Mega Man 3 Was NOT Finished, But... 

When I was a young girl in elementary school, my best friend was a neighorhood boy and I would play Mega Man 3 with him on his NES. We would pass the controller back and forth and try together to figure out how to beat the robot masters. At school during recess, we would pretend we were the characters and go on imaginary adventures on the playground. We came up with an imagined "Player 2" Megaman for me to be, "MegaMac". In hindsight, we should have come up with MegaGirl, but I guess MegaMac just rolled off the tongue better. Anyways, we would run around on the school playground, jumping and pretending we were shooting robot masters and earning weapons. We would pretend to fly around on our imaginary Rush Jets or Rush Submarines. The game really left a mark on us that we loved it so much we "lived" it through our imaginary recess adventures. As time went on, his family moved and of course took him with him, and I ultimately lost contact with him. I don't know how to contact him anymore, and haven't for many years. But even now, decades later, I still think back to that childhood boy I played with when I was an elementary school girl, going on Megaman adventures limited only by our imaginations. Memories I will cherish all my life.

Dr. Wight's voice basically being the M-Megaman 8 version makes me vewy happy

While Megaman 3 is a rushed game like Megaman X6, it’s still a fun experience and it’s still people’s favourites. The introduction of Rush & Protoman is amazing, being able to slide is revolutionary as it adds more strategy when fighting bosses. Megaman 3 will always have a place In my heart.

Fun fact about Rush Jet: it is even more broken than you showed. It only drains energy while you are ON the jet. This means that if you repeatedly jump, it barely drains energy while you stay on it. Basically, this lets you clear the jet sections with almost no trouble.

Spark Shock is nowhere near a good weapon lmao. When you stun an enemy with it, you cannot pause the game to switch to another weapon and finish the job like you could with Ice Slasher. And most of the enemies in MM3 have such a large hitbox that freezing them would be more of a detriment than anything.

There's a modded rom for Mega Man 3 called "Mega Man 3 Revamped", and it is absolutely awesome. It has an opening cutscene, giving us the story of Gamma being built by Light and a "reformed" Wily, and it fixes much of the glitches and slowdowns that plague the game.

3:36 I've always been puzzled by the american's obsession with drawing megaman like a garden gnome in the NES days

I don't think people realize how impactful the slide move actually was. Having a spam-able mobility move that lets you feel like you're getting through the content faster created a legacy that affects far more than just the Megaman franchise. Next time you're dashing, sliding, or rolling because it feels faster than just pressing forward, thank MM3.

The Title Screen of the Japanese version has the image of Mega Man that also appears on the Weapon Get Screen! Just wanted to point that out!

Spot on Dr. Light impersonation. Loved it.

As a child of the 80s that eagerly anticipated the next megaman game, 3 was one of my favorites. In a modern retrospective, those mid-game levels/bosses may seem like filler, but as a kid in the 80s, it was 4 more levels to play. When you only got 2-3 new games a year, those extra levels were a big deal. Maybe it was rushed and isn't a perfect game.. But it cost $40 back in the 80s (when 40 bucks was a big deal). At the time, It wasn't just good value for money... But one of the best games available at the time.

The worst part about the game being rushed is knowing the potential of what it could’ve been if the devs had time to finish it. because no joke, I love this game even if it’s hilarious to see the top spin have more use than the spark shock

I actually liked the Doc Robots stages, it felt like some kind of NG+ Though I hated how the first checkpoint in each stage was after the first of the two bosses. It made them unnecessarily hard. I never understood that you were supposed to get that Wily and Light were working together before the final stages. And I was one of the players who were like "who the hell is Gamma?"

16:25: Oh man, I remember Ryan farming on this level on the BrainScratch Comms LP waaaaaaaaaaayyyy back in the day. XD Johnny: * screams in agony * Lewis: C'mon, Squall! You only need 5 more Death spells to be immune to 5 Death forever! *KEEP DRAWING!*

wind pulling you in the yoku block segment of the magnet man stage!? MAGNET mans stage? theyre magnets lol :P

Doc Robot levels are honestly bangers, I don't know who hates them. They don't feel like they bad the run time, they feel like an escalation. Suddenly all those E-tanks don't feel like they trivialize a game balanced for less health. Rush Jet becomes a resource you're careful with because it can run out if you abuse it when you don't need it. It's honestly always been one of my favorite bits and I remember disappointment that future games didn't make us fight the throwback roster.

There was a cool trick/cheat if you will that only this Megaman game had. If you held down the Left or Right button (I forgot which but it's only one of the 2) on the 2nd controller, you were able to jump super high as if Megaman had the rush coil option built into him and on top of that you were immune to pit deaths. Also in the pit if you let go of the button and re-press you would hear the death sound effect but still be alive and there was also a random chance your health bar would go down to 0. If that happened you were actually invincible in that state with the only down side being you cannot use your primary Megabuster however the boss weapons would still work.

Love the dramatic Dr. Wight reading at 5:15

ive never skipped the doc robot stages. i actually really like them. playing thru harder remixes of the existing stages with all your tools at your disposal is fun. i wish the checkpoints were better and the doc robot fights themselves were a little less brutal, but i played thru it somewhat recently and enjoyed it just fine. i even got my fiancée into the series and iirc 3 was the first one she managed to beat all on her own. i was very proud of her as she had never played a Megaman game before.

10:05 bro that's not wind it's a magnet! You're in Magnetman's stage

Mega Man 3 is so unfinished that the debug key shortcuts are still left in place (you can slow down, high jump, and enable invincibility with the player 2 controller. I loved this game so much, it's my personal favorite classic Mega Man despite its shortcomings. The Doc Robot stages are probably my favorite part, if anything I wish we got remixes of the other four main Robot Master stages with similar dark and rundown theming! Now, a lot of my preference for this game is predictable nostalgic attachment; my family already had Mega Man 2 in 1990, but it was three year old _me_ who had his name on the Christmas present with Mega Man 3 in it. At some point the label tore partway off and I redrew in pencil on it from memory the designs of my favorite Robot Masters (Snake Man, Top Man, and Needle Man). The addition of the slide is probably the best permanent shakeup to the base formula of MM1 the series has ever gotten. This is _huge_ and its absence from 9 and 10 is why those two games will never be as good as 4-6 are, and arguably not even better than 3. 2 was a bigger improvement of the finer details (boosting 6 Robot Masters to 8, buffing special weapons, and overall refinement of base movement) but 3 made a _fundamental_ control change that causes Mega Man stages to be able to be built in a uniquely Mega Man way.

Mega Man 3 is fascinating for me mostly because it has an incomplete weakness chain. If you're doing the common route of starting with Top Man, you're stuck after beating Hard Man unless you want the slight damage advantage of the Shadow Blade with Needle Man. (It only does 1 more damage than buster shots)

My favourite Mega Man game. By far the best music in the series - I used to fire up my NES and just leave it on the title screen and listen to that song. I actually enjoyed the Doc Robot stages. It would’ve been cool if they’d altered Mega Man 2 levels instead of the ones they did, though. I’m surprised you didn’t mention the lag - worst part of the game is the slowdown when too many sprites are on screen. I think that might be a symptom of the rushed development

Wind pulling you in Magnet Mans Stage? XD pretty sure those are magnets ;) but really great review man I'm an older Megaman Fan and your videos got me busting out my old collection again.

I’m sorry, did you just say that the spark shock was useful?!

I really love your Dr. Light voice impression, and I'm glad it's intended to sound like the one from Mega Man 8. It's easily my favorite voice for Dr. Light purely because of how hilarious it is. Every time I stream the Mega Man X games for my friends and followers, I always like reading the capsule dialogue out loud in my own impression of that voice. XD

The Doc Robot segments are interesting on a conceptual level because you can tell that the team making these games wanted to extend the MM formula beyond the Robot Masters and Wily Castle. It's not something that would stay around, since the second castles of MM4-6 pretty much be the only times the Classic MM games go beyond the standard 8 Robot Masters and Wily Castle structure.

The doc-robot stages were what made this game actually hard. Plus of course the fact there wasn't any one ace of all trades superweapon any more. I think I mostly "needled" my way through it, because it's the most spammable, and used shadowblade and the magnets when dealing with flying stuff. And then there's frickin top spin.

This game was probably supposed to come out in December like most other MM games but the Super Famicom was coming out in November, so 3 was rushed to market in September

Megaman 3 i would say is one of my favorites of the original Megaman series. Sure its not as iconic as Megaman 2 but it introduced a lot of cool concepts to the series such as Protoman and i love how it started expanding the story of Megaman.

I first played it years ago thanks to a friend of my family, while I forgot how many sequels were made for the NES at the time, I had only played MM1 up to that point, I had NO idea for months that you could slide in the game as I was so used to MM1's style and controls, so when this same family friend told me how to slide, the whole game opened up! Then I learned some neat tricks from experimenting, if you have a 2nd controller, and hold right on the d-pad on it, it breaks the game! You can't die in pits, and you can jump infinitely! Helped me beat the game easily! Sadly, tragically, this family friend died in the war in Afghanistan, I miss him so much.

Mega Man 3 is pretty cool just for introducing Rush and Proto Man alone. I also think the soundtrack is on par with 2 as my favorite in the 8-bit style games.

The boss rush was always my favorite part of NES action games. It was like a reunion with old friends and a chance to show off how far I had improved. But. Getting a boss rush against bosses from another game entirely? Easily made this my favorite rental ever, back in the day.

When I was a kid we loved the doc robot levels.. it was like another 50% of the game added. I don't remember it being hated, we thought it was cool.

Didn't realise it was a rushed production, but that actually explains my favourite glitch in the game (and damned if I remember where I heard this) - if you jump down a pit and hold right on player 2's controller, you won't die. And as a bonus, you'll be able to jump like you're underwater at all times. Makes all the Rush segments play differently, since you don't don't actually need him. And on top of that, if you let you energy zero out *before* you push and hold right, you'll be immune to damage. Only spikes can kill you after that. (I started out having my brother hold it for me, but eventually, I started using one of my toes.)

It's incredible that people still think that Mega Man 2 and 3 are the best in the series when the likes of 6 and 9 exist. 6 still works within the NES's hardware limitations but being one of the last 10 games released on the system meant they had more time than just about any other developer to understand the system and work within it to make something that could stand up to 2D platformers for decades to come, and 9 while a retro throwback, knocks it out of the park with music, level design, the most useful arsenal of special weapons, and fun bosses. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on those two in particular.

People like to call the doc robot stages needless filler, but I felt they served the important role of actually giving you the opportunity to make good use of all of the weapons in the game - especially since, as we saw, the actual final stages were rushed and not really anything to write home about. If anything, the doc robot stages are the real final stages.

I'm still glad Capcom made sure to have new level designs for the revisits. Certainly keeps them from being as repetitive as they could've been.

This game's soundtrack even past 8 bit games is really good

17:02 Castlevania Retrospective coming soon? Edit: Castlevania III padded content by having branching paths. I have no issue with that, it is a joy to go in different paths, but thought I would point that out.

I'm clearly the odd one out. I liked the "Doc Robot" bits, though I always thought it was Dark Robots. The game's easy enough that the extra challenge of the replay stages wasn't a problem, and I liked the concept of refighting bosses from the previous game - since the only two Mega Man games I originally played were 2 and 3. It was a fun call back to me.

IDK I always liked the Doc Robot stages and the MM2 boss rematches as a kid. Mega Man 2 was a game I didn't own, could only rent it once in a while so I thought it was really cool to be able to fight them again in the sequel.

As for the Doc Robot battles and figuring out the weaknesses of Mega Man 2 bosses to Mega Man 3 weapons... back then, we didn't have the Internet yet! Not until about three years later! Even then, the Internet was nowhere near as robust as it is now! We HAD to rely on Nintendo Power and other gaming magazines for such juicy gaming info.

I remember a ROM hack that added an intro to this game, and it felt right at home. That intro theme deserves an accompaniment. Great review! Looking forward to 4 eventually

Speaking of Doc Robots, The X games I feel can be too short at times and I wish those had some sort of Doc Robots. There’s the X Hunters in X2 and Vile Mk 2 in X3 but those are optional and not mandatory.

Funny how both Megaman and Sonic introduced a rivel turned friend in the 3rd game

You know you can just jump on those Spark Man garbage cubes instead of murdering your thumb/wallet turbo-shooting them to bits, right? They won't hurt you; they're just scrap metal packed nice and smooth and you're a tough robo-boy who can't even get sick like we humans can. Go get 'em, son! :

That MM8-style Dr. Light voice is golden lol, keep it up.

Hot Take. I liked the Doc Robot levels... even as a kid. It was something that broke the mold of the established Mega Man end stages. Also, I get to fight against what most consider the greatest set of robot masters with NEW weapons? Yes please!

I loved the doc robot sections

10:38 “I was able to come out on top” *shows Top Man*

It's quite funny that back in 1990 this game released and most people who played it wouldn't have ever realised it was "unfinished" yet the creator comes out and apologises for releasing an unfinished game. Then you come to the modern day and have companies like Bethesda releasing Fallout 76, a game that you only had to play for about 5 minutes to realise how incredibly and obviously unfinished it was and Bethesda argued it wasn't, said it was meant to be like that (aside from the millions of bugs), cheaped out on the extras that people paid a lot of money for, lied about features they said they would never add only to add them within a year of launch, etc, etc. How times change.

Despite the minimalistic title screen, Mega Man 3 did something really cool that you don't tend to see often: it starts the music right off the bat, at the copyright screen. It gives the intro a _lot_ more impact (compared to waiting for the actual title screen to start the music), and to this day I still can't articulate why.

Eh, it's alright.

With this game's ending, a theory popped up that after the events of mega man 3, Dr Wily in the rest of the games is a robot. This is backed up by the fact that before mega man fights wily inside of gamma, it turns out to be a robot fake. Then in mega man 10, wily catches a fever and mega man suspects it to be the roboenza virus that causes robots to go crazy. And in mega man 11, once wily is defeated, he uses the double gear to beg for forgiveness as he's been doing. However not only was that used as a gag, but wily can be seen making his escape in this game before the credits even come up completley debunking this theory.

It's nice to hear the Shadow Blade getting some positive reflection for a change. I always thought it was a cool weapon even without proper context. A robot throwing a giant shuriken? Yeah, that's cool.

I like the doc robot stages. In a MM game where the Wily stages were an absolute cakewalk, the doc robot stages provide the only real challenge in this game.

13:33 - So, when I was kid Mega Man 3 was the first video game I ever bought with money that I had earned myself. (We did a yard sale.) I worked very hard to get the money to buy that game. And I was not disappointment and I played it to death, writing passwords in a little spiral notebook. So anyway, when I encountered Doc Robot I was *elated*. You mean I get to fight the Mega Man 2 bosses, a $50 game, or about $120 in today's money, all within Mega Man 3?! I was so soooo happy. (I didn't own Mega Man 2. In fact I never did get a copy. I had Mega Man 3 and one day got Mega Man 1 because it was on sale for $20.) So anyway, yeah, I always have good memories of the Doc Robots. Even though they make the game longer, and they just recycle the old stages. I was more accepting of that stuff back then.

Mega Man 3 is definitely my least favorite NES Mega Man game. In addition to the flaws you mentioned, there is also the fact the bosses are either stupidly hard (Needle Man, Shadow Man, and IMO Gemini Man), or stupidly easy (the other 5 robot masters except maybe Magnet Man), which makes the bosses either boring or infuriating. Plus, the weapons are just generally terrible. Top Spin is bugged, Needle Cannon is useless outside of weaknesses, and most of the rest are underpowered. Whenever I play 3, I usually basically just play buster only except for the bosses (well honestly half of the bosses are trivial even when buster only).

I'm glad you mentioned the faster ladder climbing. It gets overlooked a lot when talking about the game (not terribly surprising since it is of course a small detail). It's honestly the #1 reason I was so disappointed that they decided to go with the Mega Man 2 foundation for 9 and 10. Slow ladder climbing is so frustrating when you know it can be done better.

The title screen music is beautiful. And I think it's appropriate for it to be composed as it is after the melancholy ending of Mega Man 2

About the Doc Robot, yes they're flawed, in that there really should have been more check points but... I feel like they've gotten a lot if negativity that they didn't necessarily have back when the game was released. It wasn't "filler" like so many people claim. Lots of games reused level assets for multiple levels back then. At least they tool the time to make the levels look all destroyed and stuff. You got to fight those giant hardhats it looked like they were building in needle man revisited. And the doc robots themselves? You be to tell me that we get to fight all the bosses from mega man 2 on TOP of this one, and we get to use all the new weapons to do it? Games back then *didn't do that*. Most of them literally couldn't due to space issues. Bringing back 8 of the most iconic bosses of all time was amazing, not lazy. It was unheard of to bring back bosses from a previous game. and yeah, it cranked up the difficulty, but we had 9 E tanks to help burn through the challenge. It was a crazy plot twist. makes me a little sad to see how people will condemn them without even giving them a shot. that's all.

As for any player of megaman 3, I feel obligated to mention an awesome romhack called megaman 3 revamped! I won't take too long but overall, it makes better use of setpieces, and makes plenty of new and creative puzzles with them. And also takes advantage of more weapons (as well as improving many of those weapons) and enemies. Almost every stage has had a noticeable change in design to make it feel more impressive. While I'd say one way it falls short is improving the doc robot stages, the crowning jewel is the complete overhaul of the wily stages to make them actually feel more complete and worth the title of a "final gauntlet". According to the romhackers there's a whopping 40 new screens added to the game. I figured I'd mention this coz, I think if you have some extra time, it's worth checking out by yourself! There's also plenty of other additions i didn't mention. So I think you should!

I feel like calling the Doc Robot stages one of the worst parts in the series is overkill, especially when games like X6 and X7 exist. Personally, I kind of like the Doc Robot stages, even though I mainly prefer two of the stages. It's not as bad as I make it out to be now that I'm not a little kid, but the Rush Jet section in Needle Man's Doc Robot stage is probably what worry about most in a playthrough of Mega Man 3.

I really like how you show some pages from the Mega Man Archie comics. Those were quite faithful to the game lore and helped clarify things that may not have clear during the NES days. Ah, I miss those comics…

In my oppinion MM3 has the best soundtrack of the whole franchise. I like the tense music so much. Starting from the Title Song, over the Robot Master Selection Screen, even the Robot Master Introduction Music was different but really cool. The Boss FIght Music was intense and cool, and the Stages had memorible and intense music. I always thought it was cool, that the Doc Man stages came up. MM3 was the only came that had such a thing, and made it feel more important to get to Wileys Castle. Always thought of them as Robots who broke in to the before visited worlds and twisted them. And after that, you have to choose Break Man as a boss in the Robot Master Screen. It was like: Woooa, what's going on here. Even if the Wiley stages were not that hard, they had an End of Game Feel to it, I alwys appreciated. So MM3 did things different and I liked a lot for it. To be honest I came to play MM2 many years later, never played it in childhood. Despite a cool game I always thought of it as short and to easy. It has cool music als well, but for me the MM3 Soundtrack is the better one. I always think MM3 feels like it has more weight to it, storywise.

Honestly, MM3 is my favourite Mega Man platformer of them all.

OMG! Your impression at 5:15 of the bad voice acting for Dr. Light in Mega Man 8 is spot on! 🤣

Maybe I am the odd one out here, but I liked the concept of the Skull (Doc) Robots. These Frankeinstein's monster of a boss model re-using the consciences of the baddies batch from 2, rather cruelly turning them into these monsters just to die again to you feels right out of a horror movie. But maybe I can only appreciate this since I only considered their stages "different" rather than "harder" re-runs, but it's a cool detail that CAPCOM paid attention to the story of an 8-bit series.

I can honestly say I was bopping to this entire video. Makes me miss the days when renting these games

To be honest, I liked the black void opening screen. Something compelling about it.

I’m sorry, but I have to disagree with you on the doc robot section. I played the game hard-core on initial release. And what that section provides; is a massive amount of frustration, with a huge feeling of reward. It wasn’t added to simply fluff the game Content. It was there to make you struggle. So that you felt a much larger reward when you finally succeeded. I struggled through each level a countless number of times. And the feeling I felt when I finally succeeded; was paramount. The password code I got, after it was all said, and done; was golden to me. We didn’t have the Internet. And I didn’t have the money for a game guide. And even if I did; simply finding an issue was hard. My parents wouldn’t take me to go searching for a magazine. Back in those days; those things were out of my reach. Grinding through MegaMan threes endgame was all I looked forward to after school. trying to beat the puzzles was all I thought about while at school. And it also was a throwback to MegaMan two. It was dopamine for kids. This is a very real and Japanese approach on things. Granted, I am American. But I still felt it. 100%.🤷‍♂️ I would argue that section of the game had a huge value to its active audience at the time. Some thing I feel that a current player nowadays are may find it difficult to understand from the shoes of the past.

I still have no idea why the Doc Robot stages are bad. I like how the game is longer and I like the concept of the remixed stages too. The only downside is the lack of a checkpoint before the first Doc Robot fight.

I think one of the things about this game that makes it look incomplete are the final castle levels. Correct me if im wrong but this is the only game in classic sextet that the map shown in the castle screen does not match up to the actually castle levels. For instance, the refight section is mapped completely outside the castle, as are both Wily fights. The first two stages are mapped as verticle and to the left but you are going up and right, which would put you outside in the nearby woods.

Like Mega Man 2, Mega Man 3 is another game that's popular and also considered the best or even favorite Mega Man game. But like Mega Man 2, Mega Man 3 does has problems. Not alot and doesn't ruined the enjoyment of the game. But it's easy to notice. As for my thoughts. What 2 did for QOL improvement over 1, 3 does the same thing for the first 2 and so on. Features like the Slide & Rush was an great addition. Other QOL improvements like E Tanks to where you can carry 9 instead of 4 and you don't lose them when you get an Game Over and the level designs in the Robot Master stages are more tolerable & unique than the ones from the first 2 games. But now for the negatives. The weapons are once again unbalanced and not all that fun to use ( Only good ones are the Magnet Missiles & Shadow Blade ). The filler levels are absolutely exhausting & Doc Robot can go die in the fire. Wily Castles are very underwhelming and the bosses are ridiculously easy. And lastly, this game was rushed that many content and other things were cut. It's no Mega Man X6 levels of bad. But still Overall Mega Man 3 is good and I enjoyed it more than 2 personally. But it's still not as great as it could've been. Looking forward to Mega Man 4 review. That game is where the series starting to get into the right direction.

13:45 Back in 1990, "just look it up on the internet" wasn't the panacea it is today. We had to dial a 900 number and ask a human, and then a month later we had to convince our parents we hadn't been calling a sex hotline.

Mega Man 3 Game title game music gets me the vibes

When I was 6 we moved to Costa Rica from Denver, and I remember there was a mom and pop video store closing down, and I had rented Mega Man 3 so many times, that my parents went in as a surprise and bought the game for me! I will never forget this. MM3 has a huge place in my hear, so thank you for doing this video! Also, the addition to the previous bosses coming back, I loved that part, its one of my favorite things and too bad this was never brought back!

Mega Man 3 is my number 1 favorite Mega Man video game in the classic series! With 4, 11, 7, 6 and 10 being 2nd and 3rd places!!!

Controversial Statement I prefer 3 over 2 You get protoman, rush,16 bosses, a good story if you know it, and i love the weapons

I can't listen to Mega Man 3's intro without hearing the old Duane & Brando parody, it's become absolutely core to my perception of the classic series alongside the likes of the Mega Man 2 Wily Stage 1 parodies and Okkusenman. These games were absolutely built on their music.

Megaman 3 is a beautiful game and it was rushed, imagine if more people got more time to work on it

Nice review, dude! Enjoying your content! Just wanted to point out that the yoku block puzzle in Magnet Man's stage has electromagnets, not fans blowing wind or sucking you in. The giant batteries below are the power source for the electromagnets :D

"Everyone agrees that the Doc Robot stages were a mistake"? Really? Because I loved them, and I've only heard people say good things about them. They gave something in between the all-too-short Dr. Wily stages and the 8 initial stages, something for you to really use those weapons on, to collect and expend lives and e-tanks, and in short, to have MORE GAME.

Stumbled upon your channel, and love the Megaman content. I've been playing these games since they came out. A couple other interesting things about this game. Megaman 2 took all your E-tanks away after a game over. In Megaman 3 the number of E-tanks you had is stored in the password, so even if you quit the game and came back, you still had your E-tanks. Games 4, 5, and 6 found a nice balance where you kept your E-tanks when got a game over, but lost them if you had to use a password. Speaking of passwords, this game's password system was way too easy to crack. I'm writing this completely from memory of when I cracked it over 20 years ago, but if I remember right: A single blue or red dot set your number of E-tanks from 0-9. The color doesn't matter, as long as only one of the 10 E-tank boxes has a dot. This took up 10 of the 36 possible boxes. Each individual Robot Master had a corresponding box, where placing a single blue dot showed that Robot Master as defeated. The only caveat was each Robot Master was paired with another Robot Master to form 4 pairs. If both the Robot Masters from the same were defeated, the two blues dots would be replaced by a single red dot. If you placed two blue dots for two Robot Masters in the same pair, it would give you an error. You had to use the red dot in other spot instead, which took out the pair. I don't remember who was paired with who anymore. So four red dots took out all 8 robot masters. The next four levels followed the same pattern, each level had a box for a blue dot, and each of the two pairs had a box for the red dot. So six red dots got you too the Wily levels. If you are following along (10 E-tank boxes) + (8 Robot Master boxes) + (4 Robot Master pair boxes) + (4 Doc Robot level boxes) + (2 Doc Robot level pair boxes) = 28. So 28 out of 36 boxes had a single purpose. The other 8 boxes were "dummy" boxes that would give you an error every time unless they were empty. With only 36 boxes and such a simple algorithm, I think it took us like 2 hours to figure out every password combination. The passwords were much more "encrypted" in the later Megaman games.

I highly recommend any mega man fans here to check out the archie comics that were made for the classic series. Other than the sonic crossover, they're retelling of the games stories but it has some of the best writing the series has ever seen with amazing art to along with it. I bring it up on this video specifically because I specifically remember the mega man 3 arc standing out in my head for some reason.

I'm trying so hard not to bust a gut over using the MM8 Dr. Light voice to read the manual. That's so genius and you nailed it perfectly.

Im in the minority here but i loved the doc robot levels, the harder levels made me feel like a badass as a kid beating multiple bosses from 2 in a single map after hard sections.

That whole "unfinished" stuff was later rectified with fan-made patches. For example, _Mega Man 3 Improvement_ by *kuja killer.* - Lots of bugs were fixed. - An intro cutscene was properly added and translated (you can actually hear that iconic theme in full!) - The memory was expanded to alleviate sprite flickering issues. - And so much more. You've mentioned _Tweaks_ patches for X5 and X6 - so I've figured it's time to share this useful MM3 tidbit with you.

Some things that scream "obvious beta" when playing this game: - no intro before the title screen - title screen is pretty barren - the weird flickering line in the stage select screen (I legit thought it was my copy of the game that had the problem) - the debug codes (activated via controller 2) are still accessible - Rush Jet being OP - Top Spin randomly spending the whole energy bar - Rush Marine not opening its mouth to shoot while the graphics for it are in the game - the glitch that allows you to use Rush Jet without having it - even as a child I noticed the color palette in the game looks oddly vibrant compared to the one used in every other Mega Man game (not a bad thing, but it makes it stand out) - the infamous missing planet from Gemini Man's stage - there are graphics for a city during the Wily cutscene that are never used - the little Skull Fortress shown in the midgame cutscene looks nothing like the one actually in the game (but it matches the one in Mega Man 2) - but the Skull Fortress map music and the Proto Man theme for the ending are way longer than what the game lets you hear. - I always wondered what was up with fighting "Break Man" without his face mask for the whole game and then during his actual boss fight he suddenly covers his face? Even with all those, it's still a pretty solid game. BTW, the "Doc Robot" stages weren't the only nod to Mega Man 2, the credits theme is a remixed version of that melancholic ending theme from Mega Man 2.

I didn't know the dark robots were hated, one of the things that actually made Megaman 3 one of my favorites was literally the Megaman 2 cameos

I hate the WIND that blows the metal robot around on MAGNET MAN'S stage. And on the subject of the doc robot stages: Are you going to shit on the extra castles (i.e. 4 extra, harder levels) in mm4, 5 and 6?

"Mega Man 3" has grown on me over the years. I'd rather replay 4 and even 1, but I dig some of the level design and weapons, and I love the slide mechanic. It's basically a slightly better "Mega Man 2" with higher highs and lower lows.

i just finished my nes megaman collection without knowing very much about the games or story, so i was playing through them all for the first time. i finished the fourth one today, and so far 3 was definitely the hardest. that said, all the pain game overs i went through made it so so satisfying when i finally beat it, and the reveal about proto man was amazing. probably was my favorite so far because it had so much more story than any of the others and was so much more satisfying to finish, but i will probably not replay for a long long time because it was so difficult to get through. anyway i am looking forward to your videos on 4, 5, and 6, hopefully i can beat them all by then. i will definitely check out your other videos once i get to the later games. seeing how much you talked about them in these first 3 videos has me excited to get to them

The Doc robots stages never bothered me much. They are effectively the "1st fortress" of later games (Cossack, Protoman, and Mr. X) and considering the Wily stages in MM3 are rather lacking, I felt they were fine for post-8 robot master content. I think people's _real_ problem was the recycled aesthetics than anything, not that there were 4 stages (as becomes the norm in MM4-6) or that you fight the MM2 bosses (which was actually fun imo). I think they would get far less hate if they had unique looks and design.

While I do love the soundtrack and the new additions they added like slide and Rush, there were a lot that I felt held it back from being the best. However, MM3 Improvement Project addresses a lot of it, and I actually consider that version to compete with 2!

That look on Mega Man's face just kills me. 😂

This was the first mega man game I ever played. It still remains my favorite of the original series to this day. *also first boxart with arm cannon. *4:50 would literally let it sit at the menu to listen....

I recall Mega Man 3's European release and was utterly disappointed by it. It had so many bugs (the worst offenders being the flickering in the level select screen and completely flicker-nightmare that was the first Wily boss fight), utterly inferior music, and just seemed completely unpolished through and through. I was glad when only months later 4 was released and it was outstanding. On the pro side it introduced Rush and sliding, but to me it was the worst of the NES Mega Man titles, in fact, next to 8 it was the worst of the original series.

Top Man's stage used to have a more Detailed background, Until somebody tripped on a Cable that was plugged into a computer, Crashing it in the Process, the result is a less detailed one which we see today.