Talk:Mega Man (1987 video game)

Influences from the game

Anyone have any ideas how to tackle the "Influences from the game" section of the artical?--ZeWrestler 15:48, 24 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Game overview

The overview of the game has alredy been covered in the article's introduction, should we remove this section? If this was inteneded to be about the game's plot or storyline, then it probably should be re-titled. —Kjammer 09:31, 25 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Taken care of. We need information on the story though as well as other stuff. K1Bond007 16:54, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

Should there be a mention of what genre the game is? Zapateria 17:49, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

Of course :) K1Bond007 18:47, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

Powerups

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the "E. Tank" powerup was ever in this game. Remember this aticle is about the NES game Mega Man, not the series. — Kjammer 01:12, 29 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Your right- I just went auto pilot on power-ups. My mistake. Themissinglint 02:21, 29 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Common Enemies

Who wants to handel the common enemy section of this artical? ZeWrestler 21:50, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I can identify some common enemies that have made appearences in later games of the series, but I don't know their names (or what they're called). If I knew the enimies' official names (not named by fans) I could start something. Also, I'm not sure how this section should be formated. —Kjammer 07:27, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Here you go, enemy names and stats. The numbers (for HP/AP) should be divided by 10 if you'd like them to be "bars of energy" but are derived from official sources as-is. I suggest the spelling gabyool instead of Auto's gabyoall, pickerman instead of Auto's pickelman, and while I personally prefer metool the current canon spelling is very unfortunately mettaur (both preferred to Auto's metall). Auto has compiled similar lists for Rockman 2 and Rockman 3 as well. --Boco XLVII 21:05, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Actually, the names provided in that link don't seem to match up with the names provided in the instructional booklet for the NES cartridge (which were the names listed in the Wiki article before they were changed to the names provided in the aforementioned link). -- 24.119.243.65

The instruction booklet is wrong, or at least inconsistent with later games in the series, so I chose the Japanese enemy names instead. If you'd like to revert to the English names, sure, but then later games will have enemies in the same robot series with completely dissimilar names. --Boco XLVII 16:23, 31 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I wasn't aware the instruction booklet was inconsistant with later games in the series. That's fine, then. To be fair, all the games seem rather inconsistant as far as names go (Met? Metool? Metaul?). For instance, the enemy called Adhereing Suzy is called Octopus Battery in the MM1 instructional booklet and Lazy Suzy in at least one Game Boy title. So going with the Japanese names is probably a good solution, anyway. -- 24.119.243.65

It's still called "Suzy", though, which is the point. Those enemies are in the "Suzy" series, and like enemies in the "Metool" series or "Joe" series or "Gabyool" series they all share certain features. But the series names are obscured in the English version.

But I understand what you mean by the inconsistent translation of Metool (メットール). The current favored translation, of all things, is "Mettaur", which started in Battle Network 2 and then was reused in the later BN games as well as in Anniversary Collection. I use the spelling Metool to highlight the word's origin - metal tool. The official English spelling is "Mettaur" so if you'd like to change it go ahead - it's still recognisably the same name. --Boco XLVII 15:56, 1 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'm putting the attacks in "bars" and hp in "MB", which will be noted as "bars of life" and "Megablaster shots." The x10 multiplier isn't really neccesary. Themissinglint 03:40, 7 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Box-covers

This is more out of curiosity, but still. Does anyone know what motivation was behind these early and quite horrible covers for the Mega Man titles?

I have seen a set of images which I believe to be the original Japanese covers because they were all done in a secific style and were very different from the ones seen here. The European (PAL) versions had their own covers for the first two games (the Mega Man II cover was very different from the North American version though still a bit quirky) and I believe that Germany actually had its own version for MM2 which was more true to the anime-ish style of graphics. I think from Mega Man III onward the covers for the North American and Europe were identical except for some slight localisation which was limited to Mega Man's face and decorations on his outfit which were removed in the European versions and his face was re-drawn in a more anime-ish style (and naturally the "Nintendo Seal of Quality" which is elliptic in North America and Round in Europe).

This all finally ended with Mega Man VII the cover of which was pretty much the same in all versions (I might be wrong though since Rock seemed more muscle-bound in that version).

From what I understand, the reason the box art for Mega Man 1's North American release looks so terrible is that the artist was given literally a day to produce it. (Watch the G4 special on Mega Man included in the Gamecube version of MMAC, I'm pretty sure they mention it there.)

Was Mega Man Anniversary Collection ever released in Europe or in PAL-form for that matter?

I don't think so, but I could be wrong.

On a related note, wouldn't it be better if remove that ugly American NES coverart and simply put a logo or something? At the very least, we could put a cover gallery as a subsection in this article. Jonny2x4 22:07, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'm pretty sure you're right since there hasn't been any word from Capcom and the European Mega Man homepage isn't exactly helpful or very insightful. It bites 'cause I'm a big fan and would have bought in a second.

The final fantasy project got in a big debate about using logos when Final Fantasy VI was being voted on for FA status.--ZeWrestler ^Talk 23:20, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

FA

hey,

anyone think we can get this article up to FA status? --ZeWrestler ^Talk 16:04, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]