This concept draws inspiration from rock-paper-scissors. In the fortress, Mega Man fights past new bosses, clones of the game's Robot Masters, and Wily himself, who is usually in a large multi-phase war machine.Įnemies are weak to at least one weapon for instance, Fire Man will take more damage from Ice Man's weapon than from other weapons. Wily, the person responsible for the robotic enemies' destructive acts. After defeating all of the Robot Masters, Mega Man travels to a multi-stage fortress to confront Dr. The weapons Mega Man gains share the theme of the defeated boss. Each Robot Master is representative of a specific element or object, with such bosses as Fire Man, Ice Man, Guts Man, Cut Man, Elec Man, and Bomb Man. After defeating a Robot Master-the boss of a level-Mega Man gains the ability to use that Robot Master's special weapon. When Mega Man was released in 1987, the characteristic that made it revolutionary was the choice given to the player of which robot master to attempt first. The player character must fight through the levels using Mega Man's "Mega Buster"-a cannon attached to his arm-to shoot the robotic enemies inhabiting his environment. All main Mega Man games released prior to 1997 are side-scrolling action platformers. Though all incarnations of Mega Man feature unique stories, settings, and characters, they share several common features. Light's robots, Rock volunteered to be converted into a fighting robot to defend the world from Wily's violent robotic threats, thus becoming Mega Man. Wily in which he reprogrammed most of Dr. In the story behind the original series, Mega Man is a robot originally named Rock, created as a lab assistant by the scientist Dr. Note the run-and-gun and platform gameplay. Mega Man battles mini-boss Hanabiran from Mega Man 9 in Hornet Man's stage.
This timeline excludes the spin-off Mega Man Battle Network and Mega Man Star Force series, both of which take place in an alternate universe where the internet flourished rather than robotics.
The core games in the franchise have all been set in a single continuity the storyline of the "classic" series is succeeded by the Mega Man X, Mega Man Zero, Mega Man ZX, and the Mega Man Legends series. The main series consists of eleven games, the standalone Mega Man & Bass, the spin-off Game Boy series (released in Japan as Rockman World), and various ports, remakes, and compilations. As of March 31, 2021, the series has sold 37 million units worldwide. The original game was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1987, and spawned a franchise that expanded to over 50 games on multiple systems. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Mega Man, known as Rockman in Japan, is a Japanese science fiction video game franchise created by Capcom, starring a series of robot characters each known by the moniker " Mega Man". Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.