When it comes to passing judgment on what games I consider cool enough to earn a place in my heart, I consider myself simultaneously discerning and lenient where each respective quality counts. Yet there's one series I've always loved with an unrelenting bias: the classic Mega Man series. There. I've admitted it. I'll pick and choose which games I like from other Mega Man series, and some series I don't care for at all, but there's not a game in the classic series I don't find myself labeling at a bare minimum of "good."

Confessing your love for said series is a statement that, once admitted, will often earn you scorn amongst super hardcore gaming circles. Such brazen adoration for a series that’s been panned time and time again by critics for being “more of the