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Title: Can you name all the Robot Masters in 10 minutes?
Post by: JonLeung on January 18, 2009, 08:49:05 am
Can you name the Mega Man Robot Masters?

Click the start button!  Go now!  Otherwise you'll start remembering some before you even begin...



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Here are my results.  I got 76 out of 80.  I really wanted to remember all the NES ones but the one I missed I spent a lot of time trying to remember and still couldn't.  I knew it was a warrior-like one since I knew Mega Man 6 had four warrior-like Robot Masters.  At least one of the four I couldn't remember soon enough is apparently the least remembered out of everyone who's taken this test.  As for the other two, apparently I don't like male entertainers and block them out of memory...



Ironically, Fake Man isn't listed, whose stage was put up just today (mapped by you-know-who, who's also listed...twice, in fact), though Fake Man is an extra Robot Master of sorts, like Dark Man in Mega Man V.  Also, the only woman listed here seemed to require the full name to be typed.
Title: RE: Can you name all the Robot Masters in 10 minutes?
Post by: Will on January 18, 2009, 10:32:54 am
My result is 80 out of 80 with 5 minutes and 16 seconds remaining. Typing fast was a piece of cake. Memorising the names of every robot master is like trying to remember the entire script of a play in which the main role appears in every single scene, monologues, dialogues and everything. Break Man and Proto Man didn't even count in the list either. Proto Man did used to be against Mega Man and then there was an evil copy of him in MM5.
Title: RE: Can you name all the Robot Masters in 10 minutes?
Post by: TerraEsperZ on January 18, 2009, 10:36:21 am
I got all 80 with only 1:30 remaining.



The ones that took me the longest to remember are the ones I always forget when trying to name them all (yeah, I do that myself sometimes), namely Dynamo Man, Hornet Man, Plug Man, Gyro Man and Clown Man.



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Title: RE: Can you name all the Robot Masters in 10 minutes?
Post by: marioman on January 18, 2009, 11:58:12 am
6:49 remaining.  The Mega Man 9 bosses gave me a little trouble.



But they missed: Fake Man, Volt Man, Sonic Man, Dyna Man, Shark Man, Bit Man, Blade Man, Torch Man, Clock Man, Dangan Man, Konro Man, Komuso Man, Aircon Man, and Compas Man.



Neat little page though.  I have always wondered how long it would take me to name all of the Robot Masters.
Title: RE: Can you name all the Robot Masters in 10 minutes?
Post by: Will on January 18, 2009, 12:24:02 pm
Good record marioman. I don't think they missed out Torchman. You see Torchman is just the converted name of Fireman. In Megaman Battle Network he was called Fireman but in the Tv programme Megaman NT Warrior he is called Torchman.
Title: RE: Can you name all the Robot Masters in 10 minutes?
Post by: marioman on January 18, 2009, 12:34:36 pm
Actually, I was thinking of Torch Man.  Since the quiz only covers Classic RMs I didn't even think to distinguish which Torch Man I was talking about.  Sorry.
Title: RE: Can you name all the Robot Masters in 10 minutes?
Post by: JonLeung on January 18, 2009, 01:12:49 pm
They could have included the PC, Japanese-only, and special boss "men", but likely they would be the ones most forgotten.
Title: RE: Can you name all the Robot Masters in 10 minutes?
Post by: RT 55J on January 18, 2009, 06:36:57 pm
I've taken this quiz twice before. The first time I got all of them except for Magnet Man, and the second time I finished with around 6 minutes left IIRC. Somehow, I feel like retaking the quiz again.



It's a pity they didn't include the Stardroids and Mega Man killers, but I guess that those are technically not robot masters (and the Stardroids would too be easy to name). :P



And I'll just admit here that a Mega Man X quiz would absolutely murder me. I barely know any of the post-X4 names (other than Duff McWhalen), and I'm sure that I'd misspell half of the names.

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Title: RE: Can you name all the Robot Masters in 10 minutes?
Post by: Revned on January 18, 2009, 06:45:43 pm
I, uh, didn't get them all. *cough43cough*. I tend to forget the boss orders soon after playing, and I find it hard to think of things without any cues. I also haven't even played all the way through 7, 8 or Bass.
Title: RE: Can you name all the Robot Masters in 10 minutes?
Post by: JonLeung on January 18, 2009, 06:50:42 pm
Oh, Revned, for shame.  Considering you mapped the stages of all the NES ones, of which there are 46, and I know you recently played Mega Man 9 ones, only 43?



Though I do agree that without cues it can be hard.  I would spend a good few seconds staring at some blanks and trying to recall what was there.  Especially ones like Mega Man V that don't have a distinct pattern when it comes to whose weapon beats who.  I expected to be weak with Mega Man 8 and Mega Man & Bass so in a way I did better than I originally expected.



For some reason I remembered Mega Man 3 & 7 have three that began with S, Mega Man 4 has three that began with D, and that Mega Man 6 has four "warrior-types", so remembering those hints helped out (well, except for 6, when I just couldn't recall it).
Title: RE: Can you name all the Robot Masters in 10 minutes?
Post by: Revned on January 18, 2009, 06:57:21 pm
Yeah yeah. No excuses, I know. Unless I think of them right away, though, they just don't come to me no longer how long I take. I did best on 1, 3 and 9, which didn't surprise me.
Title: RE: Can you name all the Robot Masters in 10 minutes?
Post by: JonLeung on January 19, 2009, 07:05:44 pm
My brother got the exact same score as me: 76 out of 80.  He had a pretty steady pace, using the "weapon cycle" to recall them.



He also missed the one in Mega Man 8 that I missed!  He also missed one other from 8, and he missed both of the Powered Up!-only guys.
Title: RE: Can you name all the Robot Masters in 10 minutes?
Post by: RT 55J on January 19, 2009, 09:19:11 pm
I took the quiz again and finished with 5 minutes left. The one that gave me the most trouble (and guessed last) was Needle Man. For some reason, I cannot remember MM3's boss order(s) to save my life.

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"its a good day to do what has to be done by me and help my brother to defeat the enemys" - John Freeman
Title: RE: Can you name all the Robot Masters in 10 minutes?
Post by: TerraEsperZ on January 19, 2009, 10:04:54 pm
The easiest for me were Mega Man (Mostly because they're so iconic) and Mega Man 3 (mostly because for some reason, I've got the stage per page layout from its Nintendo Power issue memorized from looking at it so often).



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Title: RE: Can you name all the Robot Masters in 10 minutes?
Post by: Maxim on January 20, 2009, 06:21:20 am
To answer the original question: no. I've never played a Mega Man game (apart from a quick play of the GG version).
Title: RE: Can you name all the Robot Masters in 10 minutes?
Post by: JonLeung on January 20, 2009, 07:04:42 am
Mega Man III was on the cover and reviewed in the first issue of Nintendo Power I got (Vol. 20, Jan. 1991, because it came with a free copy of Dragon Warrior, sweet!), and it's my favourite Mega Man game.  I find it funny that it's the Nintendo Power you looked at so often, too, Terra.  Apparently it might be one of Revned's favourite Mega Man games as well, since it's one of the ones he did best in and the first he remapped, and I think the first he Mega Man game he even fully mapped, if memory serves (also note it was the first to be honoured as MotM).



Yet everywhere else on the Internet, people seem to prefer Mega Man II better.  Indeed, it is really good too, and classic, and so very well-known (that was the first one I played, long before I played the first one).



I weep for Maxim, whose life experiences are deprived of true Mega Man action.  :P



Though I do have to get over the fact that all the games I deem fundamental to play can't be expected to have been played by everyone who's a gamer.  I've had so much difficulty convincing people that pre-VII Final Fantasy games or pre-Solid Metal Gear games even exist to "fans" of those series.  >_<  I imagine it'd be daunting to recommend Mega Man to someone who's never gotten into it, especially if they get turned off by all the various incarnations and spin-off series.



If you stick to the main series (including Mega Man & Bass), there's "only" ten.  :P  I think some of those are redundant though, so I'd recommend Mega Man II and III at the bare minimum.  >_>
Title: RE: Can you name all the Robot Masters in 10 minutes?
Post by: Revned on January 20, 2009, 12:33:29 pm
III was the only one I ever had back in the day. Snake Man was also the only stage I could ever beat, but I never grew tired of it.



II is innovative and all, but the stages are still a bit empty feeling to me. They just weren't as detailed as the following games.
Title: Re: Can you name all the Robot Masters in 10 minutes?
Post by: marioman on November 12, 2009, 06:21:07 pm
Now that Sporcle is open to user submissions, a load of quizzes have been added for Mega Man X Mavericks.  I have tested all of them, and the following one seems to be the most complete:

Can you name the Mega Man X Mavericks in 10 minutes? (http://www.sporcle.com/games/Otacon/megaman_x)

It accepts both English and Japanese names for all of the bosses.  (Except for one Mega Man X6 boss.)  My time was 3:58 remaining.  Anyone care to challenge?  I got hung up a little on the weird post-X4 names.
Title: Re: Can you name all the Robot Masters in 10 minutes?
Post by: JonLeung on November 12, 2009, 08:53:12 pm
I collected pictures of all of these Mavericks at one point, so I have some familiarity with all of them despite never having played X 7.

These were my results. (http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/7914/mmxquizjonsresults.png)  39/64.

I could visualize a whole bunch of them that I just couldn't remember the name of.  I did pretty well in X 5 because it was the first time the names got all weird so they were memorable in that sense, but X 6 - X 8, graaagh.  The guy from X 7 whose name ends with -or I knew but kept spelling it as -er.  The earth-based guy in X 8 I forgot the second half of the first part of his name and got frustrated about that.  The ones I modified the sprites for the April Fool's joke (https://www.vgmaps.com/NewsArchives/April2006/index.htm#MegaManSolidXGunsOfTheMavericks) a few years back, I felt particularly dumb for forgetting.

One of these days I will get around to playing X 7, though maybe it's not that high of a priority, sad to say, if it's really worse than the already not-that-hot X 6 and X 8...  Even if it was a joke, they really should consider making X 9 as a Super NES-like WiiWare game (you know, like how they made Mega Man 9 a NES-like WiiWare game).
Title: Re: Can you name all the Robot Masters in 10 minutes?
Post by: TerraEsperZ on November 13, 2009, 06:41:10 am
The X series is when the Robot Mast..., sorry, Mavericks, got overly complicated designs and names. Aside from those from the first game, I can't name a single one, but I've only played up to X3 anyway.