"Lan only has one brother. And he's an iPhone app now."

That got me pretty good.

Flashman: "But how? How did you resist my penultimate technique?!"

Lan: "I blinked."

"Megaman, ATTACK!!"
tosses what is a essentially a Nokia phone directly at someone

God bless

The way Lan just decks that wannabe cowboy with his electronic brother in a cellphone is rich beyond belief.

I cannot express how happy seeing an adult human person struggle with the alpha fight made me feel validated. This was my first Battle network game as a kid and I was OBSESSED. However I had very little internet access so every dumb puzzle or problem I simply had to figure out myself. I remember getting to Bass and it was the most impossible boss fight of my little 8 year old life. I remember screaming so loud out of joy that my parents thought I hurt myself…… And then came Alpha.

I was so shocked not just that Bass wasn’t the final boss but that the next one was SO MUCH HARDER. I died almost instantly. And literally broke down crying when it made me fight Bass again. It was so hard. And I was 8 so I didn’t even think about going back to an old save. (Could you even do that on the gba?) So I just fought these final two boss battles. Again and again. FOR MONTHS. I’d grind multiple hours a day until eventually beating Bass became second nature to my little 8 year old hands. And then just throw myself against alpha again and again and again. And also because I was 8 I had no idea how to use more than the most basic of program advances and memory setups. So I basically had to learn how to defeat alpha with JUST THE BUSTER and drag the fight out over hours at a time. Until eventually after 3 months of attempts, I finally beat it.

You’ve validated one of the smallest but biggest victories of my life. Thank you so much for this series.

Food for thought. This is the only game in which Lan and Hub present to have a special connection. If you realize, Megaman will hint with little to no subtlety how he feels hungry or experiments pleassure out of things, in comments like "this feels great doesn't it Lan?" or "Aren't you hungry Lan?"

First part was half an hour, second part was 1 hour, third one is 2 hours, i await the 16 hour long mmbn6 review

The scenario of Mamoru almost dying thanks to an attack on World 3 was the third game to make me feel for a fictional character. As a kid this plot line hit me HARD! and if I remember right, this was the one time I wanted a Navi to DIE.

"Its gutsman..."
(NOT) Gutsman: Fucking dies
"Back to business"

"We're starting a counter on how many times the Battle Network games are padded out with recycled content"

Looks at BN4

A small detail I just noticed:
At the end of BN3, Lan changes his father's mind on his regret of giving Navis emotions.
In BN4, he gets a new Megaman whose key feature is the ability to use emotions in battle.

That scene of Hub shooting Lan out of Alpha really messed me up as a kid. I understood exactly what it meant. Kept replaying the fight and was the first megaman game I ever got near 100% on. Seriously what a great ride

Fun fact: The number machines’s numbers of the Japanese version was obtainable from merch at the time, especially the Lotte’s chocolate wafers and calendars. Along with the figures and toys seen in Lan’s room, and the donjara (kids version of Mahjong), it’s weird, but BN3 had obvious product placements

the fact he beamed him with a PET, but still had to netbattle makes me laugh every time

“Never trust a grown man wearing a cowboy hat.”
stares in Texan

58:48 As someone who watched the entire Rockman.EXE anime before playing the Battle Network games, I was totally shocked when I saw what the hell Anetta did in the games. I already knew that the Anime changed a lot of stuff from the games, but I wasn't expecting something like that!

I am watching all of it without skipping for sure. What else was I supposed to do at work? work?

I got this game from a WB tv contest. Entered the magic work on a saturday monring on the website and a few months later this showed up in the mail. I was recently at my dads house and found my Gameboy, charged it up and my 12 year old son flipped it on. He was like "this is some weird pokemon game, im not sure what is going on"...i have never felt so old!

Spoilers for the post game, but, man, it would have been so touching if during the Serenade fight, they just randomly threw out that "IceBall M" attack.

42:05 I just about DIED. Finally some cartoon physical violence in the game after 2 games worth of threatening it in some fashion! 😂😂😂😂