Mega Man X (video game)

Promotional artwork for Mega Man X for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

Mega Man X is the first entry in the Mega Man X series released in 1993 by Capcom. Like the original Mega Man games, gameplay follows a side scrolling platformer.

The intro cutscene introduces "X", as well as a message from Doctor Light describing an advanced creation "X" that he sealed away to finish testing. The start of the game features robots rampaging across a chaotic highway. From there Mega Man X must fights against the rampaging robots till he faces Vile, at which point he is saved by Zero. From there the game begins in earnest.

Originally released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, it was later released for the Virtual Console, and as part of the Mega Man X Legacy Collection. Has a webpage on the Nintendo website here, and as part of the Mega Man X Legacy Collection page on the Capcom website here. It is also available for the Apple App Store for iOS devices and iPad OS devices here. An Android version is available on the Google Play Store here.

Tropes used in Mega Man X (video game) include:
  • Action Prologue: The first stage on the highway begins immediately after starting the game.
  • Attract Mode: One plays if the title screen is left alone.
  • Arm Cannon: Mega Man X and Zero each use one.
  • Cutscene: An intro cutscene plays when the game is started.
  • Darker and Edgier: Grittier compared to the classic Mega Man games.
  • Hopeless Boss Fight: The fight against Vile in the first stage.
  • Life Meter: Displayed on the left side of the screen.
  • Mini-Mecha: Vile rides atop one.
  • More Dakka: Used by the bee shaped helicopter, which nearly always rapidly fires its gun.
  • Our Graphics Will Suck in the Future: The intro cutscene features a startup sequence for "NOM ENGINEER WORK SYSTEM", which has an In-Universe copyright date of 2114. This interface is a simple command prompt, despite listing things like 8192 Terabytes of real memory.
  • Sealed Good in a Can: Doctor Light seals X away for testing for at least 30 years for testing as stated in the intro.
  • Shoulder Cannon: Vile appears to wield one.
  • Technology Marches On: The opening cutscene plays this straight and subverts it with its memory readout. It depicts a computer that was developed by 2114 has an impressive 8192 Terabytes of real memory, which is futuristic even by 2024 standards. The caches of 512KB, 768KB, 32768KB would have been very impressive in 1993, but are now all equal to or inferior to that integrated into some consumer level Central Processing Units, such as the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D released in 2023.
  • Technology Porn: The opening cutscene features brief descriptions of the subsystems of Mega Man X.
  • Terrain Sculpting: A small scale example can be seen in the opening level, with some robots taking chunks out of the highway with their attacks or through their defeat in the case of the bee shaped helicopters.
  • Unreadably Fast Text: Some of the text in the intro approaches this, with sections being readable but the text as a whole being hard to read on a first pass.
  • Wall Jump: Mega Man X can rapidly ascend walls doing this.
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