Retro Corner: Mega Man VI (NES) Review · 5:40am Sep 21st, 2018
A new edition of Retro Corner is up, and we come to the last Mega Man title on the NES. MMVI along with Wario's Woods and Star Tropics II are among the last games to hit this system in 1994. That's right; the NES still got games released in 1994, despite the 16-bit consoles were out in stores. I honestly marvel at the idea such an ancient machine had been available with new good games coming out at the time. It's typically by the fifth year that a company starts to wane its support for a system even when it had a great to amazing userbase. I'm still amazed by the fact the NES was on the market from 1983 to 1994, literally a decade of 8-bit classic gaming. The NES will be among the few consoles to ever last this long in a console cycle. The only ones that come to mind are the Game Boy and the PlayStation One and Two.
For Mega Man VI, Capcom are genuinely among the few that releases this many sequels to one series. They also do this with Devil May Cry, Street Fighter and Resident Evil especially when we are going for the 11th Mega Man game. Technically MM11 is the 12th in the series as Mega Man and Bass should be included. Just so you all are wondering Mega Man and Bass got released on the Super NES in 1998 (as the last title just like MMVI). The sixth game is about a tournament being held as eight robot masters from around the world enter. A mysterious Man named Mr. X hosts the tournament as he holds a strong interest in the event. However, his ambitions to conquer the world couldn't be ignored, so he reprograms the robot masters to do his bidding. Mega Man and Rush head out on another quest to thwart another threat like many times previously.
