Anyway, in today's Mega Man-related news: Your Weekly Famicom has unearthed a rather interesting article from the Oct. 2, 1987 issue of Famitsu magazine. The article seemingly offered the Japanese populace the first glimpse of the original Mega Man (known as Rockman in Japan) game. The game wasn't called Mega Man/Rockman at the time, though--according to Your Daily Famicom, at that stage the title was called The Battle Rainbow Rockman.
That wasn't the first time the word rainbow was associated with the little blue bombshell--a post over at Protodude's Rockman Corner (say that three times fast) suggests the folks at Capcom considered calling the character Rainbow Man before copyright conflicts (with Toho Co.'s television superhero Rainbowman) convinced them to go with the less colorful Rockman.
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Either way, I'm glad we got Mega Man. Rockman sounds kind of lame, even with Roll. And RAINBOW man? I can see where that comes from, being that he changes into all sorts of colors...but there's nothing cool or threatening about that. Would it be called the Rainbow Buster, then?
I think if I were a rapper, that'd be my name.
Ha ha! I like the name 'Rainbow Buster'! Maybe it can be a side job?
As for Rockman--I have to say I don't understand the name. Maybe something was lost in translation?
if you let me tell something I gonna tell you something, well maybe is true mega man looks like the typical rainbow guy but, you never think in Roll, dude mega MAN is MAN and Roll WOMEN, you see some connection.
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