After reading @ahmadmanga's post about his attempt at Mega Man 1, I thought "let's get some community gaming!" Without any previous experience in the classic Mega Man series but a long time fan of the Mega Man X series, I knew this would be a challenge.

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Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3

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CUTMAN

Starting with Cutman's level was clearly the best choice, but I decided on it because of what I read over at @ahmadmanga's I Never Won Any [Megaman] Level (Yet.), not just because the level didn't have any extremely unfair gimmicks, but because Cutman's weapon is really useful during later stages.

BOMBMAN

I'm proud to say I've reached Cutman on my first try, but as expected, could not beat him then. It took me two more tries to cut through Cutman. After that, I randomly picked Bombman's stage. His level was okay. Taking enemy collision damage or just running to the top of each ladder usually ended up being the smartest choice.

Bombman himself was much easier than Cutman, because all I had to do was stand from afar shooting then jumping a bit to the side whenever he tossed a bomb at me. When he went crazy at the end, I just tanked him until he was shot dead. Moving on to Gutsman's stage.

GUTSMAN

Now this level has a freaking unfair piece of trash gimmick, I tell you. Right at the beginning of the level, I was forced to perform some insane parkour stuns on this moving platform from hell. I died over 15 times on this spot alone. The rest of the level was meh compared to the nightmare I had just gone through. I could even decipher those green flying homing thingies' movement pattern.

Beating Gutsman himself was also a problem, but not because he was that tough. Every time I would finally get to him, I had almost no health left nor any remaining extra lives. I'd take a couple of hits and it was back to the start of the stage. And then I remembered.

Yeah, Cutman's weapon didn't work on Bombman, but maybe one of those two is Gutsman's weakness? Bingo! Bombs are super effecting on this robot builder. It took me no more than three hits to end his reign of architectural terror.

So half of the bosses have been dealt with. I'm looking forward to get to the Willy stages, but the path to Gusman was tiring, so I'll take a break.

Thanks for reading and do tell me about your classic gaming experiences! Or even point me to your own post.