Mega Man X: A Spin-Off That Improves on the Original but Also Became its Own Thing

In 1993, Capcom reinvented the Mega Man series for the 22nd Century! (Chapter markers and more below...) 0:00 Up Next!! 0:18 GTV ID: Quantity and Quality! 0:28 Act 1: Eight, Going on Sixteen 5:44 CM 1: Rockman X (Japan, 1993) 6:17 Act 2: In the Year 21XX... 15:40 CM 2: Rockman X4 (Japan 1997) 16:09 Act 3: Tested for Thirty Years 21:51 CM 3: Mega, Mega, Mega!! (U.S., 2006) 22:24 Epilogue: Nothing Felt Out of Place 25:38 NG Scene! Episode Information GTV 150 "Generation X" Season 8 Episode 7 Original Airdate: June 30, 2023 Produced June 12-23, 2023 Recorded at Butsudan Studios and edited on my 14” MacBook M1 Pro! Edited and produced with Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, and Topaz AI. All paid for with Gainful Employment™ Why not check out all the Mega Man / Rockman videos from GTV? 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The Good Doctor, upgraded his household Robot Rock, into the super fighting robot Mega Man, to defeat Wily and restore peace to the world. Under the programming directives set by Dr. Light, Mega Man defeated Wily, but never hurt him. Wily would escape and return time and time again, even recruiting Blues, now known as Proto Man, in his plans for world domination. Dr. Light struggled with his decisions throughout all of this. In his laboratory, in secret, Dr. Light developed a new robot, more advanced than Mega Man with human like reasoning and a conscience. He named this robot X. Dr. Light felt it was necessary to create such a robot, lest a madman worse than Wily were to appear in the future. Grappling with the moral question of unleashing X upon the world, Dr. Light ran a system of operations to test the will of the robot. A process that would take 30 years, longer than Dr. Light would ever live. To allow the process to complete itself, Dr. Light sealed X underground, with instructions not to disturb the system until the process was complete. Not long after completing X, Dr. Light passed away. Time moved on and his laboratory became forgotten. 100 years later in the year 21XX, an archeologist, Dr. Cain unearths Dr. Light’s lab, and the robot, X. Even in the 22nd Century, X was more advanced than any robot the world had ever seen. Without fully understanding the work Dr. Light had done, Dr. Cain revived X and applied his design to new robots, called Reploids. These robots had never received the ethical testing that X had undergone. As a result, many of the reploids turned on Dr. Cain. These irregular reploids were soon labeled Mavericks. Gameplay assistance by Raven XP and Longplay Archive. I few in a few places, I"m sure you can tell. CMs by RGTV and Kazuya Games. All images and infor come directly from the Mega Man 25 Guidebook printed by Capcom in the year 20XX!