![]() Light/Wright’s assistant in the English text, but that wasn’t the case in the original text. There was NOTHING like it in the original text. The name “Monsteropolis” is entirely a creation of the localization team – it wasn’t in the original text.On closer look, here are some things of note when I compare the two: Wow, they’re pretty different, yet not as profoundly different as I was expecting! I kind of like the cheesy, B-movie / crappy sci-fi novel / “every 80s Atari game ever” feel of the localized story – it at least matches the localized box art perfectly!Īnyway, my basic translation is a bit rough around the edges, but I think it gets the details across. Get ready for some very exciting challenges! MEGA MAN dares to single-handedly penetrate seven separate empires of Monsteropolis, eliminating the leaders and followers of these sovereignties. Resisting re-programming, MEGA MAN is chosen the defender of the universe and its inhabitants. Wily could control the world and its resources. Wright’s Humanoids, now bent on destroying opposition so Dr. Wright’s near-human robot experimentation went awry. ![]() Wily, encouraged with their very first near-human robot - MEGA MAN - proceeded to develop six additional Humanoids, all programmed to perform prescribed rituals.īut, with the exception of MEGA MAN, all of Dr. Wright conceived the construction of fully-operational human-like experimental robots to perform specific everyday duties. It’s MEGA MAN versus the powerful leaders and fighting forces of Monsteropolis – that strange multi-faceted land of robot-like Humanoids.īrilliant scientist Dr. Wily’s massive robot factory and restore peace! Go, Rockman!! Successfully recover the six robots! And then destroy Dr. And then, to recover the heart portion from each of the six robots he had created himself, he modified Rock into the combat robot “Rockman”. Light summoned “Rock”, a household robot he always cherished like his own son. Light developed and is bent on using their power to take over the world. Robots taking over humankind!? This must be the work of the evil genius, Wily. ”The robots you developed are going out of control one after the other! At this rate, robots will take over humankind!!” Light, the foremost authority on these industrial robots, received the following news. In the year 200X, through the use of scientific advances, humanity created humanoid robots for industrial use. (Japanese image courtesy of The Reploid Research Lavatory)Īnd here’s all that side-by-side for easier comparison: Japanese Version (basic translation) Of course, “Monsteropolis” was also in the story part of the first English manual a few times… so let’s take a look at the Japanese and English stories side-by-side! Wow, it’s been a long time since I actually had a copy of the Mega Man 1 box or manual, but I still remember that Monsteropolis name! It was so weird and out of place that I guess it wound up being that memorable I guess the fact it was all over the back cover and written in bold helped:Īnd I could also swear at some point they use the name “Monsteropolis” in one of the Captain N cartoon episodes back in the day, but upon checking my DVDs I can only find references to “Mega Land”. I wonder what this is the the Japanese versions, if there even is a city name at all? The first game called it something like Monsteropolis, while a later game called it Mega City. So here’s a Mega Man question that Morgil asked long, long ago that I’ve been meaning to get to for ages:īack on the subject of the early Mega Man games, The original US manuals refereed to kept changing the name of the city the games take place in. I actually got way more responses than I expected – thanks, everyone! By an overwhelming margin, the winner was… Mega Man! Gonna do a Legends of Localization post later today – help pick the topic! My backlog of questions from readers is literally close to 100 questions now, so today I decided to have followers on Twitter decide which one to do my next update about!
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