For a number of years now, I have been at war with a certain Blue Bomber. Capcom’s iconic android hero Mega Man has been a thorn in my side for so long that a couple of years back I trolled a forum to simply declare that the little blighter “totally sucked”. In size 72pt font.
Not my finest hour.
But I come here today with an admission, I get it. Sort of.
The original Mega Man game was released on the NES in 1987, featuring possibly one of the worst designed video game …

Although my gaming childhood was a bit late for the NES, in my later years with the pursuit I have done what any good gamer does and looked back at the history of the company that brought him much pleasure, and the games that I could have enjoyed had I popped straight from the womb with a NES pad in hand. Alongside the standard Ninty favourites of Zelda, Mario and Metroid were a few third party titles. One such title was A Boy and His Blob. The game has the …