Among the entrants were the soundtracks to the games from the Rockman X games. The intention was to show the results directly to the Japanese companies. Around the same time, CocoeBiz set up a survey to see which soundtracks people outside of Japan would have interest in being published. It was originally only available at Capcom's Japanese online store, which is near-impossible for people outside of Japan to use copies were going for insane prices on eBay at the time. Shortly afterward, a small company called CocoeBiz secured the rights to distribute the album overseas.
In 2002, Capcom somehow finally got the message and released the excellent Rockman 1 ~ 6 Famicom box set. If you've been following the game music scene since then and consider yourself a Mega Man fan, this should sound all too familiar. To this day, I am still baffled as to why Capcom let this series, which has been largely driven by its excellent music, slide for as long as it did (especially given the lush music treatment of series like Street Fighter and Resident Evil).
No soundtracks were available from the original or the X series and arrangements were scarce as well. It was then I discovered the cold, hard truth the number of albums with actual Mega Man music was pathetic. Surely, there was an abundance of albums out there with the original music and plenty of arrangements. My 8 bit days literally revolved around the blue bomber, and the music from each game was all but entrenched in my head. After finding more than enough of them, the second I looked for were albums from the Mega Man series of games. The first kind of albums I went looking for were those from the Final Fantasy series. In mid-1998, I had just discovered the wonderful world of game music. I'd like to begin my review of the Rockman X1 ~ X6 box set by spelling out just how bad things have been for fans of Mega Man music prior to 2003.
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