Classic Mega Man
- For the Mega Man NES game, please see Mega Man (NES)
- For Information about the entire Mega Man series, please see Mega Man series
Mega Man among the most well known characters and a property of Capcom. He is also known as Rock Man in Japan, or by his nickname, The Blue Bomber. The character of Mega Man was created in 1987 by Keiji Inafune at Capcom of Japan, which was then a small company eager to make a breakthrough with a new platform game.
In the story behind the original series, Rock is a robot created as a lab assistant by scientists Dr. Thomas Light and Dr. Albert Wily; following treachery by Dr. Wily, Rock was converted into a fighting robot to defend the world from Wily's violent creations. Thus he becomes Mega Man (Rockman in the Japanese original).
Mega Man in Other Series
Over the years, as Mega Man branched out into several series, he has been redesigned many different ways. These redesigns stretch from the classic look that began on the NES (left) that stars in Mega Man 1 through Mega Man 8, the future Mega Man X that stars in Mega Man X through Mega Man X8 and Command Mission, the helmetless Mega Man that starred in Mega Man Legends and finally the alternate story Mega Man from Mega Man Battle Network.
Mega Man X
Mega Man X - too X-treme for you
Back in the old days, Dr. Light created a robot called Mega Man X with astounding artificial intelligence - X had the ability to think, feel, and decide for himself. However, he didn't have time to fully test the robot, and, hoping that someone in the future would, he sealed X in a time capsule.
Much, much later, a man by the name of Dr. Cain found Dr. Light's dilapidated laboratory and X. He released the robot and, rather hastily, went about duplicating the schematics and programming as best he could. These robots became known as Reploids.
However, Cain didn't do a very good job, and many of the Reploids began to think for themselves too much. Some rebelled against humanity and wanted to overthrow their fleshy overlords. These maverick Reploids were called ... Mavericks.
X, still loyal to humankind and with the strength of Dr. Light's engineering prowess, became a Maverick Hunter. He fights to save the world from rebellious robots.
Mega Man Legends
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Mega Man Battle Network
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The Mega Man here is largely unrelated to any of the original Mega Man creation. Mega Man is a NetNavi, sentient computer programs that venture through the Internet for them their operators. He is owned by Lan Hikari. Lan uses Mega Man to fight his way through cyberspace defeating viruses that are trying to take over the world.
The Mega Man Battle Network series takes place in an alternate time line in which the government decided to fund the development of network technology invented by Dr Light, instead of robotics technology invented by Dr Wily.