Reviews from

in the past


This game is charming but kind of unpolished and bad.

Played this on the legacy collection, honestly pretty fun! I love the classic Mega Man formula so much, it's simple yet challenging. Probably the one i remember the most about.

I love that it has a score system that it doesn't even save. Did people really take photos of their score to brag about or something???

Jogo bom mas cai na mesmice de todos os jogos de Nintendinho, difícil só pra te prender mais tempo no jogo.

Elec Man's music is pretty good. Fuck the Wily Stages.


O jogo já é difícil para comer fichas, e os controles travados não ajudam nem um pouco.

Alright, I finally sat down to play Mega Man after all these years. Jeez, this game's hard! Fun, but brutal. The music is super catchy, and I like that you get the boss powers, but man, those instant-death spikes and tricky jumps really get me. It's tough but fair, I guess.

For a 1987 platforming side-scroller Mega Man hits the lofty heights of Super Mario Bros. and Castlevania. The game oozes personality with a cutesy aesthetic similar to Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy.

Mega Man also has a great level select formula with boss fights that benefit from Mega Man's ability to utilise enemy weapons upon defeat - just like a game of Scissors, Paper, Rock.

I feel the original is unfairly pitted against Mega Man 2 and 3 which yes, greatly streamline the experience and build the real gauntlet of Wily Stages as well as Robot Master Gauntlets (it exists here, but is fairly relaxed).

A proof of concept that's rough around the edges, especially where damage output/input is concerned. Better than other no-name action platformers on the NES but easily one of the weaker classic entries in the franchise.

It only gets an 2 stars because it holds the Mega Man moniker...