowledge and appreciation of what came before. The Mege Man series is one of the cornerstones of Gaming. The gameplay is fast paced, the enimies are extremely imaginative and the characters are memorable. This game is not only a great value, but for players like me, who haven't played all the games included on the disk (I only made it to Mega Man 3 back in the day) it is really a treasure. Lastly, if you are trying to decide which platform to buy this game for, get the PS2 version, not the Gamecube. For some bizarre reason they switched the controls on the Gamecube version and made the "B" button jump and the "A" button fire. Confusing! All is right with the world on the PS2 version: "Square" fires and "X" jumps.

This is one of Capcom's finest

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The Mega Man Anniversary Collection is the game that I have been waiting for all my life since I was 6 years old. There is just something about the little blue guy shooting at robots and temporarily adopting their weapon powers that addicted me at such a young age and even now as a grown man. Some say that it's pathetic that I can hum every single Mega Man song for every robot master stage at a moments notice but I call it dedication (I know over 100 Mega Man songs and can play two of them on a piano, I also made lyrics for two of the songs).
There are so many good points to this game that must be said. First and foremost, every little detail is the same. Nothing has been changed or remixed in any way to fluctuate from the classic style of Mega Man gaming (meaning Mega Man 1 is still the undoubtedly hardest game of them all). Second, The arcade-only power battle games are available which is great because they were really rare to find in arcades. Finally, you have the choice as to whether or not you want that great mega man music remixed which is a big plus.
I gave the game a 4/5 overall score only because of a few minor flaws. First, some stages don't have remixed music which kind of let me down a bit. Second, Mega Man and Bass (Mega Man 9) is not available, probably because game boy advance already released it. And lastly, Mega Man 8. That game truly annoys me to death because everyone talks, Dr. Light sounds like Elmer Fudd, Mega Man sounds like a 2 year old girl who can talk, and the worst part, Mega Man swims. Don't get me wrong Mega Man has dealt with deep water in the past, but he was never actually able to tread the water like a person would.
If you played Mega Man and liked it the least bit, I would suggest blowing that birthday money on this game. Only 30 bucks too. Even if you never heard of Mega Man, I suggest you get this game as well. My roomate never heard of Mega Man but I forced him to play one day and now he's hooked. You can't fail buying this game.

Decent collection... for the NES games.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Well... the NES games are great (considering that the versions present in this collection come from the Japanese Rockman Complete Works rather tan the original cartridges); they come with some pleasant "new" features, like rearranged music and things like that. But... some of the new music tracks have been poorly edited (like the ones present in the Navi Mode of Megaman 6; they're all horribly saturated, it seems they were recorded by analog means by amateur sound technicians and it's always best to play the game in its original mode).

Megaman 7 and the arcade games have a horrible screen resizing that seems to have been done manually; the music loops in Megaman 8 are done almost randomly and Sword Man's Theme has a very weird sound gap before looping. And the general sound mixing for this game is also bad; some explosions will blow you off your seat while other important sounds are barely heard. I have the original Megaman 8 and I see all these changes. The extras aren't as great, either.

I recommend this collection only for the NES games (and Megaman 6 only with its original music; the re arranged title theme for Megaman 3 is also horribily transfered); they were well emulated only because they had been already emulated for the Japanese PSX versions. Anyway, the NES games are great fun, and they are the biggest slice of the cake.

Of course, if you don't care about these little imperfections, this game is sure to keep you entertained for hours and days.

OLD SCHOOL MEGA MAN ROCKS!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: December 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I can't say how happy I am about this game of all games being released on PS2! This game is da bomb(for all you Mega Man geeks out there, I feel ya). Every original Mega Man series game all put on one disc for an elite system. Let me discuss a few great things about this game. 1. These are the original Mega Man games from the NES, SNES, and Playstation not including the X games though(tear, tear). I really wished that the X games were on here, but I've gotten over it. Don't get me wrong, it's still great! I mean, how cool is it to have old games, especially classics, on the PS2? 2. It also lets you play two arcade games that were only released in Japan. If you ask me, that's pretty cool. I'ts almost feels like black marketing! You get to fight dozens of original robot baddies with your choice of Mega Man, Proto Man, Bass, and Duo. 3. It even has bonus features that you earn by beating the games. I'ts almost like a DVD! You can earn remixed techno music, original character sketches, and an episode from the Mega Man series on TV that tells of his past. 4. This game helped me a whole lot! I've been a big fan of Mega Man since I was like 5, but the first one I played was Mega Man X. I had never played the original ones until now, accept when I rented Mega Man 7 one day not knowing that it wasn't an X game(duh). Later I had found out that Mega Man X wasn't the first game. I had missed out all those years. Until, one day I come to Toys R' Us and see a demo of Mega Man Anniversary Collection. Right there I said to myself, "I have to get this game". Now, I'm gonna tell you something cool. This is a great bargain! You know how original Mega Man games can be rare and expensive. I went to a game trading store and found the first game for $149. @#$%! That was insane! And you know how people will sell these games for a very large price on Ebay or something like that. Get this, I bought 10 original Mega Man games all together on one disc for PS2 for a almost a fourth the price of the first game. Now that's a deal! You can't get much better than that! Here's the reasons why. 1. God is generous. 2. I'm not stupid. 3. It's better to get all the games on an elite disc for an elite system at a fraction of the price instead of buying every single NES, SNES, and Playstation game that might glitch or just stop working and put a major hole in your pocket! Get it? Good. Because I don't wanna have to repeat myself. I'ts just a better bargain! I'll let all you "Must get the exact, rare game!" geeks to do what you want and waste your money on old games that are about to foam with battery acid. Summary: The game rocks. That's all.

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