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Mega Man © 1987 Capcom USA.
North American version. Fo more information about the game, please see the original Japanese version entry; Rockman [Model CAP-RX].
Description from the USA back cover:
It's MEGA MAN versus the powerful leaders and fighting forces of Monsteropolis - that strange multi-layered land of robot-like humanoids created by the wrongly-performed experiments with human beings by Dr. Wily.
Mega Man - the chosen defender of the human race. For he dares to single-handedly penetrate Monsteropolis' seven separate societies to stop the rapid expansion of strange misrepresentations of humans.
Mega Man's goal is monumental. He must infiltrate seven separate heavily-guarded empires. By himself, he must break down and destroy the following empire leaders: Cutman, Gutsman, Iceman, Bombman, Fireman, Elecman, and Dr. Wily.
The action involves Mega Man armed only with laser beam weapons, encountering strangely-configured humanoids. They're atop, in and out of fortified prison-like structures strengthened with thick walls. Hidden amid gun turrets embedded in concrete uprights, even in subterranean passages below icefields. WOW!
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GAME ID: NES-MN-USA
VARIANTS:
5-Screw, Circle SOQ, REV-A 1.
3-Screw, Circle SOQ, Non-REV-A 2.
3-Screw, Circle SOQ, REV-A 1.
3-Screw, Oval R SOQ, REV-A 2.
3-Screw, Oval R SOQ, REV-A 4.
Mega Man was released in December 1987 in North American.
When the game was localized for distribution in America, Capcom changed the title of the game from Rockman to Mega Man. This moniker was created by Capcom's then-Senior Vice President Joseph Morici, who claimed it was changed merely because he did not like the original name. "That title was horrible," Morici said. "So I came up with Mega Man, and they liked it enough to keep using it for the U.S. games."
