Mega Man (1994–1995) User Reviews

Surprisingly good

[purplehpurple · 8/10 · 1 June 2018]

The 80's and 90's were not a great time for video game cartoons. Sure, you had some success stories like the later Mario cartoons and the Sonic cartoons prior to Underground, but most series fell more into the Captain N level of quality. Mega Man at first glance seems to be a huge departure from the games, but on closer inspection turns out to be an entertaining cartoon made with some love for the franchise.

If you've ever seen the initial pitch for the cartoon this shouldn't come, seeing as that looks just like the Mega Man Classic video games but as a cartoon. For whatever reason it was decided that American kids would prefer a more adult, super hero like Mega Man, so the series got a revamp between being picked up and releasing. Despite the shift, the cartoon was still made by people who actually knew something about the games. Mega's real name is Rock, and while he does not get called that much after the first episode it is nice that they kept that little detail. Proto Man being more a villain is weird, given Mega Man 6 had already release by the time the show was being made and Proto Man was known to be more of an anti-hero who didn't like Wily, but it works here.

The whole cast works pretty well. Roll is actually competent and helpful, Mega's jokes can be terrible but have a corny charm to them, Proto is a jerk you like to see being a jerk, and Wily is just a funny villain. The robot masters can be pretty funny as well. The weakest link is Rush, whose Scooby-Doo impression was not needed at all.

As 90's action cartoon with a fair bit of comedy it's pretty good. There are some interesting scenarios, some clever uses of Robot Master powers, and some decent animation at times.

Overall Mega Man is a pretty good cartoon. It's a shame we didn't get a version more like the initial pitch, but what we did get is fun in its own right.

Interesting.

[hmm_ · 7 August 2001]

When I saw this cartoon recently on the Fox Family channel, I couldn't take my eyes off of the television. Sure this series is far away from the video game series, but it is still fun to watch. I give this cartoon 5/10 for helping me wake up in the morning with a few unintentional laughs.

why megaman is fantastic

[scottlong-708-235125 · 9/10 · 11 April 2010]

Loads of people say it not like the games so what they have mussels and protoman is a bad guy if you have it like the game it would have died after 6 episodes. I was 34 days old when it was cancelled so i may of watched i cant remember i just seen some episodes lately and i played most of the megaman and megaman x games.

People say about protoman being a bad guy when i played megaman 3 i was thinking not another bad guy until later some one told me he was good but the evil brother does suit him. He is just one nasty robot who wants to destroy his little brother which is good for having that balance of power during there fights.

Also roll megaman's sister people say she is a house cleaning robot not megaman side kick so what you need someone to help you megaman only has rush his dog so i think its good having roll as his side kick he gets female interest.

The only down side is some characters from the game where not included like bass and treble, Gemini man and when they had megaman x in one episode they at least should of had zero and sigma on vile and spark mandrill side and on the other megaman, megaman x and zero.

So if you want to see megaman you can watch the episodes on youtube and if you like that you can buy it on DVD.

The Seed of Disapointments

[omegaclc · 4/10 · 8 August 2008]

In the early era of networks Saturday morning cartoon blocks, testing the water of imported amine....Mega Man can be listed as a failure by today standards. Back then however networks were afraid pushing the envelope.. by cutting up, screwing dialog and what not. But whats worse is the animators themselves botching a good idea. I am sure that they had the best of intentions like bumping up the level of detail to separate this one from the Captain N Mega Man which looks like a bunch of Modeling clay piled up on each other, or the child of the 'Stay-Puffy Marshmallow man' from Ghost busters, but that just wasn't good enough....But I digress.

This abomination was the seed of disappointment as a second Mega Man came to these shores, unfortunately it was our turn to botch a good thing. I'm sure that when Mega-Fans found about EXE coming to the us we were all praying that it would actual have substance that the Ruby-Spears didn't. Unfortunately, it didn't pan out and Mega man.EXE lived a short life....

I and many other fans Blame this one! Because this abomination of a MegaMan show hardly made a lick of sense!!!

I can't stop watching it.

[belindatagoe · 9/10 · 21 October 2017]

Back in the '90s and the 2000s, it seemed that every video game series worth a darn got it's own TV show. The quality didn't matter. It has Mario in it, right? It'll make millions, the network execs thought! It's a trend that seems to be coming back with a vengeance, if the Mega Man TV show coming out next year is any sign.

Anyway, this show takes some cues from the main series. You've got Mega Man, his dad/creator Dr. Light, his sister Roll, Rush the dog, Dr. Wily, and the Robot Masters. Sounds okay, right? Well, that's where the similarities end.

Mega Man and Roll are no longer little kids. To appease the focus groups, the show's creators aged them to around 18 to 21 years old. Rush is Scooby Doo reincarnated as a robot. The show takes place in New York, and every robot in this show resembles an action figure. And, let's not forget the "Curse of the Lion Men" episode! I'll be honest. This show doesn't make a lick of sense, and anyone expecting this to be just like the game series will be disappointed.

Now, what did I find valuable in this show? Why did I give it a near- perfect rating after tearing it apart a moment ago? It's nostalgia. I saw this show back in elementary school and thought it was hilariously dumb. It's still a guilty pleasure over a decade later. The voice acting, the Hanna-Barbera sound effects, the dialogue (ex: "I'm going to make paper dolls out of you!", "Dr. Wily, you double-crossing snake!"), the art style, the flashy intro, idiot villains. Everything about it just screams "goofy '90s action TV show", kinda like the Superfriends. Most importantly, it reminds me of a bygone era when Capcom was cool. You know, when they used to do Mega Man games and this series was relevant to the gaming industry outside of a historical context (that's a whole discussion in of itself).

I think some reviewers have the wrong idea about this show. It isn't meant to be taken seriously. Don't watch this show expecting it to be identical to the video game series. Instead, watch it as if it were another action cartoon from the '90s that just happens to somewhat resemble Mega Man. That's what it is anyway. It's just too bad that there were only 2 seasons. I'd have watched at least 4 seasons of this!

Protoman bad? Huh?

[spiderguy_07 · 4/10 · 12 December 2006]

I thought Protoman was good. This was really disappointing to find out. Why do all the robot masters, including Megaman, look like professional wrestlers on hardcore steroids? I guess every art department has their own design.

My favorite episode is "Terror of the Seven Seas." In this one, Dr. Wily has built a large ship that takes in every other ship with a powerful magnetic force. It's up to Megaman to rip the ship's guts out and stop Dr. Wily and Protoman from taking over every body of water. This is the only episode where Megaman steals Protoman's powers.

The very first episode I saw was "Electric Nightmare." This one wasn't the best, but it had its moments. My favorite robot masters are Sparkman, Crystalman, Diveman, Waveman, Iceman, Fireman, and Bombman. This show was very good, but what made them think Protoman was bad? Was it Megaman 5, the video game? Go to the Megaman website, check that game, and see what you think.

A classic cartoon based on the hit game series.

[Bbrian012 · 19 May 2003]

Ok, unlike some of the game purists who have left negative comments I'm going the other way and I'm glad to see that some people spoke of some of the good points of the show. Mega Man was a fun and entertaining cartoon. Sure it pulled away from the game quite a bit, but why not? It's a cartoon and I think it would've been pretty boring to have Mega fighting through setups like the game levels just to scrap a boss bot that went through predictable patterns.

People complain about Protoman being a villain? Why is Mega's brother a villain? they cry. But in the Mega Man 3 VG, unless you read a game guide, you wouldn't know Proto is a good guy as you have to fight him in several stages to continue. I like that the cartoon creators used this aspect of Proto for the cartoon. Can you imagine how lop-sided thing would've been if Protoman had been a good guy the whole time?

It'd be so boring! Wily's bots wouldn't last a minute against Mega and Proto. And it's not like people who've watched the series don't know it since Proto and Mega have teamed up. Mega can already total any of Wily's bots, so having Proto on Wily's side brings a balance of power that was needed.

As for Bots with muscles. It's a cartoon people, who really cares? Does anyone complain about the new Batman movies with his muscle-molded suit? I think not. Besides, who's to say that the titanium skin of those bots with muscles weren't simply molded to look like they had muscles?

Roll, ok so Mega's little sis wants to help him out instead of just being a house cleaning robot. I'm surprised she hasn't had an active role in any of the Mega Man games yet. I mean where you can actually play as her. I think it could draw in some more female players. Again, I can't understand why people gripe about it. It's not like she gets any super weapons or anything. She just tweaked some of her housecleaning attachments to be like 10x more powerful than usual. If you think about it for a minute I'm sure you'll see the other aspects of having Roll very much involved in the series too.

Funny, with all the things people've complained about, I'm surprised they didn't mention Rush, or how he has more transformations in the cartoon than in any of the games, including some very strange ones. It seems that they'd have jumped all over it they way they've jumped over all the other things that weren't like the games. But, this wasn't the game and you have to give the cartoonists some artistic license so they have the freedom to make a good show.

I liked the animation, it was almost always pretty seamless, and there were plenty of plots that were pretty way out there. Like the Curse of the Lion people, or the teleport pods that switched Mega Man and Snake Man's bodies, or the Incredible Shrinking Mega Man. All not very likely, but still they made for some interesting stories. And when all's said and done, interesting and entertaining stories are key to keeping a series alive. The art and animation were also crisp and clean as well as being well drawn so as to be pleasing to the eye. Which for any animation is key, in some cases even moreso as the quality of the stories is bound to change from episode to episode, but the art in this series was really quite constant. It was really refreshing to watch it while there were such an abundance of low quality cartoons on at the time.

My only real complaint about the series was that the opening theme, while it looked good, I would've liked to hear a little more than, "Super fighting robot... Mega Man!", though the last line helped. "Fighting, to save.... the world!(insert echo)"

This series obviously had some fan appeal since it lasted for so many episodes. Some series like the Legend of Zelda never made it past the initial 13, and The Raccoons only made through about 3 or 4 eps before they were canceled.

I'd rate this series an 9 out of 10. Sure it could've been better, but in my opinion it was far and away from being worse.

Why I love Mega Man and this cartoon

[abalpn-99472 · 10/10 · 5 October 2017]

I've watched this show when I was six years old and I've been watching them online. I haven't beaten one of the games because of the hard stuff but I still like the action of the games. I even like the action of this cartoon. The puns and jokes were a bit humorous. I've heard that a new cartoon is coming on 2018. I like the art of this Mega Man cartoon. Mega Man is still my favorite video game superhero.

Worst show ever made

[bugstyle-10341 · 1/10 · 14 August 2018]

This show in a nutshell: NOW I'VE GUT UR POWURRRR, I'M MEGA MAN AND I'M ALMOST A GARY STU,... LETS HAVE UNPROFESSIONAL VOICE ACTORZZZ

While It's Flawed as heck, It's more faithful to Mega Man than the 2018 show.

[Doc_ock_4mugen · 5/10 · 28 August 2018]

Yes it's a departure from the Mega Man games. This was made in the early 90s around the Mega Man 4/5 development and release. Which meant that probably they had up to 3 as official reference and maybe some tidbits from 4 and 5. Back then the story was literally: Wily made 8 robot masters, go and defeat them, Mega Man. It also suffered from Westernization like Silly plots , incredibly awkward deviations from the source material and yes,they oversimplified Mega Man's Copy ability. But compared to OTHER VIDEOGAME CARTOONS OF THE ERA like Darkstalkers, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm, Double Dragon, to name a few; Mega Man WAS THE MOST FAITHFUL ONE OF ALL. Corny, but it still kept close enough to the source material that it still FEELS like in this case, Mega Man.

Also, to the fool, who said that they hired unprofessional voice actors, check WHO DOES VOICES HERE AND THEIR Careers... Ian James Corlett, Scott McNeill, Terry Klassen, Cary Chalk (who also works on the new Mega Man... Whoops!) Most of the cast are VETERAN Voice Actors. People who had 20 years in the business BEFORE doing Mega Man ARE NOT UNPROFESSIONAL.

It's not perfect, but it's WAY Better than the 2018 one.

From a nostalgic point of view.

[Nerpin · 8 January 2004]

I remember this show in a fair bit of detail. The voices, the episodes, the things that were different from the game, the fact that I woke up at 6am to watch it.

It's a departure from the plot of the games, but so what? Until Forte/Bass or the X games came along there was hardly a real plot to Megaman. Imagine for a second what kind of cartoon it would have made

"Wily has made 8 robots again! I better stop him by going though various stages and fight all 8 robots!" Not going to work.

I can see why Protoman was made a villain. The role suits him decently and it's not like he was a total villain (some episodes you could see him inching closer to the good guys). It may not be the Protoman(or Blues if you will) we all knew and loved, but it was still a good character. (Now if Forte/Bass was in the picture that psychopath would have probably taken Protoman's place, but sadly this was before his time)

While there was little in the way of a real plot the individual episodes were pretty entertaining to me when I was 11. I saw the differences from the game but I still enjoyed it. I almost burst into tears of happiness when they finally had X and Sigma on the series (even if Sigma was only on a screen for 10 seconds).

The voice acting was decent and I have trouble picturing Megaman with any other voice, same goes for X (in X4 and X7 X's voices seem so very wrong to me). It's not like we all haven't heard the exact same voices from the same voice actors before but they worked and worked consistently.

The animation was really very good as best as I can remember. I actually prefer the style of it to the anime style of the Megaman EXE series (and it's rare that I prefer american animation over anime style). It just seems to fit the overall theme of Megaman well.

It wasn't a perfect cartoon by any means...but it did manage to wake me up at 6am and it's only one of 2 things in my life that has ever managed to do that.

Needed a makeover.....

[Irishchatter · 1/10 · 20 July 2015]

Honest to god, this was the worst television series I have ever seen in my life! Megaman and the rest of the robots had a thing in common with the Sonic series "Sonic Boom" - they all had steroids goddammit! What was Capcom thinking?! No wonder they canceled this after 27 episodes, it was pure crap!

I thought the theme song was shocking, I didn't dance to the beat as it didn't appeal to me. The lyrics were too short and very much the same! C'mon even the video games had style so why couldn't the TV series?

Also I have to say, I thought the dog Rush sounded too much of Scooby Doo if you ask me. It would've been better off if a different actor played him or take the character off the script.

The show even had a bad ending like seriously, you call this a actual television show based on a video game. Well if I could, I would give this below 0. Such a lazy horrible show!

UGH!!!

[JereDude · 14 December 2000]

This is the worst videogame show ever! The cartoon didn't do anything right like the game. Mega Man and robots have muscles and they don't look like robots, not like the game. Roll suppose to be a housekeeper, not a sidekick of Mega Man! Dr. Light doesn't look smart. Protoman is not suppose to be bad, it seems like he wants to be on his own. Dr. Wily looks absolutely UGLY! If you watch the first episode, you will laugh what Mega Man is saying when Dr. Light created him! Don't watch this WASTE-OF-TIME show, play the game instead.

If you think this show is bad I ask you why?

[True_BackLash · 3 November 2002]

I love Mega Man and even though it does not always follow the storyline of the games it is more like the video games than people think. So they have muscles get over it. As for Protoman being a bad guy he (or Darkman as the case may be) was a bad guy until Mega Man 5. This show was really excellent Cut Man and Guts Man were "Cut-Ups". :) Great storyline, awesome action and a vast amount of weapon changes Mega's got the Plasma Power.

Used to be one of my favorite cartoons.

[Grantfan2 · 20 August 2005]

This cartoon used to be my favorite when I was younger, before I never knew anything of Megaman except for that cartoon, now I still wish to find clips on it but despite it looks good there's a few flaws. Megaman and the other male robots look like buffed up teens, they aren't the right hight, Roll's character design is WAY off, Protoman was a enemy to his own brother, but it was still good. I do wish that if its renewed characters such as Tenguman and Bass can appear. It is still one of my favorite cartoons.

But until then II need to think up my own Megaman cartoon if I can become a cartoonist in the future.

Don't even bother with this show.

[dootuss · 23 January 2002]

This show isn't even true to the Mega Man games one bit. First off, since when did Mega Man, and all the bad robots have muscles?! THEY'RE ROBOTS! Robot's are not supposed to have muscles! Roll is supposed to be a house cleaning robot not the blue bomber's side kick, and why is Protoman a bad guy? He's a good guy in the video games, so why is he a bad guy in the series? Apparently the people who made this show did not put much care into this series when they should have made it look like the games. In order to follow the games, lose all the stuff I mentioned above.

This show just needed redoing a LOT of redoing.

A little bit too off the game.

[JohnnyJohnHildegaard · 3 June 1999]

Mega Man is a nice show that does little, but not great justice to the video game. The plotlines are weak, and everything is so different. I mean, Mega Man and the Robot Master look like masculine macho men on steroids. Then they get things all wrong with Proto Man a baddie and all that. Nice show but stick with the video games.

Cool show

[rockerdude22 · 26 July 2005]

I remember watching this show as a little kid. I loved it back then when it was on. I recently watched an unlock-able episode on "Mega Man Anniversary Collection" for my PS2. It brought back so many memories of watching this show. It may be a little off the games, but that doesn't mean it's bad. So Protoman's a bad guy in this, so what? I still like this show. So basically, the show has the same plot as the games. Mega Man is a robot built by Dr. Light who fights against Dr. Wily and his evil robots. He has weapons such as his Mega Buster and other weapons. So, if you ever catch this show any where, watch it. You won't be disappointed. Also, you can buy this show on DVD now.