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Designer Hideki Ishikawa recalled the development of Mega Man & Bass as "one big party".
Electronic Gaming Monthly summarized that Mega Man & Bass is "one of the best action games on GBA" and "a great, if slightly derivative, platformer" with plenty of replay value due to the collectible CDs.
GameSpy contrarily criticized its lack of innovation, declaring, "Anyone that hasn't tried a Mega Man game yet would be better advised to spend $15 on a new copy of Mega Man 8 on the PSOne rather than paying $30 for an inferior retread of the same game".
In the "Cross Review" of the game magazine Famitsu, the Super Famicom version scored a total of 24 out of 40 and the Game Boy Advance version a total of 26 out of 40.
According to Famitsu, Mega Man & Bass for the GBA sold 91,097 copies in Japan between its release date and the week of December 23, 2002.
It is a spin-off game in the original Mega Man series, and was originally released in Japan for the Super Famicom on April 24, 1998.
According to series producer Keiji Inafune, Mega Man & Bass was intended for younger players who still owned a Super Famicom and did not have the means to experience Mega Man 8 on one of the newer systems.
As a result, this game became the last Super Famicom title released by Capcom.
Designer Hideki Ishikawa recalled the development of Mega Man & Bass as "one big party".
Nintendo Power listed Mega Man & Bass as the 14th best GBA game of all time in its 20th anniversary issue in 2008.
GameSpy contrarily criticized its lack of innovation, declaring, "Anyone that hasn't tried a Mega Man game yet would be better advised to spend $15 on a new copy of Mega Man 8 on the PSOne rather than paying $30 for an inferior retread of the same game".
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