I have vague memories of myself paying Snakeman's stage, fiding that game utterly implayable and kicking my NES out of fucking rage. several years later playing megaman 2 and loving every every single bit of it from the start to the end, specially considering how fucking hard was, at the time, to kill quickman and to beat that fucking heatman stage, and flashman's pillars raping me every single tiem.
then i decided to play 3. and it left me quite a bitter taste, not fiding the charm the robot masters had in megaman 2, but the music keep me playing it over and over(i remember i melt an AC adaptor while paying MM3
). the intro song was stuck in my head forever.
then, several years later again, i decided to give the original megaman 1 a try, and it was extremely, extremely hard as shit to the point it was back to my childish rage days of fury because i couldnt kill that fucking piece of dog puked fucked in the ass called electman. then i rushed to willy's castle and after several days i could beat the game.
then gave Willy wars a try and discarded it in the moment i heard the music arrangement and how ugly and dark everything look on the megadrive.
the rest of the NES series were fine, i guess, never got to love how much fun and entertaining megaman 2 was, despite it having the most well balanced dificulty in the series(didnt see much of a difference between hard and normal mode, to be honest).
nad yeah, no one can't beat airman.