Importing Mega Man: The Wily Wars in 1996 - My Retro Life 

Hey guys! Hope you enjoyed this look back at 1996 and one of the greatest surprises my Mom and Dad gave me as a child. I was a HUGE Mega Man fan with so many memories with the series, but this was up there with the best of them. How about you? What's your favorite Mega Man memory? Thank you retro-bit.com/ for the Collector's Set!

To import a game back then must of not been easy either that’s so awesome

You had The Best Dad a kid could ever wish for in the 80s/90s hand's DOWN!

Your dad was so ahead of the times! What a great person and dad! Another great video as always!

Just wanted to let you know how much I love your channel. I've been subbed for a while, but did a deep dive into your video log - such great memories & times!

You do your Dad a wonderful service by sharing your experiences. I was fortunate enough to also have a father who went the extra mile to make sure my sister and I were surprised and delighted every birthday and Christmas. My Mom still talks about my Dad having to drive to another state to find me the official Ghostbusters Proton Pack. When I was 5 years old, I saw the old Disney movie "Babes in Toyland" and was mesmerized by the toy soldier fight scene. I thought it would be so cool to own toy soldiers like that, so that's what I asked Santa for. I had no idea they stopped making toys like about 80 years before I was born. My Dad went everywhere and even tried to import some from Europe, but he couldn't find anything that really ever resembled the movie. So instead, he bought me a very classic looking nutcracker and gave it to me (from Mom and Dad, not Santa) on Christmas Day. He told me the story and was very upset that he felt he let me down. Honestly though, I loved the nutcracker and I started collecting them after that. My parents got me a new one every Christmas for years and I still pick one up every now and again today. I display them proudly in my home every Christmas. My original one from Dad is miraculously still in great shape too for being roughly 37 years old.

I love this! Back in 1999, right after graduating and getting my first disposable income, I imported the European version and a PAL Mega Drive to play it on. Yes, I know you can mod a genesis but I had long since sold mine from my youth and I hoped that a PAL system would bypass the "it runs slow" problem. To this day I don't remember if it ran slow, lol. Maybe it was a placebo effect thinking I had the right system for the right game, or maybe I just didn't know any better. Either way, it didn't matter; the game was fantastic, looking like a Mario All Stars treatment of those classic Mega Man levels. I remember completing the first three games to get to Wily's tower, but not actually fishing it, something that shall be remedied some day! Thanks for sharing your story.

I think I speak for everyone when I say this series always brightens up my day. We all can relate in some way or another to your love for gaming and family. We’ve all had that special birthday or Christmas surprise that left a lasting impression but most of us aren’t lucky enough to have it captured on video. Thanks for sharing this Tyler and thanks for all the hard work you put into this series

Absolutely my favorite channel on RU-vid and I’ve been using RU-vid since 2006 and am subscribed to around 5000 channels. But this one is the the cream of the crop.

I really enjoy this channel thank you for sharing these memories with us .

I emulated this game back in 2018 when I was 13 and when I finally got to wily tower I was blown away from the fact that you can use weapons from all 3 games

Honestly, massive shoutout for your parents for going a whole extra mile for you!

Thanks for this great video Tyler !! As a kid MM 2 was my favorite MM game of the franchise, till this day it's one of my gaming all time favorites. Keep up the great work !!

Damm!!! dude your dad went out of his way to inport this game for you back then, what a great dad you had men.

Man these videos always bring me back to when I was young I really miss my parents they treated me good growing up

Thoughly enjoy your videos. Life long gamer/collector, started with the Atari 2600. I watch your videos with my son he's 12, to kinda show him what it was like in the 80s and 90s gaming.

Your dad would of loved that north America finally got Mega man Willy wars 🙏🏽👍🏾

Thanks!

I imported the game at the time and I remember how cool it was hearing Megadrive versions of familiar NES chiptunes. Also not seeing ridiculous amounts of flicker on this version felt like I was playing them for the first time. Capcom did an amazing job on these versions.

I love your videos Tyler...u had the most awesome dad in video game history...I relive my childhood over again vicariously through your dad's videos...I got one game a year and 30 mins a day of playtime...u lived my dream...ps... I've made up for it as an adult with my own money lol

Loved the megaman series. This is also released on the sega genesis mini so I’m loving that !:)

Tyler has been a Mega-Man fan, since mullets were still cool. OG status. 💪👌

I love your videos 🥰 I preordered Mega Man Willy Wars when it finally came West. Genesis is one of my fave consoles and I would have got it as a kid had it came out.

WOW. That sega channel sounds way ahead of its time

I had Mario, my cousins had sonic and mega man. It was always so foreign to me playing those other games, great times none the less

Love how your Dad did all the research & was always so quick to find a solution to playing any Japanese or Pal games. He had to have been a top tier expert on retro video games wish so bad we could've got game reviews from your dad I'm sure he would have some great things to say. Have you ever thought of doing game reviews? I've wondered how many home videos you have left to show , maybe when you post all of your footage you could review games or maybe do some lore videos about your favorite games

i think im going crazy. I remember renting this in the US in 199X. Making me wonder if the store i was renting from had PAL games and i was playing on a US console and not realizing it.

Biggest game in my house hold, the guncon point blank games on playstation, so awesome

Love your channel! Keep up the great work. Seems like you had an awesome Childhood. It is really cool your dad documented everything . He was ahead of his time. Your dad is Awesome!

Most underrated channel on RU-vid

Dang your Dad always nailed the dad jokes lol.

Dude you grew up in the right place at the right time. If your dad was still alive with the advent of you tube, he would've been blown away. Thank you for these videos.

That Retro Bit Wily Wars release is glorious. Wily Wars looked great, and had a lot of nice quality of life improvements, but the 8-Bit soundtracks from the NES are still superior as far as I'm concerned. Also, it gets said a lot, but I'd just like to reiterate the obvious that your Dad was the best.

He said "I think they got bins of those at Wal-Mart" LMAO he had to be the funniest human.

i remember wantig this im happy to hear that you got a copy for your collection when you were a young boy I myself got the sega genesis mini for it,

My introduction into the Megaman series was MM4 and MMX back in 1994 so plaything these older ones are okay but the music tunes are fire.

Surprised the game was released, retro bit doing some great things for gaming. Amazing & touching video as always 👍

Always glad to see new content.

I didn’t have much money growing up but I somehow talked my mom into getting me the Sega Channel for about a year back in the 90s. It made me the envy of many of my friends. Sega Channel was one of those things that if you didn’t have it back in the day, it’s hard to describe how cool it was.

I love the space godzilla under wily wars box in the beginning

Wait, so even back then little adapters like this existed? Awesome

i love Mega man. Thanks for making video about Mega man.

Greetings from Germany. I have that too in my collection. 🙂

Dude your dad is a legend!

What a good dad.

In the 90’s my mom had a bf who had Sega channel and I played this, MK2 and Thomas the train the one time I did

Your dad was awesome man!

New episode with my breakfast 🤘 love it!

Wow you lucky duck. Didn’t know about this game until emulation in the 2000s

I was born in 85 so we're about the same age. These videos are amazing bro. I always wanted my parents to buy a camcorder as we called them back then lol and I wish they had! You're beyond lucky to be able to watch your childhood my dude.

Same here. I imported this one back in the day. I was excited for it and loved it.

I played it on the glorious Sega Channel, I remember being a bit confused as to its existence, having never heard about it or seeing it anywhere in stores etc. I thought it was a Sega Channel exclusive.

I love seeing videos from old tapes, but this is just awesome. It's so cool that you / your dad recorded such memories 😁

Man you have a great dad…my moms would’ve been like OH WELL you better play that damn Sonic again lol

Props! you dropped the weight

Awww yis your channel is legit one of my favorites and I look forward to you uploading. Thanks for sharing!

I wished your dad could see how far videogames have come!

I only knew 1 person that actually had sega channel, and that was my cousin. She seemed to like it, but felt the game catalog didnt change very often. Cool concept back in the day though.

Even being a pretty big mega man fan both me and my brother were I didn't even know this game existed until I saw your original video about it. I'm glad it finally got an official release

boy what a nice birthday surprise!! I got that re-release but I'm holding it sealed for now... glad to see somewhat an unboxing of it here!! (but I got mine from LimitedRun though)

X is one of my favorite games of all time!

Yessss!! Also had Sega Channel!

So glad I found your channel, the awesome gaming memories from the past you share are great . 👌👌👌

I’m still devastated this version isn’t on consoles

Fantastic video, Tyler! Loved to see that. Personally, I had know idea this game even existed, growing up in Europe. It was something I found out as an adult. And thats one of the cool parts about looking back at these consoles that we grew up with. To discovery things we didn't know back then :)

Love your channel brotha 🙏❤️🎮

awesome I've been waiting for that, thank you very much for the effort, first like then watch.

I play it on the Sega Genesis mini I love it and I just love mega Man games

i wish my dad loved me this much

I was mad also that it didnt arrive in the US. But as soon as i got into emulators in 2000 and up i finally got to play it. I still have all the megamans on nes with boxes but missing part 5

In 1996, I also had that same..........haircut!

One of my good friends had the sega channel. Ive found so many gems because of it like shining force 2 which is one of my all time favorite games. Loved mega man 1-3 but dont think i ever played wily wars

Im not sure if Sega Channel was ever a thing in the UK at the time but as a Brit I can definitely remember being astounded that a Mega Man collection cartridge was coming to a Sega home console, I imagine it would be like if say a Halo trilogy collection were to drop on the Playstation consoles nowadays- very surprising!

Weird that Europe would get it and not NOA as that’s insane. Surely the game would have sold even better. Glad your dad was amazing to source a way for you to own and play your own copy 😊 never got into Mega Man myself but who knows after watching your awesome vids maybe one day 👍

I'm from the UK but love the content probably because I was a kid into 16 bit games my first cartridge was sonic and remember them days fondly so thumbs up for the posts 👍😊 it's funny we got that Megaman and you didn't then when the game cube came out you got the Megaman collection and we didn't strange how it goes 😆

Awesome great content man.

I saw this game at a comic book for $500 Australian dollars it shocked me when I saw it in person

Great video as always Tyler. I never got to play the Wiley Wars growing up. I only found out about it a couple years back. A friend of mine makes repros and he made me one. I would love to get my hands on the official release copy. It comes with so many awesome goodies inside as well

Well what makes Mega Man The Wily Wars special for me? Where do I begin. I didn't have a SNES or Mega Drive growing up. I was born in 93 so that's not the issue but my first memorys of gaming were on these systems while visiting friends. I loved the Battle Network series on GBA some crazy RPGs with interesting battle systems. When I saw the Mega Man classic series I was turned off at first. The face of 8Bit Mega Man just looked bizzare to me. Much later I learned about Wily Wars and the idea of giving 8bit games a 16bit remaster was apealing to me since I just prefer that visual style. Even in germany the original Wily Wars cart was extremly limited making the price ridiculessly high. I bought an unofficial repro of the game since capcom for some reason never rereleased Wily Wars. The game was just incredible. Not just the regular remasterd versions of Mega Man 1-3 but the Wily Tower mode was an awesome idea. Letting you choose between all the weapons from the first 3 games I absolutely love that. When the Mega Drive mini got announced everyone got crazy with game suggestions. Most of these made no sense to me since alot of the games were weird licenced games or 6-button games and we knew early that western version would ship with 3 button controllers. I begged and prayed so hard that we would get Wily Wars this way and in the end we did! The Mega Drive mini version even came with improvements to the slowdown of the original game which was my biggest complain. These games are awesome but there is never enough action of screen to justify any actual slowdown. When you see a game like Gynoug running buttersmove but Wily Wars has slowdown with just a few projectiles on screen you know the developer didn't try very hard. With the improvements of Wily Wars the Mega Drive mini quickly became my favorite mini console and it still is to this day. When retro bit announced an OFFICIAL rerelease of the game for original hardware I had to get my hands on one! They even said that some slowdown issues would be fixed. When the game came to me I was so hyped up. Finally I would play the perfect version of Mega Man Wily Wars on original hardware! Then I noticed that the slowdown was just as bad as with the original release/unofficial repro... For months I was annoyed by this and complained in youtube comments. Why did they say the slowdown would be fixed just to not fix anything? Silly me.... In Mega Man 1 there is a boss called the yellow devil. This is one of the most difficult bosses on the original NES. You only have a very limited time to damage him and his attack is very difficult to dodge since he basicly throws parts of his body in various hights at you. You need to perfectly dodge these attacks which is super difficult UNLESS the game slows down hard for some reason. This slowdown makes the original version of Wily Wars sort of an easy mode for Mega Man 1. The slowdown was somewhat fixed. hold "left+start+C" while unpausing the game to disable the slowdown in game. You can even play most of the game without slowdown and than enable the slowdown whenever you feel like it. For example when the game throws pretty much all the projectiles at you at once like during the battle with the yellow devil. This is still one of my absolute favorite retro games to this day and I replay it every now and than in whatever way I can. What else? The original video you put out on Pixelgamesquad is still my favorite episode of the Myretrolife series. So many awesome parts. Like when Brian mentioned "We actually played this yesterday" I think he ment the original NES version of Megaman 3. Or when you compared Mega Man games to pizza since every game was the same just with new toppings. I cannot stress enough how much I enjoy your storytelling in general. I still remember the comment I posted on that video even though the comments have been disabled for your videos. " That's it! I can't take it anymore! New patreon here!" Thanks for reading all of this. Jost Langen btw

They got a bin of these at limited run rn I got my copy finally

I was so happy when Wily Wars was released on the Genesis Mini a few years ago.

I watched this video at 1 day old

Wow! Such a must have for a collection! Long time coming but now it has come👾👾👾🙂I've not played it but listed now👍 great vid🤩!

This also came out on the Genisis Mini

I do remember playing the ROM of WW back when I was getting into emulation checking out all these games from other regions I never had the opportunity to play, it was kinda neat! if I can get a hold of my genesis from my old home I might have to pick this up if I can! shout-out to the 'wily tower' exclusive mode, too!

PAL cartridges were always the sexiest

Damn I had that space Godzilla toy

It is also available on the Sega Genesis mini

So cool. Better late than never.

Mega Man is def my number 1 gane

Thanks

Love your content. Keep up the good work!

I'd want the NES games all day everyday. The Genesis version has some serious input lag compared to the NES. Plus nothing beats the soundtrack greatness of the NES games.

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I like the idea that he afforded this by offering his son up as a mobile advertisement for his stores Toshiba TVs. I see no other way.

Another great video :)

The first time that I played Mega Man Wily Wars officially here in the US the first time that I recognized it coming out in the US officially since they made a US version of it that Sega and M2 brought the game over to the u.s. first at least I thought it was first is on the Sega Genesis Mini for the first ever usa release of wily wars

Sorry if this question is going to far but since when is your dad gone ? Man i wish he could see what gaming has become. Games like red dead redemption ,breath of the wild and the last of us . Playstation 5s nintendo switches and VR . He was definitly ahead of its time .

Importing in the 90s before the internet becomed mainstream was probably not easy, how did he do it?

Still waiting for golvellius 2..