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Mega Man

Player-chosen stage order plus stolen boss weapons made action games a soft-lock puzzle.

Released 1987 Developer Capcom Platform NES Genre Platformer Era 8- and 16-bit

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Mega Man inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Lives and Continues 1978Continuous Scrolling Playfield 1980Hit Points 1980Momentum-Based Platform Control 1985

The Mega Man series in this dataset

1987
Mega Man this page
1988

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