{"id":89,"date":"2011-08-24T01:34:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T01:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=89"},"modified":"2011-08-24T01:34:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T01:34:22","slug":"mega-man-nes-and-mega-man-2-nes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Mega Man (NES) and Mega Man 2 (NES)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I remember looking at the box art for this and thinking\u2026.\u00a0 \u201cWhen has Mega Man ever been blue and yellow?\u00a0 Since when does he have a pistol, and where in the game does that building appear??\u201d<\/p>\n

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1987 - NES (Capcom)<\/p><\/div>\n

What\u2019s worse, is that I actually believed all of those things actually were in the game and tried to find them.\u00a0 Anyway, we\u2019ll get to Mega Man<\/em> in a second, but first, let\u2019s talk about\u2026<\/p>\n

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1989 - NES (Capcom)<\/p><\/div>\n

Mega Man 2<\/em> was actually on my radar long before the first game was.\u00a0 The first time we rented it, it was after I was done playing a little league baseball game. \u00a0I think that was the quickest post-game bath I EVER took.\u00a0 When I popped the game in, I enjoyed the rock-paper-scissors gameplay and found myself using my own strategies to defeat bosses.\u00a0 The game\u2019s controls were easy to master, and the ability to copy a Robot Master\u2019s ability had me hooked immediately.\u00a0 To me, playing Mega Man<\/em> 2 <\/em>was as enjoyable an experience as playing a Mario <\/em> game!<\/p>\n

Working at a library, my Mom had easy access to a photocopier.\u00a0 I once rented MM2<\/em> from the Co-Op store just out of town, took the instruction booklet from the game to the library and got her to copy a few of the pages.\u00a0 Just like that, I had Mega Man coloring sheets!\u00a0 I thought it was amazing technology with a very strange and skunky smell to it.<\/p>\n

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I colored a fair amount of Air Tikki's, in my day...<\/p><\/div>\n

It was during one of these days waiting at the library that I found out there was, in fact, a Mega Man 1<\/em>.\u00a0 No way!!!\u00a0 Really??!?!\u00a0 I had no idea such a thing existed!!<\/em><\/p>\n

(The italics kinda make that look like sarcasm, but trust me when I say that I was somehow quite surprised about this bit of news.)<\/p>\n

Before I knew it, my Mom was on the phone with a convenience store we didn\u2019t usually rent from, and she was hookin\u2019 me up.\u00a0 They had a copy of the game available to rent, and it would be ready for us when we got there.\u00a0 Score!!\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t wait to battle more Robot Masters!\u00a0 I had no clue who they were, either!\u00a0 It was going to be a complete surprise\u2026<\/p>\n

Then, I played it.\u00a0 I\u2019m pretty sure this played in my brain as I ran through the first few minutes of Bomb Man\u2019s stage\u2026<\/p>\n