I remember for Christmas my aunt asked what game I wanted for the NES and asked her for this one since I have read about it in the game magazines and looked cool and she got for me that Christmas! I still have my original copy with the box, but no manual and beat this game countless times and have been a Mega Man fan since :)
You can't beat this classic! The Dr wily 1+2 stage has got to be the most common stage music in video game history,if not in all of Capcom. Everyone knows that classic tune when they mention Megaman! I can't tell you how many videos I watched of variations of the Dr wily 1+2 stage song here on RU-vid for years...so many.
People keep saying this is the best in the series but actually, this is the WORST one. One of the weapon is pretty much overpowered, making others pretty much useless. It defeats the purpose of finding the weakeness for each robot master. Level designs aren't that good and some of them (you know what i'm talking about) can make you stuck if you don't know what to do and the game does not warn you about it.