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Finally...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 77 / 84
Date: January 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

For fifteen years, the Mega Man series has been one of the finest game series out there. Sure, Mario may have invented the side-scrolling platformer, but it was the Blue Bomber who perfected it. Mega Man games have kept the same general formula over the years, but added just enough new things to keep the series fresh. And what better way to celebrate his fifteenth anniversary than a collection of many of the games that made the series so great? Read on to see what games make up the Mega Man Anniversary Collection:

MEGA MAN - 1987
Originally appeared on the NES
Storyline: Two scientists, Dr. Light and Dr. Wily, were working together to create robots to help mankind, but Dr. Wily betrayed Dr. Light and reprogrammed their creations to conquer the world. Dr. Light converts Rock, his laboratory assistant, into a super warrior robot called Mega Man.
Notes: This was the first Mega Man game. It was the only one that kept score, and the only one that didn't offer a way to save the game. Hopefully Capcom fixes the latter problem for this rerelease.

MEGA MAN 2 - 1988
Originally appeared on the NES
Storyline: Dr. Wily wants revenge for his defeat at Mega Man's hands. He has now created eight of his own robots to finish what he started in the first game.
Notes: This game marked the first appearance of passwords in the series, as well as Dr. Wily's hideout, Skull Castle. The original version of the game had two difficulty levels, Normal and Difficult, but with previous rereleases of the game this feature has been removed and only the difficult version has been present. It will probably be the same way here.

MEGA MAN 3 - 1990
Originally appeared on the NES
Storyline: Dr. Wily and Dr. Light have reconciled their differences, and have begun work on a peace-keeping robot. Mega man needs to find elements necessary to complete the robot.
Notes: This game introduced Rush, Proto Man, and the slide move. It is also the one that named Roll.

MEGA MAN 4 - 1991

Originally appeared on the NES
Storyline: Dr. Wily may be dead (or so everyone thinks), but there's a new bad guy in town - Dr. Cossack. And he's sent eight of his most powerful creations to destroy Mega Man.
Notes: This was the first game that allowed you to charge up your blaster. Unfortunately, it isn't perfectly executed. This game also introduced the "two fortresses" concept, as well as Flip-Top/Eddy.

MEGA MAN 5 - 1992
Originally appeared on the NES
Storyline: Dr. Light has been kidnapped, and an army of robots is bent on world domination! And it's Mega Man's own brother, Proto Man, who is behind it all!?
Notes: This game marked the first appearance of the modernized Mega Buster. It also marked Beat's first appearance.

MEGA MAN 6 - 1993
Originally appeared on the NES
Storyline: A scientist named Mr. X holds a Robot Design Contest, and announces that he is the evil genius who has been controlling Dr. Wily! He reprograms the robots in the contest to do his evil bidding.
Notes: This was the last NES Mega Man game.

MEGA MAN 7 - 1995
Originally appeared on the Super Nintendo
Storyline: Dr. Wily has been in jail for six months, but he has escaped thanks to a plan he came up with if his schemes were ever to end in failure. Mega Man must defeat Wily's robots and capture him.
Notes: This was the only "true series" Mega Man game to appear on the Super Nintendo (unless you count the highly bizzare Mega Man Soccer.)

MEGA MAN 8 - 1997
Originally appeared on the Playstation
Storyline: Two dueling robots from another world have crashed on earth. One becomes Mega Man's ally, but the other is taken in by Dr. Wily. Wily discovers a form of evil energe in the robot, which he begins using to power his creations.
Notes: This was the only "true series" Mega Man game on the Playstation. It also marked the first appearance of Duo.

MEGA MAN: THE POWER BATTLE
Originally appeared in Arcades
Storyline: Mega Man, Bass, and Proto Man must join forces to stop Wily's old creations from wreaking havoc on the world.
Notes: This game cot a consular release in Japan, but never in America (although it did show up in a few American arcades.) This will be the game's first appearance on a console in America.

MEGA MAN: THE POWER FIGHTERS
Originally appeared in Arcades
Storyline: Basically the same as the above game.
Notes: See the above game.

In addition to the games, Capcom has also promised bonus material. Among this is artwork, remixed music from the games, footage from the television series, and there is bound to be more bonus stuff as well.

All in all, these are ten excellent games, and I am very happy that they will be seeing the light of day once again. When this package comes out, I strongly recommend purchasing it. If you've played a Mega Man game before, you know how satisfying they can be. If not, you're in for a real treat. This is strongly recommended to all gamers.

This is going to be the greatest vidoe game ever made!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: March 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First, I just want to say that I'm a big Mega Man fan, and I was thinking that something like this was never going to happen, but guess what? It finally is!! This game is going to be SO FREAKIN'
AWESOME, that it's going to blow all other video games out of the water!!!!!! Anyway, this game is going to contain Mega Man 1-8, and the two arcade games, Mega Man: The Power Battle and Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters, making that a total of 10 games in one disc!!!!! They're will be other features in this game as well, like episodes from the Mega Man cartoon series, artwork, and more. If you're a big Mega Man fan (like me), you should DEFINITELY buy this game!!!!!!!!!!! Peace out, dawgs!!!!!!!

Wow!!! Mega Man is back in a bigger and better way

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: June 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

What's up everyone. Just saw the review for the Mega Man Anniversary Collection game due to be out on June the 22. I think that for every Mega Man fan out their, you are going to love this game. I've been a Mega Man fan for all my life and am glad that Capcom has decided to rerelease the Mega Man series. And, best of all it's going to be on one disc that only cost 30.00 dollars. So, I give this review 4 stars. Only reason I gave this Mega Man Anniversary Collection 4 stars is that it's being featured on the PS2. Don't get me wrong, the PS2 has great graphics that will bring out the Mega Man Game. But, I just think with the XBOX or GameCube, they can bring out the Graphics for Mega Man a lot better. I own all three game systems and I would just like to see the Mega Man Anniversary Collection featured on all three game systems. I mean look at the game "Soul Caliber II", you can't tell me that Link did not look awesome on the Game Cube. Anyway, I can't wait until this game comes out. But, I think I am going to wait and hope that it is featured on other consoles. Peace!!

Freakin' Awesome!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Ok this is what a true gamer waits for all of his life. Games that he played as a child coming back. I am old enough to remember the release of the MegaMan series all the way back to the second one. This is something that if you played the old ones you will get this, cause its great. All of you who have never played these I challenge you to try them. Games back then were harder than some of the newer spiffier graphic ones. And thats what its about, not graphics but the gameplay that brings us back to a game to play it over and over. Some of the extra features are amazing and you should check it out!

its just so cool

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Ok first of all, megaman is the best. I've been playing video games since I was like 5 years old and the first one I ever played was megaman 4, which is included in this collection. As time went on, more systems came out and the old megaman was pretty much just a page in nintendo history. Finding a regular nintendo, much less and old megaman game was harder to do than lick your elbow. now the world has been saved and not one but 10 megaman games are now available again. Megaman is an awesome side scroller where you are megaman, a little blue dude with a plasma cannon attached to his arm. Each game has eight bosses to choose from in the main screen, which can be beaten in any order. beating a boss grants you the ability to use the weapon of that boss against other bosses or the little peon robots the fill the levels. each boss has one weakness, which will be in the form of another boss' weapon. after all bosses have been beaten, you go into the Dr. Wily, their creator, stage. you beat that and fight him and the game is over. The formula each game is built on is the same, but there are different bosses and levels in each game and the music is so catchy it will be playing in your head for weeks. The games arent easy particularly, but they are worthwhile. Megaman is the best game that was ever made, so PLAY IT!

Mega Man the way it should be!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: June 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This brings Mega Man (RockMan) back to its orignal glory with all the old school feel that everyone knows and love. Must have for all the Mega Man fans everywhere!

the blue bomber in style!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

mega man has had a long history and has foiled different super villians. Whether it be the original Dr. Wily, or the new sigma of the X series, megaman does it in style. This game is the perfect collectors item for die hard fans of the blue bomber such as myself. this game features all 8 original mega man games, ranging from the regular nintendo, the super nintendo, and the PS1.

There are two things in this disc that will make die hard fans jump for joy. first there are two games that were never realeased state side, which are basically boss rush modes. Second there are tons and tons of sketches, behind the scenes movies, and even the original TV trailers for each respective game.

The only small down side to this game, which is really nothing to grope about, is that you do not immeadiatly have access to all of the games. At first only the first two megaman games are available to play, and you must complete them before the others open. This is not such a problem for veterans of the megaman series, since they know all the ins and otus of megaman, but for some looking for an immeadiate fix, this may pose a problem.

Mega man has always been about adrenaline filling blasting and super powerups, and this game volumizes the original collection in great respect to that. Another fact gamers may want to know is that this is the original megaman, unfortuneately you will not find any of the X series games here, maybe a good idea for the next megaman compelation disc?

The most mind boggling thing of the game is its insane value. After doing some research i have found that it would cost over 400 dollars to buy all of these games seperate! Getting all of this for the bargain price of 30 dollars?! you would have to be a fool not to pick this up!

If you ever played a 2D platformer, you gotta get this

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is unreal. Every Mega Man game (not the X series....soon I hope)on 1 disc. There is even music remixes for some levels, which sound great. And these are tough games, which is a welcome commodity. Even with all the latest 3D technology, these games are still a blast.

Only hardcore fans of the series need apply

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: June 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Mega Man Anniversary Collection contains the original Mega Mans 1-6 (NES), Mega Man 7 (SNES), Mega Man 8 (Playstation), and Mega Man Power Battle 1-2 (Japan-only arcade games). For those unfamiliar with the Mega Man series, it's a 2-D side-scrolling action/platform jumping game. The main gimmick of the series is defeating each of the 8 robot bosses, and using the weapons you gain from them to exploit the the weakness' of enemies/obstacles in the game. Each game has been faithfully recreated, with lightning fast load times and no more slow-down than what was in the original versions. Hardcore Mega Man fans will be pleased to know that all of their passwords and tactics from 15 years ago have been ported over intact. However, the older Mega Man games (mainly the NES ones) haven't aged so well...the primitive gameplay and graphics can't squeeze the same replay value out of them as pick-up and play classics like Ms. Pacman, Centipede, and Galaga. Mega Man 7, 8, and The Power Battles have a more polished feel to them and are enough to justify the purchase of the collection despite that fact. Ultimately, this compilation is best reserved for those who have played through the old games and understand them from a nostalgic perspective. You've been warned...younger fans who have been weened on fancy 3-D graphics and dual-analog stick gameplay probably won't find much to get excited about here.

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.

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