The Unrivaled Innovation of Mega Man 1, 2, & 3 | Mega Man NES Review & Retrospective

Mega Man 1, 2, and 3 were not only a great way to start the Mega Man series, but also pioneered many aspects of game design. Most notably non-linear mission structures, and a variety of combat options, which are things the Mega Man series, as well as many others, have kept around. Mega Man 1, 2, and 3 are some of the most important games ever made, along with Mega Man 4, 5, and 6, but I'll save that for another time. For now, let's discuss what made Mega Man 1, 2, and 3 so great...
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Mega Man review

[@twinhats8221]

Fireman will only attack if he takes damage, or the player crosses a set distance. I don't blame you for thinking he has no pattern since this isn't explained at all.

[@sonicya]

Mega man zero mightve been when the series peaked, but mega man would not be where it is without mega man 2. Entire series were inspired and born because of these classics!

[@gust20xx32]

A pretty cool thing from Megaman 3 is that every robot master ever created in the series up to that point appeared in the game, either as rematch battles or as a cameo in the ending. In a time most game series concluded in a trilogy, the robot masters callback fitted perfectly for a third game.

[@BubbleManmm2]

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[@L00D__]

26:30

[@michaelpizzaman276]

Finally, someone who understands the masterpiece that is Mega Man 1

[@CoralCopperHead]

The boss rush is there so you have a chance to use and experiment with every weapon on each boss before replaying the game. As a kid, that was how I learned you could cripple Flame Mammoth with Boomer Kuwanger's weapon.

[@MichaelTaylor-qp2xf]

Thank you for this video. I agree that the Mega Man games are the NES games that have held up the best all these years later. Perfected gameplay with great music and replayability. Whenever I have free time and dont know what I want to play, I'll run through the 8 robot masters of a Mega Man game. I prefer the first 3 because I think the series is better without the charging Mega Buster, which just made enemies take more hits to kill, adding nothing else.

[@sammylane21]

I've always found Flame Man's flame swaying in the opposite direction he is running to be adorable.

[@Dorelaxen]

Mega Man 1 was the first game I ever rented. It's still an amazing game. For the time, the fact that he blinked was AMAZING. Never could beat it back then (didn't know about the electric beam pause trick, so the Yellow Devil stopped me cold), but Mega Man is still one of my favorite franchises.

[@SantaFeSuperChief1]

HUGE props for calling out the nostalgia culture surrounding Megaman 2. I personally think the NES Megaman games only got better as they went. The circlejerk around MM2 was what spawned Megaman 9 and 10, which were regressive sequels and boiled the series down to nostalgia cash grabs, and the series still hasn't really recovered from it.

[@abc_4285]

International Megaman 3 not having Megaman on the title screen is more likely because the logo is much bigger than the Japanese version, thus not leaving enough RAM space to actually have Megaman there

[@user-yg2mx3pr1i]

Hard man is funny name hard hahah

[@TheJadeFist]

The Boss rushes are actually a semi smart way to help the player in the future. You now have every weapon you can try on them. Sure you might already know before you get there, but you may have beaten some with out their weaknesses, and a gameover in that level lets you work back to focus on just practice on the boss fights.

[@esmooth919]

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[@thomasffrench3639]

I’m more of a Castlevania guy than a Mega Man guy, but these games are definitely among the best of the NES, at least for platformers as I cannot speak on shoot ‘em ups, RPGs or Puzzle games which were big genres at the time. I have only played the first few games, the first Mega Man is very good, although I hesitate to call it great, and it’s been a while since I’ve played the others since I was a teenager in like 2015, but I assume they are on the level of high quality of the best platformers like Mario 3 and Ducktales. I can’t wait to continue playing these games and I look forward to your next video on Mega Man

[@esmooth919]

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[@craigamore2319]

Oh, my friend, as you said, Mega Man games are hard. They reward you by mastering them and though, yes, Quickman's lasers are brutally difficult, they are not cheap, and the level doesn't suck. They reward patience, persistence and mastering. There is little in any Mega Man game, much less gaming, more satisfying than mastering a run on a level like Quickman's. It makes that stage and the game as a whole something special.

[@Smalltummywonderful]

The first three are amazing, I definitely love these games a lot

[@primal44]

Great video, I’ve been playing through the classic mega man series during breaks at school. It’s been really fun since I only played mega man 1 and 2 as a kid