Mega Man Xtreme (Game Boy Color) Playthrough - NintendoComplete

A playthrough of Capcom's 2000 action platformer for the Nintendo Game Boy Color, Mega Man Xtreme.

This video shows the game finished in both normal and hard modes in order to show all of the robot master stages.

Mega Man Xtreme - you have to love just how clearly the title gives away the time period in which this was produced. Finally, we were able to play Mega Man X while flipping between the X-Games and The X-Files on the TV, all while chugging on an Xtreme Gulp from 7-11.

Mega Man Xtreme was an 8-bit "demake" of Mega Man X and X2, with a new/old plot that has X fighting the data of robots from the past. It's enough to drive the action, and doesn't veer too far at all from the original game.

For as absurd as it seems to shoehorn these SNES classics into such limited hardware, Xtreme does what it set out to do, and does it admirably well. The style isn't like the original Gameboy game Mega Man games - the sprites are much smaller here, preserving the original game's sense of scale much more accurately. The trade-off is that sprites have far less detail, but they animate fluidly and are easily identifiable at a glance, and despite some simplifications, the stages all remain similar to the console games' ones. The sound holds up , as well. It couldn't have been easy adapting the rock-style soundtracks to a machine with four sound channels, but they're all here and still just as catchy in their rinky-dink PSG forms.

The gameplay is the biggest surprise, though. Sure, fewer buttons means you're jumping into menus to switch weapons, but the controls are tight and the challenge is stiff. It actually feels like a MMX game!

I loved Mega Man Xtreme. It's not the flashiest or most technically impressive GBC game you'll ever see, but there's a ton of quality gameplay packed into this cart.

*Recorded using Retroarch LCD shaders for that dot-matrix look.
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.

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