Actually, that old magazine scan dates from WAY back in September 1992. Those events were probably written back when the plot and characters weren\'t set in stone, so what you\'re seeing is sort of \"what could have been\". Whatever is written there isn\'t part of the official plotline. Still, it\'s an interesting little piece of history.

For Zera:

[quote]Ever since the Super NES hit the shelves, gamers have wondered, watched, and waited for onr of gamedom\'s most famous stars to make his SNES debut. Mega Man\'s one of the most prolific video game characters of all time, starring in more adventures then even Mario. To date he can be found in six NES and four Game Boy carts. UNtil now, though, the Megster hasn\'t dipped a single metallic toe into a 16-bit screen. Drum roll...the wait is over! That\'s right, there\'s a Mega Man series planned 16-bit. Mega Man\'s making his SNES premiere this Christmas in Mega Man X.

X-Pect The Un-X-Pected
Capcom\'s recipe for success in to 10 previous Mega Man adventures has been consistent: Mega Man meets Doc Wily. Doc Wily tries to destroy Mega Man by sending hirdes of nasty robots after him. Mega Man destroys the robots and then battles Doc Wily. Does Mega man X feature more of the same? Yes...and no.
What\'s different in this one-player 12-meg cart is, fo starters, Mega Man\'s setting. MM X is set far ion the future, and Doc Wily is tucked away in the history books. Human-kind\'s current nemeses are now the RoboPolice (half-human, hlaf-robotic cops). When the RoboPolice go bad, there\'s only one robot with the nuts and bolts necessary to short-circuit them. You guessed it. It\'s Mega Man to the rescue.
Although Mega Man X\'s game play is roughly similar to previous Mega Man adventures, the game features a number of 16-bit enhancements that give it a new look and feel. Mega Man still rund, jumps, and fires like he did in his previous adventures. You\'ll notice right off, though, that he\'s a much larger sprite, and he\'s got a new, more sophisticated, bluish look. The background graphics are also different. Notice that Mega Man now fights his way through a futuristic cityscape, with a heightened degree of detail in the background graqphics and larger enemy sprites.
Rush (MM\'s mechanical canine friend of earlier times) and Mega Man\'s other mechanical allies have long since gone to the junk heap in the sky. Fortuantely, Mega Man has two new hard-wired friends, RX and RY. These two RoboPolice escaped the programming that turned the other mechanical cops bad. With their help, and additional hardware enhancements that give the Man super speed, super weapons, and a special new head-on attack, Mega Man\'s able to tackle an entirely new crew of enemies.

Mega More
Look for the first in the next generation of Mega Man titles to debut this December. Don\'t think you can wait that long? Go back and play through all of the previous Mega Man adventures. Then, practice up wioth the new Mega Man IV for the Game Boy and Mega Man 6 for the NES in October. Before you know it, your Mega Christmas will be here! Magnificent! [6][/quote]

They did mention something about a \"Robo police\", that holds to the Maverick Hunters. And then the defection of those \'mechanical cops\' to the bad side, which hails to the uprising by Sigma.

I\'m guessing Capcom gave them just a few pieces of information without actually using any specific names, other than X. And then the magazine editors put their spin on it to make it sound really cool.