Mega Man Anniversary Collection (2004) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Mega Man Anniversary Collection

For 15 years, Mega Man games have appeared on consoles, and now you can play ten of them on one disc. Mega Man Anniversary Collection includes the first eight Mega Man games plus two that were…

84 23 June 2004

What Mega Man Anniversary Collection is

Mega Man Anniversary Collection is an adventure game developed by Atomic Planet Entertainment and released in 2004. It was published by Capcom. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Mega Man Anniversary Collection is a compilation of video games developed by Atomic Planet Entertainment and published by Capcom. It was released in North America on June 23, 2004 for the PlayStation 2 and GameCube and on March 15, 2005 for the Xbox. The Anniversary Collection contains the first eight games in the original Mega Man series, which debuted on the NES with the first six games, moved to the Super NES with the seventh game, and moved to the PlayStation and Sega Saturn with the eighth game, plus two bonus arcade games. The plot follows the robotic protagonist Mega Man in his continuing adventures battling the evil Dr. Wily and his army of Robot Masters.

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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Mega Man series

Mega Man Anniversary Collection is the 90th of 226 entries we hold in the Mega Man series. The next entry was Mega Man X: Command Mission in 2004. Its critic score of 84 is 7 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. for Wii U at 95.

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How it was received

Mega Man Anniversary Collection holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 81% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 14 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Mega Man Anniversary Collection launched on 23 June 2004, within three weeks of The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, Silent Hill 4: The Room, The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures and Spider-Man 2. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.

Released around the same time: The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, Silent Hill 4: The Room, The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures, Spider-Man 2.

Cheats and codes

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