Gameboy Mega Men

The Gameboy was my first real video game system. Back then, I always wanted to play the Mega Man games released for the Gameboy but was only ever able to play Mega Man IV, which I still remember fondly. I don't remember who I borrowed it from, but I do remember I beat it.

A couple summers ago, I went ahead and purchased Mega Man I, II, and III for the Gameboy. The idea was to play them on my newly modified GBA with a flashy new backlit screen.

As of today, I can say I finally beat those three Gameboy Mega Man games. They're pretty ludicrously difficult by today's standards. What's more, I know the NES Mega Man games almost by heart. I know how many hits it takes to kill robots, I know where they're coming from. It's hard for me to be surprised by them anymore. Not so with these games! I found myself shocked at how unfamiliar I was with something that's usually second nature to me. So I had to go back and grind, something I had not had to do for a Mega Man game for a long, long time.

Remember back in the day when you were playing a Mega Man game for the first time? Remember when, like, Mega Man 3 came out and you went and rented it and went into like Snake Man cause he looked like a pushover, but it took you all three lives just to get to the robot master? Remember then how that robot master utterly destroyed you to bits? That's what these games bring back. You sucking at Mega Man games until you practice enough that you get good.

I would love to play Mega Man IV again, but for some reason, it is incredibly rare and shockingly expensive. There was a fifth one for Gameboy, which I know next to nothing about, and that one's just as hard to find as the fourth.

I'm happy to have played these games. I was limited economically when I was a teenager, but I was able to treat myself to them now.

Surprisingly good graphics for Gameboy