Mega Man - The most milked franchise of all time

[Johnny B]

The Ghost of RubangB said:
What are the differences between Mega Man 1 through 6 on the NES? How many games had 6 installments on the NES? We had 3 Marios, 3 Castlevanias, 2 Contras, 3 Dragon Quests, 3 Final Fantasies, and I can't think of any franchises that got 4 or 5 NES installments off the top of my head. Can anybody else? I'm just drawing a blank, but right now off the top of my head it looks like at its debut it doubled the other big NES franchises.

 I myself was thinking just months ago about which NES franchise had the most sequels! I think Dragon Quest is in second place with four NES games. Mario, of course, also has four if you count both versions of SMB 2.