Mega Man, a series franchise was born in the month of December, a series we rarely hear about today but one that inspired many great games in the side scrolling genre. Mega Man was foundation brick in the early Nintendo consoles and a bread winner for Capcom, he was a mascot to represent a genre typically dominated by Mario.
The name Mega Man, in the 1980’s was synonymous with the word awesome. It was also synonymous with the word difficult.
A character that had so much potential you can now find him in mobile phone gaming and the virtual console in Europe.
“In the year 200X, master robot designer Dr. Thomas Light, and his assistant, Dr. Wily, worked on a project to create human-like robots with advanced intelligence.” (wikipedia) Each robot was designed to perform a specific task, Cut Man was designed to cut down trees, Guts Man is designed to pickup heavy things, Ice man for arctic exploration, etc. His assistant grew envious of Dr Light so he reprogrammed the robots to do his bidding, which was nothing but evil. Your job is to undo this evil.
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Sorry that I haven’t been listening to on commenting on your podcast recently, life kind of got in the way, big time. All I want to say is THANK YOU FOR THIS. Hopefully I’ll be able to listen to each episode that I’ve missed sometime soon.
One thing, River already met the Doctor for the first time back in Let’s Kill Hitler, where he actually saw her regenerating. What makes the whole situation even weirder is that River grew up with her parents and was best friends with them.
Ha ha ha, you should get Jennifer on the show more often.
I only saw Doctor Who now and then; while the show itself is good, my work schedule doesn’t allow me to follow it properly.