Mega Man 6's story takes place after the events of Mega Man 5. Critical reviews favored the game's comparable presentation and use of the established gameplay model from preceding chapters in the series, though nearly all judged it a redundant sequel.

The North American version of Mega Man 6 was released by Nintendo of America instead.

Due to the declining support of the NES and the growing presence of the newer and more powerful Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), Capcom decided not to publish Mega Man 6 in North America.

This late-era game was also the last in the series released on Nintendo's 8-bit console. Mega Man 6 is the first game in the series to receive character design input from fans outside Japan. A standard action-platformer, Mega Man 6 plays nearly identically to its five predecessors with a few added features such as stages with alternate pathways and new Rush adaptors. The game's robotic protagonist Mega Man, who was sent to oversee the tournament, springs into action to foil X's plot. X' announces he has reprogrammed the eight powerful contestants with intent to use them for taking over the world. The story of Mega Man 6 opens during a competitive robot fighting tournament with entrants from all around the globe. Its first PAL region release was Jfor the 3DS Virtual Console, nearly twenty years after the game's first release. It was included in the Mega Man Anniversary Collection released in 2004. It is the sixth installment in the original Mega Man series and was originally released on November 5, 1993. Mega Man 6, known in Japan as Rockman 6 Shijō Saidai no Tatakai!! (Rockman 6: The Greatest Battle Ever!!), is a video game developed by Capcom for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Tokuro Fujiwara, Nobuhito Shimizu, Keiji Inafune. Unfortunately, this game is currently available only in this version. The following emulators are available for this game: NeptunJS (JavaScript), Nesbox (Flash), RetroGames (JS) and vNES (Java).

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