Mega Man Battle Network

MegaMan Battle Network is the first of the MegaMan Battle Network series of video games by Capcom. The story takes place in the year 200X, though the setting is a parallel universe in which key events occurred differently from the original incarnation of the title. The player alternately controls two main characters, Lan Hikari (Netto Hikari in the Japanese version) and MegaMan.EXE (Rockman EXE, also the name of the game itself). The former is hu... more

MegaMan Battle Network is the first of the MegaMan Battle Network series of video games by Capcom. The story takes place in the year 200X, though the setting is a parallel universe in which key events occurred differently from the original incarnation of the title. The player alternately controls two main characters, Lan Hikari (Netto Hikari in the Japanese version) and MegaMan.EXE (Rockman EXE, also the name of the game itself). The former is human while the latter, MegaMan, is a computer program called a NetNavi (derived from Network Navigator) designed specifically to facilitate the user's (Lan's) interaction with the Net and other computerized devices. In the series, the Internet and the inner workings of computers are displayed as a material world which computer programs of all varieties, as personified in a humanoid form, can interact with. To advance through the game the player must navigate both the real world as Lan and the Net as MegaMan, each containing certain tasks that... less