Man... I forgot that this is how stuff worked in the 80's and 90's. They'd lure you in with the most awesome intro sequence imaginable, and 30 minutes later just when you would start to realize you don't actually like this show, the next intro would start up to pull you right back in.
As cheesy as the show was, this opening did not have any right to have such a cool opening and great animation. It's almost like most of the budget just went into this. XD
MasterEnex yeah I love that intro I was born in the nineties and grew up in the 90s so I grew up watching Mega Man can anybody tell me why Mega Man's brother turned on him I can't remember cuz I haven't watched the show in years.? Is it because dr. Jero or whatever his name is brainwashed him by like changing his chips or whatever and modified him by controlling him in by controlling his every command.?
If you watched this show enough times as a kid, you can turn the volume down and your brain will still "hear" the guitar riffs as MEGA gets spelled out at the beginning
I found a whole new appreciation for Ruby Spears once Fully Charged came out. Ruby Spears was incredibly cheesy don't get me wrong, but 80's cartoons did what they said on the tin. You wanted Super Fighting Robots, you got Super Fighting Robots. They didn't feel the need to throw out everything that made Mega Man Mega Man to force in yet another ""relatable"" lame human kid. They saw a game about a robot superhero blasting evil robots and taking their powers and made a show about a robot superhero blasting evil robots and taking their powers. Surprisingly accurate to the games story too it's almost as if they'd seen more than just a picture of Mega Man before they started working on it : /
The terrible shows we get today make me appreciate EVERYTHING from the 80s and 90s more. I remember getting up at 7am every Sunday to watch MegaMan. It was appointment viewing for me.
Here is an accurate representation of Megaman's hype levels from start to finish. _Reveal to Pre E3_ *SUPER FIGHTING ROBOT, MEGAMAN!* _E3_ *SUPER FIGHTING ROBOT, MEGAMAN!!!* _Pre-E3 to 3DS Release_ *FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHTIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!!!!!* *TO SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVE!!!!!* *THE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORLD!!!!!*
The Best part about Mega man.......the Intro. The stark contrast comparing the Intro to the actual cartoon is like seeing a stylized theatrical Anime.....and 2 minutes later the show itself is Hanna-Barbera 70's animation.
Capcom forgot about me , Mega Man!! Capcom forgot about me , Mega Man!! Capcom forgot about me , Mega Man!! Capcom forgot about me , Mega Man!! Cap-cooommmm doesn't give a shit!!
My creator left you, Capcom !! Enough Street Fighters, Capcom!! Sell me to Nintendo, Capcom!! FUCK BAD BOXART MEGAMAN, Capcom!! Thaaaaaaat final smash THO !!!!
As a kid my mom made me a paper mache mega man blaster and helmet, I fucking rocked that shit to school and was the coolest kid around for a period of time. Good times.
His real Name is "Rock" he has a sister named "Roll" that is a secret 80's joke from capcom, And that last robot you saw Mega man A.k.a Rock Fighting is his brother Protoman.
Ezariah Rockwell *sigh* you dont get the joke do you...and if you reply saying "i get the joke i was just blah blah blah" then you are the most boring person in the world and not fun at parties
Lyrics from god: Super fighting robot, MEGAMAN! Super fighting robot, MEGAMAN! Super fighting robot, MEGAMAN! Super fighting robot, MEGAMAN! Super fighting robot, MEGAMAN! Super fighting robot, MEGAMAN! Fiiiiiiiiiighting to saaaaaaaaaaaaave THE WORLD, WORLD, WORLD, world, world, world, orld, orld... "echo"
I watched this with my dad too. He played the original games when they were new and got me into it. He also passed away a few years ago too so I totally feel you bro
+Monkerr A lot of Japanese animation was like that during the 80's-90's, where the intro has higher quality animation than the actual episode. This includes the work that Japanese studios did for American shows.
Lyrics: Super fighting robot, Mega Man! Super fighting robot, Mega Man! Super fighting robot, Mega Man! Super fighting robot, Mega Man! Super fighting robot, Mega Man! Super fighting robot, Mega Man! Fighting to save.....THE WORLD!!!!
Mega Man Nothing is original in these days, or at least it's very rare to see original stuff. Besides, it's a joke, overused, maybe, but people tend to find it funny.
I just love that show. Sure, it can be corny, sure, it has bad moments, but one thing you have to appreciate is the commitment to their work. It's fun to watch, regardless of why. It encapsulates the 80's, where catering to an audience wasn't as pivotal as most of the shows nowadays.
Finally someone who says it. This show is extremely overhated. At least it's better than Captain N, the Street Fighter cartoon, and even worse, Darkstalkers!
I forgot that Mega Man's cartoon show was actually really good, probably stands alongside Sonic SatAM as one of the few decent cartoons based off a video games. Way better than Mario or Zelda's cartoons, that's for sure. This Mega Man also was way better than his Captain N counterpart *shudders*
Agreed.I found a whole new appreciation for Ruby Spears once Fully Charged came out. Ruby Spears was incredibly cheesy don't get me wrong, but 80's cartoons did what they said on the tin. You wanted Super Fighting Robots, you got Super Fighting Robots. They didn't feel the need to throw out everything that made Mega Man Mega Man to force in yet another ""relatable"" lame human kid. They saw a game about a robot superhero blasting evil robots and taking their powers and made a show about a robot superhero blasting evil robots and taking their powers. Surprisingly accurate to the games story too it's almost as if they'd seen more than just a picture of Mega Man before they started working on it : /
I like how people back in the day could make the woman robot’s arm a vacuum cleaner and not catch flak for it. If Roll’s character was written today, she’d constantly be taking the limelight from Rock.
I'm gonna show this intro to my kids and tell them it's "the Mega Man cartoon", and whenever I need to calm them down I'll just let them watch "the Mega Man cartoon".
Really gotta love how Elecman shoots electricity, and the animators were like "Ah yes! Roll will use her vaccuum here!" It doesn't even DO anything there - it just... shows she has a vaccuum arm lmfao
Ya know....even after all these years, this opening is still pretty awesome....those shots of robotic megaman are actually pretty well done and kinda chilling...
Gotta appreciate the attention to musical detail when making this theme song. Sounds like it fits in perfectly with the compositions from the actual games.
Being a German myself, the American intro is so much better in every way. Eurodance, happy hardcore or whatever this shit is was even cringe back in the days :D
0:12-0:20 Showing X’s internal structure in the intro was so freakin’ cool. As someone who’s fascinated by engineering I always appreciated that attention to detail.
I miss being a kid so much :(. Me and my bro would wake up at 6am JUST for this show. And my mom would scold us and tell us to get back to bed or set a tape recorder to record the show. Adult life sucks. Im single forever...
i think capcom is trolling us yet again. even if the cartoon is legit i bet it won't last very long on cartoon network. cn will just cancel because boys aren't buying enough of the tie-in toys or because too many girls are part of the viewership. thats the same bullshit cn cancelled thundercats and y. justice because too girls started liking it and the toys weren't selling good enough.
no what i mean is apparently the c. network exec's are sexist and apparently don't want girls watching a ''boy show'' in big numbers. y. justice was popular but was generating unexpectedly higher viewership with a female audience. the other reason is the toys weren't selling enough to boys (likely the same reason). because it'd be a godaweful disaster if a 8 year old girl buys a action figure of superboy. its sexism at its worse. i could care less if girls liked the show. i liked it too and i was 26 back then. that's what i meant. it makes no sense otherwise.
the bronies are appreciated by hasbro, the show creators and voice cast. in fact i know a few female transformers fans. as for y. justice i know it makes no sense.
+crazystairs712 *Megaman flies into dogpark riding on Rush* Megaman: What's up bitches, my dogs a skateboard. You jelly? Rush: Master, please. I'm tired. Megaman *backhands Rush* : SHUT UP SKATEBOARD!
One of the only good video game cartoons. May still be corny, but at least the show itself makes sense (unlike the Mario super show), is mostly faithful to its source material (aside from Protoman being evil), and nothing really sticks out as annoying. Plus it does have its fair share of pure badass moments.
+aaproductions23 True, though I think all of Sonic's cartoons have had their strong points. SatAm had story and character, AOSTH had comedy and captured the original game's lightheartedness, Underground had some catchy tunes and introduced Manic and Sonia, Sonic X had decent animation, had a wonderful Japanese dub, adapted the Adventure games, and introduced us to Jason Griffith as Sonic and Mike Pollock as Eggman in English. Sonic Boom may have had bad games, but the cartoon is hilarious, all the characters are likeable and well acted, even Amy, and it gave us a good new character in Sticks.
man i used to love watching this show...still my favorite episode was when X, Vile, and some of the mavericks showed up...this of course being right around the time I started playing Mega Man X and that blew my mind
***** The 2000's are horrible for pretty much everything. must be the Y2k bug. :P the later 90's still had some decent stuff here and there. Beast Wars was pretty good. Never cared too much for pokemon to be honest, but I absolutely LOVED the funimation Dragon Ball Z dub, although technically that show is late 80's/early 90's.
Honestly of the old video game cartoon adaptations this one is probably my favorite. It’s like 60s Batman mixed with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Yes it can get REALLY stupid(Lion Men) and they took their liberties with some of the characters(Proto Man being sassy evil Mega Man) but it definitely has its moments. At least they didn’t go with the Monsteropolis shit when making this show.
Mega Man starred in a Saturday-morning style cartoon that premiered in 1994. Ruby-Spears, one of the producers of the show, redesigned the characters from the Mega Man video games to varying degrees. The show had a budget of 300,000 dollars per episode. It was originally designed in an art style matching the games' artwork. "Appearance in Japan", the first episode of Mega Man: Upon a Star, was made as test footage and intended to be a special episode of the series, as it had the same animation and used the same voice actors as the cartoon in production. However, it was a big budget, and so the animation style had to change. The new art style was based on redesigns of the characters Keiji Inafune had done in his spare time. "Appearance in Japan" still aired on TV in 1994, as an after school special on various TV stations and in Japan on TV Tokyo. If the series' art style hadn't changed, it would've aired alongside two similarly cancelled shows: an English dub of Magic Knight Rayearth starring Venus Terzo as Luce, and an American adaptation of Sailor Moon utilizing live-action and animation with Adrienne Barbeau as Queen Beryl and Queen Serenity. At one time, Mega Man was placed as the number one weekly syndicated children's show in the Nielsen ratings. I watched Mega Man syndicated on Texas Fox affiliate KABB 29 in 1995 to 1997 and on South Carolina UPN affilate WMMP in the summer months of 1997, and in reruns on Fox Family Channel (now Freeform) from July 18, 1999 until September 2001.
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