If you're yet to experience the Mega Man cartoon from the mid-nineties and feel a sudden urge to do exactly that, you're in luck, because the entire show is available to watch - legally - on YouTube.
Produced by Capcom and Ruby-Spears Productions, the show aired for around a year or so back in 1994-95. It was based on the Mega Man games available at the time, and two seasons were completed and aired; a third was reportedly planned but cancelled before seeing the light of day.
We wouldn't exactly describe it as being a must-watch show, but we challenge you to make it through every episode without wanting to shout "Mega Man" along to the theme tune. Here's the very first episode:
If you're wanting to check out the whole thing, it's all available here via Mega Man Retro - Official Channel. There are playlists for each season as well as special compilations. Enjoy!
Did you watch this back in the day? Will you be checking out the full show? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
[source destructoid.com, via youtube.com]
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I have the original DVD Box Sets, but at least this fixes the audio issues on the first episode. I just wish the Mega Man Reanimated Collab would take notice and adjust the audio to match the source material of the Youtube Channel. But as for that tidbit about the series being cancelled before a third season, that's just a sad truth about video game-based cartoons: They're only destined for two seasons, then it's canned. Sonic SatAM felt it with the Power Rangers dominating the ratings, Mega Man felt it, Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures felt it, and even Sonic Boom felt it. Only exceptions are Sonic X which got away with a third season due to being an Anime, not a traditional cartoon show, and Pokémon, as well as YoKai Watch.
Welp, I know what I'm putting on in the background at the office now. Move over, cheesy Nicholas Cage movies on Netflix!
@NintendoFan4Lyf At least it's not the Megaman from Captain N
I watched :
1. America's / Britain's Next Top Model series
2. Biker Mice from Mars (90's)
3. DDR gameplay
4. Dragon Quest Builders 2 gameplay
5. Any funny videos
from TooYube... I mean Youtube from my Nintendo Switch.
It's a great cartoon! Don't listen to the naysayers! It's opening is great, the stories are fun and family friendly. I have lots of memories waking up early on Sunday mornings at 6 just to watch it!
I love the Mega Man series but am not fan of the animated adaptations like one. If anyone enjoys them fine by me.
Eh the 2nd season wasn't -that- bad. I mean it had Mega Man X in it.
Super Fighting Robot!
MEGA MAN
@Bobb You beat me too it, cool points for you!
Is this the Doctor Wahwee one?
@nessisonett No, that's from the video game.
@AlohaPizzaJack With Simon Belmont in Smash they could have made a Captain N Spirit battle. First you fight off Mega Man, Pit and Simon, followed by one of the princesses or Zero Suit Samus and lastly a Mii Gunner and Duck Hunt Duo
I'm surprised on how many series' in their entirety you can find on YouTube. Some officially and some fan uploaded. I've been in nostalgia heaven rewatching shows I haven't watched decades because they aren't available elsewhere
Super fighting robot! MegaMan!
Nothing like watching Cut Man being incompetent.
@SmaggTheSmug: Princess Lana in Captain N was based on Palutena from Kid Icarus. When it went to Nintendo/Valiant comics, Samus was added in, while Mega Man, and Simon were removed.
@Everyone_Else: As inaccurate to the games as these, and Captain were, I still love 'em, and very easily remember watching them, when I was little. Still a fun part of videogame history.
I use to love this cartoon as a kid, now I love it even more as an adult. Though the animations aren't top notch like the games the dubbing back then was spot on and hilarious, not whiny like the ones today.
While it's great to see 'official' releases of older shows freely available on Youtube, just wish that they would upload the videos with the original aspect ratio. There are a few other series available on Youtube that were stretched to 16:9 like Are You Afraid of the Dark... don't really understand why they'd do that especially with SD source material.
That brings back memories. I was only able to watch a few episodes as a kid only by chance because of the bizarre scheduling (remembering the one time it showed 5:30 in the morning).
It was so hard watching cartoons and animes back then. If you didn't know when the show was going to be on (which can change next week) or have a VCR to record, you missed out. No internet streaming or on-demand to help out.
Thanks modern day technology.
This cartoon may be a 90's cash in, but its a damn good cash in. Mega Man meeting X is something that we will likely never see again after all.
Okay, interesting
@RickD I was a Commodore Kid until maybe 1991 when I got a Master System so my entire knowledge of Nintendo franchises came from Captain N, Zelda and the Mario Bros Super Show
@NintendoFan4Lyf Still better than that new CGI crap cartoon
I was just thinking about this terrible yet interesting show. It solidified for me how much I hate the American/Western way of making cartoons (or any entertainment, really) with the hero virtually unstoppable, far more than he'd ever be in the actual game. I remember one scene Mega Man was up against four Robot Masters at once, one of them (I think Cut Man) said "He can't take us all" and Mega Man replied "You'd be surprised what I can do" and literally shot them all down. That irked me enough to stop watching the show.
Episode 2-12, @7:42 is what you're looking for.
Nah I'm good. I own the boxset. Its a really fun cartoon and I love it. My daughter and cousins like it too. Arguably one of the best vg cartoons ever made. I put it up there with greats like Kirby Right Back At Ya! And the Super Mario Brothers Super Show.
It also rips Fully Charged to shreds and craps on the pieces in terms of character design/artwork, coherent plots, good pacing, rockin soundtrack and action.
@GameOtaku Cheers! Always good to find another fan of this cartoon.
Shame it's stretched to fit 16:9 and not the way it was animated in 4:3
@Discostew That made my day!
It ain't good but it's got a good heart. If it were made today, those two problems would be subject to a total and complete paradigm shift.
Oof, that stretching.
I have to watch it someday.
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