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THe legend of the little blue robot

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a collection of the original mega man series, primarily NES emulated, from the late 80s and early 90s. It's quite an amazing set. I played the originals on the NES, so I bought this for nostalgia purposes, but these games have held up amazingly well in the 15-20 years. Although some in the series are more popular than others (most people think the series peaked at MM3), overall they are all playable. Try some of the other nostalgia collections, where several of the games hold your attention for a maximum two minutes, and one realizes what a deal this is. Plus, the games are appropriate for eight year olds. A great value.

Megaman on play - All over again and with extras

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The good stuff:

Great oportunity to have all your favourite MM games back and working on your video game collection.

You can easily switch weapons without menus, like on new ones.

Savegames!

Two Great arcade games included!

The bad stuff:

The games are emulated, and they did some mess here.

First of all, instead of using Sega Genesis mega man 1-3 trilogy games, they stuck to the NES ones. A real waste of great artwork.

Second: Game music from 1 to 7 is recorded. That's not as bad as they improoved the synthesizer on some of them. From time to time the music fades out and starts over, and thats ok. BUT... They took some of the soundtrack off! Topman soundtrack on MM3 is missing and was replaced with something from MM8 I guess. (I hope it wasn't some misstyping on the game code as 3 and 8 might be confused), and in MM2 the boss music was replaced for Dr. Willy's last form music. Damn! There are a few more missplaced musics, but I can't remember right now.

Third: Something is wrong on the emulation. You have a tiny delay on MM1 to MM3 after pushing buttons. It's not big deal but it can be really anoying sometimes, specially on some jumps.

Fourth: They redrew all NES in game menus. They are prettier but... They should have done it on the whole game, or in nothing at all.

Well, even with this, its a really great game! I enjoyed it all again a lot!

Mega Man Rocks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If your a fan of the classic Mega Man Series, this game is for you. All the classic Nes games plus a few bonus ones.

i heart the little blue robot

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

growing up, i only had games 3 and 5 on old school NES. when i finally got my ps2, this game was one of the first i got just because it had those two games i'd beaten so often and 8 others. a great buy for the megaman enthusiast.

Megaman is back!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Nothing brings back the memories more than this Megaman Anniversary game. When I first put this game in my ps3 and began fighting cutman's level, I felt a whole rush of childhood memories. This is a great game for anyone who loves the old megaman games!

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.

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.

Mega Man Anniversary Collection

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: July 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The Mega Man Anniversary Collection for the Playstation 2 has all of the regular series Mega Man games, 1-8, on one convenient disk. This includes Mega Man 1-6 that were released on the NES, Mega Man 7 that was released on the SNES, and Mega Man 8 that was released for Playstation 1 and Sega Saturn.

The collection preserves the integrity of the classic games - they can be played exactly as they were on the NES and other systems. However, you have the option of selecting the "Navi Mode" from the options menu, which upgrades the music to higher quality for most of the stages on the NES games rather than the computer generated music that lacked a synthesizer, and also provides a graphically advanced menu system on these games. All of the music is upgraded on 4-6, with selected songs upgraded in this mode on 1-3. Oddly a couple of stages have music from 7 placed on stages in 3...I would have prefered if they didn't have actual remixes of those songs that they just left them as the original.

There are also some unlockable extras that become available as you beat more of the games. Among these are two bonus games, which are Street-Figher style arcade games using the Mega Man characters. These games apparently were arcade games released on Japan. In addition, music tracks, drawings, and even a full episode of the Mega Man cartoon are unlocked as you progress through the games.

This collection is great in that I don't have to keep all of those space-consuming cartridges around any longer and can still have and enjoy playing these games. This game loses one star on the "overall" ranking because of what was done to the ending of Mega Man 7. Apparently the main graphics of Mega Man 7 at the end were not compatible with the Playstation 2, and therefore had to be removed. The company which was hired by Capcom to port these games over claimed that is why the ending graphics to 7 were removed. However, they also removed the pictures of the robot masters that scrolled at the end - no reason for that. They could have also recoded the graphic, or even taken a video capture of the ending graphics and had them play in that format, or at least still picture shots to preserve the integrity of that game's ending. Ultimately the reason these graphics were missing entirely is not because of compatibility, given the options the Playstation 2 hardware would have provided, but pure laziness on the part of the publisher, and for that, the overall ranking loses a star.

MEGAMAN HAS ALWAYS BEEN MY HERO

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

AT LAST!, THE MEGAMAN COLLECTION IS OUT. THE BLUE BOMBER HAS ALWAYS BEEN MY HERO SINCE I CAN REMEMBER. IF IM NOT MISTAKING JAPAN RELEASED THESE GAMES FOR THE PLAYSTATION CONSOLE A WHILE BACK, BUT EACH GAME WAS ON A SEPARATE DISC. I WAS HOPING TO SEE THESE OUT FOR THE PS JUST LIKE JAPAN RELEASED THEM BUT INSTEAD I GOT MORE THAN WHAT I EXPECTED. EVERY MEGAMAN GAME FROM MM1 TO MM8 AND A COUPLE OTHERS NEVER RELEASED IN THE US, ON PLAYSTATION 2. GET YOURSELF A COPY BECAUSE THIS GAME WILL SOON BE VERY DIFFICULT TO GET AND WILL BE WORTH ALOT IN THE NEAR FUTURE!!!!!

controller is key

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Megaman's cool no doubt,, but the controls on this pale in comparison to the nes. Everytime i play this i wish i was holding an nes controller. I just played Megaman 6 on nintendo and it was awesome. If i wasn't so cheap i would have bought all the original versions...actually after these controls i just might. Great collection of games though...i just wish the nes ones were as cheap.

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