I'm actually the american winner. Windman looks similar to what I entered. My Windman was a skinnier robot but I'm just happy to win. We didn't get a copy of the game for winning but we did get a clock of our character with our name on it. A T-shirt a pin and some neon markers all of the mega man logo. Our names are also at the end credits as our character's designer. I eventually bought 2 copies of the game. One to play and one to keep.
That’s awesome! Wind Man is my favorite stage of the game and Mega Man 6 is my favorite of the 8-bit games. Did you ever get into graphic design as a job?
@@GTV-Japan sadly, no. But I did get into game testing for a few years later on. I am always checking to see if Windman or my other entries make it to future mega man products. Lol. Windman has my favorite stage too but fighting him was a bit of a let down when I beat him my first go. A bit easy but a thrill none the less.
@omenpyro458 that is still amazing that you fought your own character! For me it’s the music that makes the stage so great! I felt like the last man standing when Instill had my NES hooked up with MM6 going in the summer of 94, while everyone else moved on to 16bit.
I can't imagine how cool it was as a kid to win a contest like this and see your own robot as a boss in the game. This is a kid dream. I suppose you lost your drawing from that time? Did you keep the megaman goodies?
I didn’t submit to Nintendo Power, but I did submit my own Robot Master idea to Capcom when I was 8. This was around when Mega Man 2 was out. They politely declined my submission but sent me some Mega Man stickers and thanked me for my submission. One sticker was Mega Man on item 2 and the other was Mega Man shooting a crash bomb. I put that on my Mega Man 2 cartridge.
I did submit a design I worked on with my Dad. “Fan Man” which, in retrospect, was a copy of “Air Man”. The important thing is: I had fun with my Dad. :)
I wanted to, but I could never come up with an idea I wanted to submit, and I missed the deadline. You think they got the submission designs concept from Kinnikuman's creative team? They also asked their readers for submissions for wrestlers.
When I was a kid in the early 90's Mega Man 4 had just come out. The address to Capcom was on the box so; A friend and I, being Huge Mega Man Fans and completely unaware of any contest decided to draw 8 robot masters for the next game. So, we brainstormed, made our designs and mailed out ideas using an oversized box we found in the house. We never heard back from Capcom... When Mega man 5 released a year later we quickly found out that Capcom wasn't interested in our ideas. With one MAJOR exception. Star man! Starman looked exactly like I drew him! same color scheme and everything! with the exception that our Star man simply had a brown helmet and Capcom added a star to the helmet. His stage even took place in space!!! as we had suggested. The major difference was that we had planed for Star man's weapon to be 5 sided star shaped golden ninja stars and behave like metal mans weapon. Capcom made his weapon act more like Woodman, Kind of a shoot-able shield thing. So... It could have been a major coincidence and probably was I will never know but... Maybe not?
I submitted "Hook Man," who had a grappling hook weapon for climbing and swinging around. He was similar to Drill Man in appearance, from what I can recall. I think he also gave you the "Rush Ladder" upgrade, which could let Rush stretch upwards to form a ladder for you to climb. Yeah, it seems pretty redundant to have a grappling hook AND a ladder, especially from the same boss. I was a dumb kid.
Well, that seems to have lived on to Slash Man, whose pattern also resembles the eventual Blade Man from Mega Man 10 despite the fact a blade doesn't immediately suggest that feature of climbing at walls.
Yusuke Murata, who designed Dust Man and Crystal Man, said he submitted as many as 64 designs if I remember correctly, and now, he's a manga artist, who worked on Eyeshield 21 and One-Punch Man. He also drew Japanese 4K Ultra HD covers for various Spider-Man movies, specifically 2, Homecoming, Into the Spider-Verse, and Far From Home.
One thing I’ve come to learn is there was no limit on the number of entries. A few people who participated have commented here and said they sent dozens of entries. Weird but hey whatever! I only sent one.
Justice for Pot Man! 😂 I loved this video! Mega Man is where I became a gamer. I remember reading about the contest entries in the Nintendo Power Issue that had Fire Fighter Mickey on the front cover!
Nintendo Power covers standing the test of time could be a good idea. Looking back some were good choices for the cover, others are ones the world has totally forgotten.
That particular issue is a huge standout in my mind. I collected Nintendo Power for a while and I always remembered that one. Probably because of the Mega Man contest.
6:28 Holy shit ! I drew a Wall Man years ago , but he looked a bit like Stone Man with four arms, and unfished . That feels weird to see another one here .
That’s good to hear! I remember some article/ video 10 years ago where someone was offended some game had Mario in a sombrero for 5 seconds. Why? Its cute!
@@GTV-Japani saw a meme similar to that where someone is complaining about the mario odyssey mexican costume and a mexican person replies and says they love the stereotype
Hey! I’m one of the losers of the contest that was in Nintendo Power. I was so excited about the contest that I submitted 8 robot masters and even drew a “select your robot” page before introducing them. They posted one in the magazine, which was a Smoke Man but he wasn’t even my favorite. The others I submitted were Laser man, Tire man, Wave man, Gravity man, Nuclear man, Atom man and… and… I can’t remember. 😮
@@GTV-Japan Ironically, the Atom man you featured from the magazine is not mine, but the Smoke man I made looks a lot like him. The Atom man I created looks similar to a Sniper Joe with no shield and gun. Oh, and I remember the one I forgot, it was Crystal man, but sharp crystals like the ones from Super man (This was before I had seen the robot masters from Mega Man 5, which was in the same issue as the contest results).
I had heard the names attached to the robot masters during the end credits were their original creators, (like the creator of dust man going on to work on one punch man) but I didn't know 'special thanks' were those entries that didn't make the cut! I hear 'art of nintendo power' on twitter was trying to track down some of those folks that had their art featured in the nintendo power side of the contests, I think he's found a couple? definitely had some designs I wish I'd actually sent in, haha. did not realize at the time capcom WAS actually looking for fan submissions.
@7:55 Bee-man was one of three different robot masters I sent to Nintendo Power, I got the issue of NP in the mail and on the same day I mailed out my entries. Probably why I’m the first one in the article.
For the MM6 competition, I entered two, but they weren't featured in Nintendo Power. Gas Man had a gas mask and did AOE attacks. I also sent in Claw Man (looked really similar to Slash Man that came out for MM7). My design had small ears and hair was slicked back - not as spiky. I still like to think mine inspired theirs. Truth is, theirs was probably just a similar but better design. Did anyone else submit designs? What were they? If not, what would yours be?
I submitted 'Red Man' who was based on Native Americans and threw tomahawks at MM. We got "Tomahawk Man" in 6, but I doubt he was based on my design since my drawing was more like Cutman except with a single feather protruding upwards from the back of his head, and two or three little triangles representing warpaint under his eyes.
At 12 years old, I never thought my random drawings would ever be referenced again in my life. I remember coming up with Weaseletta and her Terror Teddy robot as a last minute whim as a “boss level”. I drew other ____man characters and submitted them, but surprisingly they went with the one off the wall idea I jotted down at the last minute. Potman vs Weaseletta would be a fun battle lol
Are you really the creator of these characters?! We also have the designer of Wind Man in the comments today! I could see something like that in the wily stages. Maybe some people designed things like the 3 level slider or whatever too but I’ve never seen it. Yeah you never know what will get chosen but good job and making the magazine! Thanks for sharing your story!
@@GTV-Japan I happened to be watching a SMB3 rom speed run video and this video appeared as a related one and I wondered if my drawing would be included - honored to see it was and get a mention even if the idea was a bit bizarre - maybe that’s why Nintendo Power picked them. lol. Thank you!
Weaseletta and terror teddy looks a lot like the characters appeared in Conker’s Bad Fur Day: weaseletta looks like the “doll part” of a gigantic robot boss, and terror teddy looks like the… well the teddies in that game. Maybe you indirectly inspired the devs of that game.
Was just about to comment the Yusuke Murata thing when the video mentioned it - well researched! He was only in middle school when he designed those robot masters. Eyeshield 21 is one of my favourite manga!
50000 designs! That's crazy! Now I understand why Capcom stuff did they don't accept fan submissions when I offered them a few (though, it seemed they were ready for business ideas). They don't need your ideas as they can get it whenever they want. But it was interesting to learn that all robot masters except the first game are originally fan made. Thank you!
This is really cool stuff, I've known about the contests but never saw an in-depth video showing the stuff that's been released by Capcom. Hilarious that Tank Man, Paste Man, and Yoyo Man ended up as concepts here but were used as a basis for MegaPhilX's popular Mega Man Unlimited. I wonder how many of these concepts could fuel other fan games as well.
I love these entries. As a big fan of hand drawn artwork (being a manga artist myself) I am naturally endeared to this kind of stuff :) Some of the best things I have here in Japan are the drawings kids have made for me from school.
I wanted to submit to this, but Argentina was not part of it. I came with "Mirror man", which sports a reflectig shield. I even designed the stage and hazards. Oh well, I'll create it in a future Megaman maker.
I could never draw anything worth while, but I did have a lot of fun flipping through those illustrations when I was a kid. Lots of creativity out there! Pot Man makes me want to see a Stove Man, Fridge Man, Veggi Man, Protein Man, Fruit Man, Grain Man, and Utensil Man with a cheesy simple plot of Wily's latest plan for world domination involving taking over the restaurant industry.
I never heard the story as MM1 being unpopular OR MM2 worked on on the side. Some Nintendo rumors were like that. I thought MM1 was not planned to have a sequel, and that's why MM2 was made in a great hurry, with a condition of getting it out fast or not at all. That is also a very similar story to Majora's Mask at Nintendo, but one way or another, I imagine common industry practice in Japan would simply shape production style in either company. As for WHY, I can see Capcom wanting to keep MM1 as a one-and-done impactful success, and simply follow some other branding for whatever game would take the place of MM2. It's not immediately obvious that a sequel to a good game does anything, or gains anything, for the baggage that comes with that relation.
I've heard the story a few times before, that is the part about the devs having to work on Mega Man 2 on the side as a "passion project" of theirs outside of their normal work. Can't say if it's true, though. I also find it doubtful that the robot fan design contest was to save work or design time. Seems like going through all the fan submissions and trying to find some that could work together would almost be as much work as coming up with their own ideas themselves. I think the contest was probably more just for fun, and to drive fan engagement in the series. It's a pretty smart idea, actually. More game companies should try stuff like this!
@0Fyrebrand0 I’ve also read that things like the chicken code were ways to advertise the game for free so this was also clearly stealth advertising too despite whatever was happening backstage
I probably still have that Nintendo power, rotting away somewhere with 3rd grade school work notebooks and nickelodeon floam dust in a rotten box in the garage.
I entered that Nintendo Power contest. At least, I think. It's possible I saw the article and sent in a robot without realizing the contest was over. My Alienman design was pretty much just a ball with tentacle legs and an arm cannon that shot meteor-shaped projectiles, so it probably didn't seem all that inspired. I've subscribed to Capcom's newsletter in hopes they'll have another contest I can enter again. His new design looks more like a classic "Gray" alien and he has more interesting weapons now, for what it's worth. I'm just not sure it'd work out considering the holographic alien phase of the Wily fight in the second game.
Pair Dance Man (Tango Man or Tango Men would've been a great name) would probably have a an ability like Split Mushroom from Mega Man X4. Creating a second image of Megaman that can attack or cause damage
This was still one of my favorite Mega Man events ever! This was probably the closest first ever Mega Man fan game, home brew and Romhack being made sorta!
The first time we got the chance to play any Megaman game in Chile, was already 1991, so no never any of us got a chance. At stores the Megaman games available were from 2 to 4 (never saw 1 and never saw it for rent either), and the Chilean version of Club Nintendo only mentioned the “coming” version of Megaman 5. “Coming” when it was already out in the US. We read a bit about the contests for past games, and as many kids at the time, I also designed a few robots. Some names clashed with robots never knew were already there like gyro-man. Other ideas I had was a robot master which was coincidentally similar to napalm man/one of the dark man, with my version called panzer man. Also outlaw man which was about having a Wild West oriented stage and Wa Man (和マン) with Japanese aesthetics, weather man, blade man (it seems this name got dropped a lot), golem man, ghoul man lol
I recall hearing one of the western contestants reworked his fish type robot master as a one-off character for a cartoon called "Mighty Magiswords" that broadcasted on Cartoon Network during the mid 2010s.
Does anybody know the exact point where Potman’s featured in this video?? Also puzzle man and weaseletta and terror teddy are my favorites in this video!!
There should be a fangame for megaman thats a Rougelike styled megaman game, 8 Robot Masters & 4 Castle Stages (4 Castle Stage bosses Remain the same each run) The 8 bosses are the Runners up of each Rockman competion, so each runner up who drew their own robot masters would finally get their looks.
What a great taste of nostalgia! I didn't get to submit anything to the contest but boy did my friends and I made our own robot masters all the time. My best one was stretch man, as he would punch you from afar like Dhalsim. And there would be ladders in his stage and room where he would stretch up, grab them and land on you. 😂
I was born when they stopped doing design contests. The thought of submitting my own Robot Masters for my favorite series has always been a dream of mine. I doubt it, but I hope they'll do this again, I already have a few designs in mind.
I drew and submitted 6 robot masters. I had Mic Man: product of the times, had a boom box for a head. His mic missle would vibrate and destroy enemies. Bounce Man: would transform into rubber ball and bounce around the room. Bounce Ball weapon would rebound off walls. Can't remember the other ones. None of mine were featured.
@@robertmcginty4146 mm11 bounceman is a giant spherical ball robot with a kid voice and can bounce around, and when defeated yields a weapon that allows mega man to shoot rubber rebounding balls everywhere... Oh and rebounding balls was also in 10 with the walking baseball strike man an rebound striker
I remember have seen a commercial for the contest of Megaman 6 in a French video game magazine (Consoles +, I think). But it was written to send drawings directly to Capcom Japan, there was no company in Europe for this at this time (Capcom Europe didn't exist yet)
Ah now I understand why so many people are saying they sent drawings to Capcom. It’s kind of sad because unless you import which I heard was big in France, you couldn’t play MM6!
I was born in '87, so I was bit too young know about contests and whatnot, but I always loved that issue of Nintendo Power. I've been saying for YEARS that if Capcom ever starts making Mega Man games again, they need to bring these contests back.
I was not aware that many contests were held for the various Rockman games. I always thought that only Rockman 2 had fan-designed bosses. Great video! How long have you been living in Japan?
To my understanding this didn't work quite how you'd expect. Apparently the people working on the games would create the levels and then pick robot masters they both liked and also fit the levels best. A noteable exception was Skull man. Apparently they liked his design so much that they scraped one of the premade stages just so they could include him.
Yeah. Some of the later games had guidelines. Like 6 of course having the international theme. And 8 required certain weapons for the bosses. Though all of the games have similar ideas. Water ice fire etc.
Ha! Really? That’s funny. It was the first useless word I learned in Japanese. I mean how often will I talk about a cactus? I guess just this one time 🌵
I remember drawing a Shark Man, Tank Man with a turret for a head, Sword Man that had blades instead of hands and a sword on his head, probably more closely resembled Blade Man more than Sword Man from game. But I didn’t color any of the pictures just drew them, now I’m wondering if my oldest Aunt sent them in, she had the Nintendo Power subscription and suggested I draw some.
Yusuke Murata creating eyeshield 21 named teams like Poseidons, gunmen, misaki wolves from influence of megaman franchise it makes sense could you imagine a football team in eyeshield 21 named after junkman or crystal man? That’ll be amazing
I first entered MM with MM2, eagerly waiting for MM3. The contest was something I didn't learn about until I subscribed to Nintendo Power and the issue that arrived showing those that didn't make it. For years, I'd always thought up good ideas. Even now, I've come up with 8 Robot Masters I'd like to put into a fan game, with a bit of a rule change where there's a weapon that hurts them and a weapon that makes the boss stronger, sort of a "whoops, you used the wrong weapon". I have the draft of my 8. One example of an opposite weapon would be Sand Man and using a heat based weapon that makes him into Glass so that he's stronger. Even one "man" would be immune to MM's regular shot. It wouldn't be made for hard core people, but just a little change on the formula. Shame I have no game making talent, some of these fan based game makers have. I have some good ideas (I think they're good). Some of my ideas for men came from the mind of a jerk teenager. Fat Man, Murder Man, Rape Man, Thief Man, Whoa Man, Pirate Man, Magic Man, Spider Man, Wolf Man, Rain Man, What'sup Man, Killer Man, Rope Man, Evil Man, Bad Man, Door Man, Hang Man, Rasta Man, Magnet Man (yes, I thought of this too), Acid Man (in an ice stage with acidic ice), Car Man, Religious Man, Rubberband Man, Suicide Man, Paper Man, Straw Man, Tin Man, Fury Man, Roid Man, Puke Man, Virus Man, Moon Man, Chainsaw Man (before the comics, I promise), Police Man, Trash Man, Medicine Man, Dead Man, Sand Man, Red Man, White Man, Poor Man, STD Man... Some of these are really bad ideas. I left out the vulgar or nasty ones my stupid teen self came up with that I still remember. I remember many of them because I spent so much time trying to conjure up some really cool entries or funny ones to make friends laugh. I this day and age, I'm surprised there aren't people out there against the "pronoun" thing and want a gender-neutral Robot Master and to them I say, "play Tetris".
@@GTV-Japan I don't have a drawing (because I suck at drawing), but I imagine him being the same size as Block Man when he uses the power gear. That way he could attack the player in the background before they get to the boss room. I'm not sure if I'd want him to be orange, maybe a red color to show that he's aggressive
If I could travel back in time, entering one of these contests would be the first thing I would do, mainly for the fun of doing it. Though now that I think about it, if I won, there would probably be disastrous consequences due to how iconic the existing designs are...
I wish I could find it or that capcom remembered but I made a sword man design that would look almost exactly like the Blademan design in 10. Even if the idea likely didn’t come from my design when I saw him for the first time I lost my mind and I like to pretend I managed a win 15-16 years after the fact.
Like my entey Muscle man ( I was not aware of Kinnikuman back then. Well I did know of the muscle toys as that is all we got here) Funny how that is my favorite anime now.
I submitted "Mailman" who's body was literally a roadside mailbox which opened up and shot bills at Megaman. They might not have done much damage to Megaman, but it would certainly have bankrupt him.
Paste Man feels like an inspiration for Glue Man in the fangame Mega Man Unlimited. If Capcom makes a Mega Man 12, the Robot Master Contest should be back now that internet makes easier to show ideas from around the world. Even I have some interesting ideas.
I submitted Soda Man back in the day. He woulda rained down soda like Toad Man if you let him shake around the room too much. The design probably looked like total shit lol
No "Pot-Man?" They have no taste! lol I remember seeing some of the art in NP and recalled how many had some sort of Wolverine-style claws look to them.
I still remember that Nintendo Power issue along with the extremely generic idea I submitted for Laser Man. Yeah I was big on enthusiasm but not so much on originality as an 8 year old. I think my main idea was his weapon being basically an orbital strike laser.
On Newgrounds, there was a video about the new robot master Gas Man unfortunately he blew up with Fire Man... For Atom Man I think that it's possible of why Capcom chose not to have him as a boss, since given the past history being blown up during the end of World War II, by Atomic Bombs.
I'm actually the american winner. Windman looks similar to what I entered. My Windman was a skinnier robot but I'm just happy to win. We didn't get a copy of the game for winning but we did get a clock of our character with our name on it. A T-shirt a pin and some neon markers all of the mega man logo. Our names are also at the end credits as our character's designer. I eventually bought 2 copies of the game. One to play and one to keep.
That’s awesome! Wind Man is my favorite stage of the game and Mega Man 6 is my favorite of the 8-bit games. Did you ever get into graphic design as a job?
@@GTV-Japan sadly, no. But I did get into game testing for a few years later on. I am always checking to see if Windman or my other entries make it to future mega man products. Lol. Windman has my favorite stage too but fighting him was a bit of a let down when I beat him my first go. A bit easy but a thrill none the less.
DAMN!! Congratulations, Man.
You're a part of Megaman history
@omenpyro458 that is still amazing that you fought your own character! For me it’s the music that makes the stage so great! I felt like the last man standing when Instill had my NES hooked up with MM6 going in the summer of 94, while everyone else moved on to 16bit.
I can't imagine how cool it was as a kid to win a contest like this and see your own robot as a boss in the game. This is a kid dream. I suppose you lost your drawing from that time? Did you keep the megaman goodies?
Yes, I really DID submit Pot Man to Nintendo Power in 1992! Did you enter that contest too?
I didn’t submit to Nintendo Power, but I did submit my own Robot Master idea to Capcom when I was 8. This was around when Mega Man 2 was out. They politely declined my submission but sent me some Mega Man stickers and thanked me for my submission. One sticker was Mega Man on item 2 and the other was Mega Man shooting a crash bomb. I put that on my Mega Man 2 cartridge.
I did submit a design I worked on with my Dad. “Fan Man” which, in retrospect, was a copy of “Air Man”. The important thing is: I had fun with my Dad. :)
I wanted to, but I could never come up with an idea I wanted to submit, and I missed the deadline. You think they got the submission designs concept from Kinnikuman's creative team? They also asked their readers for submissions for wrestlers.
Disliking all your vids kuk
Till you quiit
Your voice is cringe
"Oh yes, Pot Man. One of the most powerful Robot Masters... chef" 🍳
When I was a kid in the early 90's Mega Man 4 had just come out. The address to Capcom was on the box so; A friend and I, being Huge Mega Man Fans and completely unaware of any contest decided to draw 8 robot masters for the next game. So, we brainstormed, made our designs and mailed out ideas using an oversized box we found in the house.
We never heard back from Capcom...
When Mega man 5 released a year later we quickly found out that Capcom wasn't interested in our ideas. With one MAJOR exception. Star man!
Starman looked exactly like I drew him! same color scheme and everything! with the exception that our Star man simply had a brown helmet and Capcom added a star to the helmet. His stage even took place in space!!! as we had suggested. The major difference was that we had planed for Star man's weapon to be 5 sided star shaped golden ninja stars and behave like metal mans weapon. Capcom made his weapon act more like Woodman, Kind of a shoot-able shield thing.
So... It could have been a major coincidence and probably was I will never know but... Maybe not?
I want a romhack or fangame that just consists of a cast of lost contest robotmaster submissions
Just include Pot Man!
@@GTV-Japan Ok
Considering how many Mega Man hacks there are, I'm surprised nobody has attempted this.
Modern fan games are incredible. Try Sega vs Capcom. Amazing.
I was just thinking about how cool that would be
I submitted "Hook Man," who had a grappling hook weapon for climbing and swinging around. He was similar to Drill Man in appearance, from what I can recall. I think he also gave you the "Rush Ladder" upgrade, which could let Rush stretch upwards to form a ladder for you to climb. Yeah, it seems pretty redundant to have a grappling hook AND a ladder, especially from the same boss. I was a dumb kid.
That sounds very cool!
That's a neat idea, I like it.
i vividly remember the Nintendo power feature on this, and the submissions. Someone made Blade Man and it was basically wolverine colored.
Well, that seems to have lived on to Slash Man, whose pattern also resembles the eventual Blade Man from Mega Man 10 despite the fact a blade doesn't immediately suggest that feature of climbing at walls.
Yusuke Murata, who designed Dust Man and Crystal Man, said he submitted as many as 64 designs if I remember correctly, and now, he's a manga artist, who worked on Eyeshield 21 and One-Punch Man. He also drew Japanese 4K Ultra HD covers for various Spider-Man movies, specifically 2, Homecoming, Into the Spider-Verse, and Far From Home.
One thing I’ve come to learn is there was no limit on the number of entries. A few people who participated have commented here and said they sent dozens of entries. Weird but hey whatever! I only sent one.
Justice for Pot Man! 😂 I loved this video! Mega Man is where I became a gamer. I remember reading about the contest entries in the Nintendo Power Issue that had Fire Fighter Mickey on the front cover!
Nintendo Power covers standing the test of time could be a good idea. Looking back some were good choices for the cover, others are ones the world has totally forgotten.
That particular issue is a huge standout in my mind. I collected Nintendo Power for a while and I always remembered that one. Probably because of the Mega Man contest.
8:19 "Atom Man wonder why he wasn't considered" made me laugh for longer then I'd wanna admit
6:28 Holy shit !
I drew a Wall Man years ago , but he looked a bit like Stone Man with four arms, and unfished .
That feels weird to see another one here .
Very cool !
I thought of Block Man when I saw that one. Same basic concept.
OMG!!
as a hispanic i loved Mucho Man so much.
That’s good to hear! I remember some article/ video 10 years ago where someone was offended some game had Mario in a sombrero for 5 seconds. Why? Its cute!
@@GTV-Japani saw a meme similar to that where someone is complaining about the mario odyssey mexican costume and a mexican person replies and says they love the stereotype
Yeah, frankly he was great
Hey! I’m one of the losers of the contest that was in Nintendo Power. I was so excited about the contest that I submitted 8 robot masters and even drew a “select your robot” page before introducing them. They posted one in the magazine, which was a Smoke Man but he wasn’t even my favorite. The others I submitted were Laser man, Tire man, Wave man, Gravity man, Nuclear man, Atom man and… and… I can’t remember. 😮
I saw Atom Man in the magazine. I’ll go back and look for Smoke Man! Good job!!
@@GTV-Japan Ironically, the Atom man you featured from the magazine is not mine, but the Smoke man I made looks a lot like him. The Atom man I created looks similar to a Sniper Joe with no shield and gun. Oh, and I remember the one I forgot, it was Crystal man, but sharp crystals like the ones from Super man (This was before I had seen the robot masters from Mega Man 5, which was in the same issue as the contest results).
Smoke Man would have been a cool boss.
I had heard the names attached to the robot masters during the end credits were their original creators, (like the creator of dust man going on to work on one punch man) but I didn't know 'special thanks' were those entries that didn't make the cut! I hear 'art of nintendo power' on twitter was trying to track down some of those folks that had their art featured in the nintendo power side of the contests, I think he's found a couple? definitely had some designs I wish I'd actually sent in, haha. did not realize at the time capcom WAS actually looking for fan submissions.
Capcom also took a recent celebrity, EIKO and put him in street fighter 2, so they are not afraid to throw a bone to fans
@7:55 Bee-man was one of three different robot masters I sent to Nintendo Power, I got the issue of NP in the mail and on the same day I mailed out my entries. Probably why I’m the first one in the article.
Wow that’s amazing! What were the other ones?
Thunder-man and Missle-man were my other submissions.
Also NP added the Bee-man quote
@seffola I could see those working!
For the MM6 competition, I entered two, but they weren't featured in Nintendo Power. Gas Man had a gas mask and did AOE attacks. I also sent in Claw Man (looked really similar to Slash Man that came out for MM7). My design had small ears and hair was slicked back - not as spiky. I still like to think mine inspired theirs. Truth is, theirs was probably just a similar but better design.
Did anyone else submit designs? What were they? If not, what would yours be?
As I was born in the 2000's I never got to participate in this but the robot master design contest was an amazing idea
Puzzle man needs redemption
I submitted 'Red Man' who was based on Native Americans and threw tomahawks at MM. We got "Tomahawk Man" in 6, but I doubt he was based on my design since my drawing was more like Cutman except with a single feather protruding upwards from the back of his head, and two or three little triangles representing warpaint under his eyes.
That sounds cool! Maybe the rapper Redman might object to using his name.
"Red Man"? Seriously?
🙄🙄🙄
@sidnew2739 Whitelib detected 🚨
@@ADistantImage Racist detected.
Aw, man I wanted to cover this years ago, but wanted to cover the more (ahem) offensive submissions :P
Like what? ******* Man?
Yes please
Fantastic video! They should bring this back for mega man 12!
I was a little upset that 9 10 11 didn’t have the he contest.
Yea be interesting,feel like that fish man inspired buble crab in the x series.
At 12 years old, I never thought my random drawings would ever be referenced again in my life. I remember coming up with Weaseletta and her Terror Teddy robot as a last minute whim as a “boss level”. I drew other ____man characters and submitted them, but surprisingly they went with the one off the wall idea I jotted down at the last minute.
Potman vs Weaseletta would be a fun battle lol
Are you really the creator of these characters?! We also have the designer of Wind Man in the comments today! I could see something like that in the wily stages. Maybe some people designed things like the 3 level slider or whatever too but I’ve never seen it. Yeah you never know what will get chosen but good job and making the magazine! Thanks for sharing your story!
@@GTV-Japan I happened to be watching a SMB3 rom speed run video and this video appeared as a related one and I wondered if my drawing would be included - honored to see it was and get a mention even if the idea was a bit bizarre - maybe that’s why Nintendo Power picked them. lol. Thank you!
@GraysonShuler hey no problem!
@@GraysonShuler hey. do you have discord? i want to talk to you about weaseletta lol
Weaseletta and terror teddy looks a lot like the characters appeared in Conker’s Bad Fur Day: weaseletta looks like the “doll part” of a gigantic robot boss, and terror teddy looks like the… well the teddies in that game.
Maybe you indirectly inspired the devs of that game.
Was just about to comment the Yusuke Murata thing when the video mentioned it - well researched! He was only in middle school when he designed those robot masters. Eyeshield 21 is one of my favourite manga!
I think it’s more amazing that he won twice! And had an honorable mention in there too!
@@GTV-Japan He's obviously been extremely talented from a young age!
I was born waaaaay to late to be apart of these, but I'm glad to know that you submitted a Pot Man design meaning my boy got a chance
It’s all I ever asked for!
50000 designs! That's crazy! Now I understand why Capcom stuff did they don't accept fan submissions when I offered them a few (though, it seemed they were ready for business ideas). They don't need your ideas as they can get it whenever they want.
But it was interesting to learn that all robot masters except the first game are originally fan made. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is really cool stuff, I've known about the contests but never saw an in-depth video showing the stuff that's been released by Capcom. Hilarious that Tank Man, Paste Man, and Yoyo Man ended up as concepts here but were used as a basis for MegaPhilX's popular Mega Man Unlimited. I wonder how many of these concepts could fuel other fan games as well.
Certainly enough to make it to Mega Man 100
Don't have a pic but i submitted Flatu Man who attacked with stinky gas. Why didn't they use him?
I remember the Nintendo Power contest. Such simpler times.
Yeah. The 4-6 weeks for delivery era.
Better days. When the Mega Man franchise was still alive!
I love these entries. As a big fan of hand drawn artwork (being a manga artist myself) I am naturally endeared to this kind of stuff :) Some of the best things I have here in Japan are the drawings kids have made for me from school.
Nowadays most of the entries would just be AI generated
>_>
Some of these concepts were awesome, I hope we'll see them in the future
That’s the great thing about the future. It lasts forever.
I wanted to submit to this, but Argentina was not part of it. I came with "Mirror man", which sports a reflectig shield. I even designed the stage and hazards. Oh well, I'll create it in a future Megaman maker.
That’s cool! I searched thru Club Nintendo but couldn’t find any mention of the contest unfortunately.
Sound a lot like enker to me
6:19
well unlimited handled that “concept of a stage is difficult to implement” well with Glue Man
I could never draw anything worth while, but I did have a lot of fun flipping through those illustrations when I was a kid. Lots of creativity out there!
Pot Man makes me want to see a Stove Man, Fridge Man, Veggi Man, Protein Man, Fruit Man, Grain Man, and Utensil Man with a cheesy simple plot of Wily's latest plan for world domination involving taking over the restaurant industry.
Fridge man sounds like winner!
I remember the contest for rm3, machete man baby, I was bad ass....potman? Yeah I'll sell ya some lol
rnega rnan is the real n-
@@sboinkthelegday3892 hells yeah chief rocka
I never heard the story as MM1 being unpopular OR MM2 worked on on the side. Some Nintendo rumors were like that.
I thought MM1 was not planned to have a sequel, and that's why MM2 was made in a great hurry, with a condition of getting it out fast or not at all. That is also a very similar story to Majora's Mask at Nintendo, but one way or another, I imagine common industry practice in Japan would simply shape production style in either company.
As for WHY, I can see Capcom wanting to keep MM1 as a one-and-done impactful success, and simply follow some other branding for whatever game would take the place of MM2. It's not immediately obvious that a sequel to a good game does anything, or gains anything, for the baggage that comes with that relation.
That’s very true.
I've heard the story a few times before, that is the part about the devs having to work on Mega Man 2 on the side as a "passion project" of theirs outside of their normal work. Can't say if it's true, though. I also find it doubtful that the robot fan design contest was to save work or design time. Seems like going through all the fan submissions and trying to find some that could work together would almost be as much work as coming up with their own ideas themselves. I think the contest was probably more just for fun, and to drive fan engagement in the series. It's a pretty smart idea, actually. More game companies should try stuff like this!
@0Fyrebrand0 I’ve also read that things like the chicken code were ways to advertise the game for free so this was also clearly stealth advertising too despite whatever was happening backstage
That “palm tree” on the drawing’s Yamato Man is actually a samurai’s topknot.
I know but he’s green
Using the Rockman Complete Works music in this video was a great touch, those arrangements are some of my absolute favorites
I have all 10 soundtrack CDs in a giant E can
Capcom: "We shall make a Robot Master contest to save on production time."
* hundreds of thousands of submissions sent that they have to look over *
On This Day, It's Been 36 Years Since The Rockman Second Run!
THAT'S HOW YOU KNOW A LEGEND WAS BORN
Exactly!! 👍
I probably still have that Nintendo power, rotting away somewhere with 3rd grade school work notebooks and nickelodeon floam dust in a rotten box in the garage.
Well go dig it out!
I entered that Nintendo Power contest. At least, I think. It's possible I saw the article and sent in a robot without realizing the contest was over. My Alienman design was pretty much just a ball with tentacle legs and an arm cannon that shot meteor-shaped projectiles, so it probably didn't seem all that inspired. I've subscribed to Capcom's newsletter in hopes they'll have another contest I can enter again. His new design looks more like a classic "Gray" alien and he has more interesting weapons now, for what it's worth. I'm just not sure it'd work out considering the holographic alien phase of the Wily fight in the second game.
That sounds pretty cool to me!!
Pair Dance Man (Tango Man or Tango Men would've been a great name) would probably have a an ability like Split Mushroom from Mega Man X4. Creating a second image of Megaman that can attack or cause damage
Oh man! This was a great idea for a video!
It’s been kicking around for a while in my head. Getting the AI to upscale the right way finally made it happen!
I can see Pair Dance Man weapon being something simillar to Split Mushroom clone no jutsu weapon
Someone else said the same thing!
Great idea to create a buzz about the game! And that must have been pretty awesome to see your creation actually make it👍
Very awesome but how would I know? I took one of many Ls!
This was still one of my favorite Mega Man events ever! This was probably the closest first ever Mega Man fan game, home brew and Romhack being made sorta!
Whats next? a Megaman Roguelike that has the fan entries that did not get the final cut become actual bosses?
Roguelike? Nah BOSS RUSH with 1000 rejected Robots!
@rickylovesyou hear hear!
Oh man I remember when I was 6 or 7 (1996) and I drew pixel art of Gravity man on math paper :)))) I loved it. I didn't knew pixel art was a thing,
Gotta love graph paper
The first time we got the chance to play any Megaman game in Chile, was already 1991, so no never any of us got a chance. At stores the Megaman games available were from 2 to 4 (never saw 1 and never saw it for rent either), and the Chilean version of Club Nintendo only mentioned the “coming” version of Megaman 5. “Coming” when it was already out in the US.
We read a bit about the contests
for past games, and as many kids at the time, I also designed a few robots. Some names clashed with robots never knew were already there like gyro-man. Other ideas I had was a robot master which was coincidentally similar to napalm man/one of the dark man, with my version called panzer man. Also outlaw man which was about having a Wild West oriented stage and Wa Man (和マン) with Japanese aesthetics, weather man, blade man (it seems this name got dropped a lot), golem man, ghoul man lol
Thanks for sharing your story!
I didn’t know about the contests until too late. I do remember seeing Glue Man in the Nintendo Power and wishing he was in a game.
3:35 Pot Man actually looks like the robot master, Konro Man, from Rockman & Forte: Mirai Kara no Chōsensha on the Wonderswan
So close!!
@@GTV-Japan perhaps it was an inspiration for the design
@maximoarce3269 haha I doubt it.
I recall hearing one of the western contestants reworked his fish type robot master as a one-off character for a cartoon called "Mighty Magiswords" that broadcasted on Cartoon Network during the mid 2010s.
I had no idea! I haven’t even seen American TV since 2005!.
Does anybody know the exact point where Potman’s featured in this video?? Also puzzle man and weaseletta and terror teddy are my favorites in this video!!
Weaseletta and Terror Teddy looks like it inspired Poppet and Reagan in Conker's Bad Fur Day, funnily enough.
I believe Game Center CX did a "Where are they now" for the winners. Unfortunately, I cannot remember which season(s) this took place.
Oh I had no idea. The last one I ever saw was the live show where viewers were faxing in comments.
There should be a fangame for megaman thats a Rougelike styled megaman game, 8 Robot Masters & 4 Castle Stages (4 Castle Stage bosses Remain the same each run)
The 8 bosses are the Runners up of each Rockman competion, so each runner up who drew their own robot masters would finally get their looks.
Someone else commented before someone did that! But honestly I can’t find it!
Cactus Man is now my favorite non-official Robot Master.
🌵!!
Oh wow, I have so many of my own Robot Master designs stashed somewhere in an old portfolio from my junior/senior high school days...!!!
That’s great you saved them!
I didn't know they opened a contest for Rockman Robot Masters. As a kid i used to draw my own designs of new Robot Masters. i wish i kept em
I think we all did! Too bad they never saw your best work
Thank you for making this video . Biggest Rockman fan in the world here 😅. Keep up the good work 😀
You’re welcome!
What a great taste of nostalgia! I didn't get to submit anything to the contest but boy did my friends and I made our own robot masters all the time. My best one was stretch man, as he would punch you from afar like Dhalsim. And there would be ladders in his stage and room where he would stretch up, grab them and land on you. 😂
I really like that idea!
WEATHER MAN. 🌪️🌧️🌩️❄️ I would've been the hardest boss out of 8 regular bosses. Bipolar weather in a drop of a dime. 😂😂
I was born when they stopped doing design contests. The thought of submitting my own Robot Masters for my favorite series has always been a dream of mine. I doubt it, but I hope they'll do this again, I already have a few designs in mind.
It’s a shame 9 and 10 had no contest. 9 was kind of a surprise so I could understand
8:10 - According to concept art, Diamond Man going to be was the original name for Jewel Man in MM9
Oh, neat!
Ooooh. So what Capcom did to mega man legends 3 wasn't out of the ordinary. It just didn't work that time.
I guess it wasn’t.
I drew and submitted 6 robot masters. I had Mic Man: product of the times, had a boom box for a head. His mic missle would vibrate and destroy enemies. Bounce Man: would transform into rubber ball and bounce around the room. Bounce Ball weapon would rebound off walls. Can't remember the other ones. None of mine were featured.
That is awesome! Thanks for sharing!!
Wait a minute...
Isn't bounce man that walking giant ball thing from 11 too? Maybe Capcom had a similar idea at the time
@@gabrielchee8470 I never actually played 11. Could be.
@@robertmcginty4146 mm11 bounceman is a giant spherical ball robot with a kid voice and can bounce around, and when defeated yields a weapon that allows mega man to shoot rubber rebounding balls everywhere...
Oh and rebounding balls was also in 10 with the walking baseball strike man an rebound striker
@gabrielchee8470 yeah should have trademarked that 😂 10 year old me already had it
I remember have seen a commercial for the contest of Megaman 6 in a French video game magazine (Consoles +, I think). But it was written to send drawings directly to Capcom Japan, there was no company in Europe for this at this time (Capcom Europe didn't exist yet)
Ah now I understand why so many people are saying they sent drawings to Capcom. It’s kind of sad because unless you import which I heard was big in France, you couldn’t play MM6!
I also submitted my own design Lightning Man, but his design was too close to Elec Man, so it probably wasn't taken seriously.
There are only a few ideas that have been reused over and over. Fire ice water. This kind of thing. I’d like lightning man!
I was born in '87, so I was bit too young know about contests and whatnot, but I always loved that issue of Nintendo Power. I've been saying for YEARS that if Capcom ever starts making Mega Man games again, they need to bring these contests back.
They had the contest for Exe/ battle network so hay ya never know
I was not aware that many contests were held for the various Rockman games. I always thought that only Rockman 2 had fan-designed bosses. Great video! How long have you been living in Japan?
20 years man! The only games I know of that didn’t have contests were the X games and 9, 10, 11. Even exe/battle network took some designs!
@@GTV-JapanI had no idea!
Me too. I don’t know those well.
To my understanding this didn't work quite how you'd expect. Apparently the people working on the games would create the levels and then pick robot masters they both liked and also fit the levels best.
A noteable exception was Skull man. Apparently they liked his design so much that they scraped one of the premade stages just so they could include him.
Yeah. Some of the later games had guidelines. Like 6 of course having the international theme. And 8 required certain weapons for the bosses. Though all of the games have similar ideas. Water ice fire etc.
Somebody made Diamond Man? The robot who fires diamond missiles that explode into four diamonds?
Yeah, I knew what “saboten” meant. That’s what they call one of the big anime conventions here in Phoenix.
Ha! Really? That’s funny. It was the first useless word I learned in Japanese. I mean how often will I talk about a cactus? I guess just this one time 🌵
I remember drawing a
Shark Man, Tank Man with a turret for a head, Sword Man that had blades instead of hands and a sword on his head, probably more closely resembled Blade Man more than Sword Man from game. But I didn’t color any of the pictures just drew them, now I’m wondering if my oldest Aunt sent them in, she had the Nintendo Power subscription and suggested I draw some.
I think color helps!
Yusuke Murata creating eyeshield 21 named teams like Poseidons, gunmen, misaki wolves from influence of megaman franchise it makes sense could you imagine a football team in eyeshield 21 named after junkman or crystal man? That’ll be amazing
I first entered MM with MM2, eagerly waiting for MM3. The contest was something I didn't learn about until I subscribed to Nintendo Power and the issue that arrived showing those that didn't make it. For years, I'd always thought up good ideas. Even now, I've come up with 8 Robot Masters I'd like to put into a fan game, with a bit of a rule change where there's a weapon that hurts them and a weapon that makes the boss stronger, sort of a "whoops, you used the wrong weapon". I have the draft of my 8. One example of an opposite weapon would be Sand Man and using a heat based weapon that makes him into Glass so that he's stronger. Even one "man" would be immune to MM's regular shot. It wouldn't be made for hard core people, but just a little change on the formula. Shame I have no game making talent, some of these fan based game makers have. I have some good ideas (I think they're good).
Some of my ideas for men came from the mind of a jerk teenager. Fat Man, Murder Man, Rape Man, Thief Man, Whoa Man, Pirate Man, Magic Man, Spider Man, Wolf Man, Rain Man, What'sup Man, Killer Man, Rope Man, Evil Man, Bad Man, Door Man, Hang Man, Rasta Man, Magnet Man (yes, I thought of this too), Acid Man (in an ice stage with acidic ice), Car Man, Religious Man, Rubberband Man, Suicide Man, Paper Man, Straw Man, Tin Man, Fury Man, Roid Man, Puke Man, Virus Man, Moon Man, Chainsaw Man (before the comics, I promise), Police Man, Trash Man, Medicine Man, Dead Man, Sand Man, Red Man, White Man, Poor Man, STD Man...
Some of these are really bad ideas. I left out the vulgar or nasty ones my stupid teen self came up with that I still remember. I remember many of them because I spent so much time trying to conjure up some really cool entries or funny ones to make friends laugh. I this day and age, I'm surprised there aren't people out there against the "pronoun" thing and want a gender-neutral Robot Master and to them I say, "play Tetris".
If they were still doing this, I'd submit my custom robot master "Crush Man"
I hope he’s orange!
@@GTV-Japan I don't have a drawing (because I suck at drawing), but I imagine him being the same size as Block Man when he uses the power gear. That way he could attack the player in the background before they get to the boss room. I'm not sure if I'd want him to be orange, maybe a red color to show that he's aggressive
If I could travel back in time, entering one of these contests would be the first thing I would do, mainly for the fun of doing it. Though now that I think about it, if I won, there would probably be disastrous consequences due to how iconic the existing designs are...
Don’t ruin the timeline, you’ll return to the present and have to memorize a lot of new kings.
Imagine if CAPCOM used "Pot Man" in place of TOP MAN in his already questionable stage design?
Yeah. He was the weakest part of that game
Along with his dumbass weapon.
His stage music kicked ass, though.
_Gunt Man_
Eyyyyyy
'ghtman
Because 8 is the same both left and right.
MegaMan 8 has some contest entries in its credits too, like Sharkman who we have seen years later with EXE Battle Network.
Yeah it’s neat how they reused some
Honestly, Puzzle Man is a pretty sick design. i could totally see that in Mega Man 12 or something.
I could see an attack similar to the yellow devil
"you're fucking with me, right?"
-Capcom devs during contest
I wish I could find it or that capcom remembered but I made a sword man design that would look almost exactly like the Blademan design in 10. Even if the idea likely didn’t come from my design when I saw him for the first time I lost my mind and I like to pretend I managed a win 15-16 years after the fact.
I think you won in the end!
I can't believe Murata created Dust Man! OPM is a favorite (リア充の) manga of mine, and Dust Man was always one of my favorite bosses.
I like Dust Man too. His face is funny
Like my entey Muscle man ( I was not aware of Kinnikuman back then. Well I did know of the muscle toys as that is all we got here) Funny how that is my favorite anime now.
Hey at least you tried!
If anime taught me any lessons, it's to never give. I actually ended up studying 3d character art and I've gotten pretty good.
I think just for fun I'm gonna model my old design in 3d.
Your Pot Man design looks good, but I could try to sprite it just for you.
I’d love that!
@@GTV-Japan So I sprited him, I called it under the name "Pot Man Reimagined" for what-if Capcom "redesigned" it.
I submitted "Mailman" who's body was literally a roadside mailbox which opened up and shot bills at Megaman. They might not have done much damage to Megaman, but it would certainly have bankrupt him.
Ha!
Paste Man feels like an inspiration for Glue Man in the fangame Mega Man Unlimited.
If Capcom makes a Mega Man 12, the Robot Master Contest should be back now that internet makes easier to show ideas from around the world. Even I have some interesting ideas.
Honestly glue is always better than paste.
I submitted Soda Man back in the day. He woulda rained down soda like Toad Man if you let him shake around the room too much. The design probably looked like total shit lol
That is a cool idea!!
Sounds like an opportunity for product placement, lol. Mountain Dew Man, followed by Doritos Man!
@0Fyrebrand0 time to channel my inner Max Headroom and say “don’t say the P word!”
CAPCOM recently had an online survey basically asking questions surrounding their franchises and what gamers want and like
Yeah! I said stop making endless Street Fighter II versions and give us endless Megaman!
@@GTV-Japan Yes, I also insisted on mega man games
No "Pot-Man?" They have no taste! lol I remember seeing some of the art in NP and recalled how many had some sort of Wolverine-style claws look to them.
Hmm must be subconscious!
it’s such a shame that most of them are lost to time, potentially forever…
That’s life.
I actually made a submission. Never heard shit in return. Mega Man 5 wasn't even out yet, but Comet Man would've been so much better than Star Man
Yo-yo Man and Glue Man were used by MegaPhil X for his Megaman Unlimited fangame.
I still remember that Nintendo Power issue along with the extremely generic idea I submitted for Laser Man. Yeah I was big on enthusiasm but not so much on originality as an 8 year old. I think my main idea was his weapon being basically an orbital strike laser.
I’d play that stage!
So, were the pieces seen in Mega Man 8's credits the submissions they received for that game that won either the Wily or Light prizes?
Yes 8 had a contest and the winners were credited
That should have been cool
It wasn't?
My focus was turned for a second and I thought you said Poop Man. It was Hoop Man, but now I gotta wonder what PM's powers would be.
Ahh.. I’d rather not know.
On Newgrounds, there was a video about the new robot master Gas Man unfortunately he blew up with Fire Man... For Atom Man I think that it's possible of why Capcom chose not to have him as a boss, since given the past history being blown up during the end of World War II, by Atomic Bombs.
Thank you that was an awesome video
Thank you