Mega Man 1

Mega Man 1

Mega Man 1 North American boxart

Game Information Developer(s): Capcom Publisher(s): Capcom Director(s): Keiji Inafune Series: Mega Man Classic Platform(s): NES Release date(s): December 17, 1987 Genre(s): Action / Platform Media: Physical cartridge, digital download

Mega Man, known more commonly as Mega Man 1, is the first game in the classic Mega Man series and the franchise overall. The game launched the franchise by introducing everyone's sweet little blue boy Mega Man and the gameplay that everyone has come to know and love. The cast of Robot Masters from the game only is rivalled by Mega Man 2 in recognizeability and popularity, and several recurring concepts originated in this game, such as Devil bosses, the Copy Robot, and boss refights. The game is farely barebones in plot, only featuring the origin story of Dr. Wily's jealousy towards Dr. Light and theft of his six Robot Masters, leaving Rock and Roll alone as they were housekeeping robots. Rock volunteers to be converted into a fighting robot to help save the world, Dr. Light converts him to Mega Man, and the rest is history.

Representation in MaGMML

Being an early and simple game, Mega Man 1 has gotten consistent representation in all MaGMML games so far. All of the enemies from the games have been included in every devkit, along with almost every gimmick.

Weapons

• Super Arm^24H
• Thunder Beam³
• Magnet Beam³
• Ice Slasher^{Megamix Only}

Devkit Assets

Enemies

• Beak¹²³
• Big Eye¹²³
• Blader¹²³
• Bombomb¹²³
• Crazy Razy¹²³
• Flea¹²³
• Flying Shell¹²³
• Killer Bullet¹²³
• Metall¹²³
• Octopus Battery¹²³
• Peng¹²³
• Picket Man¹²³
• Screw Bomber¹²³
• Sniper Joe¹²³
• Spine¹²³
• Tackle Fire¹²³
• Watcher¹²³

Gimmicks

• Elec Block¹²³
• Fire Block¹²³
• Fire Pillar¹²³
• Guts Lift¹²³
• Super Cutter¹²³
• Fire Wave²³
• Foot Holder²³

Bosses

• Cut Man²³
• Guts Man²³
• Ice Man³
• Bomb Man³
• Fire Man³

Custom Assets

Bosses

• Fire Man²
• Bond Man² (scrapped boss from this game)

Other

• Every single Robot Master from this game has appeared as a hub NPC in both MaGMML1 and MaGMML2. The Yellow Devil also appears as an NPC in 2.
• Cut Man appears as a costume in 2.
• CWU-01P, the boss of the third Wily Castle stage, cameos in Water Ducts, as a fakeout boss before being destroyed by Mecha Bubble Man.
• The Yellow Devil appeared near the end of the second MaGMML3 devkit boss batch video, before quickly exploding the moment its health gauge is completely filled up. Its inclusion here is part of a gag intending to trick viewers into thinking it will be part of the devkit, complete with an in-video display of its name and game origin in lieu of the official devkit bosses. The only thing giving away the joke is the boss list in the video description conspicuously not listing the Yellow Devil.