Mega Man 6 was held back from North American release until 1994.) While Mega Man 5‘s box art is a bit sloppy, Mega Man 6 takes a huge leap in production quality. RPGamer Site: Go to Games, then to Dragon Quest II Box Art for the. Mega Man 5 came out in 1992, and Mega Man 6 came out in 1993, meaning there was a new Mega Man game released every year for four straight years.
When the 1990s rolled around, the box art continued to improve. In the west, Rockman was not only changed to Mega Man, but the first game had a complete box art makeover. You think it would have been quick since the tools today are visual and easy. The original game didn’t meet sales expectations, however, and longtime Mega Man producer Keiji Inafune is said to have blamed the less-than-ideal U.S. shows Mario dying as he falls into a lava pit after all), so expectations were certainly much lower than they are today. Now, the 1980s weren’t exactly known for having brilliant box art (the original box art for Super Mario Bros. Why is Mega Man’s body so curvy? Why is he still holding a gun? (We actually have sort of an answer to that second question.)Īnd wait, is Mega Man left-handed? It would appear so, as he’s holding his gun in his left hand in both of the above images. The second is much better, actually referencing imagery from the game (including the drill-armed Crash Man and the boomerang-foreheaded Quick Man), but there are still some problematic elements to it. The original box art is just all sorts of wrong.
In the 1980s, Capcom launched the first two games in the franchise, Mega Man in 1987 and Mega Man 2 in 1988.