Talk:Mega Man

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Mega Man is an NES staple

Hi @RickTommy, In response to this edit, I can only surmise that you're not very familiar with the NES:

• All Editions of Mega Man from Mega Man 1 through Mega Man 7, even Mega Man X through Mega Man X3 all were released in the NES or SNES.
• The Mega man franchise did not migrate to playstation until 1997, and the graphics in those game look vastly different. The reason I mention this is that Stinkoman basically resembles the Nintendo version of the Mega Man series.

Therefore, I believe that it is incorrect to say that the Mega Man series has nothing to do with Nintendo, let alone its place in the H*R universe. For that reason I've partially unreverted your partial rv. I've brought this here for discussion if you believe this to be in error. --Stux 03:52, 3 July 2025 (UTC)

Excuse me? Being a Nintendo fan, I most certainly am familiar with the NES (despite having never actually played a NES game on the original hardware in my life, not to mention having been born after its time as the newest console). As the user who created the Nintendo category, I (n)intended it to cover only Nintendo and its first- and second-party franchises (another words, developed by Nintendo itself or a company owned by it (or at least has always made the relevant games only for Nintendo's consoles)). RickTommy (edits) 07:37, 3 July 2025 (UTC)

I mostly side with RickTommy here. Capcom, and Namco for that matter, being a third-party developer means the three articles in question—Mega Man, Street Fighter, and Namco— shouldn't be in the Nintendo category. Perhaps if there were an NES or SNES games category, as the case may be, the games could fit there, but as the categories are set up currently, I disagree with them being in the Nintendo category. I should also note that, while they were originally released on the NES, later rereleases (and not just the ones with a different look) have been multiplatform, releasing on Sony and Microsoft consoles in addition to Nintendo.

Nintendo Power is a different case— it was published by a direct subsidiary of Nintendo, so it would be first-party, but on the other hand, the Nintendo category itself is in the "Video game references" category, which doesn't seem apt for an out-of-universe interview. DEI DAT VM^┌_{datvm center}\^{super contra}_┘ 09:25, 3 July 2025 (UTC)