@Anthony I agree with you on your take regarding Mega Man and Bass and Mega Man 8. I thought it felt cheap in various areas, especially the stages that auto-scrolled and you just had to memorize the timing or you would die instantly. I hated those. I also disliked the fact that the first 8 stages weren't all accessible from the beginning. I know the same thing was done in Mega Man 7, but that just felt like more of a complete game when compared to the other two. Maybe it was just because I spent more time playing it and never really connected to the other two. Sometimes though I think MM and B and MM 8 were hard just for the sake of being hard and that took some of the fun out of it for me.