This weekend, the episode so advanced, it had to sit in self-diagnostic mode for a hundred years.

Hi everyone. Welcome to another jolly episode of RetroNuts. I'm your amusing host, Jeremy

Parrish. And with me, we have a wonderful cast of Motley people talking about video games.

Guys, just take this. I'm already having trouble. Hey, it's Bob Mackie and I still don't know what a

co-anger is. Hi, I'm Kat Bailey. I became a super intelligent being that is trying to take over the world.

This is a bubble crab super fan, Brett Elst. Bubble crab. That's the wrong game, buddy.

Oh, I got to sneak it in when I can though. This is a deep dive into Mega Man X. Just Mega Man X.

The first one, not the sequel, no, no, no, no, what was the ground scare of it? The dung beetle

who attacked Mega Man with robot poop? Oh, yeah. Yeah, we're not talking about any of that. We're

talking about the good one. We're talking about the one that is pretty much a perfect video game.

I can't think of much about the original Mega Man X that I would change or alter or say, this

needs to be better in any sense. I agree. I think it's the best 2D Mega Man game. I mean, it's

stand by that. I like Mega Man 2 more because of nostalgia and I can basically like play

Quick Man's laser grid in my sleep with my eyes closed because I'm asleep. But I feel like

Mega Man X is the best designed Mega Man game. It is the high watermark of 2D Mega Man game design.

I'm not saying 3D because you've got Mega Man Legends in there and I love that game so much.

But yes, Mega Man X is fantastic. We've talked about Mega Man games in the past, but we mostly,

actually, it's been like two years and Brett was here for that. That was back when the Mega Man

yeah, like selection was announced. We talked about the Mega Man series and the Legend series

as kind of overviews. We haven't really talked about X before and we haven't done any single game

deep dives into a Mega Man game. But this I think of any game can hold up to that scrutiny.

It is the original Mega Man X, which came out in I want to say January 1994. It was right at the

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