This article is about the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Famicom game. For the Game Boy game, see Mega Man V (Game Boy).
1992 video game
Mega Man 5
North American cover art
Developer(s)
Capcom
Publisher(s)
JP/NA: Capcom
EU: Nintendo
Director(s)
Ichirou Mihara
Producer(s)
Tokuro Fujiwara
Designer(s)
Ichirou Mihara
Programmer(s)
Tadashi Kuwana
Artist(s)
Keiji Inafune
Hayato Kaji
Naoya Tomita
Kazunori Tazaki
Kazushi Itō
Composer(s)
Mari Yamaguchi
Series
Mega Man
Platform(s)
Nintendo Entertainment System, PlayStation, Mobile phone, Android, iOS
Release
December 4, 1992
Famicom / NES
JP: December 4, 1992[3]
NA: December 29, 1992[1][2]
EU: March 10, 1993[4]
PlayStation
JP: November 25, 1999[5]
Mobile phone
JP: October 1, 2007[6]
Android, iOS
WW: January 5, 2017[7]
Genre(s)
Action, platform
Mode(s)
Single-player
Mega Man 5[a] is an action-platform video game developed by Capcom for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It is the fifth game in the original Mega Man series and was released in Japan on December 4, 1992. It saw a release during the same month in North America and in 1993 in Europe.
Taking place after the events of Mega Man 4, Mega Man's brother and ally Proto Man leads a group of menacing robots in attacks on the world and kidnaps his creator Dr. Light, forcing Mega Man to fight against his brother. Mega Man 5 carries over the same graphical style and action-platforming gameplay as the four preceding chapters in the series. The game introduces a new character, Beat, a robotic bird that the player can use as a weapon once a series of eight collectible letters are found. Artist Keiji Inafune had to re-illustrate the bosses several times but described his work as fun.
Mega Man 5 was met with a positive critical reception for its graphics, difficulty, and music, while receiving criticism for its lack of innovation in its plot or gameplay. Like previous games in the series, Mega Man 5 was remade for PlayStation in Japan. It later appeared on mobile phones, and become part of game collections, including Mega Man Anniversary Collection. It has also been released through Virtual Console and PlayStation Network in emulated form.[8] Two follow-ups were developed at the same time and released in 1993: Mega Man 6, a direct sequel for NES, and Mega Man X, a spin-off for Super Nintendo, and start of its own game series.
^"Mega Man 5 (Video Game 1992) - Release Info". IMDb.
^Nintendo staff. "NES Games" (PDF). Nintendo. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 21, 2010. Retrieved September 24, 2011.
^Mega Man: Official Complete Works. Udon Entertainment. January 6, 2010. pp. 28–33. ISBN 978-1-897376-79-9.
^N-Force staff (August 1993). "Start: Mega Man V". N-Force. 2 (2). Impact Magazines: 8.
^Mega Man: Official Complete Works. Udon Entertainment. January 6, 2010. pp. 102–3. ISBN 978-1-897376-79-9.
^Famitsu staff (October 1, 2007). 主要3キャリアで『ロックマン』を配信！ カプコン10月の最新アプリ情報をお届け. Famitsu (in Japanese). Enterbrain, Tokuma Shoten. Archived from the original on October 28, 2007. Retrieved April 22, 2010.
^Dotson, Carter. "'Mega Man' 1-6 Releasing for iOS and Android on January 5th". Touch Arcade. Archived from the original on December 31, 2016. Retrieved December 30, 2016.
^Minish Capcom (July 31, 2014). "Mega Man Battle Network now on Wii U, more MM games all August". Capcom Unity. Capcom. Archived from the original on June 30, 2015. Retrieved May 23, 2015.
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