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Mega Man 3: The Robots are Revolting

DOS - 1992

Mega Man and Mega Man 3 are two first PC versions of CAPCOM's blockbuster Mega Man (Rockman in Asia) series of anime platform games. In one of their worst marketing mistakes, CAPCOM gave the task of converting its hit series to the PC to Hi-Tech Expressions, who botched the job quite badly with both games (for some curious reason, Mega Man 2 was never ported to the PC).

Instead of creating faithful reproductions, Hi-Tech reduced the excellent anime characters that NES fans have come to know and love to laughable animated blobs -- with Mega Man himself looking like a broken-doll version of Commander Keen ... a cabbage patch doll gone awry, so to speak. The graphics are dull, and even the innovative gameplay that lets Mega Man transform himself into different robot types can't save these two Mega Man games from mediocrity.

Overall, good examples of how to botch a blockbuster console license. Fortunately, CAPCOM finally realized their mistake years later and decided to develop Mega Man X and its sequels in-house. Check those games out instead, and leave these two Hi-Tech creations alone unless you have a lot of time to kill ;)

Review By HOTUD

Comments and reviews

MarkTheMorose 29 Jul. 2022

Julian: the game is working here on DOSbox, under Linux. It's no work of art, but both CGA and EGA options played OK. I set cycles to about 1000.

Jose: CTRL-F11 para ralentizar el juego, pruebe 1000 ciclos. DOSbox pausar: tecla ALT-PAUSE.

2
Julian 22 Aug. 2020

Dont download, doesnt work..
Tried multiple settings in DosBox.. Useless

-2
josé henrique 21 Mar. 2020

o jogo corre muito,e não tem a tecla de pausar

0
LTCProductions 06 Apr. 2019

"The Robots are Revolting"
Hey, they said it, not me.

3
j@yden 18 Feb. 2019

it's okay but nowhere as good as the nes version. i don't know why they called it mega man 3, it wasn't to keep track with the console versions as the nes version was released 2 years earlier. i think they just did it to make it look even better than the first dos game

0
Jon1000000 18 Feb. 2018

They didn't have it, so this game is not authorized by Capcom.

-1
X-TECH 08 Sep. 2015

Megaman goes fat

1
Miyos 2.0 10 Jun. 2015

Three words: Mega Shit 3.

1
Sherbert T Cat 05 Jul. 2014

This game had a game breaking bug in the final level.

1
Pink Floyd 21 May. 2014

I'm surprised High Tech Expressions made something this good considering all the bad games they made. Ok so Street Fighter II was very well done. Not a great version of Mega Man 3 and very buggy gameplay and horrendous controls even with a gamepad. Poor graphics considering this was the early 90's. But cool level designs almost make up for it.

0
Drillmor 26 Apr. 2014

YES!!! WOHOOO!

0
TheGamerTrainer 25 Feb. 2013

I remember this game fondly. I played this game for years around the same time as my brother played airborne ranger. Missed this game.

0
megopes 30 Nov. 2012

Hoye pero como lo juego

-1
S 14 Aug. 2012

HMMM NYC

0
DelRio1991 24 Jul. 2012

Wait, was this legal back then?
Did these people just copy off of capcom or did they have permission?

-2
manonthe3up 21 Mar. 2012

Wait... what?

1

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271 KB

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