S3E13: Mega Man The Wily Wars -or- Doctor, Doctor Give me the Pews

Don from the Cable Club League is powering up his mega buster for Mega Man: The Wily Wars (Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, 1994) as he joins Mike & Jaymo on The Old SwitchAroo’s epic quest to research and review every retro game in Nintendo Switch Online’s Nintendo Classics catalog!

Mega Man: The Wily Wars is a compilation action platformer game combining Mega Man, Mega Man 2, and Mega Man 3 for the Nintendo Entertainment System plus a bonus game for the Sega Genesis, Wily Tower. In this episode, we look at the questionable gaming magazine advertising behind the short-lived Sega Channel, Rock the Rock to the musical stylings of the Protomen, the internet’s theories on Guts Man and Dr. Wiley scandalize Jaymo, and Mike generally disappoints Don.

Thanks for listening, and a very special thanks to Kristal Fields of The Lazy Circles for our catchy new theme song! Subscribe to The Old SwitchAroo to get more retro goodness delivered straight to your feed! You can also join the fun on https://www.theoldswitcharoo.com⁠⁠⁠, where you'll find access to our Discord, social media, bonus articles, and so much more!

Game on, everyone.

(0:00) Intro

(1:10) Welcoming Don

(4:13) Mega Man: The Wily Wars

(47:37) Mini-Game Minute: Super Fighting Robots

(55:31) Mega Man: The Wily Wars (cont’d)

(1:13:48) NintenDO or NintenDON’T

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Mega Man: The Wily War manual: https://www.retrogames.cz/manualy/Genesis/Mega_Man-The_Wily_Wars_-_Genesis_-_Manual.pdf

How Mega Man Ended Up With the Worst Video Game Box Art Ever by Gavin Jasper | Den of Geek: https://www.denofgeek.com/games/how-mega-man-ended-up-with-the-worst-video-game-box-art-ever/⁠

MegaMan 2, What's with the pistol??!! by Marc Ericksen |  RetroGameArt.com: https://www.retrogameart.com/2012/11/megaman-2-whats-with-pistol.html⁠

Mega Man & Mega Man X Official Complete Works | https://archive.org/details/MegaManMegaManXOfficialCompleteWorksByKBG/mode/2up

Ransom Sega Channel ad | GamePro Issue 77, December 1995, p.170: https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_077_December_1995/page/n169/mode/2up⁠

Tombstone Sega Channel ad | Electronic Gaming Monthly Issue 68, March 1995, p.12: https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamingMonthly_68/page/n11/mode/2up

Mega Man by Coolkid, Endy, Dxtr and Whitehat94 in 24:01 - AGDQ 2017 - Part 6 | Games Done Quick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8sk11p1bDw⁠ 

Mega Man 2 by coolkid in 27:02 - AGDQ 2022 Online | Games Done Quick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlQaRTDvthA⁠

Mega Man 3 by ColonelFatso in 34:11 SGDQ2019 | Games Done Quick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-rf_ISaE30⁠

Dice Sound Effect by u_ngsgp0r6zb from Pixabay