Capcom Announces "Mega Man: Dual Override" for the Series' 40th Anniversary

Capcom has revealed Mega Man: Dual Override, a new entry marking 40 years since the Mega Man series began. It's set for 2027 on Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox on PC, Steam, and Epic Games Store.

The game lets you choose between two playable characters — Mega Man (DRN.001) and Proto Man (DRN.000) — each with a different combat style. The story finds Dr. Light away from his lab during a robot expo when the exhibited robots go berserk, leaving Mega Man and Proto Man to restore order. Two new systems headline the gameplay: Override, which temporarily removes your power limiter for a burst of enhanced abilities (at the cost of a vulnerable cooldown afterward), and Custom Chips, equippable upgrades that modify your abilities. The classic weapon-copy system also returns, alongside at least one returning Robot Master design from earlier games.

40 years since the original

The first Mega Man game launched in Japan on December 17, 1987, published by Capcom for the Famicom as a standard ROM cartridge — priced at ¥5,300 at the time. It's one of the few original-run Famicom titles from a major publisher that was never assigned a product code in Japanese secondhand databases, which makes it slightly harder to search for by code alone; title search is the more reliable route.

Where to look for the originals

If you're hunting down the Famicom originals, here's where the series' early entries stand:

Suruga-ya listings for Mega Man on Famicom — the original from 1987 does turn up, but expect to pay a premium for a well-known 40th-anniversary title; searches for later entries with a product code tend to be more affordable and easier to pin down.