Mega Man 6 Nintendo Power Rejected Robots and Other Designs that Failed to Make the Final Cut!

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.

Yes, I really DID submit Pot Man to Nintendo Power in 1992! Did you enter that contest too?

I want a romhack or fangame that just consists of a cast of lost contest robotmaster submissions

i vividly remember the Nintendo power feature on this, and the submissions. Someone made Blade Man and it was basically wolverine colored.

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.

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.

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!

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. 😮

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 .

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.

OMG!! as a hispanic i loved Mucho Man so much.

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?

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.

Fantastic video! They should bring this back for mega man 12!

I remember the Nintendo Power contest. Such simpler times.

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!

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

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.