Played it at some underground arcade with my bro once. It was pretty cool.

Myself included. It has some of the best music, the most memorable Mavericks, and is a well balanced game. The difficulty isn't brutal, but isn't easy by any means. I do enjoy the other X games as well, but nothing beats the first one. Good purchase, zezhroom.

@Kingbuilder I, like Tasuki, also played it on the AC. It's a pretty neat arcade game, but it does lose it's appeal and become boring if you play it too much. The sequel, Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters, has some improvements over Power Battle, but they both basically play the same and are fun to experience.

Anyone played Mega Man vs. Metroid and Mega Man vs. Ghosts n' Goblins yet? I think they're some of the greatest online games I've played (despite their shortness)

I tend to avoid fan games. In fact, the only good one I found was that 2D Portal game, which kicks loads of ***, and apparently I'm not alone in thinking that since they added the levels to the XBLA version.

You guys are forgetting the Mega Man 4 intro! It's awesome too.

MM2, 3, and 4 have some of the best music in the series. In fact, all the games have good music! (Wait, that's not new info is it? )

Trust me, they're good.

I saw it one time at an ice cream shop when I was like 11 and never got a chance to play it, but I recognized it as soon as it was announced for the AC. That game haunted me apparently. I've not had the chance to play it with someone else, but the single player is pretty boring. Not very challenging, but the characters look great.

Yep, I'm pretty biased towards Mega Man 1 since it was the first MM I ever played back in the late 80's. But MM2 rocked my world, and it's absolutely my favorite. But in ways, I prefer MM9....But I adore Air, Bubble and Wood man's stages. They were highly creative and imaginitive. And for me I just love when the stages are organic. Which is why I always prefer the Water and Air themed stages the most

@WaveBoy - I know what you mean about the air and water stages. They add extra pits and spikes respectively. Air Man is my personal favorite RM. MM9 is a really good game. I was so excited to get it. Hmm...maybe that's why I like that game so much. Just like we have a general bias towards the first game we played, maybe there's a bias for MM9 considering it was something like 15 years between 6 and 9 that it was like my first game all over again.

Or the fact that MM9 feels, looks and plays like a true successor to MM2 as to why it kicks so much
MM9 is my second favorite MM game, Capcom just did everything right with that one.
But nah I know what you're saying between the 15 year gap, but then again....if MM10 were MM9, I'd be pretty dissapointed.

I like 10, I just don't find myself going back to it as much. The endless level was a lot easier which was pretty cool because I can't seem to get very far on 9's. Sometimes I can get close to 100 screens, but usually I die because of some cheap jump.

I found the intro to Mega Man 4 very annoying, and I often had to skip it. MM4 had some good tunes here and there, but IMO, it just doesn't compare to the consistantly great tunes of the first 3.

@StuffyStuff: I also liked 10, and in some ways more than 9. To me it just feels like a more polished experience than 9, almost like they "knew what they were doing" more in 10. It's kind of like Mega Man 1 & 2, because 1 (compared to the other games) lacks polish and isn't quite as good as 2. For Mega Man 2, the formula for the game was nailed on the spot and many improvements were made from the first game. That's how 10 feels, it uses the style of 9 and perfects how the game is supposed to feel. Again, it feels like they knew what they were doing in 10 more than in 9. Don't get me wrong, 9 is good and so is 10, but I just never go back to them as much as the other games. I'm still not sure why, since I used to play 9 a lot, and I loved 10 when it was released. I guess I just don't have the extreme love for 9 that others do. (congrats if you know what the heck I'm talking about )

The music is still great for 9 and 10, as are the Robot Masters. Here's my favorite RM theme from each game:

Gotta love Plug Man! Despite being one of the hardest RMs in the game for me to Buster-only, his theme keeps me coming back to his stage (not to mention it's a good place to collect bolts and has a free E-Tank)

Ah Solar Man, your theme is....so awesome. And again, he's very difficult to Buster-only. I also like playing around with the Solar Blaze, but most don't consider it to be a very good weapon.

LULZ, so last night I decide to turn my Wii on for the first time in a month to update Cave Story. I then decide to for whatever reason to play MM1-4 a little bit at the beginning of each game, and needless to say I was not at my best. Here's my report!

MM1: So, with Wii's pause ability thing, I forgot that when you can press start at the end of the game. Then, you can play with Dr. Wily already unlocked and with all of the RM weapons. All the Robot Masters are darkened but you can still go through them again. So, I fancied myself an attempt at No Damage Buster Only with Cut Man, and I did get through maybe about 3/4 of the stage before those flying orb guys got me, followed by Big Eye. Since I had saved the game with only one life left, I was almost dead and just decided to throw blocks at Cut Man. BAM! Guts Man was next, and I had a few platform deaths of course. I decided to use Guts Man's blocks against him, but WOW does he tank those hits easily, only taking one pixel each! Then I blew him with bombs, just because. Ice Man of course, I struggled. Foot Holders, I'm looking at you! I almost got the hang of the Ice Slashers he shoots, but he still got me enough times I had to continue twice before giving up for the night. Suddenly, I felt like MM2 time!

MM2: New game, difficult, closed my eyes and Air Man was selected! For the life of me, I either struggled greatly or I wasn't trying, because I suuuuucked. I was trying to hop between the big drill head platforms, dying a whole bunch. AND THEN, the lightning bolt platform guys gave me unprecedented trouble with getting hit and dying. Pippi knocked me off once too later on. Air Man then met his end, though if he was a 28-hit boss he would be near impossible. I continued the stage at least three times, definitely not my best performance. Then, closed my eyes, Heat Man. Yaaaaayyyy.....not. No explanations as to where I died repeatedly. Could have used Item 2 but I was being stubborn. I felt like not being tortured as much, so MM3 time!

MM3: New game, closed my eyes, Snake Man! Somehow I knew it was him and he was my guess before the music started! Since MM3 is one of my most familiar MM games, I blew through Snake Man's stage with ease taking only a bit of damage here and there. Spark Man was next! Got hit a bit but went through the stage with relative ease, Spark Man did finally kill me for the first time since his big spark attack is huge and I was trying to formulate a sliding strategy at the same time. Got him on my second try, though. Top Man was next, but I decided to hit MM4 a little bit before sleeptime. I teleport to Top Man's stage, press pause and then WHOOPS I pressed Reset instead of Wii Menu......sigh.... oh well.

MM4: New game, closed eyes...Ring Man. Oh . I'm terrible fighting him without his weakness, and it showed! Continued once, and all six deaths were from Ring Man himself. I know his pattern is supposed to be easy but I've never been good at it. One time I got him to one pixel left, then the still killed me. xD I figured that was a good sign to quit for the night. I did get through the second Ring Boss once without getting hit though, that felt awesome at least.

But the night was fun, and that's the important part!

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@Dezner: Interesting story, it was pretty fun to read, too. It sounds like you're a little rusty, better practice up if you're doing perfect runs! I'm not interested in doing perfect runs myself, I'd rather play the games just to play them.

And yeah, as long as it was fun, who cares how well you played?

I know it's a simple typing error, but.....

When a stage select theme prevents me from selecting a stage because I want to listen to it, you know it's good. Sometimes it seems that the stage select music gets buried by all the other music in the games, and it doesn't get talked about as much. Perhaps it's the repetitive nature of the songs in general, but there's some pretty awesome ones out there. So, here's some of my favorite stage select tunes:

I'd have to disagree with you on that one, man. I consider Mega Man 4's soundtrack to be the weakest of the series. I just didn't think any of the tracks were that memorable (save for maybe Bright Man's theme).

Mega Man 5, however, had a great soundtrack, and probably the most underappreciated one in the series. Just listen to these beauties: