You might appreciate this: Leaked Memos Explain Why Every Mega Man Cover is Terrible. (satire)
That’s a delight!
Here’s a helpful companion - MegaMan Box Art Image Collection
Not really needed, you can click on the “memos” to see the corresponding artwork.
The link isn’t loading for me, unfortunately. Not sure if it’s a browser thing (I use Firefox) but I suspect that it’s the “*removed*” in the URL causing trouble.
However, if you tap / click on those memos in the article I linked, it reveals the box art.
I loved that 9 and 10 made intentionally terrible 80s “box arts.”
Ugh. When did that happen? I played through all the NES Mega Man games many times. His blaster arm was way cooler than any pistol.
It was the original box art. I used to have Mega Man 2 when it first came out too.
Odd. I think that’s the label I remember on the cartridge too, but I just never noticed the pistol. It definitely doesn’t look like that in-game. I played 4 the most because I loved the weapons, so maybe I just missed it entirely.
I think the first 3 were like this, i had 3 and it was similar. 4 was the first one I saw where Megaman actually looked right
3 was the first to have an accurate rendition of ole Blue
I think 3 actually had a mega buster. I never had the nes game, but I had a tiger MegaMan 3 game that shared the same artwork.
1987
Capcom used the box art Mega Man in Street Fighter x Tekken and I wish they would do more with the character.
and a pose that says “I just megashit my megaself”
“megashat” is the word you’re looking for.
Thanks for reminding me that Megaman actually talked like that in the awful Saturday morning cartoon I watched as a kid (Captain N: The Game Master)
Captain N? The gamer? Uh oh
“Call the best Sudanese movie poster artist, we have a job for him”
Meguhman my beloved
Chud gamers be like “this was because of woke DEI initiatives!”.
I mean, it’s likely that it wasn’t capcom us rejecting the japanese design. Far more likely that Capcom JP didn’t share marketing materials with US branch and left them on their own to figure out how to market it. Japanese companies not taking any interest in how things were localized for other markets was completely the norm during that time period.
If you want a company that actually did have the US and JP branches actively warring with each other, Sega is the company to look at.
I need context for this lol
I don’t know the story, but that’s the genuine cartridge art they used for the first Mega Man in the US. It’s just terrible and looks nothing like the game.
