Yeah, Bomb Man had a pretty Short and easy level. And he himself was easy, too. That's probably who Capcom wanted players to defeat first.

Makes sense. I don't start with him first, I beat Fire Man and then I move on to him.

I usually start with Bomb Man, then move on to Guts Man, and go through them all until I end with Fire Man.

It's funny that some of the more powerful bosses are also the weaker ones.

Yeah, you mean with their weakness weapon, right? Like Ice Man is pretty strong, but with the Elec beam you beat him in just a couple of hits.

I was talking both with and without. It's weird that you find Ice Man harder than Elec Man. It's usually the other way around for me.

Well without the weakness weapon, it's true, Elec Man is harder for me too. But you use the Rolling Cutter on him, and he's gone so quickly you barely have to do anything. Ice Man, you still have to dodge a few ice beams and not get hit.

Elec Man is only hard because his lightning deals so much damage.

Yep, exactly.

MM1, because it is too bloody hard - mainly because Capcom hadn't yet invented Energy Tanks.

True, but back when it first came out, we didn't even know what an energy tank was. And you don't miss what you never had.

But you got to admit that it was pretty hard. Capcom should have thought of energy tanks earlier.

Urgh, I can't even beat the first Wily stage...

What part are you having problems with?

As for Capcom thinking of E tanks earlier, maybe they developed them because people were having too hard of a time with the first game. Thus they showed up in MM2.

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What part are you having problems with?

The boss in that stage - it's literally impossible trying to dodge those blocks as he's morphing. I get knocked out in just 4 or 5 hits, while barely even damaging him.