Tag: Ruby-Spears

Heat Man may have temporarily left us to go adventuring in Japan, but that won’t stop the MegaCast! We still have what’s left of our rag tag crew including myself (Jesse “Main Finger” Gregory), resident conspiracy theorist Andrew “AWD !” Dickman, and Tabby “I don’t like music” Ramsey. We also talk to Brian Austrin of […]

The Ruby-Spears production of the Mega Man animated series is a fondly remembered cartoon, differences, strange quirks and modern memes aside. Even when it premiered, I can recall being just a kid and thinking the show seemed peculiarly different than what I came to know as Mega Man. But that made it no less entertaining, […]

To date, Mega Man‘s biggest excursion into the mainstream (mind, the video game industry wasn’t quite the same then as it is today) came to be in 1994, thanks to the animation company Ruby-Spears Productions*.   Together with Capcom Productions, they were able to create a highly-successful animated series which ran for three seasons**, and even […]

Once upon a time, Mega Man fans– particularly those outside of Japan– had it pretty rough. For a time, if a fan of the Blue Bomber wanted to reenact their favorite adventures through the childhood pastime of pitting plastic action figures against one-another, they were pretty much out of luck (save for the particularly creative […]

It is a legend no one will forget… During the heyday of the 90’s and Mega Man’s run as a top syndicated cartoon star with a mix of episodes both good and bad, there is one story which has always stood out from the rest: “Curse of the Lion Men.” Thanks to The Switcher, who […]