Mega Man 1 Walkthrough

Recommended stage order
Cut Man - Elec Man - Ice Man - Fire Man - Bomb Man - Guts Man

Use the Rolling Cutters on Elec Man. Slice him up! Use the Thunder Beam on Ice Man. Conduct his frozen water! Use the Ice Slasher on Fire Man. Douse his fire! Use the Fire Storm on Bomb Man. Ignite his bomb! Use the Hyper Bomb on GutsMan. Blow him away! Follow these instructions, and you can make quick work of those guys.

Bomb Man Stage: Orb City
Use the Ice Slasher to freeze the Sniper Joes. They should try to open fire, then freeze-up. Blast them. Are those Killer Bullets (angry looking bullets) giving you trouble? Freeze them too. Use this against the Flying Shell (that little orange orb with the six-way shot) later in this stage.

Guts Man Stage: Mountain Mines
The little hard hat robots called Mets can only be destroyed when he lifts his hat up to fire (when you can see his eyes) Use the same Ice Slasher/Sniper Joe tactic on the Picket Men (pickaxe-throwing robots) in this stage. Watch out for the spikes when you head into the lower levels of this stage.

Cut Man Stage: Abandoned Sawmill
Don't bother trying to blast the flying scissors here. Just try to avoid getting hit. When you approach a Big Eye (the big cyclops robot), you're almost at Cut Man's front door. Try running underneath the Big Eye when he performs a high jump.

Elec Man Stage: Electrical Tower
You must pick-up the magnet beam in Elec Man's stage to beat the game. You will not lose it once it has been collected. The item you'll be looking for resembles a blue light bulb. You should wait on this until you have obtained Guts Man's Super Arm to pick this up.

Use Cut Man's cutters to destroy the Spines (flat enemies) in Elec Man's level. The Fire Storm and Elec Man's own Thunder Beam should work just as well when you return later.

Ice Man Stage: Frozen Jungle
Be careful on the icy surfaces on Ice Man's level. Study the pattern of the Yoku Blocks (holograph blocks) carefully.

You can make Mega Man perform a moonwalk on this level! Just run towards the shutter doors leading to Ice Man's lair and hit left before you enter. When the door opens, Mega Man will walk in backwards!

Fire Man Stage: Steel Mill
You can freeze the walls of flame by using Ice Man's weapon. They will turn blue and become harmless. You can even stand on them to jump higher... remember this in Skull Fortress.

Wily 1: Courtyard
Use the Ice Slasher to freeze the Big Eye EX's early on it this stage. Shoot them with your standard blaster until they blow up. Use the Ice Slasher again to freeze the fire walls, but you have to time it right, or else you'll block yourself out.

Do you have the Magnet Beam? Try not to use it until you reach the section immediately following the spike pit with the floating platforms. You'll need the extra energy in case you mess up.

Use Elec Man's Thunder Beam against the nanobot mass known as the Yellow Devil. It can inflict a good amount of damage and works quite well combined with The Glitch.

Wily 2: Rooftop
You will face Cut Man and Elec Man again here. They are no more difficult than they were the first time, so deal with them accordingly. Then you will face the most suprising boss in the game: a clone of Mega Man. Use Elec Man's weapon against this Copy Robot. It seems to do the most damage.

Wily 3: Drainage System
At one point, water will flood in. Im makes it so you are pushed foward and can't go back. At the end of this stage, you will face the CWU-01P, a group of robots encased in big bubbles, one at a time. Use your standard blaster on the first three, then use Guts Man's Super Arm to pick up the four blocks at the bottom of the screen to quickly destroy the last of them.

Final Wily Stage: Factory
Notice the Guts Men in the capsules. Could the Robot Masters have been mass produced?..... Before you enter the teleporter, you will spot an extra life and another symbol resembling a pinwheel, called a Yashichi, nearby. This new item will replenish all of your weapon energy if you need it refilled. Should you try and grab it, you need to be careful and avoid the spikes below.

You will face Bomb Man, Fire Man, Ice Man and Guts Man again. Deal with them as you did the first time.

Then, it's time for Dr. Wily himself. Attack the Wily Machine's weak spot (the red gun) with Fire Man's Fire Storm, it should work effectively. Then, when Wily can be seen in the cockpit, hit the dot on the ship with Cut Man's Rolling Cutters. This works the most. If you're having trouble, use The Glitch!