Mega Man 6

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Mega Man 6
North American boxart
Developer(s)	Capcom
Publisher(s)	Capcom (JP), Nintendo (NA)
Designer(s)	Producer Tokuro Fujiwara
Artist(s)	Keiji Inafune
Composer(s)	Yuko Takehara
Platform(s)	NES
Release date(s)	JPN October 5, 1993 NA May 13, 1994
Genre(s)	Action/Platformer
Mode(s)	Single player
Media	4-megabit cartridge

Mega Man 6, known in Japan as Rockman 6 Shijō Saidai no Tatakai!! (ロックマン6 史上最大の戦い!!, Rokkuman Shikkusu Shijō Saidai no Tatakai!!^?, lit. "Rockman 6 The Greatest Battle in History!!"), is a video game that is a part of the original Mega Man series. This late-era game was released on the NES/Famicom and is also the last game in the series for the platform as well. (However, Capcom would later release Mega Man 9, with NES-style music and graphics, as downloadable content for various seventh-generation consoles.) Due to the declining support of the 8-bit NES and the growing presence of the newer and more powerful Super NES, Capcom decided not to publish Mega Man 6 in North America, concentrating on marketing Mega Man X instead. The North American version of Mega Man 6 was released by Nintendo instead. A European version was never released.

Story

In the year 20XX, the first annual "Robot Masters Tournament" is held. The tournament was designed to test the designing capabilities of the world's greatest engineers. Thus, engineers and programmers (and of course, spectators) from the world over gathered to participate in this event. The tournament was hosted by a man known only as "Mr. X," who was one of the world's richest men and supposedly one of its greatest engineers.

Dr. Light, a pacifist, decided not to enter the tournament, but he took charge and did send Mega Man to go along and make sure that everything was safe for all the spectators and to discipline the Robot Masters. Many strong robots participated, and in the end, eight robots were victorious.

However, at the close of the tournament, Mr. X came to the podium and announced that he had reprogrammed the eight robots to do his bidding and that he had been manipulating the contestants all along. Furthermore, he was going to use his newly created army of robots, under command of the new Robot Masters to take over the world. Mega Man was immediately ordered by Dr. Light to put an end to the madness.

Dr. Light has upgraded Rush to be able to combine with Mega Man to form various adapters, such as "Jet Mega Man", who can fly/hover for a brief period of time, but can't use charge shots, and "Power Mega Man", who can punch huge blocks to destroy them, but has limited attack range. Mega Man also cannot slide when using either adapter.

Mega Man fought and defeated the tough Robot Masters, who were spread out all throughout the world, and then made his way to Mr. X's fortress. After battling his way through, he finally confronted the madman and defeated him. Mr. X removed his fake beard and revealed that he was none other than Dr. Wily. Wily had been posing as the multi-billionaire for an indeterminate amount of time, so it's safe to say that "Mr. X" either did not or no longer exists.

Wily fled to an all-new Skull Castle and Mega Man gave chase, fought his way through it, and defeated Dr. Wily in a final showdown. After the years of fighting, Dr. Wily was finally brought to justice and placed in prison with the proper authorities. As Wily can only "rule over a prison cell", the world is finally at peace...for now.

Screenshot of the stage select screen of Mega Man 6

Port

This game was re-released for the PlayStation as part of the Rockman Complete Works series. A port of this version with fewer extra features was released PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, and Xbox in 2004 as part of Mega Man Anniversary Collection.

External links

• Complete video from Mega Man 6 on archive.org