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Mega Man Xtreme (and VIP: Starring Pamela Anderson as Vallery Irons!)

Hardcore Gaming 101 · December 9, 2025

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00:02:20 - 00:02:36

To start off episode 801, we will be talking about the most gnarly, tubular, way cool, awesome, groovy, mondo, outrageous, and funky game ever made, Mega Man Extreme.

In Context

... Check them out, there's a list, bit.ly/47kgames. To start off episode 801, we will be talking about the most gnarly, tubular, way cool, awesome, groovy, mondo, outrageous, and funky game ever made, Mega Man Extreme. It was co-developed by Capcom and Mitchell Corporation and published by Capcom for the Game Boy Color. This release date in territory is October 20th, 2000 in Japan. ...

8 more quotes about Mega Man from this episode

00:08:08 - 00:25:11

... For example, you do have an intro stage here, and it's the highway from I believe the original Mega Man X. Yes. ...

00:31:47 - 00:35:06

... That's what his weakness is. Oh, my, I love the way, the way people remember Mega Man weakness is so, it's always so funny when, whenever I hear like, oh, Airman is weak to Woodman because you're getting leaves caught in the fan. ...

00:37:09 - 00:41:42

... When I fought him, and I think this happens every time I play this game after a long while, I thought I was like, "Oh, this is the Vial fight in Mega Man X, you lose the Vial." Like famously, X loses. ...

00:49:30 - 00:52:07

... And that's while getting all the armor and upgrades and whatnot. So I do think this is like, if you're familiar at all with Mega Man X or X2 or both in particular, then I think this is going to be a very easy game, all things considered. ...

00:53:48 - 01:00:27

... Anyways, ranking. So we've got like a few different Mega Man games that we can look at. So I'm thinking this will be in the bottom half of the list at the very least. ...

00:28:19 - 00:28:50

And I think having to keep track of those while keeping track of where his head is and you are, that's just enough busyness to make that fight interesting in a way that not many other Mega Man X bosses are. And I think it just goes to show like, I really like X2 and X3. ...

01:01:34 - 01:02:12

... Alright, that's where it goes. That makes Mega Man Extreme the new 1177, below Castlevania Dracula X and above nanosaur. Do we have any final closing thoughts? ...

00:43:47 - 00:44:22

... And when you, there's a, the story that's in easy mode is like, oh, this is something. It's one scene away from being a fine story, but in effect, it just has like, Mega Man X is really good at giving you this like heart tearing, like drama of like, Oh no, someone died. ...

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