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Mega Man
''Mega Man'' (known as in Japan) is a video game franchise developed and published by Capcom, featuring the Mega Man (character), protagonist of the same name. The Mega Man (1987 video game), original game was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1987, and spawned a franchise that expanded to over 50 games on multiple systems. As of March 2025, the series had sold 43 million units worldwide. Mega Man has been popular among gamers and has been reimagined and evolved as a video game character for over 30 years. The main series consists of eleven games, the standalone ''Mega Man & Bass'', the spin-off Game Boy series (released in Japan as ''Rockman World''), and various ports, remakes, and compilations. The core games in the franchise have all been set in a single continuity; the storyline of the "classic" series is succeeded by the ''Mega Man X'', ''Mega Man Zero'', ''Mega Man ZX'', and the ''Mega Man Legends'' series. This timeline excludes the spin-off ''Mega Ma ...
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Mega Man X
is a series of Action game, action-platformer, platform games released by Capcom. It is a sub-series of the ''Mega Man'' franchise previously developed by the same group, with Keiji Inafune acting as one of the main staff members. The Mega Man X (video game), first game was released on 17 December 1993 in Japan on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Famicom and the following month on the Super NES in North America. Most of the sequels were ported to Microsoft Windows. The gameplay introduces new elements to the ''Mega Man'' franchise in the form of Mega Man (character), Mega Man's successor X (Mega Man), X, including his new skills and power-ups in the form of armors while retaining the ability to decide which boss to fight first. Set 100 years after the original games, the story follows X, the last creation of Dr. Light (Mega Man), Dr. Light whose free-willed programming and intelligence allows for countless other free-willed androids called reploids to be produced. ...
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Mega Man 3
''Mega Man 3'' (stylized as ''Mega Man III'') is a 1990 action-platform game developed and published by Capcom for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It is the third installment of the original ''Mega Man'' series and was originally released in Japan on September 28, 1990. The game was released in North America later in 1990 and in European regions by Nintendo a year later. Taking place after the events of ''Mega Man 2'', the plot follows the titular hero as he helps his creator, Dr. Light, and a supposedly former enemy, Dr. Wily, collect parts for a peace-keeping robot by defeating several Robot Masters that have gone haywire. ''Mega Man 3'' follows the same format set forth by its two predecessors. The player, as Mega Man, must complete a series of stages in any order. Defeating a stage's boss will earn the player its special weapon, which can be selected and used at will throughout the rest of the game. ''Mega Man 3'' introduces new gameplay elements such as Mega Man's ...
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Mega Man Battle Network (series)
is a Tactical role-playing game, tactical role-playing video game series created by Masahiro Yasuma and developed and published by Capcom as a spin-off of the ''Mega Man'' series. Released in 2001 for the Game Boy Advance, it takes place in an alternate continuity where computers and networking technology was the main focus on scientific advancement, rather than robotics. There are a total of six mainline games, alongside several spin-offs. Created amidst the success of Nintendo's and Game Freak's ''Pokémon'' series, alongside the rise of collectable card games, ''Mega Man Battle Network'' has players control Megaman.EXE, MegaMan.EXE, a NetNavi operated by Lan Hikari as they attempt to stop the schemes of a net-crime organization called WWW (called "World Three"), headed by the universe's interpretation of Dr. Wily. Players battle enemies on a 6x3 grid, selecting "Battle Chips" which allow for more powerful attacks. The series has been met with positive reviews from critics, al ...
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Mega Man & Bass
is a 1998 Action game, action-Platformer, platform game developed and published by Capcom. It is a spin-off game in the Mega Man (original series), original ''Mega Man'' series, and was originally released in Japan for the Super Famicom on April 24, 1998. It was later ported to the Game Boy Advance in 2002, and released internationally the following year. After defeating the evil List of Mega Man characters#Dr. Wily, Dr. Wily many times, the robot hero Mega Man (character), Mega Man is called into action once again when a powerful robot known as List of Mega Man characters#King, King steals the blueprints to the creations of Dr. Wily and List of Mega Man characters#Dr. Light, Dr. Light in order to create an army for robotic dominance over humans. Having learned of the threat, Mega Man's rival List of Mega Man characters#Bass, Bass decides to take matters into his own hands. Gameplay is similar to previous entries in the series, in which the player advances by completing stages a ...
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Akira Kitamura
Akira Kitamura (born 1965) is a Japanese video game designer and artist. He is the creator of the Mega Man, ''Mega Man'' series and the Mega Man (character), eponymous character. He worked on the first three games in the series as a planner and artist. He is also the director of the 1991 game ''Cocoron'', which was released only in Japan. Due to the prominent practice of only using pseudonyms for credits, Kitamura is variously credited as "Famicon Akira" or "A.K" on many of the games he worked on. Career He worked as an artist, and overall director for Mega Man (known as Rockman in Japan) for the Famicom. He created the original static pixel art sprite for Mega Man. This was to ensure that the sprite could be properly seen against the game's backgrounds, and could work in the game. After that, the pixel art was handed over to artist Keiji Inafune who created a refined illustration of the character. Inafune refers to this process as "like a reverse character design" as it is the ...
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Mega Man IV (1993 Video Game)
''Mega Man IV'' is an action- platform video game developed by Minakuchi Engineering and published by Capcom for the Game Boy. It is the fourth game in the handheld series of the ''Mega Man'' franchise. The game continues the quest of the protagonist Mega Man in the struggle with his long-time nemesis Dr. Wily, who sends out a disruptive radio signal to cause a rampage, citywide destruction from dormant robots. ''Mega Man IV'' features the traditional action platforming gameplay of the prior games while introducing one new feature, the ability to purchase items with power-ups found throughout each stage. As with previous Game Boy releases, the game incorporates gameplay elements and bosses from two sequential Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) games: ''Mega Man 4'' and ''Mega Man 5''. The game received positive reviews from critics, with significant praise for its improvements from its predecessors. Plot The plot of the game once again involves the protagonist Mega Man trying ...
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Mega Man III (Game Boy)
''Mega Man III'' is an action- platform video game developed by Minakuchi Engineering and published by Capcom for the Game Boy. It is the third game in the handheld series of the ''Mega Man'' franchise and the last to be published by Nintendo in Europe. The game follows the title character Mega Man as he fights the evil Dr. Wily, whose latest attempt to conquer the world involves sucking energy from the Earth's core to power a new machine. Along with foes from his past, Mega Man must contend with the next robot in Wily's line of "Mega Man Killers", Punk. Like its two consecutive predecessors on the Game Boy, the game combines elements from two previously released Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) titles: ''Mega Man 3'' and ''Mega Man 4''. The game received positive reviews from critics. Plot The story of ''Mega Man III'' consists of the hero Mega Man battling the evil scientist Dr. Wily, who is using a converted oil platform in the middle of the ocean to draw energy from th ...
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Mega Man 5
''Mega Man 5'' is a 1992 action-platform game developed and published by Capcom for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It is the fifth installment of the original ''Mega Man'' series and was released in Japan on December 4, 1992. It saw a release during the same month in North America and in 1993 in Europe by Nintendo. It takes place two months after the events of '' Mega Man 4.'' Mega Man's brother and ally Proto Man apparently leads a group of menacing robots in attacks on the world and kidnaps his creator Dr. Light, forcing Mega Man to fight against his brother. Assisted by Dr. Cossack, the scientist he met in the previous game, Mega Man has to figure out the truth about what happened and rescue Dr. Light. ''Mega Man 5'' carries over the same graphical style and action-platforming gameplay as the four preceding chapters in the series. The game introduces a new character, Beat, a robotic bird that the player can use as a weapon once a series of eight collectible letters ...
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Mega Man II (1991 Video Game)
is an action- platform video game developed by Thinking Rabbit and published by Capcom for the Game Boy. It is the second game in the handheld series of the ''Mega Man'' franchise after '' Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge''. The game follows Mega Man as he pursues his arch-enemy Dr. Wily, whose most recent ploy for world domination involves the theft of an experimental time machine. Mega Man confronts both Wily and a number of enemies from his past, including a new and mysterious robot named Quint. Just like other Game Boy games in the series, ''Mega Man II'' marries the features of two consecutive Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) titles, in this case, ''Mega Man 2'' and ''Mega Man 3''. ''Mega Man II'' received mixed reviews from critics, in part due to Thinking Rabbit's inexperience in developing similar games, and is considered to be inferior to its predecessor. Plot The storyline of ''Mega Man II'' involves the hero Mega Man battling his arch-nemesis Dr. Wily as the latter ...
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Mega Man 4
''Mega Man 4'' (stylized as ''Mega Man IV'') is a 1991 Action game, action-platformer, platform game developed and published by Capcom for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It is the fourth installment of the Mega Man, original ''Mega Man'' series and was originally released in Japan on December 6, 1991. The game was released in North America the following January, and in Europe in August 1993 by Nintendo. The game's story takes place after the third defeat and supposed death of List of Mega Man characters#Dr. Wily, Dr. Wily in ''Mega Man 3'', and features the Earth coming under threat from a mysterious scientist named List of Mega Man characters#Dr. Cossack, Dr. Cossack and his eight "List of Mega Man characters#Robot Masters, Robot Masters". Fearing the worst, List of Mega Man characters#Dr. Light, Dr. Light sends Mega Man (character), Mega Man to save the world once again. ''Mega Man 4'' carries on the same action and platforming gameplay as the first three games, in which ...
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Mega Man 2
''Mega Man 2'' (stylized as ''Mega Man II'') is a 1988 action game, action-platformer, platform game developed and published by Capcom for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was released in Japan in 1988 and in North America and PAL regions the following years. ''Mega Man 2'' continues Mega Man (character), Mega Man's battle against the evil List of Mega Man characters#Dr. Wily, Dr. Wily and his rogue List of Mega Man characters#Robot Masters, Robot Masters. It introduced graphical and gameplay changes, many of which became series staples. Although sales for the original ''Mega Man (1987 video game), Mega Man ''were unimpressive, Capcom allowed the team to create a sequel. They worked concurrently on other Capcom projects, using their free time to develop the game, using unused content from the first game. Takashi Tateishi composed the soundtrack, with Yoshihiro Sakaguchi serving as a sound programmer. ''Mega Man 2'' is the second best-selling ''Mega Man'' game, with more ...
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Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the Global network, global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a internetworking, network of networks that consists of Private network, private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, Wireless network, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the interlinked hypertext documents and Web application, applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), email, electronic mail, internet telephony, streaming media and file sharing. The origins of the Internet date back to research that enabled the time-sharing of computer resources, the development of packet switching in the 1960s and the design of computer networks for data communication. The set of rules (communication protocols) to enable i ...
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