Mega Man

[KnightWarrior]

It could've been better ..US Gold did a good job on it

[evilevoix]

[KnightWarrior]

For the Game Gear, They did a good job...I still love the NES MM Games

[Obviously]

It's... well... it's not great.

Unlike the redesigned levels for the Game Boy games they just re-used the NES levels wholesale. Those levels are not small screen friendly meaning there are lots and lots of blind jumps and hidden instant deaths. It's playable, but it helps if you know the NES games like the back of your hand already or you're willing to endure loads of cheap deaths.

I really wouldn't recommend it personally. It's just a worse version of the NES games it takes its levels directly from. It's interesting as an oddity though and isn't completely terrible if you must have a Mega Man game on the Game Gear.

The music was also totally murdered in the transition.

[A Black Falcon]

The two GB/C and GBC Mega Man Xtreme games show how to port a Mega Man game to that resolution (remember, despite the different screen shapes, the GB, GBC, and GG all use the same resolution) -- you resize everything and redesign the game so that it all fits. US Gold's problem is that they didn't do any of that, they just ported the NES game levels straight over into a lower resolution where it doesn't work at all, and they did a shoddy job of it too, as you might expect from US Gold. It's too bad Capcom didn't make a GG Mega Man game itself, it could have been great. The GG Mega Man game isn't the worst -- NES MM4 and 5 are great games -- but it's quite disappointing and flawed, unfortunately.

[KnightWarrior]

I even played it again on the Game Gear

Now I played it, They should of Ported the Game Boy version and Colored it up & the SE doesn't sound to good

[vintagegamecrazy]

Overvalued and lousy game if you ask me.

[zetastrike]

Mega Man fans are nuts if they pay more than $5 for this. The low resolution, jump-scrolling, only two shots onscreen, poor music, and no unique content make this a curiosity at best. US Gold strikes again.

Psychic World is a pretty nice alternative if you want a Mega Man-esque experience on the GG.

[vintagegamecrazy]

I'll vouch for Psychic World, nice but difficult game. I think I paid about $20 for Mega Man back in the day, I'm happy I have it in my collection but don't play it often and it's one of the few classic Mega Man games that I've never completed. This game is just too frustrating and tedious and difficult because of the zoomed in screen and that is coming from someone who's completed Mega Man and Bass before.

[Obviously]

Mega Man fans are nuts if they pay more than $5 for this. The low resolution, jump-scrolling, only two shots onscreen, poor music, and no unique content make this a curiosity at best. US Gold strikes again.

Psychic World is a pretty nice alternative if you want a Mega Man-esque experience on the GG.

Yeah. I'm a fanatic for this series and I own every cartridge-based Mega Man game... except this one. It's just a quick and dirty cash grab.

I still need to play Psychic World.

[KnightWarrior]

How much does a loose copy of Mega Man go for?

I got mine like 4 years ago for $8

[vintagegamecrazy]

It goes for about $50-60 now loose.

[WarmSignal]

The zoomed in resolution does make for some cheap deaths. Aside from that, I enjoy the fluidity, the graphics, the music, and yeah I think it's a pretty good handheld Mega Man. For my money, it beats the pants off of anything on the Game Boy, just because I really can't stand to even play a GB.

[vintagegamecrazy]

No it really doesn't beat the pants of any Game Boy Mega Man; not by a mile!

[WarmSignal]

Any Mega Man with color and lighting is the better one, for my money.