History Of Mega Man Explored

Thanks to GameSpot for their large feature charting a comprehensive history of Capcom's Mega Man. The article explains: "Mega Man recently celebrated his 15th anniversary, and the Blue Bomber is showing no signs of giving up the fight for everlasting peace", and goes on to document more than 30 Mega Man-related titles, from the original NES version, which sported "totally appalling box art" in the States, through the 3D stylings of the Mega Man Legends series, and the VR-styled RPG gameplay of the Mega Man Battle Network series. The mammoth article ends on the hopeful: "Here's hoping Capcom sees fit to grace a current or future system with a good, honest 2D - or 2.5D, at the very most - Mega Man IX."

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[FortissimoWily]

"the megaman collection has really gone freakin far, but with all the holes and gaps in the storylines and the question if many of the games even take place in the same universe it's starting to seem like the final fantasys"

Aside from plot holes in some of the individual games, the series itself is fairly consistent, and all but one of it's five sub-series do take place in the same universe, albeit not in the same time.
To break it down;
The original series games (the ones starring Mega Man, Forte, Dr. Wily, with 8 Robot Masters per game) take place in 20XX.
The X series titles (which star Mega Man's ancestor, Mega Man X, along with Zero, and a plethora of animalistic robot bosses) take place in 21XX.
The Zero series (where Zero from the X series has been awakened in the future to protect the rights of innocent Repliroids) takes place in 22XX.
As you can see, that's 3 centuries right there.
Then, after that, there's the Legends series (3D adventure games, where another Mega Man iteration has to search for treasure underground, and fight Sky Pirates), which are set several thousand years after those first three.
Last of all, there is the Battle Network/EXE series, which is the only one not in continuity with the others - it's an alternate setting that takes names and elements from the other sub-series, and remixes them into an internet-themed action-RPG with plenty of geekish jokes (as well as nods to the other series) to boot.
Also, a mistake too many people make (and it messes with their view of how good the continuity of the Mega Man franchise is) is to think that all of the heroes bearing the name "Mega Man" or "Rockman" are the same person - they aren't. For example, Mega Man X is related to the original Mega Man, but he isn't the same robot. MegaMan.EXE (from Battle Network), and MegaMan Voulnutt (from Legends) aren't related to Mega Man or Mega Man X at all. Lastly, Zero (co-star of the X series, and star of the Zero series) is Mega Man X's best friend.

Anyhows, yeah, the continuity isn't like some people think it is - it's really pretty solid. I hope that the above clears up any confusion :)