Rockman Released!

[FamicomFreak]

This game needs no introduction!! Man did I loved and still love this series. My favorite is Rock Man (MegaMan) IV because it was the first one I ever played and it blew me away!

[JC]

What a crazy cool game for Capcom to think up. There were some pretty neat games prior to the Rockman series, but not much can compare to that little blue dude with various weapons and gadgets.

[MaxXimus]

Megaman 2 was the first of the series that I played so it's Rockman 2 counterpart holds a special place in my retro gamer heart. *tears*

[satoshi_matrix]

Megaman has become to Capcom what Mario is to Nintendo. Only difference is Megaman is a robot....which automatically makes him cooler 

[JC]

I probably just don't know the storyline, but I thought Rockman was a human in a special suit?

[FamicomFreak]

Yeah I thought he was a boy that got into an accident and then he got rebuilt into a robot because he lost some of his body parts lol

[UglyJoe]

Nope, he's a robot.  A robot who, for some inexplicable reason, cannot walk on spikes or crouch.

[satoshi_matrix]

ロックマン,. Rockman. Megaman. Whatever you want to call him, Capcom's blue hero is a true videogame icon. For those who are cerious, here's the complete storyline to the first game....

To understand the story of Megaman, one must look back at the events which occur before the game takes place, and to do so, once can look to sources such as Rockman Perfect Memories and Japanese OVAs over the years which have taken the time to document the information reported by Capcom over the years in regards to the series. The following dates are approximite. The classic series never used specific dates beyond 200X and 20XX, but much like how Star Trek TNG's first mention of the year it takes place in (replacing for once the somewhat useless Stardate system) allowed fans to peice together the exact years the original Star Trek series took place, the same can be done with the Megaman story. The SNES version of Megaman X brelifly informs the player that it takes place in the year 2114.

The story of the Mega Man universe begins in the mid-20th century with the birth of Thomas Light and Albert W. Wily (circa 1958). These men would become friends and attend the same university, studying the field of electronics and eventually receiving PhDs. By the 1990s, the two men would go into business together and form a company called Light Labs, a team whose ambition it was to use computer and electronic technology to benefit mankind in the coming era.

In the early 21st century, Light Labs made its first leaps in the field of robotics, creating the Sniper Joe police robots, Mettool construction robots, and various others to benefit mankind. Yet, Light and Wily both realized the potential of their project. They wanted to create robots that were human-like. They wanted to build robots that contained artificial intelligence within them.

Thus, around the year 2005, Light Labs produced the first one of such robots- Proto Man. Proto Man was based off of the design of the Sniper Joe robots, but was instilled with an artificial intelligence unlike anything the world had ever seen. Yet, Proto Man possessed a true sense of independence, one that made him much like true human beings, and because of this he ran from the lab before his diagnostic testing was completed.

Still, Light and Wily did not give up. The following year they set to work on building a pair of robots, thinking that two would work together and overcome the independence issue. It was thus that Rock and Roll were born. Rock became the lab's new assistant and Roll became a housekeeper. With the success of this project, the two scientists went on to create eight more robots, each for industrial assistance purposes: Fire Man, Ice Man, Bomb Man, Cut Man, Guts Man, Elec Man, (and later for the PSP remake, Oil Man, and Time Man.)

It was for the success of these projects that Dr. Thomas Light received the Nobel Prize for Robot Master Design in 2007, an award which Wily felt he deserved as well.

In December of 2008, Dr. Albert Wily had finally had enough of living in the shadow of his colleague, Thomas Light. Light's reception of the Nobel Prize the previous year, as well as his winning the LIT Manual Design Contest drove him over the edge. Wily realized the potential of what he and Dr. Light had been designing with the Light Labs team. Robots with true A.I. built for industrial purposes could be used for other means. It was to this line of thinking that Wily turned one night that month when he snuck down into the lab and reprogrammed all of the robots that he could get his hands on. However, he failed to get past the programming on Rock and his "sister," Roll. Still, Wily figured that in the end he wouldn't have much use for a lab assistant and a housekeeper, so he took his new army of industrial powerhouses and fled the lab.

When Light came in, he found his lab in shambles and soon discovered that his colleague was to blame. With Wily on the loose with an army of intelligent and powerful robots, Dr. Light knew that the world's police forces and armies weren't ready to deal with this new challenge.

It was thus that Rock, the robot lab assistant, volunteered to be converted into a fighting robot. Rock's strong sense of justice prevented him from simply sitting by and watching his "father's" work be destroyed before his very eyes. As such, Light reluctantly converted the former lab assistant into a robot of unimaginable potential. Equipped with skin-tight blue tinted titanium armor and a plasma cannon, Rock became known as the fighting robot Mega Man and set out for Wily's new fortress of Monsteropolis.

After having to fight and destroy his own brothers, Mega Man fought through several of Wily's own creations: The Yellow Devil, the Copy Robot, CWU-01P, copies of the six robots Wily had stolen and finally Mega Man fought agaist Wily himself.

After defeating Wily, Mega Man returned home returning to his former child-like appearance as a lab assistant.

[FamicomFreak]

Nope, he's a robot.  A robot who, for some inexplicable reason, cannot walk on spikes or crouch.

LOL!!! yeah doesn't make sense....

[Mo]

Rockman 2 has always been my  fav! I remember playing it for the first time back in 1990. I got my NES converted especially  to play the US Game as it was not available at the time in England. The graphics are dope, I always enjoyed  the level involving the Dragon chase in DR Willy's Lair.

[satoshi_matrix]

nevermind me, but I always feel compelled to correct people when it comes to Rockman. Its actually "Wily" not "Willy", "Wiely" Wolly" or anything else

[Mo]

nevermind me, but I always feel compelled to correct people when it comes to Rockman. Its actually "Wily" not "Willy", "Wiely" Wolly" or anything else

In England we spell the name with two L's

[satoshi_matrix]

I hate to break my 666 post record, but meh hopefully I'll have luckier days ahead

Wily is pronounced like "Why Lee" (not a real name!)
Willy would be pronounced "Will Lee" (as in the movie Free Willy) 

maybe that helps?

[FamicomFreak]

in Mega Man 8 if I remember correctly Dr.Light in the anime scene calls him wolly or something lol! sounded like it....anyways my brother went nuts and bought all mega man zeros for the gba!