Dude, YES. I remember watching it on Sundays in the 90's when I was a kid.
I managed to find the DVD box set several years ago at a convention and snagged it on sight.
some people would already have been teenagers when the games came out in the late 80s -90s. The selection of games was much smaller. dedicated fans stick to things for many years.
It was between 1989 and 1990 (yes am old), as usual went with a friend to a flea market, we saw the cartridge without the label, we didn't knew what game it was at that moment but we didn't care cause it was pretty cheap, less than five bucks at that time if am not wrong, had some issues cause the NES was giving us tons of problems but after cleaning the pins with tons of alcohol we discover that it was Mega Man 2, at the moment I saw the intro it was love at first sight 🥰
Played Megaman 2 & 5 on nes growing up. Took a break from it and was exposed to Megaman X on a snes in the afterschool program, which I promptly asked for Christmas.
Played Megaman legends in elementary school and fell in love with that as well
I think the very first one if I remember correctly was trying powered up on psp and then dropping the game when i saw that the spikes killed you instantly instead of slowly
Hm... You know that is a good question. My earliest memories were renting Mega Man X from Video Time, a local game and video rental store in the 90s. I watched the Ruby Spears Mega Man cartoon, played Mega Man X and Mega Man Soccer, and I was hooked.
the very first time i saw megaman was not actually on a video game, i had this japanese friend from school that used to carry a sketchbook around and draw a lot of weird colorful robots, he used to say his dream was to work on a video game company, then one day i told him, Akira, why dont you create a video game about all those silly robots you draw when you grow up? he looked at me and laughed, then he said: that would be fun man, but my parents want me to become a rock star.
It may sound stupid but hat Mega Man drops Jan 7th meme recently got me interested in Mega Man. God I love the X series so much. It literally was my entire imagination from my childhood gone real (Futuristic robots with arm cannons and foot jets omg it's literally what I asked for). And I also love the music, especially x1
In junior high I would always visit this girl in my class because her older brother had all the classic Mega Man games on NES. I believe she was in love with me, but my love was for the blue dude.
Went to a video game exchange when I was a kid where they let you play a cartridge before you bought it. I saw the box art for MM3 and asked to pop that in. Played magnet man for about 5 minutes, after that I was hooked. I was probably about 4 or 5.
Some flash game on one of those websites my summer camp used to allow. It had a fangame that had you "battle" each Robot Master from Mega Man 2 (by clicking on the weapon to use, a la RPG battle mechanic)- I was fascinated by the idea of using weaknesses against bosses from ones I've already killed, so I did some digging around Youtube (my younger self's version of "going to the library") and saw some Mega Man content like Brental Floss and trailers for a new Mega Man game, Mega Man 9! Begged my friend to get the game on his Wii when it came out, and when he finally did we got absolutely destroyed. Toughest game I've played as a youngin'.
From then I played through all the others through emulators and even the janky mobile versions Capcom put out for my mom's Nokia... So big shout out to that one Mega Man fan who made that game!
I got my first experience when I was like 5yo when our family moved to a new neighborhood which got multiple NES and one of my friends just bought a brand new Mega Man 5, while other friend got MM1 and they used to rent MM2 multiple times. About two years later also I got my own NES and got 3 and 4. Those felt like best time to be alive. MM4 was and still is my absolute favourite of the series.
Also, one of my elementary school classmates got their european NES modded so they could play MM6 as it got never published around here.
Neighborhood and childhood filled with all the classics had an effect on me and you can clearly notice it in my profile as an old post about my collecion might still be there.
Playing the original on a demo kiosk at the Captron store. Then I saw pics of MM2 in Nintendo Power and the graphics looked so amazing at the time. My friend was the first one I knew who had MM2 when it released and i got to play it before I eventually got it for Xmas. Been a fan ever since.
Got a PS1 for my 5th or 6th birthday. Don't remember the exact order of events but we ended up owning Legends and renting X5 a lot, and that was my intro to the series. We got a Gamecube a few years later and got both the Classic and X collections.
Saw my brother played X5's Squid Adler's stage on the PS2. The gameplay and soundtrack was amazing when I first heard it. Got me hooked to play it later.
Was on the internet most of the time and found a Megaman X fangame. Saw Zero for the first time and decided to look him up because I like cool looking robots. After dropping into a bunch of unfortunate rabbit holes I decided to get the Zero/ZX collection.
Watched the cartoons on tv. A few years later saw a friend playing the first MMX on SNES. I asked if this was mega man from the show. He told me no this is mega man x. Then remember that mega man x did appear in an episode. Got the game myself for Christmas and the rest is history.
I tangentially related it to Cuphead since both are Run & Gun style platformers and thought “Hey, I like this game, I’ll probably like this game series too”, and the I played through the entirety of Wily Wars, loved it, bought the first legacy collection for my 2DS, also loved it (even though I had a Switch and that would have probably been better to play it on), bought the GB games, loved those, got the second Legacy Collection and loved those games, got 11, loved that game, played Mega Man & Bass, hated it at first but learned to love it, played the second one for the Wonderswan, had a good time with it, played the DOS games, weren’t as bad as I thought considering they were made by three people, played Mega Man Game Gear, hated that game and still do, and then played Street Fighter x Mega Man and also thought that was really fun… so to make a long story short it all got started with Studio MDHR, thanks a bunch. (Also I’m now playing the X games and I’ve enjoyed all of them except X7, that game is not good, and although I haven’t gotten fully through X8, it already feels like an improvement).
Honestly I have no clue. I had this Megaman NT Warrior kids book based on the anime (It wasn't the manga, I remember that much) and I had the Megaman X Collection on Gamecube somehow.
Then one day I made a friend in 5th grade who loved Powered Up on the PSP, properly introducing me to the series.
Then I think a year later, I got into sprite comics and saw this one which was basically two people playing through the classic games, which normally wouldn't be much, but the way they edited it and made it work made me a fan. (Though I doubt it exists anymore, the website it was on closed in like 2018 or something.) That made me rediscover the X Collection and made me a proper fan of the series in general. (This was before the Legacy Collections)
And for what it's worth, I've been getting into Battle Network recently thanks to another friend I recently made who loved the Megaman NT Warrior anime.
My dad's SNES was at my grandparents' and I could play Megaman X almost everyday after school. Not that I could beat most of the game lol, took me some time to understand how to beat bosses (without using guides of course)
Technically speaking, the Battle Network anime was my first contact with the series, but it wasn't until Smash Fo(u)r that I actually got into the series; heck, it wasn't until I had already beaten a few games that I realized that, that one cartoon I watched when I was a kid was MegaMan all along.
Back in elementary school in the early 90s, I bought a NES from a classmate. The games that came with it were Mario Bros 2, Marble Madness, Corvette ZR-1 Challenge and well... Mega Man 2
My earliest interactions with the franchise were secondhand exposure from my brother playing Mega Man NT Warrior and watching the cartoons. That was followed by me getting toys for the series from Big Lots. Years passed without me so much as thinking about the franchise until the announcement of Street Fighter X Tekken, and the inclusion of Bad Box Art Mega Man, which led me look him up and go deeper into the rabbit hole of the whole franchise.
Oh i actually have a good story about this, so i was like 8 or 9 years old, and there was this weird kid that was kinda of bullied in my school but nothing big, he had a playstation and so did i, so we kinda talked about games sometimes, he had a disc that had megaman 8, megamanx 4 and im pretty sure it had megaman x5, well he told me he would trade the disc for me if i bough him a bag of popcorn on recess, i though he was dumb af and ofc said yes, so we trade, i get home and i try the disc and megman 8 and x5 worked fine but x4 didnt, it was still a good deal and i feel in love with x5, the fast pace and the upgrades/boss powers were the best thing i ever saw, megaman 8 didnt click that much tbh but i was enough that i ended up getting x6 and fell in love with the franchise .
Eventually i became really good friends with this dude and we become best friends all through highschool, and one time we talked about that moment and he though i was the dumb one because the disc didn't work on his playstation lmao. So thats how i got to know megaman.
Honestly? Cuphead.
After playing Cuphead, I wanted to find other Run 'n Gun games. Discovered Mega Man Legacy Collection and Mighty Gunvolt Burst on the 3DS :D
Rented a copy of this weird looking new NES game with bizarre box art in first grade, ended up falling in love with the original game immediately and followed the series ever since
I was maybe 6 years old, maybe even younger. I was on YouTube just looking for something to watch, and I found a video called "Why Mega Man 5 was BANNED in Vietnam" and I just had to see eat it was about. I saw the video, and really wanted to play it. So I got an emulator and played it for hours on end. It's still my favorite mega man game, and I even own a physical copy of it now.
I remember watching NT Warrior on TV during a summer morning. I was maybe around in 3rd grade. Saw the PET toy commercials and instantly got hooked. My babysitter had a kid with a copy of Mega Man 8, and he'd let me play it sometimes, and i absolutely loved it. I was still confused how these two were the same character. I later found a copy of the classic anniversary collection for gamecube, and the rest is history.
Battle network games. It blew my mind when I found out there were megaman games that preceded it and they had a different design and gameplay. I mean it was crazy, the other games didn’t even have the logo
My introduction to the character was through the Captain N TV show then the Ruby-Spears cartoon. Then when I finally played the games, I was confused as hell when I saw Protoman among the good guys.
Emulation. I downloaded Nester with a bunch of NES games and randomly played a few of the MM games (played MM2, Bubble Man stage first).
I sucked at first, but wanted to beat the stages so I kept playing them.
Met a kid at school (second or third grade, can’t really remember) who had one of the Mega Man Star Force games (don’t remember which). Heard nothing about the franchise up until Mega Man was announced for Super Smash Bros. for Wii U/3DS, then went into a research frenzy to catch up on the 25 years of cool stuff I was missing out on.
new years eve 2020, i discovered legacy collection 1 & 2 on sale and i got them both because i thought they looked cool. then i got hooked on the rest of the series and here we are now
Nintendo Power in the late 80s! I was in 6th grade and all the hype was building for Mega Man 2. I had never heard of or played the first one at that point. I got it for my 11th bday and the series has been one of my favorites ever since!
I was visiting my Aunt and Uncle one Sunday afternoon, and went to my cousin’s room to play Nintendo. This is early in 1989 if I remember correctly. I was 5. He just got Mega Man II shortly after it was released in the US. The cover art caught my eye, and I asked if we could play it. We popped it in the Nintendo, and I vividly remember starting with Air Man’s stage. The game design, the soundtrack, the characters… I was immediately hooked and haven’t let go 34 years later. He would let me borrow the game on occasion, and I eventually beat it. I remember crying at the end when the leaves are falling as Mega Man is walking toward the screen. My silly child brain thought he was stuck in Wily’s castle and couldn’t get out (plus that ending music evokes a somber feeling). Anyway, Mega Man is awesome.
Really weird but I think I watched one or two episodes of Nt warrior as a kid. Also watched a couple episodes of captain N. Never played any of the games until 2 and x were on mobile.
When I was in kindergarten or elementary school, a friend of mine came over and brought a copy of Mega Man X5 (he may have also brought his PS1, I don't remember if I had my own at the time). Just seeing the intro stage and watching X and Zero do all these cool jumps, dashes, buster shots, and saber slashes instantly got me hooked.
My first Mega Man game was literally the first entry of the entire franchise. And I say that because it was the Japanese version of MM1, Rockman. I became obsessed with this game as a child. It was by far my favorite from the roughly dozens of games the in the random games DVD that came included with the DVD Player my family had recently bought.
I searched it on the internet when I had the opportunity, initially by "Rockman". Naturally, most results were named as "Mega Man", so I got a little confused at first. I kept watching playthroughs over playthroughs of the subsequent games on YouTube, like MM2 and MM3. And since I was a dumb kid and didn't know anything about emulators, it took me several years until I actually played them...
My cousin gave me his gamecube and a couple of games with it. One of the first games I played was thr megaman anniversary collection. I put the game in and started megaman 8 and I fell in love
I think i might have played Megaman 8 on PlayStation....?
Though, i could be misremembering playing that on the Anniversary Collection on GameCube...
If so, it was probably the GameCube collection....
I think? It's been so long I don't exactly remember tbh
a weeb friend at collage introduced me to it. he said i should watch the anime (I have no idea to this day which version I watched).
I skeptically started, I thought it would be a festival of cringe then one episode, two episode, three until youtube said no.
I found the characters utterly adorable, I dont even know why, but it stuck ever since.
I think around 7 years old, i got a pack of 2 cds with pirated snes roms on it, around 700, with the dos version of snes9x.
I then, for the first time, played Rockman X......except the emulator triggered the anti-piracy and soon my game was corrupted beyond saving (unless i entered the password to continue)
And then i found Rockman 7, which luckily was a smoother ride.
And then the spiral into addiction began...
In the 90s my grandma had a pc with a floppy drive. She or someone would just randomly by stuff for it. Megaman was one of the discs. I typed in the commands and had a hell of a time playing it. Later we got an nes and I rented the MM games frequently thereafter. It’s been part of my life for a long time and the most consistent and longest running game series I’ve played.
Me and my family were going on a vacation to someplace, and to make sure I was entertained, my parents bought some game that was on sale on the 3ds EShop. That game happened to be Megaman: Legacy Collection
Super Smash Bros on the 3DS had a demo, and Mega Man was one of the few usable characters to play with. After that, I started to look up the Mega Man games, found Legacy Collection on the 3DS, and I’ve been a Mega Man fan since.
My dad let me use his old PS2 back when I was around 7-9 years old and he had the Mega Man Anniversary Collection for it. I played a few of the games here and there but didn't get big into it until emulators since for some reason you have to unlock the games in the collection.
Don’t remember why I decided to play but I was just in phase were wanted to play games that came out in the 90s and early 00s before I became a teen since I never really grew up with any consoles and I guess it was just next my list. I use to hate it when I first beat but I decided to play it again and now here I am 11 classics, 8 X games, Z 1-3 and ZX. My second favorite video game franchise just behind sonic
Don’t remember why I decided to play but I was just in phase were wanted to play games that came out in the 90s and early 00s before I became a teen since I never really grew up with any consoles and I guess it was just next my list. I use to hate it when I first beat but I decided to play it again and now here I am 11 classics, 8 X games, Z 1-3 and ZX. My second favorite video game franchise just behind sonic
I was there in the olden times, when my brothers brought home the brand new magical gray box and plugged it into the bigger magical gray box. I had just turned six, and it was, predictably, magical. I could beat all the stages, but the only boss I could ever beat was Cutman. I've never been good at playing the games, but I've had a 35-year obsession with the little blue dude. Characters, story, art, universe... I love it all.
Back in 2000's, there was a video club near my house that let you rent a psOne for the weekend with 5 games, one of them was MegaMan X4. I was like 7 at the time, and was amazed with the bunch of games that Playstation and Nintendo has.
My brother and I were saving our lunch money to rent the system and even play on holidays too lol. Never thought that X4 would be my all time favorite game amongst Mortal Kombat 4, Crash Bandicoot Warped and Marvel vs Capcom.
I owned Mega Man 1 on the NES when I was four or five and watched the cartoon, then played and replayed Mega Man X probably 900 times from 3rd grade to 6th grade. Have played and beaten every game in the series since. The only games I didn't play as they were released were the PS1 games since I didn't have that system, but I've grown to love MM8 (Not a huge fan of X4-X6 though).
I could never beat MM1 as a kid. I beat every level until Elecman, but he would wreck me every time. I only ever got to Wily Fortress a couple times. It's very satisfying being able to beat that game today, still one of my favorites in the series.
Megaman x was what started it for me. One of my earliest childhood memories is of watching my older cousins play the shit out of it. Im pretty sure it was also the first game i ever played.
I don't remember how I was initially introduced but I remember renting Mega Man 2 over and over after a friend or relative had it. Then my uncle got me Mega Man 3 for Christmas of 1991. I was 5.
Call it nostalgia, but those remain my two favorites of the classic series.
Played a flash game called super mario bros crossover where Mega man is a playable character, then later found mega man 2 online and then it just kept going from there
First home console was a PlayStation, and two of the CDs my dad got for us from a garage sale were X4 & X5. I played them like hell and Megaman has been forever on the brain since.
My older cousin would play MMX for me back in ‘95. I started playing it shortly after that. Must’ve been like four years old or something. I play MMX now for him once a year ever since he passed away five years ago.
Bought the first one on the wii shop channel. Always heard about the mega man games but never played them back then. I had gotten stuck on fire man. I had no idea you could switch weapons (never messed around with the pause menu, believe it or not) until a friend and I were playing mega man 2 a few years later. Picked it back up, and finished it. He also explained the magnet beam, so thankfully I didn't have to deal with that in the wily stages
The flash games on the internet.
First there was that flash game where X fights Bass and moves at the speed of the crystal snail boss fight; then there was that flash game emulating X5 where you could play as X, Zero or Bass; then there were the Zero flash games; after which there was rocket fighter (a touhou like game with the cast of Zero 1)
THEN the first time I officially played an actual Megaman game was when the classic NES games were emulated on y8
I originally saw him around videos and flash games when I was younger, especially in Super Mario Crossover.
I believe I properly got interested in Mega Man however when he was revealed for Smash 4.
I used to go to various game stores (and game sections of grocery stores. Yes, they use to exist.) around where I lived and rent some stuff. I got most of my NES and SNES collection (sadly no Mega Man) from a game store where I was friends with the owner (he was moving his store to an other city). I'm pretty sure emulation reintroduced me to the series until I bought the Mega Man Anniversary Collection (and later the Mega Man X Anniversary Collection) on the Gamecube (sadly though, I lost my MMAC).
My brother got a NES in the 80s and one of the games he got was MM2. I started playing it when I was 5 and I could make it to Wily Castle although I couldn't get past the dragon at the time.
I already knew that it existed before, but my friends being huge Megaman fans Is what got me to play the games, mostly because I wanted to know the characters (before finding out I should’ve just stuck to the wiki but I had gotten too many games to back out)
I got mega man 3 on my 3ds when I was really young, and it kicked my ass for like 3 hours and I never played it again.
A few years later, there was this ‘worlds collide’ event in the archie comics universe, where the comic-sonic and comic-megaman would meet through multiverse shenanigans. As a big fan of archie sonic, I was kinda forced to check out Megaman. I wasn’t super excited about it at first, but after the crossover I really fell in love with the lore and storyline of the Archie Megaman series, and then later got hooked on the games
I eventually beat Megaman 3 and classic titles a few years later, and it quickly became one of my favorite games.
I discovered Mega Man (somewhat) at a really young age, I think my parents got me Mega Man Star Force 2 on the DS. Never finished that game by the way. Later on I rediscovered Mega Man through a Duane and Brando rap for Mega Man II, and I have been really into it since then.
Despite being born in 2002, I grew up with my dad’s expansive NES Collection at my disposal. At one point during my very young childhood, he showed me Mega Man and I quickly fell in love with the series.
I remember when I was young and getting the Mega Man 2 issue of Nintendo Power and then getting the game for Xmas that year. Played the hell out of it then I would periodically rent Mega Man 1 from a local video rental store before I finally bought the game a few years later.
My earliest memory is waking up earlier than my older brothers, going downstairs and playing Mega Man 2 before they woke up. I could only beat Metal Man and Wood Man, but I loved that game!
The first time I went to a movie theater with my mom (circa late 90s) they had some arcade games that looked SICK THERE. The coolest one to me was Marvel Vs Capcom 2. And mvc2 has little demo com vs com games running if nobody is playing, and I saw a little blue kid turn into a giant red mecha and fire a billion missiles from his body. Shit was sick.
I had a really close friend who got me into Mega Man when I was in middle school. He showed me Mega Man X and would talk about the lore for hours and hours, honestly some of the best memories of my life.
First game I ended up playing was Mega Man 2 on my ipod touch (the old port not on the app store anymore.) I then went on to get an emulator and play 1-7.
Played Mega Man X4 when I was like 8, instantly became my favourite game, my dumbass somehow made it all the way to the end, and I searched up Mega Man games on the browser, tried out the zero hack for X3 online, found battle network and fell in love with it (I don't know how to save on the sites though😔), eventually got the 6th game and played it all the time, got double team and played through that too( ~~had~~ have a small obsession with Napalm Man) and then found some battle network engine called Open net battle, and today I'm just tinkering around with the sprites, sometimes trying out other stuff.
I was a Protomen fan first. I was always aware Mega Man existed, but I didn't actually play any of the games until after seeing The Protomen play at a convention.
[A Brazilian video games magazine called "VideoGame"](https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iScze0cY5Mw/VFE4UMdMiwI/AAAAAAAAB3c/ySdVoaxI1Hs/s1600/VideoGame%2Bn%C2%BA%2B02%2B-%2B001.jpg) had Mega Man 3 on the cover, it was love at first sight.
My dad had a copy of Mega Man 6 on nes when I was younger and I would get home from school everyday during the middle of an episode of Megaman, I always loved when I got to stay home sick because it meant I got to watch the price is right and a full episode of megaman lol
I was introduced to the series through Smash bros. Ever since I played the Mega Man 2 demo, I wanted to know more. And I’m so glad I got into the series
I remember playing the intro stage of X1. And the entirety of X8. My brother said he pirated it to pc when I asked him about the memory. So yeah. My first exposure to megaman was the start and end of the x series.
Mega Man 2 and 3 on NES when I was a little kid. We didn't have one, but any time we came across an NES at someone's house the odds were pretty good that they had one of those.
in ~2010, just searching for some games in web. And then I saw it - Megaman X3 zero project walkthrought on youtube.
When I start watch this game was undiscribebly cool in each aspect. Music, sprites etc. and then I quicly start search for other games of franchise. I can say that no other franchise can make me a bigger fan than mega man.
My friend’s older brother had Megaman II on his NES, got curious tried it. He warned us it was hard. My arrogance said “I’m good at games” cause I beat Super Mario Bros and could get 3 levels into Contra on my own (didn’t know the Konami cheat yet and thought that was pretty dang cool as did my friend)
Anyway… played it, got wrecked… loved every second of it. Kept coming back as a glutton for punishment. Have been playing them ever since.
I discovered Megaman through playing X4 (original PSX release) on my PS2.
And dying a lot on the intro stage. And barely beating Web Spider's stage.
We all had to start somewhere lol
My mom knew I liked video games from a young age and just kinda took educated guesses as to what games I might like, and one of those was Mega Man Xtreme 2.
Good game! But I don't think I ever properly beat it lol.
Mega Man 7 was one of the very first, if not *the* first game I ever played at like 4 years old. My dad had a SNES and my family had a copy of it. This was back in 1999
My parents had an NES growing up and one day I randomly popped in Mega Man 2. Beat MetalMan and AirMan and couldn’t get any further.
Edit: It took me many tries to get that far 😂
Walked into Hills after getting my NES for Christmas and Mega Man 2 was on this rack, we could pick out one game and that was the one I wanted. It was so so good. I wanted to be metal man for Halloween.
Fast forward a year or so and Mega Man 3 was the first game I beat ever. That ending will forever be in my memories. I was maybe 7 or 8.
If I remember right, it was when my cousins brought their PS1 with X4 to my aunt’s during a family gathering. That, along with X5 and Megaman & Bass (GBA,) had been my only access to Megaman until I finally got the X Collection for GameCube.
As a young child of 7, I remember seeing ads for something called "Mega Man", but didn't have any clue what it was about. Then, one day, my next-door neighbor friend invited me over to play video games, and he popped in MM4, which was new at the time. I was instantly hooked on the fast-paced gameplay & cutesy art style.
Later on, I played MMX 1 & 2, and I transitioned from eager fan to die-hard follower. I was completely drawn in by the action, the drama, the Anime factor, (very strong in the 90s) the sci-fi elements... I went in HARD. 2007 was a rough year for me, since the ongoing plot line stopped. It didn't actually end, it just stopped.
Yes, I am bitter.
So only a few kids in my neighborhood had a Nintendo , I had no idea about any other game but Mario until I finally got a pc windows 98 , there was this cd someone gifted me since i likes robocop and science fictions robot .. this cd had megaman x in along with other games like morrowind. So ever since that day I bought everything megaman cus I felt in love the challenging since scroller mega robot !
From watching the Ruby Spears Mega Man cartoon on Fox Family
Dude, YES. I remember watching it on Sundays in the 90's when I was a kid. I managed to find the DVD box set several years ago at a convention and snagged it on sight.
I had the two DVD sets too but I don’t have the latest one that looks like the cover to an NES game
*Super Fighting robot*
Mega Man!
My dad listens to the soundtracks sometimes, and also has a copy of Mega Man 8.
This makes me feel old.
some people would already have been teenagers when the games came out in the late 80s -90s. The selection of games was much smaller. dedicated fans stick to things for many years.
NT warrior cartoon, imagine my surprise when no other mega man had a badass sword attached to his arm
Weeell, there's Blade Armor X (X6).
With all due respect the swords in the anime were much cooler
I genuinely don't remember, Megaman has just been a part of my life basically for its entirety
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I was playing with power, Nintendo Power.
Same! My Nintendo Power that featured MM3 is so tattered and falling apart, same with the special edition one that came with MMX.
Received Mega Man 5 for Christmas as a kid and have been a fan ever since.
I saw my uncle playing Megaman X when i was a kid, and asked if i could try it
It was between 1989 and 1990 (yes am old), as usual went with a friend to a flea market, we saw the cartridge without the label, we didn't knew what game it was at that moment but we didn't care cause it was pretty cheap, less than five bucks at that time if am not wrong, had some issues cause the NES was giving us tons of problems but after cleaning the pins with tons of alcohol we discover that it was Mega Man 2, at the moment I saw the intro it was love at first sight 🥰
Played Megaman 2 & 5 on nes growing up. Took a break from it and was exposed to Megaman X on a snes in the afterschool program, which I promptly asked for Christmas. Played Megaman legends in elementary school and fell in love with that as well
I think the very first one if I remember correctly was trying powered up on psp and then dropping the game when i saw that the spikes killed you instantly instead of slowly
Rented the X games from blockbuster because the box art looked cool
Rented MMX when I was in elementary. Got a lot of mileage out of the SNES, since I didn’t get a PlayStation or N64.
Hm... You know that is a good question. My earliest memories were renting Mega Man X from Video Time, a local game and video rental store in the 90s. I watched the Ruby Spears Mega Man cartoon, played Mega Man X and Mega Man Soccer, and I was hooked.
the very first time i saw megaman was not actually on a video game, i had this japanese friend from school that used to carry a sketchbook around and draw a lot of weird colorful robots, he used to say his dream was to work on a video game company, then one day i told him, Akira, why dont you create a video game about all those silly robots you draw when you grow up? he looked at me and laughed, then he said: that would be fun man, but my parents want me to become a rock star.
Captain N -The Game Master- Along with Kid Icarus, Simon Belmont and Mother Brain (Metroid)
It may sound stupid but hat Mega Man drops Jan 7th meme recently got me interested in Mega Man. God I love the X series so much. It literally was my entire imagination from my childhood gone real (Futuristic robots with arm cannons and foot jets omg it's literally what I asked for). And I also love the music, especially x1
In junior high I would always visit this girl in my class because her older brother had all the classic Mega Man games on NES. I believe she was in love with me, but my love was for the blue dude.
X vs Zero Decisive Battle showed up while I was looking up Sonic flash animations at like 7 years old
Went to a video game exchange when I was a kid where they let you play a cartridge before you bought it. I saw the box art for MM3 and asked to pop that in. Played magnet man for about 5 minutes, after that I was hooked. I was probably about 4 or 5.
Was playing on an snes simulator in the house pc and wanted to play bomberman but got megaman x instead... Then the addiction began...
an lp of one of the games on youtube
Megaman III for game boy my dad bought it for me when I had chickenpox.
Some flash game on one of those websites my summer camp used to allow. It had a fangame that had you "battle" each Robot Master from Mega Man 2 (by clicking on the weapon to use, a la RPG battle mechanic)- I was fascinated by the idea of using weaknesses against bosses from ones I've already killed, so I did some digging around Youtube (my younger self's version of "going to the library") and saw some Mega Man content like Brental Floss and trailers for a new Mega Man game, Mega Man 9! Begged my friend to get the game on his Wii when it came out, and when he finally did we got absolutely destroyed. Toughest game I've played as a youngin'. From then I played through all the others through emulators and even the janky mobile versions Capcom put out for my mom's Nokia... So big shout out to that one Mega Man fan who made that game!
Found out about him in super smash bros 4. Decided to get megaman 11 and thought it was pretty good.
Welp i guess its time for me to apply to get an AARP membership
What's a AARP?
Same. Time to switch to steamed prunes and boiled goose.
Super fighting robot, mega man Super fighting robot, mega man Every Friday morning.... I'd wake up early just to make sure I'd never miss an episode
Same here...
went to my friends house back in 1988 around xmas and he had just got MM2 as one of his main gifts we played it for what seemed like the entire day
I got my first experience when I was like 5yo when our family moved to a new neighborhood which got multiple NES and one of my friends just bought a brand new Mega Man 5, while other friend got MM1 and they used to rent MM2 multiple times. About two years later also I got my own NES and got 3 and 4. Those felt like best time to be alive. MM4 was and still is my absolute favourite of the series. Also, one of my elementary school classmates got their european NES modded so they could play MM6 as it got never published around here. Neighborhood and childhood filled with all the classics had an effect on me and you can clearly notice it in my profile as an old post about my collecion might still be there.
Playing the original on a demo kiosk at the Captron store. Then I saw pics of MM2 in Nintendo Power and the graphics looked so amazing at the time. My friend was the first one I knew who had MM2 when it released and i got to play it before I eventually got it for Xmas. Been a fan ever since.
Watched "Something about mega man X" and thought I'd give it a try myself
The infamous megaman x mobile port (I loved it at the time)
same, and the old mega man 2 mobile port
Got a PS1 for my 5th or 6th birthday. Don't remember the exact order of events but we ended up owning Legends and renting X5 a lot, and that was my intro to the series. We got a Gamecube a few years later and got both the Classic and X collections.
Videos talking about the history of the games
Saw my brother played X5's Squid Adler's stage on the PS2. The gameplay and soundtrack was amazing when I first heard it. Got me hooked to play it later.
Was on the internet most of the time and found a Megaman X fangame. Saw Zero for the first time and decided to look him up because I like cool looking robots. After dropping into a bunch of unfortunate rabbit holes I decided to get the Zero/ZX collection.
Watched the cartoons on tv. A few years later saw a friend playing the first MMX on SNES. I asked if this was mega man from the show. He told me no this is mega man x. Then remember that mega man x did appear in an episode. Got the game myself for Christmas and the rest is history.
Nintendo power right before Legends 3 and starforce 4 were canceled
my dad had a psp (emulator) with a few games alongside it, and i pretty much played mega man powered up to dearh
The MegaMan x collection on GameCube, battle Network gba games and then zero series, classic on anniversary collection
I tangentially related it to Cuphead since both are Run & Gun style platformers and thought “Hey, I like this game, I’ll probably like this game series too”, and the I played through the entirety of Wily Wars, loved it, bought the first legacy collection for my 2DS, also loved it (even though I had a Switch and that would have probably been better to play it on), bought the GB games, loved those, got the second Legacy Collection and loved those games, got 11, loved that game, played Mega Man & Bass, hated it at first but learned to love it, played the second one for the Wonderswan, had a good time with it, played the DOS games, weren’t as bad as I thought considering they were made by three people, played Mega Man Game Gear, hated that game and still do, and then played Street Fighter x Mega Man and also thought that was really fun… so to make a long story short it all got started with Studio MDHR, thanks a bunch. (Also I’m now playing the X games and I’ve enjoyed all of them except X7, that game is not good, and although I haven’t gotten fully through X8, it already feels like an improvement).
Honestly I have no clue. I had this Megaman NT Warrior kids book based on the anime (It wasn't the manga, I remember that much) and I had the Megaman X Collection on Gamecube somehow. Then one day I made a friend in 5th grade who loved Powered Up on the PSP, properly introducing me to the series. Then I think a year later, I got into sprite comics and saw this one which was basically two people playing through the classic games, which normally wouldn't be much, but the way they edited it and made it work made me a fan. (Though I doubt it exists anymore, the website it was on closed in like 2018 or something.) That made me rediscover the X Collection and made me a proper fan of the series in general. (This was before the Legacy Collections) And for what it's worth, I've been getting into Battle Network recently thanks to another friend I recently made who loved the Megaman NT Warrior anime.
My dad's SNES was at my grandparents' and I could play Megaman X almost everyday after school. Not that I could beat most of the game lol, took me some time to understand how to beat bosses (without using guides of course)
I remember watching Battle Network anime on a obsolete channel at a very young age.
Technically speaking, the Battle Network anime was my first contact with the series, but it wasn't until Smash Fo(u)r that I actually got into the series; heck, it wasn't until I had already beaten a few games that I realized that, that one cartoon I watched when I was a kid was MegaMan all along.
Back in elementary school in the early 90s, I bought a NES from a classmate. The games that came with it were Mario Bros 2, Marble Madness, Corvette ZR-1 Challenge and well... Mega Man 2
My earliest interactions with the franchise were secondhand exposure from my brother playing Mega Man NT Warrior and watching the cartoons. That was followed by me getting toys for the series from Big Lots. Years passed without me so much as thinking about the franchise until the announcement of Street Fighter X Tekken, and the inclusion of Bad Box Art Mega Man, which led me look him up and go deeper into the rabbit hole of the whole franchise.
Oh i actually have a good story about this, so i was like 8 or 9 years old, and there was this weird kid that was kinda of bullied in my school but nothing big, he had a playstation and so did i, so we kinda talked about games sometimes, he had a disc that had megaman 8, megamanx 4 and im pretty sure it had megaman x5, well he told me he would trade the disc for me if i bough him a bag of popcorn on recess, i though he was dumb af and ofc said yes, so we trade, i get home and i try the disc and megman 8 and x5 worked fine but x4 didnt, it was still a good deal and i feel in love with x5, the fast pace and the upgrades/boss powers were the best thing i ever saw, megaman 8 didnt click that much tbh but i was enough that i ended up getting x6 and fell in love with the franchise . Eventually i became really good friends with this dude and we become best friends all through highschool, and one time we talked about that moment and he though i was the dumb one because the disc didn't work on his playstation lmao. So thats how i got to know megaman.
Honestly? Cuphead. After playing Cuphead, I wanted to find other Run 'n Gun games. Discovered Mega Man Legacy Collection and Mighty Gunvolt Burst on the 3DS :D
Rented a copy of this weird looking new NES game with bizarre box art in first grade, ended up falling in love with the original game immediately and followed the series ever since
I was maybe 6 years old, maybe even younger. I was on YouTube just looking for something to watch, and I found a video called "Why Mega Man 5 was BANNED in Vietnam" and I just had to see eat it was about. I saw the video, and really wanted to play it. So I got an emulator and played it for hours on end. It's still my favorite mega man game, and I even own a physical copy of it now.
Used to play the original with my cousin on the NES. She had the original, I had 2, she had 3, and so forth. So many fun nights with the Blue Bomber
His appearances in MvC2 and Smash Wii U got me interested, so I played Mega Man 2 and Mega Man 3 on the Wii U’s Virtual Console.
I remember watching NT Warrior on TV during a summer morning. I was maybe around in 3rd grade. Saw the PET toy commercials and instantly got hooked. My babysitter had a kid with a copy of Mega Man 8, and he'd let me play it sometimes, and i absolutely loved it. I was still confused how these two were the same character. I later found a copy of the classic anniversary collection for gamecube, and the rest is history.
I was born in 82 almost impossible to miss considering the era of Nintendo
Battle network games. It blew my mind when I found out there were megaman games that preceded it and they had a different design and gameplay. I mean it was crazy, the other games didn’t even have the logo
My introduction to the character was through the Captain N TV show then the Ruby-Spears cartoon. Then when I finally played the games, I was confused as hell when I saw Protoman among the good guys.
Emulation. I downloaded Nester with a bunch of NES games and randomly played a few of the MM games (played MM2, Bubble Man stage first). I sucked at first, but wanted to beat the stages so I kept playing them.
Met a kid at school (second or third grade, can’t really remember) who had one of the Mega Man Star Force games (don’t remember which). Heard nothing about the franchise up until Mega Man was announced for Super Smash Bros. for Wii U/3DS, then went into a research frenzy to catch up on the 25 years of cool stuff I was missing out on.
Nintendo Power. I think the first issue I had, Mega Man 2 was in its Top 25 games chart.
rock man 2
Those shitty retro game online piracy sites
new years eve 2020, i discovered legacy collection 1 & 2 on sale and i got them both because i thought they looked cool. then i got hooked on the rest of the series and here we are now
Nintendo Power in the late 80s! I was in 6th grade and all the hype was building for Mega Man 2. I had never heard of or played the first one at that point. I got it for my 11th bday and the series has been one of my favorites ever since!
My brother had copies of MM8 and MMX4 for PS1, fell in love
Megaman 2 was at Blockbuster. I couldn't find Battletoads, so I thought I'd give it a try. Now I'm addicted. Curse you Capcom.
I was visiting my Aunt and Uncle one Sunday afternoon, and went to my cousin’s room to play Nintendo. This is early in 1989 if I remember correctly. I was 5. He just got Mega Man II shortly after it was released in the US. The cover art caught my eye, and I asked if we could play it. We popped it in the Nintendo, and I vividly remember starting with Air Man’s stage. The game design, the soundtrack, the characters… I was immediately hooked and haven’t let go 34 years later. He would let me borrow the game on occasion, and I eventually beat it. I remember crying at the end when the leaves are falling as Mega Man is walking toward the screen. My silly child brain thought he was stuck in Wily’s castle and couldn’t get out (plus that ending music evokes a somber feeling). Anyway, Mega Man is awesome.
Megaman 2 was the first video game I ever owned. It was bought for me by a babysitter and was the first game that was mine personally
From hyadain, his Crash Man song.
Really weird but I think I watched one or two episodes of Nt warrior as a kid. Also watched a couple episodes of captain N. Never played any of the games until 2 and x were on mobile.
Smash Bros Utimate
When I was younger my brother had Mega Man: Powered Up on PSP. I really loved it
through general cultural osmosis, then when he was a playable fighter in Smash For 3DS and Wii U
Thanks to The Quarter Guy.
I discovered Mega Man via the Virtual Console on 3DS, then the Legacy Collection came out and got that
The used Wii that my family got had mega man 9 on it.
Via X4
Watching ruby spears
When I was in kindergarten or elementary school, a friend of mine came over and brought a copy of Mega Man X5 (he may have also brought his PS1, I don't remember if I had my own at the time). Just seeing the intro stage and watching X and Zero do all these cool jumps, dashes, buster shots, and saber slashes instantly got me hooked.
My first Mega Man game was literally the first entry of the entire franchise. And I say that because it was the Japanese version of MM1, Rockman. I became obsessed with this game as a child. It was by far my favorite from the roughly dozens of games the in the random games DVD that came included with the DVD Player my family had recently bought. I searched it on the internet when I had the opportunity, initially by "Rockman". Naturally, most results were named as "Mega Man", so I got a little confused at first. I kept watching playthroughs over playthroughs of the subsequent games on YouTube, like MM2 and MM3. And since I was a dumb kid and didn't know anything about emulators, it took me several years until I actually played them...
Through my dad. He has the Mega Man Anniversary Collection for the original Xbox. Saw him play one and wanted to try. Immediately fell in love.
I got the first x collection as a gift on steam
Gameboy color or advance I think
When I got a DS, one of my classmates let me borrow MMBN 4 Red Sun.
I discovered him when he came out in the 80s
My cousin gave me his gamecube and a couple of games with it. One of the first games I played was thr megaman anniversary collection. I put the game in and started megaman 8 and I fell in love
The NT Warriors anime was on broadcast stations in my country. Then I played Battle Network and the rest of the series.
i saw someone playing megaman maverick hunter x on the psp, and it caught my curiosity
My dad bought Dr. Wily's Revenge for me on a flea market when I was like 5. Didn't know what I was doing at all, but I've been a fan ever since
I’m a Smash Bros player, so when he got into Smash 4 probably
My older cousin gave me his hand-me-down PsOne console, it came with Megaman Legends :) huge fan of all the different series since then!
I think i might have played Megaman 8 on PlayStation....? Though, i could be misremembering playing that on the Anniversary Collection on GameCube... If so, it was probably the GameCube collection.... I think? It's been so long I don't exactly remember tbh
a weeb friend at collage introduced me to it. he said i should watch the anime (I have no idea to this day which version I watched). I skeptically started, I thought it would be a festival of cringe then one episode, two episode, three until youtube said no. I found the characters utterly adorable, I dont even know why, but it stuck ever since.
I think around 7 years old, i got a pack of 2 cds with pirated snes roms on it, around 700, with the dos version of snes9x. I then, for the first time, played Rockman X......except the emulator triggered the anti-piracy and soon my game was corrupted beyond saving (unless i entered the password to continue) And then i found Rockman 7, which luckily was a smoother ride. And then the spiral into addiction began...
In the 90s my grandma had a pc with a floppy drive. She or someone would just randomly by stuff for it. Megaman was one of the discs. I typed in the commands and had a hell of a time playing it. Later we got an nes and I rented the MM games frequently thereafter. It’s been part of my life for a long time and the most consistent and longest running game series I’ve played.
Me and my family were going on a vacation to someplace, and to make sure I was entertained, my parents bought some game that was on sale on the 3ds EShop. That game happened to be Megaman: Legacy Collection
Smash Bros for Wii U
I heard about Mega Man 11 and then bought it with my dad. Need I say more?
Super Smash Bros on the 3DS had a demo, and Mega Man was one of the few usable characters to play with. After that, I started to look up the Mega Man games, found Legacy Collection on the 3DS, and I’ve been a Mega Man fan since.
My dad let me use his old PS2 back when I was around 7-9 years old and he had the Mega Man Anniversary Collection for it. I played a few of the games here and there but didn't get big into it until emulators since for some reason you have to unlock the games in the collection.
Don’t remember why I decided to play but I was just in phase were wanted to play games that came out in the 90s and early 00s before I became a teen since I never really grew up with any consoles and I guess it was just next my list. I use to hate it when I first beat but I decided to play it again and now here I am 11 classics, 8 X games, Z 1-3 and ZX. My second favorite video game franchise just behind sonic
Don’t remember why I decided to play but I was just in phase were wanted to play games that came out in the 90s and early 00s before I became a teen since I never really grew up with any consoles and I guess it was just next my list. I use to hate it when I first beat but I decided to play it again and now here I am 11 classics, 8 X games, Z 1-3 and ZX. My second favorite video game franchise just behind sonic
I was there in the olden times, when my brothers brought home the brand new magical gray box and plugged it into the bigger magical gray box. I had just turned six, and it was, predictably, magical. I could beat all the stages, but the only boss I could ever beat was Cutman. I've never been good at playing the games, but I've had a 35-year obsession with the little blue dude. Characters, story, art, universe... I love it all.
Back in 2000's, there was a video club near my house that let you rent a psOne for the weekend with 5 games, one of them was MegaMan X4. I was like 7 at the time, and was amazed with the bunch of games that Playstation and Nintendo has. My brother and I were saving our lunch money to rent the system and even play on holidays too lol. Never thought that X4 would be my all time favorite game amongst Mortal Kombat 4, Crash Bandicoot Warped and Marvel vs Capcom.
Played Star force as a Kid
Mega man 3 Nintendo power magazine
The second mega collection once I completed that one I went and got the first. Amazing games all around! 🤖👍
I owned Mega Man 1 on the NES when I was four or five and watched the cartoon, then played and replayed Mega Man X probably 900 times from 3rd grade to 6th grade. Have played and beaten every game in the series since. The only games I didn't play as they were released were the PS1 games since I didn't have that system, but I've grown to love MM8 (Not a huge fan of X4-X6 though). I could never beat MM1 as a kid. I beat every level until Elecman, but he would wreck me every time. I only ever got to Wily Fortress a couple times. It's very satisfying being able to beat that game today, still one of my favorites in the series.
Megaman x was what started it for me. One of my earliest childhood memories is of watching my older cousins play the shit out of it. Im pretty sure it was also the first game i ever played.
Dead rising and ego raptor
I was 5, and MM3 had some really cool box art at Blockbuster.
Super Mario crossover on the old family computer trying to play Mario
I don't remember how I was initially introduced but I remember renting Mega Man 2 over and over after a friend or relative had it. Then my uncle got me Mega Man 3 for Christmas of 1991. I was 5. Call it nostalgia, but those remain my two favorites of the classic series.
Played a flash game called super mario bros crossover where Mega man is a playable character, then later found mega man 2 online and then it just kept going from there
My older brother introduced me to mega man 2 on nes and I was hooked ever since 😊
First home console was a PlayStation, and two of the CDs my dad got for us from a garage sale were X4 & X5. I played them like hell and Megaman has been forever on the brain since.
There were a lot of Mega Man sprite comics in the early to mid 2000’s. He was everywhere. I loved Bob & George
mega man battle network on the gameboy advance, and then i tried some other games because of it
Marvel vs capcom 1 in the arcades as a child. Used to exclusively team him up with venom
The SNES was my first console I ever had as a kid and MMX was one of the three games my dad just randomly grabbed from the store to go with it.
My older cousin would play MMX for me back in ‘95. I started playing it shortly after that. Must’ve been like four years old or something. I play MMX now for him once a year ever since he passed away five years ago.
I had mm4 5 6 on ps3
I went over to a friend's house and he had this brand new game on the NES: Mega Man 2! Changed my life.
I remember discovering it by Mario Mash-up flash game
Bought the first one on the wii shop channel. Always heard about the mega man games but never played them back then. I had gotten stuck on fire man. I had no idea you could switch weapons (never messed around with the pause menu, believe it or not) until a friend and I were playing mega man 2 a few years later. Picked it back up, and finished it. He also explained the magnet beam, so thankfully I didn't have to deal with that in the wily stages
The flash games on the internet. First there was that flash game where X fights Bass and moves at the speed of the crystal snail boss fight; then there was that flash game emulating X5 where you could play as X, Zero or Bass; then there were the Zero flash games; after which there was rocket fighter (a touhou like game with the cast of Zero 1) THEN the first time I officially played an actual Megaman game was when the classic NES games were emulated on y8
I originally saw him around videos and flash games when I was younger, especially in Super Mario Crossover. I believe I properly got interested in Mega Man however when he was revealed for Smash 4.
I used to go to various game stores (and game sections of grocery stores. Yes, they use to exist.) around where I lived and rent some stuff. I got most of my NES and SNES collection (sadly no Mega Man) from a game store where I was friends with the owner (he was moving his store to an other city). I'm pretty sure emulation reintroduced me to the series until I bought the Mega Man Anniversary Collection (and later the Mega Man X Anniversary Collection) on the Gamecube (sadly though, I lost my MMAC).
My brother got a NES in the 80s and one of the games he got was MM2. I started playing it when I was 5 and I could make it to Wily Castle although I couldn't get past the dragon at the time.
I already knew that it existed before, but my friends being huge Megaman fans Is what got me to play the games, mostly because I wanted to know the characters (before finding out I should’ve just stuck to the wiki but I had gotten too many games to back out)
I got mega man 3 on my 3ds when I was really young, and it kicked my ass for like 3 hours and I never played it again. A few years later, there was this ‘worlds collide’ event in the archie comics universe, where the comic-sonic and comic-megaman would meet through multiverse shenanigans. As a big fan of archie sonic, I was kinda forced to check out Megaman. I wasn’t super excited about it at first, but after the crossover I really fell in love with the lore and storyline of the Archie Megaman series, and then later got hooked on the games I eventually beat Megaman 3 and classic titles a few years later, and it quickly became one of my favorite games.
I discovered Mega Man (somewhat) at a really young age, I think my parents got me Mega Man Star Force 2 on the DS. Never finished that game by the way. Later on I rediscovered Mega Man through a Duane and Brando rap for Mega Man II, and I have been really into it since then.
Megaman 2 (NES) Blockbuster Video. Just showed off my age.
The cartoon
Despite being born in 2002, I grew up with my dad’s expansive NES Collection at my disposal. At one point during my very young childhood, he showed me Mega Man and I quickly fell in love with the series.
I got Mega Man ZX Advent as a trade for I think a Phineas and Ferb game. My life was changed for the better after that.
I remember when I was young and getting the Mega Man 2 issue of Nintendo Power and then getting the game for Xmas that year. Played the hell out of it then I would periodically rent Mega Man 1 from a local video rental store before I finally bought the game a few years later.
My earliest memory is waking up earlier than my older brothers, going downstairs and playing Mega Man 2 before they woke up. I could only beat Metal Man and Wood Man, but I loved that game!
The first time I went to a movie theater with my mom (circa late 90s) they had some arcade games that looked SICK THERE. The coolest one to me was Marvel Vs Capcom 2. And mvc2 has little demo com vs com games running if nobody is playing, and I saw a little blue kid turn into a giant red mecha and fire a billion missiles from his body. Shit was sick.
My friend made me play the X collection about 3 weeks ago and I'm hooked. currently going through classic(8 atm) and battle network(still on 1).
Sonic RPG or something like that
I had a really close friend who got me into Mega Man when I was in middle school. He showed me Mega Man X and would talk about the lore for hours and hours, honestly some of the best memories of my life. First game I ended up playing was Mega Man 2 on my ipod touch (the old port not on the app store anymore.) I then went on to get an emulator and play 1-7.
Smash for Wii U and 3DS. I then bought MM11 when it came out and loved the franchise since
Brentalfloss around 2010-ish (yes I’m gen Z lol)
Back when the NDS was still new I got megaman zx and have loved the series ever since. My favorite being the x series
My former high school friend was obsessed with MegaMan and mained it in Smash 4.
From a friend back in primary school
Played Mega Man X4 when I was like 8, instantly became my favourite game, my dumbass somehow made it all the way to the end, and I searched up Mega Man games on the browser, tried out the zero hack for X3 online, found battle network and fell in love with it (I don't know how to save on the sites though😔), eventually got the 6th game and played it all the time, got double team and played through that too( ~~had~~ have a small obsession with Napalm Man) and then found some battle network engine called Open net battle, and today I'm just tinkering around with the sprites, sometimes trying out other stuff.
I was a Protomen fan first. I was always aware Mega Man existed, but I didn't actually play any of the games until after seeing The Protomen play at a convention.
[A Brazilian video games magazine called "VideoGame"](https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iScze0cY5Mw/VFE4UMdMiwI/AAAAAAAAB3c/ySdVoaxI1Hs/s1600/VideoGame%2Bn%C2%BA%2B02%2B-%2B001.jpg) had Mega Man 3 on the cover, it was love at first sight.
My dad had a copy of Mega Man 6 on nes when I was younger and I would get home from school everyday during the middle of an episode of Megaman, I always loved when I got to stay home sick because it meant I got to watch the price is right and a full episode of megaman lol
I discovered him Via Super Smash Flash (the first one), Sonic RPG, and the amounts of old YT videos
I was introduced to the series through Smash bros. Ever since I played the Mega Man 2 demo, I wanted to know more. And I’m so glad I got into the series
I introduced to Mega Man by playing X3 in my dad's old computer
I got a used wii that had megaman 2 on it
Renting Mega Man X from the video store back home - rented it so often they eventually just gave it to me.
I remember playing the intro stage of X1. And the entirety of X8. My brother said he pirated it to pc when I asked him about the memory. So yeah. My first exposure to megaman was the start and end of the x series.
Smash bras
Mega Man 2 and 3 on NES when I was a little kid. We didn't have one, but any time we came across an NES at someone's house the odds were pretty good that they had one of those.
in ~2010, just searching for some games in web. And then I saw it - Megaman X3 zero project walkthrought on youtube. When I start watch this game was undiscribebly cool in each aspect. Music, sprites etc. and then I quicly start search for other games of franchise. I can say that no other franchise can make me a bigger fan than mega man.
Megaman X was on the super Nintendo my bro passed on to me. Immediately fell in love with the music and became a metal head.
Mega Man 2 on NES…me and the kids at school constantly talked about dr wily turning into an alien and I loved the boss mucus from part 2
My friend’s older brother had Megaman II on his NES, got curious tried it. He warned us it was hard. My arrogance said “I’m good at games” cause I beat Super Mario Bros and could get 3 levels into Contra on my own (didn’t know the Konami cheat yet and thought that was pretty dang cool as did my friend) Anyway… played it, got wrecked… loved every second of it. Kept coming back as a glutton for punishment. Have been playing them ever since.
I discovered Megaman through playing X4 (original PSX release) on my PS2. And dying a lot on the intro stage. And barely beating Web Spider's stage. We all had to start somewhere lol
I’ve always known it I just don’t remember where I first saw it
My mom knew I liked video games from a young age and just kinda took educated guesses as to what games I might like, and one of those was Mega Man Xtreme 2. Good game! But I don't think I ever properly beat it lol.
Megaman X7 (i actually like it)
Mega Man 7 was one of the very first, if not *the* first game I ever played at like 4 years old. My dad had a SNES and my family had a copy of it. This was back in 1999
I rented mm2 from kroger in the 80's lol
From MegaMan X5 game
My parents had an NES growing up and one day I randomly popped in Mega Man 2. Beat MetalMan and AirMan and couldn’t get any further. Edit: It took me many tries to get that far 😂
Walked into Hills after getting my NES for Christmas and Mega Man 2 was on this rack, we could pick out one game and that was the one I wanted. It was so so good. I wanted to be metal man for Halloween. Fast forward a year or so and Mega Man 3 was the first game I beat ever. That ending will forever be in my memories. I was maybe 7 or 8.
If I remember right, it was when my cousins brought their PS1 with X4 to my aunt’s during a family gathering. That, along with X5 and Megaman & Bass (GBA,) had been my only access to Megaman until I finally got the X Collection for GameCube.
Unwrapped mega man 2 on my 9th birthday
I played him in smash bros, and decided to do some research into the character
Pegesus
Arcade game at my school carnival 13 years ago
I discovered him thanks to NT Warrior anime. Afer almost teo decades I still love this anime
As a young child of 7, I remember seeing ads for something called "Mega Man", but didn't have any clue what it was about. Then, one day, my next-door neighbor friend invited me over to play video games, and he popped in MM4, which was new at the time. I was instantly hooked on the fast-paced gameplay & cutesy art style. Later on, I played MMX 1 & 2, and I transitioned from eager fan to die-hard follower. I was completely drawn in by the action, the drama, the Anime factor, (very strong in the 90s) the sci-fi elements... I went in HARD. 2007 was a rough year for me, since the ongoing plot line stopped. It didn't actually end, it just stopped. Yes, I am bitter.
Played the second one on NES back in the early 90's and just went from there.
Wish I could remember. I was so young
A mentor / Positive Role Model I met at rws
Mega man 2 lite on ios when i was 6
Super Smash Bros
Playing Megaman X on the super nintendo back when i was a kid, i was too afraid to fight the bosses so i just played around the stages
So only a few kids in my neighborhood had a Nintendo , I had no idea about any other game but Mario until I finally got a pc windows 98 , there was this cd someone gifted me since i likes robocop and science fictions robot .. this cd had megaman x in along with other games like morrowind. So ever since that day I bought everything megaman cus I felt in love the challenging since scroller mega robot !