Things that fans do not know about Mega Man

Despite being a familiar game brand, Mega Man still has many things that not everyone knows.

Mega Man, also known as Rock Man, is one of the legendary game series for every gamer. As a gamer, perhaps no one did not know about Mega Man during his childhood. But famous so, familiar with each generation of gamers is, whether readers know all about this series yet? Mega Man still has a lot of interesting things that not everyone knows.

Blue Bomber is only blue due to NES hardware

Things that fans do not know about Mega Man Picture 1

There is a reason for the default blue color of Mega Man's Blue Bomber character. It is not the original icon color, not the favorite color of the designer, Blue Bomber has a simple blue color because this is the color that NES hardware best represents.

In the late 1980s, producer Keiji Inafune was having a headache finding a suitable color for Mega Man. However, because NES hardware was very limited at the time, he did not have many options. Inafune explained: ' We are using Nintendo, we have to make the character blue. Although there are 56 colors to choose from, blue is the color that shows the most detail . '

Apparently Inafune used a variety of other colors when Mega Man switched weapons but blue was used most of the time, and this is almost the default brand color of Blue Bomber. But the funny thing is, a few years later, they created a character called Blues, but they took the brand red.

Mega Man's first bad box art story

Things that fans do not know about Mega Man Picture 2

Mega Man's first Box Art is indeed the most memorable thing in the game's history. When "admiring" Box Art of Mega Man in the beginning, fans cannot use any words to describe it. Box Art has a Mega Man character drawn in realistic form, not animation. It was a dull, old-skinned guy with wrinkles, in contrast to the image of a boy full of vitality and courage. Mega Man's face couldn't be any more uncomfortable, it seems he's also annoyed with his Box Art.

But the most annoying thing about this Box Art is the unacceptable color combination of traditional yellow and green. Not to mention that this guy holds a pistol, while Mega Man's weapon is a cannon mounted in his hand. After many years, no one has spoken out and is responsible for this Box Art version of Mega Man.

However, in 2012, artist Mark Ericksen admitted that he was the one who painted Mega Man's classic Box Art badly, but he did not forget to blame Capcom 's then art director at that time . ' Basically, we only see Mega Man as pixels running on the screen. So, I asked the Art Director what to give Mega Man to shoot now. He said: 'Mega Man must have a pistol because I don't see him using a rifle, so he definitely shoots with a pistol' . ' So Ericksen followed suit and gave Mega Man a pistol on Box Art.

Mega Man's story 'Fat'

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The image on the first Box Art was a disaster, but Capcom actually used it seriously in one of their games. Moreover, in some miraculous way, Capcom made this Mega Man guy look much worse.

In Street Fighter X Tekken, there are dozens of celebrities from both brands, but Capcom is also not satisfied and continues to include some additional characters, one of which is Mega Man. But this Mega Man looked . a bit strange, unlike what the fans knew before. This Mega Man is both old and ugly, so he is obese and wear the yellow and green outfit included in the first Box Art. Of course, Fat Mega Man also uses a pistol. Many fans see this as a true insult to gamers' feelings for Blue Bomber.

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Capcom doesn't lack games to revive, but which series will they pick next?

Before the successful remake of old games like Resident Evil 2, fans of classic Capcom games are looking forward to the turn of their favorite games to be revived.

Turns out, this incident also has a cause behind. Street Fighter X Tekken producer, Yoshinori Ono, wants to use the Mega Man character image in his game, but must get the permission of Keiji Inafune - Mega Man's producer. Unfortunately, both of them did not reach agreement. But Ono thinks that Mega Man is owned by Capcom, not Inafune alone. Instead of an original character, Ono created a 'Fat' Mega Man, based on that first bad Box Art. It is true that anything can be spleen!

The boss of Mega Man X5 is a pun on the band Gun 'n' Roses

Things that fans do not know about Mega Man Picture 5

In Japan, the names of the bosses in Mega Man X5 are based on animals. However, as the game expanded into the English-speaking market, all boss names were suddenly changed. More specifically, they are all inspired by the names of the legendary band members' Gun 'n' Roses combining comedic puns.

For example, we have Grizzly Slash based on Slash guitar player, Axle The Red is a pun on Axl Rose, Izzy Grow is based on the late Izzy Stradlin member, or Dark Dizzy is based on the name of member Dizzy Reed.

For a long time, the gaming community was wondering who decided to change the names of the characters. Finally, in 2011, Alyson Court, the voice actress known through projects like Resident Evil (Claire Redfield), Beetlejuice (Lydia), took to Twitter to confess the incident. She is the person behind the name change in Mega Man X5. Her husband, who owns the company, is responsible for localizing some of Capcom's games in markets outside of Japan, and he let her 'work' with the Mega Man X5 translation.

Most bosses are designed by fans

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As it turned out, not the developer did all the character design work in Mega Man. The famous bosses of Mega Man are actually the ideas of the fans in the community.

Before starting the development of each game, starting from Mega Man 2 to the end of Mega Man 8, Capcom will call for fans to comment on the bosses. The 8 best ideas will become the official boss in the game. This contest initially only had more than 8000 entries but to Mega Man 3, it has expanded to 50,000 articles. Peaked at Mega Man 7, Capcom received 220,000 entries. Most competitions are limited in Japan, but Capcom has especially expanded its reach to the North American community in the Mega Man 6 project.

However, to Mega Man 9 and Mega Man 10, the development period was limited only internally and this tradition also interrupted from there.

Mega Man is heavily influenced by music

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In all Mega Man game titles, almost every character's name is associated with music. For fans in North America, this can be confusing because 'Mega Man' or 'Proto Man' certainly don't mean anything to do with music. But in Japan, Mega Man's name means 'Rock', the whole series is called Rock Man (this is also the most popular way of calling Vietnamese gamers). Proto Man is called 'Blues' in Japan, he has a characteristic whistling that means a lot.

As for the other character names, we have Roll - sister of Mega Man, combined will become Rock'n'Roll. Or the dog Rush, which is based on the name of a famous Canadian rock band. The bird called Beat means music beats.

So why did Rock Man become Mega Man in the US market? Because simply Capcom's head at that time did not like the name Rock Man. Capcom's former senior vice president, Joseph Morici, admitted that the brand's title at the time sounded awful. So the developers had to change the name, otherwise Blue Bomber would never set foot in the United States.