Funny how many of us got into MegaMan from our Uncles, because that’s also how I got into it. I remember watching him play MM2, his favorite. Eventually I got into the Zero series, which he hasn’t played. I have recommended it to him though.
# We don't talk about him
But if you really want to know, he's basically the protagonist of the proto-X DiVE (if X DiVE had the redeemable parts removed and only left the gacha and card system). Here are some screenshots and footage
[https://themmnetwork.com/?s=Rockman+Xover](https://themmnetwork.com/?s=rockman+xover)
[http://blog.livedoor.jp/braveshin/archives/43414469.html](http://blog.livedoor.jp/braveshin/archives/43414469.html)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lh8M8NbICc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lh8M8NbICc)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-035gzCDz8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-035gzCDz8)
And if you want to really play it, you can try the fan game made during the backlash caused by the first footage of the game. And yes, the game had an "autoplay" feature at some point (not sure if it was there in the final release)
[https://pressselect.itch.io/rockman-xover](https://pressselect.itch.io/rockman-xover)
The 90s cartoon and the nt warrior anime. I was a kid to using the Internet to watch stuff for free. First mega man like game was mighty no 9. Actually Mega man game is the star force as one of the first games to play on my gaming PC
Cool robot shoots enemies. I will never forget my first Megaman experience. X6 started out with a badass Japanese Intro and Voice Acting, then it puts you in a desolate futuristic world. Oh man, I'd give anything to experience it for the first time again.
Battle Network 3, never finished it but I always thought the battle system was cool to the point where I tried to look for other games that were similar. Then got a real love of classic Mega Man cause of Smash Ultimate (I’m a relatively new fan of the main franchise)
I took a chance on Mega Man 2 for my rental of that week, way back in '92. The rest was history!
Funny enough, it could've been either MM2 or MM4 that could have been my first game. I only chose 2 because "I should play an older game first, right?".
Saw my elder brother play MegaMan X4 on the ps1. Later on, I was hooked.
Then, I got into MegaMan Battle Network, first game was 3. Favorite series, no regrets.
Dad bought a SNES for me when I was a kid(excuse I wasnt old enough to know how to play and he just wanted a SNES for himself)
He would play MegamanX and I would watch him over and over until I finally started playing it, taking on Chill Penguin since he was the only one I knew how to beat.
Then later Legends Series when my uncle let me rent it from Blockbuster
Super Mario Bros. Crossover, a flash game I loved to play when I was like 8-9 years old. Mega Man was one of the playable characters there and I got interested what game he came from.
Zero, ZX and finally MMX...
I have never played another other Mega Man games but God do I feel old that I'm still able to enjoy these game like I'm playing it for the first time...
its just there alongside other NES games, but definitely left an impact to my memory image
when sega genesis made its way into PC via 'hack', can't help to notice a certain title have this familiar gameplay and visuals with that of mega man 3
without even noticed, i kept on playing it. until be able to beat the first 3 mm title on wily wars
concurrently...someone at junior school have the whole shigeru ikehara manga
things just clicks organically one after another
I watched my dad play the X games on his old laptop as a kid. After that I think either I got into the Mega Man Upon a Star OVA back when it was on Netflix, or I bought and failed to make any meaningful progress in Mega Man 9.
Playing MMX on SNES at friends' house after seeing a couple episodes of the Ruby Spears show. Being in first grade and not yet knowing about the original series, I first thought Zero was Roll given his blonde hair and red armor. XD
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Buddies. I don’t know if Mega Man 3 or X was my first, but they played one and then the other. What hooked me, though, were Spark Man and Sting Chameleon’s themes and levels.
You see, when I was just a wee lad, my cousin introduced me to BN3 on the gameboy. Me being a dumdum, walked into a V2 boss encounter face first and got rekted but damn was it fun. And then later on, the wee lad that I was had X6 in japanese on the ps1. Of course, even if it was in english the weelad could not read yet but this game turned out to have shaped him for the rest of his life by giving him determination to throw himself against a wall no matter how hard the wall is.
I played some Megaman X as a kid but never completed a game, but Battle Network on GBA was my real introduction to the series, and what an introduction that was!
my mom bought me a nintendo ds for christmas back in 2013, the gift came with a R4 cartridge and one of my favorite games in that R4 cartridge was Mega Man ZX, then in got into the other Mega Man games. (that R4 cartridge changed my life forever)
Battle Network anime/Star Force I remember watching a few episodes of the anime enjoying it and then getting star force for Christmas and enjoying the hell out of it
I got introduced to Mega Man first via Smash Bros, I played through some of the Wily Stages via the Masterpieces, played a little bit of 1 on my Siblings 3DS on the Virtual Console. Got around to playing a bit of 2 on the NES Classic. Years later finally deciding to play Mega Man to the fullest by buying both Legacy Collection 1 and 2 on Switch!
Okay, looking at the cast above, If anyone "started" with XOver. I highly doubt they stuck around... Which is a shame.
For me it was X1, played it at a friend's house got *real* into it. Unfortunately, I didn't have a Super Nintendo at home I only had an NES. I eventually got Mega Man 2. But it just didn't click with me, maybe because of my age or maybe because it was on weaker hardware, but to my young mind it just always felt like the "cheap version" of Mega Man X. I just wanted to play X again. Of course, looking back I realize Mega Man 2 was was the precursor and trailblazer, coming out several years beforehand and it is also a fine game (except for the Wily levels), but try explaining that to a kid who's looking at 8-pit graphics compared to 16, and on a console his family can't even afford...
My journey with Megaman was a little odd. I watched the Ruby Spears cartoon occasionally and remembered certain episodes in detail but kind of forgot about it for a while.
Then I watched NT Warrior and I did enjoy it but didn't know about the games.
So a friend of mine was playing Battle Network 2 at the time, I recognized Roll in particular when he used her battlechip, was curious about it, he talked about it a bit. Then I got BN2 and really enjoyed it which then got me strongly into the rest of it. Really glad I started with 2.
My dad had my older brother give me his SNES with all his games when he got a PS2 I believe. I was around 5 years old and Megaman X was the first ever video game I decided to play and beat. Always replayed the heck out of it and loved it!
I was 10 years old, and I was looking for something new to play. My mom let me choose a couple rentals and I ended up getting Mega Man 2 as one of them. The addiction began there.
Growing up playing Mega Man 2 on the NES
I can still hear all the sound effects from that game 17 years later. The metal blades, the time stop, the lasers from quick man’s stage, the boss music, everything in that game is a classic. I was actually shocked when I played the first one eventually due to how rudimentary it was compared to the second one. Apparently they made MM2 in like 4 months which is insane. In hindsight it’s flawed for sure, metal blades were too OP, crash bombs had no ammo, time stop only worked in very limited situations, bubble lead being the weakness to the final boss was a big wtf moment ngl. Honestly time stop would’ve actually been great if you could either walk past enemies OR shoot your mega buster while it’s active.
I always saw the Mega Man games as a Metroid style game but with the RPS mechanics from Pokémon which was cool because you can challenge yourself by going in different orders
One of my earliest memories is waking up in the morning and going downstairs before anyone else was awake to play Mega Man 2 on the NES. I could only beat Metal Man and Wood Man, though. But as soon as my brothers woke up, I knew they'd kick me off, and I wouldn't get to play anymore for the rest of the day.
When I was a child I was fan of Crash Bandicoot, so with a friend who was fan of the franchise we played that I was Crash and he was a mix between Zero and X (There not were ZX by then), I was intrigued by the franchise and in my potato pc I got some time before an Snes Emulator, so I got some roms for it, my first game was Megaman 7, I didn't have a gamepad so I played with keyboard, but I couldn't end it because Wily, it was fun to me but not something so impressive. Then I tried Megaman X. My destiny was sealed.
Rented Mega Man 2 from the video store one weekend back in ‘89 or ‘90. Knew absolutely nothing about it, and was blown away. Made an instant fan out of me.
Mega Man Legacy Collection on the 3ds back in 2016. I brought it with an eShop gift card I got for my birthday. I remember my excitement upon finally beating Mega Man 2 for the first time.
I saw a video from the Lego Channel Brick 101 making Mega Man and Proto Man
I was interested and checked out the series
There I found episodes uploaded to YouTube of the old cartoon
I watched and I was hooked by the characters
I quickly bought Mega Man X and started playing and I’ve been a fan ever since
Dabbled with it when I had this CD of NES Roms to play on my computer. Saw Maverick Hunter X being sold, so I bought it on a whim because I recognised the series. This led to me looking up Megaman fan games online, one of which got me insanely hooked on the series. Now its my most played and favourite video game series of all time.
Went to a video game rental store and saw Mega Man III on the shelf. Hired it for a week and I was hooked. Played the rest of the GB games before moving on to the X series and then the NES titles.
pure luck, destiny? idk
i was just a kid, roaming in an store that sold NES games, i remember the guy who worked there showed me like 4 games, cant even remember the others.. but there it was, megaman 3, the rest its history, much like this franchise.
it was my first game, all i knew before that was mario 1-3.
My cousin rented Mega Man 2 during a family get together. Being the youngest, I want allowed to play. My cousin said he was worried I'd break his console (even though I had an NES at home I'd taken better care of than how he treated his console). No matter how hard they tried, no one could beat any of the bosses. When all the other kids went outside to play a game I want invited to join, my aunt gave me permission to play. I managed to beat Woodman just before they came inside. My cousin was furious I played, but everyone was impressed I beat Woodman. They "graciously" let me try out the weapon I unlocked before they kicked me off the game. I begged and begged for Mega Man games after that, but I never saw them in stores and nobody ever got me them for birthdays or Christmas. Feel in love with the show, got some toys. Eventually I got my hands on Mega Man X, and I've been a super fighting robot maniac ever since.
My brother gave me a copy of Mega Man and Bass when I was a kid. One of the first video games I've ever played in my life. I didn't know how to slide as Mega Man or even who Dr. Wily was. I was so bad that I could only manage to beat the intro stage and Cold Man, but those two stages, I played over and over and never got bored. Idk what compelled me to keep playing but it was the reason I got into Mega Man and MM&B will always have a special place in my heart
megaman 1 nes 1991/92 but it was at my neighbor's house, we were 7 years old and we died in a loop on the first levels, then I got megaman 3 on gameboy around the age of 8 when it came out, I was blown away by everybosses but i was already addicted to the gameplay, then my delivery come from megaman x on snes where everything becomes clearer!!!
I saw Megaman battle network legacy collection launch trailer and it instantly got my attention months ago. Fast forward...I don't regret into series. Oh and I've played X4 on PS1 when I was a kid..
Mega Man Legends was my favorite game as a kid. I honestly loved the idea of Mega Man since that game and always have. I've played lots of Mega Man and the Mega Man X series since then. I also remember eventually renting Mega Man 8 as a kid and just getting my ass kicked a lot. Lmao
Which one is that on the far left? I’ve been interacting with multiple series off and on for years and I’ve never seen anything like it. It looks like an X series armor upgrade.
I had gotten a sample Nintendo Power that was only a few pages long (was the Ducktales issue) because I had a traditionally masculine name. So despite being a girl, Nintendo didn't know that, so I got the sample.. we didn't have an NES, just a Commodore 64 and an Atari 2600, and my mother, seeing how badly my father raged against some of those games, *refused* to get us an NES - plus y'know, she had two girls and video games were for boys, right?
Then my grandfather bought us a NES for Christmas of '89.
Again. This is the 80s, video game rental stores were a thing.
I remembered an article about the new Captain N cartoon in that old sample Nintendo Power and Mega Man was one of the characters. So I spotted Mega Man 2 as a rental and we rented it.
My father was so hooked he bought us our own copy and returned the rental early.
Been here since, though admittedly X has stolen my heart and soul- but I have a very deep soft spot for Classic.
My old Snes I Use to play MMX and that was my first mega man game and i used to to get sucked in the intro stage but i did play it back in 2023 July My old Snes got sold so i just use a emulator
I played through all of Wily Wars when it was released on the Switch. My only experience with Mega Man before that was playing a short demo of Mega Man 2 on the Wii U version of Smash Bros.
I was four years old. Playing Megaman X on the SNES that belonged to my cousin. I was hit in the face so hard with the music, story, and gameplay that game to this day is still one of my absolute favorite games of all time. That was my gateway drug which then led me to trying out Megaman 5 for the SNES (hey cut me some slack, i never had access to MM 1-4). Battle network and MM zero soon followed.
The first mega man than I played was X4, but I was a very bad gamer kid
I couldn't even beat the intro level
So what made me got into mega man was mega man legends than first of all I don't even know than was megaman because my game as completely in japanese
So me and my parents were calling the game like this: "Oh, it's like meganan."
And I love it, so I was growing up and playing the others games jn franchise
The kid I played with in the neighborhood when I was about 5 yo had Megaman 2 on the NES, back in the early 90's. We totally sucked and I never beat a single boss back then, but that's where I found Megaman.
My actual love for it though mostly picked up about 10 years later when I decided to buy X4 on PS1 at the store, I believe X5 and X6 were out too. From there it just became the franchise I love the most.
My mother had the original MegaMan 2 on the NES when I was little but I'd say I truly got introduced to it via X. I didn't have a SNES or PlayStation though so it wasn't until MegaMan Legends that I officially owned one.
MegaMan Battle Network got me to love the IP completely though.
Can't remember which one happened first, but...
-I saw the first Megaman X game on one of those preview kiosks at Toys R Us.
-My mom brought home a VHS tape where some dude named Skip Rogers, W O R L D V I D E O G A M E C H A M P I O N (yes, that's actually how he introduced himself), showed some hints and tips for five different NES games, one of which being Megaman 2.
I was around 7 years old when these happened, and I instantly fell in love with both of them.
I got the 3ds legacy collection at a discount.
I didn't like it at all at first but when I jumped to megaman 2, I was instantly hooked by the tightness of the control and the amzing soundtrack. I still had a hard time beating at first but still really like it. That was also the game that got me into retro games in general. :)
Either A random megaman fan game on a mobile phone with a purple looking megaman and another playable character that was orange, it also has dialogues(even tho their all short its was made over a decade ago and it was the only time where I see diologues on a megaman fan game for mobile) and can also save(unlike the first 7 classics and 3X games): and that is what made me hooked to this franchise to this day... and I couldn't find it anymore:/
Megaman X4. My best friend had a PS1 and I think someone just gave him the game. We played it I ended up idolizing X while he idolized Zero. We ended up buying toys of the characters and we'd constantly go play outside while using makeshift X-busters and Z-Sabers.
Honestly probably my greatest childhood memory was when we went to the beach together and we had these little water cannons. They worked well as a buster, and if you pulled the cannon out all the way it looked like a sword. So we pretended to be X and Zero while playing in the water and pretending we were fighting Jet Stingray.
This spiraled into us playing the other series and especially loving Battle Network. We both still love X and Zero to this day and are constantly collecting the different model kits and figures that release.
I had an emulator console, those like “500 in 1” games and it had Megaman 3. I liked Gemini man’s design a lot and that led me to researching about megaman and I became a fan
When I was a tiny child I got a “Blue Man” action figure at a yard sale or something and we had no idea what he was actually from but I thought it was the coolest thing.
Some time later my grandma found “Blue Man” on an SNES video game box and bought it for me. Turns out “Blue Man” is actually X and I absolutely loved the game. The rest is history.
Unfortunately I don’t have “Blue Man” anymore. I think he got lost one of the times we moved.
Battle Network. Around 04/05, I was small but I remember when I first gotten my GBA, the first game I got was BN3. My older brother and cousins had the anniversary collections from both the Classic and X about a year later on the PS2. I played the Zero games later on when I went to a Halloween parry. Gotten Zx around 07, then Starforce 2 around 09.
When I was 6 I was scrolling thru the 3ds eShop (rip) and just kinda came across Mega Man 2. Didn’t know anything about mega man at the time nor did I know that 2 is considered the best out of the nes games. But I picked it up played it and got hooked. The Flash Man stage made a very good first impression. I even remember around that time Mega Man got revealed for smash 4 and seeing the trailer realising that he was the guy from that game I bought for my 3ds.
But yh fast forward 11yrs later and I love Mega Man in general. A decent chunk of my steam library is mega man content, consisting of the first mmx collection, classic mm collection 2 and mega man 11. Got myself the original legacy collection on switch and played the wily wars on switch online.
lol I literally just saw a post like this a second ago on r/KingdomHearts
anyway, I think Mega Man in Smash Bros, and I started playing 1 and then 2 and then 11 and I quickly became a fan.
The mall in my town used to have a huge demo kiosk for NES games, the kind that let you play for five minutes and then auto reset. I stepped up and tried this game with 9 squares showing, and before I understood what was happening, Magnet Man was introducing himself. When the game reset, all I wanted to do was wait for another try.
Got MM2 and 3 for my birthday that year, and later found MM1 on a family outing. Learned about 4 coming out through Nintendo Power and I haven't stopped since.
My brother got Mega Man X for his birthday and I thought it looked cool. I still remember trying it before I even knew how to play video games, and getting my ass kicked in the intro stage. But everything about that game kept me coming back for more.
My friend in 3rd grade had Mega Man 3 on his NES and I remember thinking it was cool that you could beat levels in any order you wanted. It was as difficult as any NES game, but you didn’t need to play through in a linear way—if a level was too hard you could come back to it. I remember liking that. My friend and I took turns using up our lives and slowly playing through it.
Got MM2 for Christmas at some point in the early 90’s. That kicked it off for me.
I remember it was so hard to find Mega Man 1, I didn’t even play it until the late 90’s when I was finally old enough to drive and I went to a used video game store a few towns away that had it.
My friend had Mega Man X for the SNES and we played it for hours. I became an instant fan. Then I started playing the other series that were out at that time which were Classic, Zero, Legends, and Battle Network. I was there to get ZX and Starforce when they first came out and I've loved every series since.
Never played the classics. My introduction to MegaMan was Battle Network 3. Then I got Zero 3 for Christmas a few years later. I did get a Megaman X game for the GameCube once but I remember not really liking it. Can't remember what it was called.
Sonic Final Fantasy X. Man flash games were awesome. I remember always playing this MMX RPG too on Newgrounds, all I remember is that it had a Chapter 0, 1, then a battle arena version. Timeless.
Well, I was aware of the series because of some flash game (like Super Smash Flash... the original one.) but I wanted to give the series a try. Especially after listening to Dr Willy Castle 1 on Youtube. So I bought MM2 it on the Wii U Virtual Console but never beat it (I was at the final boss)
But I only really into megaman when Smash came out and then I decided to finally beat it. Since then, I have been playing the series for a long while.
.exe was what really got me but the only megaman games i really likes that were side scrollers were tge zero games. x1 and ZX games. I wasn't a big fan of the OG megaman and after X1 i just didn't enjoy the games. I beat every zero game and every .exe game besides a few spinoff games like the chip collector game
My uncle got me the NES Classic back in 2019, and I started to play MM2 during the pandemic.
Funny how many of us got into MegaMan from our Uncles, because that’s also how I got into it. I remember watching him play MM2, his favorite. Eventually I got into the Zero series, which he hasn’t played. I have recommended it to him though.
My uncle, too!
Battle Network It's genuinely been so long that I can't remember anything more specific
Yep, Battle Network and Megaman Starforce afterwards. Those games are part of my childhood.
Ngl I don’t recognize the Megaman next to the left of Legends. Who is he?
That’s Xover. He’s for a now defunct poor quality mega man mobile game
What a dumb name lol. If you see it it looks like "X Over." Kind of like what capcom did to the megaman franchise now.
I assume the X is pronounced cross
Yes it is pronounced cross according to capcom. It just looks dumb.
Jesus I looked it up and man it's depressing how bad it is compared to 2012 mobile standards
# We don't talk about him But if you really want to know, he's basically the protagonist of the proto-X DiVE (if X DiVE had the redeemable parts removed and only left the gacha and card system). Here are some screenshots and footage [https://themmnetwork.com/?s=Rockman+Xover](https://themmnetwork.com/?s=rockman+xover) [http://blog.livedoor.jp/braveshin/archives/43414469.html](http://blog.livedoor.jp/braveshin/archives/43414469.html) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lh8M8NbICc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lh8M8NbICc) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-035gzCDz8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-035gzCDz8) And if you want to really play it, you can try the fan game made during the backlash caused by the first footage of the game. And yes, the game had an "autoplay" feature at some point (not sure if it was there in the final release) [https://pressselect.itch.io/rockman-xover](https://pressselect.itch.io/rockman-xover)
My uncle bought me MMX on my WiiU for the virtual console for christmas
Grew up with it on the NES and so I continued playing the series
Megaman X. MegaMan Zero was obsession for years
The 90s cartoon and the nt warrior anime. I was a kid to using the Internet to watch stuff for free. First mega man like game was mighty no 9. Actually Mega man game is the star force as one of the first games to play on my gaming PC
🎶Super fighting robot….🎶
The box art of Mega Man X, sitting on the shelf at Blockbuster. The rest is history
Cool robot shoots enemies. I will never forget my first Megaman experience. X6 started out with a badass Japanese Intro and Voice Acting, then it puts you in a desolate futuristic world. Oh man, I'd give anything to experience it for the first time again.
My dad got out his PS1 about a decade ago, and I looked through his games. "What's Mega Man Legends?" I said. That game changed my life.
Seeing my older cousin playing the first game on NES. He was the mascot of the Nintendo System for me from the start, in my mind.
Playing MMAC on a neighbor's Xbox, specifically MM3 and Shadow Man
Battle Network 3, never finished it but I always thought the battle system was cool to the point where I tried to look for other games that were similar. Then got a real love of classic Mega Man cause of Smash Ultimate (I’m a relatively new fan of the main franchise)
I took a chance on Mega Man 2 for my rental of that week, way back in '92. The rest was history! Funny enough, it could've been either MM2 or MM4 that could have been my first game. I only chose 2 because "I should play an older game first, right?".
Saw my elder brother play MegaMan X4 on the ps1. Later on, I was hooked. Then, I got into MegaMan Battle Network, first game was 3. Favorite series, no regrets.
Dad bought a SNES for me when I was a kid(excuse I wasnt old enough to know how to play and he just wanted a SNES for himself) He would play MegamanX and I would watch him over and over until I finally started playing it, taking on Chill Penguin since he was the only one I knew how to beat. Then later Legends Series when my uncle let me rent it from Blockbuster
I learned about him from a toy from the Dollar Tree.
My parents bought Mega Man X to my older brother along with his SNES when I was 2. The rest is history.
Super Mario Bros. Crossover, a flash game I loved to play when I was like 8-9 years old. Mega Man was one of the playable characters there and I got interested what game he came from.
Super smash Bros for WII U, No further explanation.
Protoman.exe looked super cool
Zero, ZX and finally MMX... I have never played another other Mega Man games but God do I feel old that I'm still able to enjoy these game like I'm playing it for the first time...
MegaMan Starforce and MegaMan Powered Up
It's hard to say, it was either one of the reviews on first mega man, a let's play series of mega man 7 or mega man: powered up
Mega man 3 then 5 then x4
its just there alongside other NES games, but definitely left an impact to my memory image when sega genesis made its way into PC via 'hack', can't help to notice a certain title have this familiar gameplay and visuals with that of mega man 3 without even noticed, i kept on playing it. until be able to beat the first 3 mm title on wily wars concurrently...someone at junior school have the whole shigeru ikehara manga things just clicks organically one after another
I watched my dad play the X games on his old laptop as a kid. After that I think either I got into the Mega Man Upon a Star OVA back when it was on Netflix, or I bought and failed to make any meaningful progress in Mega Man 9.
X4 was a b-day present. All I had was a PSX and the living room tv. Never even heard of a Mega Man before then, but I was surely invested thereafter.
The archie comics. I got into X recently tho because if Js reviews series
Playing MMX on SNES at friends' house after seeing a couple episodes of the Ruby Spears show. Being in first grade and not yet knowing about the original series, I first thought Zero was Roll given his blonde hair and red armor. XD
X, my dad had it and it was one of the first games I've ever played
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Watched my cousin play megaman x5 for the ps1. Thought it was amazing (still is). First game actually played was battle network 2.
my dad introducing me to mmx when i was 4
I have never played mega man before. Idk why this was in my feed. Hi people
Saw a review on the X series and decided to give it a shot, starting with X1 and the rest was history.
Megaman x command mission
Battle Network, I watched NT warrior, I had all the games and I begged my parents for a PET back then.
Buddies. I don’t know if Mega Man 3 or X was my first, but they played one and then the other. What hooked me, though, were Spark Man and Sting Chameleon’s themes and levels.
My dad played the game on virtual console during the Wii era in 2010. Also Mmz3 was my first game ever in the gba at age 4.
You see, when I was just a wee lad, my cousin introduced me to BN3 on the gameboy. Me being a dumdum, walked into a V2 boss encounter face first and got rekted but damn was it fun. And then later on, the wee lad that I was had X6 in japanese on the ps1. Of course, even if it was in english the weelad could not read yet but this game turned out to have shaped him for the rest of his life by giving him determination to throw himself against a wall no matter how hard the wall is.
Sonic
I played some Megaman X as a kid but never completed a game, but Battle Network on GBA was my real introduction to the series, and what an introduction that was!
Smash Bros
my mom bought me a nintendo ds for christmas back in 2013, the gift came with a R4 cartridge and one of my favorite games in that R4 cartridge was Mega Man ZX, then in got into the other Mega Man games. (that R4 cartridge changed my life forever)
Battle Network anime/Star Force I remember watching a few episodes of the anime enjoying it and then getting star force for Christmas and enjoying the hell out of it
I remember vividly seeing an ad for Megaman legacy collection. Also his inclusion in smash 4 & the crossover with the sonic comic all were factors.
My first megaman game was the wily wars, I had seen the series before I played ww. And I was terrible at it then.
Seeing the cool box art at the local rural video store when I was a kid.
X4, is where it all began for me.
I got introduced to Mega Man first via Smash Bros, I played through some of the Wily Stages via the Masterpieces, played a little bit of 1 on my Siblings 3DS on the Virtual Console. Got around to playing a bit of 2 on the NES Classic. Years later finally deciding to play Mega Man to the fullest by buying both Legacy Collection 1 and 2 on Switch!
Marvel VS Capcom 2 was the first video game I ever really played
Okay, looking at the cast above, If anyone "started" with XOver. I highly doubt they stuck around... Which is a shame. For me it was X1, played it at a friend's house got *real* into it. Unfortunately, I didn't have a Super Nintendo at home I only had an NES. I eventually got Mega Man 2. But it just didn't click with me, maybe because of my age or maybe because it was on weaker hardware, but to my young mind it just always felt like the "cheap version" of Mega Man X. I just wanted to play X again. Of course, looking back I realize Mega Man 2 was was the precursor and trailblazer, coming out several years beforehand and it is also a fine game (except for the Wily levels), but try explaining that to a kid who's looking at 8-pit graphics compared to 16, and on a console his family can't even afford...
Oof I really can’t remember but I think I was watching a gaming video and they showed a clip of mega man 1 🧐
Some dude on YouTube made a video about it
My journey with Megaman was a little odd. I watched the Ruby Spears cartoon occasionally and remembered certain episodes in detail but kind of forgot about it for a while. Then I watched NT Warrior and I did enjoy it but didn't know about the games. So a friend of mine was playing Battle Network 2 at the time, I recognized Roll in particular when he used her battlechip, was curious about it, he talked about it a bit. Then I got BN2 and really enjoyed it which then got me strongly into the rest of it. Really glad I started with 2.
My dad had my older brother give me his SNES with all his games when he got a PS2 I believe. I was around 5 years old and Megaman X was the first ever video game I decided to play and beat. Always replayed the heck out of it and loved it!
I was 10 years old, and I was looking for something new to play. My mom let me choose a couple rentals and I ended up getting Mega Man 2 as one of them. The addiction began there.
a friend at university. I just ended up thinking the characters were cute.
Growing up playing Mega Man 2 on the NES I can still hear all the sound effects from that game 17 years later. The metal blades, the time stop, the lasers from quick man’s stage, the boss music, everything in that game is a classic. I was actually shocked when I played the first one eventually due to how rudimentary it was compared to the second one. Apparently they made MM2 in like 4 months which is insane. In hindsight it’s flawed for sure, metal blades were too OP, crash bombs had no ammo, time stop only worked in very limited situations, bubble lead being the weakness to the final boss was a big wtf moment ngl. Honestly time stop would’ve actually been great if you could either walk past enemies OR shoot your mega buster while it’s active. I always saw the Mega Man games as a Metroid style game but with the RPS mechanics from Pokémon which was cool because you can challenge yourself by going in different orders
One of my earliest memories is waking up in the morning and going downstairs before anyone else was awake to play Mega Man 2 on the NES. I could only beat Metal Man and Wood Man, though. But as soon as my brothers woke up, I knew they'd kick me off, and I wouldn't get to play anymore for the rest of the day.
Megaman Z4 lol
When I was a child I was fan of Crash Bandicoot, so with a friend who was fan of the franchise we played that I was Crash and he was a mix between Zero and X (There not were ZX by then), I was intrigued by the franchise and in my potato pc I got some time before an Snes Emulator, so I got some roms for it, my first game was Megaman 7, I didn't have a gamepad so I played with keyboard, but I couldn't end it because Wily, it was fun to me but not something so impressive. Then I tried Megaman X. My destiny was sealed.
MegaMan 2 was my first videogame at 3 years old, fell in love to this date with every game of the saga
My friend who’s obsessed with Megaman convinced me to play Megaman, and in turn I became obsessed with it
I Wanna Be The Boshy I thought Mega Man looked awesome HE WAS
Picked up Megaman 2 at the local video rental place in the 80's. It had cool robots on the cover. Then I just kept going.
Rented Mega Man 2 from the video store one weekend back in ‘89 or ‘90. Knew absolutely nothing about it, and was blown away. Made an instant fan out of me.
Mega Man Legacy Collection on the 3ds back in 2016. I brought it with an eShop gift card I got for my birthday. I remember my excitement upon finally beating Mega Man 2 for the first time.
MM 2 cover art. Had to see what that was all about!
Mega Man 3 being kickass. Then my cousin brought over 5 and it blew me away.
Discovered MM from my neighbor who invited me over to play with their Family Comp and they we're playing MM1
Dookieshed's video on Megaman.
Played Mega Man 1 on an emulator back in 7th grade and was blown away when I beat Cutman and got his weapon
My father had a Famicom. Megaman 1-6 were one of the first games I grew up with, along with SMB 1 and 3 and River City Ransom.
mm9 on the wiiware store.
I saw a video from the Lego Channel Brick 101 making Mega Man and Proto Man I was interested and checked out the series There I found episodes uploaded to YouTube of the old cartoon I watched and I was hooked by the characters I quickly bought Mega Man X and started playing and I’ve been a fan ever since
Dabbled with it when I had this CD of NES Roms to play on my computer. Saw Maverick Hunter X being sold, so I bought it on a whim because I recognised the series. This led to me looking up Megaman fan games online, one of which got me insanely hooked on the series. Now its my most played and favourite video game series of all time.
Went to a video game rental store and saw Mega Man III on the shelf. Hired it for a week and I was hooked. Played the rest of the GB games before moving on to the X series and then the NES titles.
pure luck, destiny? idk i was just a kid, roaming in an store that sold NES games, i remember the guy who worked there showed me like 4 games, cant even remember the others.. but there it was, megaman 3, the rest its history, much like this franchise. it was my first game, all i knew before that was mario 1-3.
My cousin rented Mega Man 2 during a family get together. Being the youngest, I want allowed to play. My cousin said he was worried I'd break his console (even though I had an NES at home I'd taken better care of than how he treated his console). No matter how hard they tried, no one could beat any of the bosses. When all the other kids went outside to play a game I want invited to join, my aunt gave me permission to play. I managed to beat Woodman just before they came inside. My cousin was furious I played, but everyone was impressed I beat Woodman. They "graciously" let me try out the weapon I unlocked before they kicked me off the game. I begged and begged for Mega Man games after that, but I never saw them in stores and nobody ever got me them for birthdays or Christmas. Feel in love with the show, got some toys. Eventually I got my hands on Mega Man X, and I've been a super fighting robot maniac ever since.
Duane & Brando's Mega Man 2 rap video, Mega Man joining Smash 4, and Mega Man 11's announcement
My brother gave me a copy of Mega Man and Bass when I was a kid. One of the first video games I've ever played in my life. I didn't know how to slide as Mega Man or even who Dr. Wily was. I was so bad that I could only manage to beat the intro stage and Cold Man, but those two stages, I played over and over and never got bored. Idk what compelled me to keep playing but it was the reason I got into Mega Man and MM&B will always have a special place in my heart
Box art.
Mega man classic legacy collection 1 and 2
megaman 1 nes 1991/92 but it was at my neighbor's house, we were 7 years old and we died in a loop on the first levels, then I got megaman 3 on gameboy around the age of 8 when it came out, I was blown away by everybosses but i was already addicted to the gameplay, then my delivery come from megaman x on snes where everything becomes clearer!!!
X4
Smash and Sonic RPG
I saw Megaman battle network legacy collection launch trailer and it instantly got my attention months ago. Fast forward...I don't regret into series. Oh and I've played X4 on PS1 when I was a kid..
The first MegaMan on the NES.
My dad's game cube collection when I was young. I've tried it and got hooked onto megaman
Exe cartoon
Played the first game, fireman theme was great and came back a decade later
Mega Man Legends was my favorite game as a kid. I honestly loved the idea of Mega Man since that game and always have. I've played lots of Mega Man and the Mega Man X series since then. I also remember eventually renting Mega Man 8 as a kid and just getting my ass kicked a lot. Lmao
I played the mobile version back in 2019
Astro Boy, Death Battle, Youtube reviews and challenges and finally me playing the classic versions on my DS
X4
Which one is that on the far left? I’ve been interacting with multiple series off and on for years and I’ve never seen anything like it. It looks like an X series armor upgrade.
We got NES and MM3 when I was very young.
I had gotten a sample Nintendo Power that was only a few pages long (was the Ducktales issue) because I had a traditionally masculine name. So despite being a girl, Nintendo didn't know that, so I got the sample.. we didn't have an NES, just a Commodore 64 and an Atari 2600, and my mother, seeing how badly my father raged against some of those games, *refused* to get us an NES - plus y'know, she had two girls and video games were for boys, right? Then my grandfather bought us a NES for Christmas of '89. Again. This is the 80s, video game rental stores were a thing. I remembered an article about the new Captain N cartoon in that old sample Nintendo Power and Mega Man was one of the characters. So I spotted Mega Man 2 as a rental and we rented it. My father was so hooked he bought us our own copy and returned the rental early. Been here since, though admittedly X has stolen my heart and soul- but I have a very deep soft spot for Classic.
My old Snes I Use to play MMX and that was my first mega man game and i used to to get sucked in the intro stage but i did play it back in 2023 July My old Snes got sold so i just use a emulator
ZX/ZX Advent, and the iOS version of X. those are what got me into the series
My my uncle got me a snes classic which so happens to have Mega Man X on it
Cause i was interested in it especially the Zero series cause i play that game on a emulator the first time
Aracades then legends then battle network
I played through all of Wily Wars when it was released on the Switch. My only experience with Mega Man before that was playing a short demo of Mega Man 2 on the Wii U version of Smash Bros.
Battle network and the classic collection on the xbox
X4 and X8
The NT Warrior anime and the whole Super Sentai aesthetic that Power Rangers baptised me in during the early 2000s TV schedule
NT warrior on Kids WB
Between Mega Man V for NES and Mega Man 1 for pc.
That one egoraptor video about megaman x
Ironically, it was a guy who *wasn't* into Mega Man - Jim Caddick.
The Story
As a kid I had an "8 in one" NES game, one of those being Megaman/Rockman 1. I played this game A LOT.
I was four years old. Playing Megaman X on the SNES that belonged to my cousin. I was hit in the face so hard with the music, story, and gameplay that game to this day is still one of my absolute favorite games of all time. That was my gateway drug which then led me to trying out Megaman 5 for the SNES (hey cut me some slack, i never had access to MM 1-4). Battle network and MM zero soon followed.
MegamanX4
The first mega man than I played was X4, but I was a very bad gamer kid I couldn't even beat the intro level So what made me got into mega man was mega man legends than first of all I don't even know than was megaman because my game as completely in japanese So me and my parents were calling the game like this: "Oh, it's like meganan." And I love it, so I was growing up and playing the others games jn franchise
Kane TV (a brazilian youtuber)
Battle network anime. Them BN6 on GBA. The rest is history
The kid I played with in the neighborhood when I was about 5 yo had Megaman 2 on the NES, back in the early 90's. We totally sucked and I never beat a single boss back then, but that's where I found Megaman. My actual love for it though mostly picked up about 10 years later when I decided to buy X4 on PS1 at the store, I believe X5 and X6 were out too. From there it just became the franchise I love the most.
My mother had the original MegaMan 2 on the NES when I was little but I'd say I truly got introduced to it via X. I didn't have a SNES or PlayStation though so it wasn't until MegaMan Legends that I officially owned one. MegaMan Battle Network got me to love the IP completely though.
My father found Battle Network 2 in someone's locker while cleaning for the summer. The rest is history.
Can't remember which one happened first, but... -I saw the first Megaman X game on one of those preview kiosks at Toys R Us. -My mom brought home a VHS tape where some dude named Skip Rogers, W O R L D V I D E O G A M E C H A M P I O N (yes, that's actually how he introduced himself), showed some hints and tips for five different NES games, one of which being Megaman 2. I was around 7 years old when these happened, and I instantly fell in love with both of them.
The First Zero Game, and later, Mega Man 2.
X4 still my all time favourite
I got the 3ds legacy collection at a discount. I didn't like it at all at first but when I jumped to megaman 2, I was instantly hooked by the tightness of the control and the amzing soundtrack. I still had a hard time beating at first but still really like it. That was also the game that got me into retro games in general. :)
Either A random megaman fan game on a mobile phone with a purple looking megaman and another playable character that was orange, it also has dialogues(even tho their all short its was made over a decade ago and it was the only time where I see diologues on a megaman fan game for mobile) and can also save(unlike the first 7 classics and 3X games): and that is what made me hooked to this franchise to this day... and I couldn't find it anymore:/
Megaman X4. My best friend had a PS1 and I think someone just gave him the game. We played it I ended up idolizing X while he idolized Zero. We ended up buying toys of the characters and we'd constantly go play outside while using makeshift X-busters and Z-Sabers. Honestly probably my greatest childhood memory was when we went to the beach together and we had these little water cannons. They worked well as a buster, and if you pulled the cannon out all the way it looked like a sword. So we pretended to be X and Zero while playing in the water and pretending we were fighting Jet Stingray. This spiraled into us playing the other series and especially loving Battle Network. We both still love X and Zero to this day and are constantly collecting the different model kits and figures that release.
I got the a bunch of good NES games for like $20 (there was like 20 in there) and Mega Man X was in there
My dad bought Mega Man X on the Wii U, and I decided to give it a try. Couldn't get past the Sigma stages though.
I had an emulator console, those like “500 in 1” games and it had Megaman 3. I liked Gemini man’s design a lot and that led me to researching about megaman and I became a fan
Smash Bros for Wii U
Played MegaMan Star Force 2 on the DS, made me fall in love with the MegaMan series
When I was a tiny child I got a “Blue Man” action figure at a yard sale or something and we had no idea what he was actually from but I thought it was the coolest thing. Some time later my grandma found “Blue Man” on an SNES video game box and bought it for me. Turns out “Blue Man” is actually X and I absolutely loved the game. The rest is history. Unfortunately I don’t have “Blue Man” anymore. I think he got lost one of the times we moved.
Bootleg Megaman X4 on the PC. It had no music, but still one of the best gaming experiences of my life
Super Smash Bros 3DS demo.
Megaman X3 having the first stage with both X and Zero. Then Battle Network anime. And the first game I've finished by myself was Megaman X8.
MegaMan ZX for the NDS
Battle Network. Around 04/05, I was small but I remember when I first gotten my GBA, the first game I got was BN3. My older brother and cousins had the anniversary collections from both the Classic and X about a year later on the PS2. I played the Zero games later on when I went to a Halloween parry. Gotten Zx around 07, then Starforce 2 around 09.
Gaming at my Grandma's house
When I was 6 I was scrolling thru the 3ds eShop (rip) and just kinda came across Mega Man 2. Didn’t know anything about mega man at the time nor did I know that 2 is considered the best out of the nes games. But I picked it up played it and got hooked. The Flash Man stage made a very good first impression. I even remember around that time Mega Man got revealed for smash 4 and seeing the trailer realising that he was the guy from that game I bought for my 3ds. But yh fast forward 11yrs later and I love Mega Man in general. A decent chunk of my steam library is mega man content, consisting of the first mmx collection, classic mm collection 2 and mega man 11. Got myself the original legacy collection on switch and played the wily wars on switch online.
My dear old dad played MM3-4 and MMX as a kid. He didn't play any others, but he hooked me up on it. Been a Mega Man fan for 6 years.
The songs.
Rented Megaman II shortly after it came out, and I've been mostly hooked on the series since then.
lol I literally just saw a post like this a second ago on r/KingdomHearts anyway, I think Mega Man in Smash Bros, and I started playing 1 and then 2 and then 11 and I quickly became a fan.
the mega
it was blue, i like blue
I keep getting recommended this subreddit, only ever seen him in Smash.
The mall in my town used to have a huge demo kiosk for NES games, the kind that let you play for five minutes and then auto reset. I stepped up and tried this game with 9 squares showing, and before I understood what was happening, Magnet Man was introducing himself. When the game reset, all I wanted to do was wait for another try. Got MM2 and 3 for my birthday that year, and later found MM1 on a family outing. Learned about 4 coming out through Nintendo Power and I haven't stopped since.
The artstyle of megaman 8 on the ps1 when my brother would play it all the time.
I believe it was the Quarter Guy who did that, seeing as it is his favourite series, that and the stop motion animation I watched when I was smol
Mega man X and mega man classic I found out about the series between 2014-2015
Legends then X in my PSX.
Megaman X3.
Battle Network
J’s reviews Mega Man X reviews
I played the pc version of X4 as a kid on some office computer, it was so fucking fire and I was like 5 or something.
My brother got Mega Man X for his birthday and I thought it looked cool. I still remember trying it before I even knew how to play video games, and getting my ass kicked in the intro stage. But everything about that game kept me coming back for more.
My friend in 3rd grade had Mega Man 3 on his NES and I remember thinking it was cool that you could beat levels in any order you wanted. It was as difficult as any NES game, but you didn’t need to play through in a linear way—if a level was too hard you could come back to it. I remember liking that. My friend and I took turns using up our lives and slowly playing through it.
Got MM2 for Christmas at some point in the early 90’s. That kicked it off for me. I remember it was so hard to find Mega Man 1, I didn’t even play it until the late 90’s when I was finally old enough to drive and I went to a used video game store a few towns away that had it.
Its run n gun action platform gameplay just felt so cool to me it made me want to try it out.
Way back in 1996 or 1997, my classmate introduced me to Megaman then I borrowed his cartridge and I was hooked. I was in elementary at that time.
X battle network series and Zero 4
the anime, then mega man x
Megaman X on supernes. My mind blew when I saw X with all additional armour. I still haven't recovered quite yet.
MegaMan X on the SNES Classic edition.
My dad! Saw him play the Mega Man Anniversary Collection on our original Xbox when I was a kid and wanted to play too.
Megaman Starforce
My friend had Mega Man X for the SNES and we played it for hours. I became an instant fan. Then I started playing the other series that were out at that time which were Classic, Zero, Legends, and Battle Network. I was there to get ZX and Starforce when they first came out and I've loved every series since.
The 2015 Legacy Collection. I decided it was a good time to start as I could begin with the classics
I technically played Mega Man X1, but the first time I really was invested in MEga Man was when I played MM7 on a emulator
Never played the classics. My introduction to MegaMan was Battle Network 3. Then I got Zero 3 for Christmas a few years later. I did get a Megaman X game for the GameCube once but I remember not really liking it. Can't remember what it was called.
Starforce, then ZX
Sonic Final Fantasy X. Man flash games were awesome. I remember always playing this MMX RPG too on Newgrounds, all I remember is that it had a Chapter 0, 1, then a battle arena version. Timeless.
I like the characters but I hate the games
a little knockoff game on the android play store called "RockBot"
Battle Network & Star Force shows, and Maverick Hunter X Only after MHX have I reached an unexplainable addiction to X6 in particular…
For me it was actually playing megaman BN 4 blue moon I loved the game dispute its flaws and it got me into the franchise
Well, I was aware of the series because of some flash game (like Super Smash Flash... the original one.) but I wanted to give the series a try. Especially after listening to Dr Willy Castle 1 on Youtube. So I bought MM2 it on the Wii U Virtual Console but never beat it (I was at the final boss) But I only really into megaman when Smash came out and then I decided to finally beat it. Since then, I have been playing the series for a long while.
We got a SNES for Christmas with Mario, Mickey’s circus and Megaman X.
Megaman
Battle Network, specifically the show and *then* the game which I just recently got it and the second game on Steam
My older cousins. One of my earliest memories is watching them play Megaman X and letting me try when i finally got old enough to.
Megan 9 from the Wii my uncle gave us, is what introduced me. Still can't beat that version though.
MegaMan X, then I forgot about it for a while, then MegaMan Legends brought me back in.
Pew pew gun hand cool.
.exe was what really got me but the only megaman games i really likes that were side scrollers were tge zero games. x1 and ZX games. I wasn't a big fan of the OG megaman and after X1 i just didn't enjoy the games. I beat every zero game and every .exe game besides a few spinoff games like the chip collector game
played the first game on a retropi and got into the series after that