8 Times YOU Changed Video Games

8. Robot Master Competitions - Mega Man Series

Excuse me while I put on my "old man hat" for a second, but kids today really don't know how terrible they have it when it comes to video game competitions.

Sure the prizes in today's giveaways are likely worth more and come with better specs but thanks to the likes of Nintendo Power and countless other publishers in the 90's we got to win prizes like Super Mario showerheads, guest cameos in films like "The Mask 2" (which never happened), and best of all the ability to design actual bosses for Mega Man games.

Beginning with Mega Man 2, Capcom opened the floodgates Willy Wonka style with the declaration that they wanted "YOU" to design the Robot Masters who would form the bosses of this outstanding sequel.

Over eight thousand designs were sent in and after these were whittled down to the eight best, Keji Inafune tidied up the design and the team went to work programming them.

This is as close as fans could come to designing the game themselves and the sheer amount of pride those lucky winners must have felt upon seeing their robots on screen must have been immeasurable!