Mega Man 3 (NES) | guide and review


Mega Man 3 NES


Few are the games that can be considered classics and that remain marked in our memory; Mega Man is no exception, more within the historical concept where this game was developed. With respect to the two previous games, this game presented an innovation in terms of its mechanics, marking what would be the subsequent games. Mega Man 3, this magnificent work was developed and distributed by Capcom in 1990 in Japan, USA and some regions of Europe.



This is the content you will find throughout this guide:


The Story of Mega Man 3

The items of Mega Man 3

Order to defeat the Robot Masters 

Walkthrough of Mega Man 3 Nes

Top Man

Shadow Man

Spark Man

Magnet Man

Hard Man

Gemini Man

Needle Man

Snake Man

Spark Man second

Needle Man second

Gemini Man second

Shadow man second

Dr Wily's Fortress


The Story of Mega Man 3


The game is set in the year 20xx, time in which Dr. Light together with Dr. Wily collaborates in the construction of a peacekeeping robot called "Gamma". The eight Robot Masters go crazy and steal Gamma's eight power crystals. Our mission is to recover the crystals, this time with the help of Rush Coil. The game keeps the controls of the first games and adds that pressing the control pad down + B will make the dash.


The items of Mega Man 3

 

The items we find are (a) Energy pellet, refill our life meter 2 units; (b) Energy capsule refill 8 to 10 units; (c) Weapon energy pellet, refill our current weapon or Rush; (d) Weapon energy capsule, refill 8 to 10 units; (e) 1-UP, extra lives; (f) Energy Tank, our energy meter is full refilled; (g) Surprise Box, receive a random item; (h) Rush Coil - RC, just jump onto him; (i) Rush Jet - RJ, helps you to fly over the area; (i) Rush Marine, rides through water.


Items Mega Man 3


Order to defeat the Robot Masters

 

The order I recommend to defeat the Robot Masters is as follows:

Top Man (arm cannon or Hard Knuckle)

Shadow Man (top Spin of Top Man)

Spark Man (Shadow Blade)

Magnet Man (Spark Shock)

Hard Man (Magnet Missiles)

Gemini Man (Hard Man or Search Snake)

Needle Man (Gemini Laser)

Snake Man (Needle Man or Arm cannon)

 

Mega Man 3 Robot Masters

Walkthrough of Mega Man 3 Nes

 

Top Man

 

Mega Man 3 Top Man

We start this level advancing to the right we find some enemies "Bolton and Nutton" and Mechakkero, we defeat them and continue, at the end of this screen we will find an Energy capsule, getting to it is easy we just have to jump on the platforms and that's it. We go down and without dropping from the ladder we attack the enemy and defeat him easily.

 

Mega Man 3 Energy capsule

On the bottom screen we find Energy pellet and Weapon energy capsule to recharge the sub weapons if necessary, on the bottom screen we avoid falling on the spikes, we go down and at the end of the screen we find a 1-UP and Energy capsule. We go down and we will find the sub boss "Tama", this enemy is shaped like a cat that throws balls of yarn, in its own way; defeated this enemy we move forward.

 

Mega Man 3 Sub-boss Tama

Down the stairs we move to the right and we will find again with Tama, once defeated we go up the stairs in the next screen we will find Energy capsule, carefully go through without falling on the spikes, we go up and carefully reach the enemy "Komasaburo" avoiding the spinning tops that throws us. In the next section we go through jumping on some spinning tops that go up and down and finally we reach the boss.

 

Mega Man 3 boss Top Man

Mega Man 3 Top spin


The enemy will attack us by throwing three spinning tops in the air and then throwing them at us we must dodge them and when the boss comes towards us we jump avoiding touching him we take advantage of the moment when the spinning tops are in the air to shoot him and hurt him. Once defeated we will get the top spin. We continue in our adventure, the next boss we will face is:

 

Shadow Man

Mega Man 3 Shadow Man


We start this level choosing left or right any way is the same. We go down to the bottom, defeat the enemies and move forward, we will find Proto Man, this sub-boss will attack us with his Arm cannon, we must avoid his attacks and pass underneath as soon as we can using the dash, the enemy will leave opening the way for us.

 

Mega Man 3 meet Proto Man

We go down we continue to the right and we will reach a section where we will be in darkness, we avoid the attack of the enemies especially the "Walking Bomb" the enemy in the form of grenade, if we want the light back we must destroy the "Hologram" enemy in the form of bulb that are above, if necessary we will use the RC.

 

Mega Man 3 Hologram enemy

We continue and we will reach an area where we will grab Weapon energy for the RC. We advance and reach an area where we jump between platforms and we will be attacked by "Parasyu" from above, be careful at the end because a surprise enemy will attack us, after this section we will have reached the boss.

 

Mega Man 3 boss Shadow Man

Mega Man 3 Shadow Blade



We will equip ourselves with the top spin, this enemy will attack us using his blades and jumping on us we must use the top spin at that moment to damage him, we will dodge his blades and we must move at all times. Once defeated we will obtain the Shadow Blades and the Rush Marine. We move forward and the next boss we will find will be:

 

Spark Man

 

Mega Man 3 Spark Man

Defeat the enemy and go up the stairs, continue to the right avoiding the "Electric Gabyoall" and "Elec'n", go up and we will find "Hammer Joe" this enemy we must attack him at the moment before he attacks us we must be fast.

 

Mega Man 3 Hammer Joe

Once defeated this enemy we advance in the next area we will find some platforms that go up we must jump quickly because above there are some spikes that will defeat us automatically.

 

Mega Man 3 carefuly spikes

Going up the stairs we will find Energy capsule and Weapon energy capsule. Up we defeat some enemies and let us fall without any problem, we move to the right and pass as quickly as possible avoiding the "Junk Block" that fall, we go down and we will find more Weapon energy, continue to the right and we will find again with the platforms that rise but this time there will be "Bolton and Nutton" annoying us must be very careful not to fall, once overcome we will reach the boss. If we have RJ we can pass without any problem.

 

Mega Man 3 boss Spark Man

Mega Man 3 Spark Shock



We will equip ourselves with Shadow Blades, this enemy will attack us by throwing us first small balls of electricity and then a big one, the boss moves all over the screen and we will have to move to avoid his attacks, when we have the opportunity we will attack him until we defeat him. Once he has been defeated we will obtain the Spark Shock. The next boss we will face will be:

 

Magnet Man

 

Mega Man 3 Magnet Man

We start this level moving to the right we will find "Mag Fly" an enemy in the form of magnet that attracts us to them, we will have to get out of their attraction as they have a habit of releasing us on a cliff, at the end we go down the stairs and we will find Proto Man we will face him at the end he will go and we move forward. We go down we face "Giant Springer" and continue down the stairs in the next section down the stairs and we will reach an area with large engines that attract us, at the end of this section we will try to go down as close to the edge and press the control to the left, we will find Energy pellet.

 

MegaMan 3 blocks

We continue down and we will reach a rather annoying section we must climb blocks that appear and disappear we must get the best way to cross, the second section we will find an engine that will attract us to him, in the third section we will have an engine but this time there is a vacuum that we must avoid falling into it, carefully move forward and we will reach a much more difficult section because this time there is only vacuum and we must move forward carefully.

 

Mega Man 3 Blocks and magnetic engine

We can also use the RJ. After overcoming this section we climb t+he stairs two screens and if we like we can get Energy capsule or Weapon energy as a reward. We repeat the process again only this time we will fight with a "Giant Springer" and finally we have reached the boss.

 

Mega Man 3 boss Magnet Man

Mega Man 3 Magnet missile

We will equip ourselves with the spark shock, this enemy will attack us attracting us and throwing three magnets that will hurt us, we must keep our distance and attack him as soon as we can, if we do it correctly we will take a lot of life, after defeating him we will obtain the Magnet Missile. The next boss we will face will be:

 

Hard Man

 

Mega Man 3 Hard Man

We start advancing to the right we will be attacked by "Hava ´su´ Bee" an enemy that drops a hive of "Chibee", we will defeat them and continue advancing, at the end of the section we will find Energy capsule, we go up the stairs using RC we reach the enemy we defeat him and go up the stairs.

 

Mega Man 3 Returning Monkey

We will find a "Returning Monkey" the ape we will defeat him we go up and we will see Energy capsule guarded by an enemy, we defeat him carefully and we grab life, we continue up we defeat the enemy ape, we advance we defeat a "Pickelman Bull" we continue forward and we will arrive to an energy tank.

 

Mega Man 3 Energy tank

We go back and up the stairs we defeat "Met" and we will get Energy we go up and we will reach an area with many "Wanaan" we must move quickly dodging the enemies we go down and we will face Proto Man after defeating him we fall and grab the Energy capsule, we continue down and if we want we can pass with a dash under the enemy and not fight him, finally we get to the boss.

 

Mega Man 3 boss Hard Man

Mega Man 3 Hard Knuckle

We will equip ourselves with the magnet missile. This enemy will attack us throwing his fists and jumping against the ground at which time we cannot move we must be quite careful and attack him with magnets until we can defeat him, once defeated we will get the Hard Knuckle. The next one to face us will be:

 

Gemini Man

 

Mega Man 3 Gemini Man

Beginning advancing to the right we will face "Nitron" the enemy that drops three flames of fire and some "Bomber Pepe" the penguins, we advance avoiding the cliffs, we will arrive to an area where we will find Protoman but this time we will not fight against him, he will open the way and we will continue.

 

Mega Man 3 1-UP and Energy capsule

We launch ourselves “glued” to the left edge moving the control to the left in this way we will grab a 1-UP, with RC we grab the Energy capsule. We move forward and we will find some eggs that we must shoot to hatch a "Pole" easy to defeat at the top we will find a surprise container its content is variable can be any item. We went up the stairs we move forward and with the help of RC we make our way. We move forward until we reach an area where we find "Penpen Maker" two large penguins that attack us with many penguins, both defeated we move forward, here we can use RC to grab the Energy capsule.

 

Mega Man 3 Rush Marine

In this part we will use the RM to advance during the journey we will be able to grab a life and an energy tank. When we reach the energy tank I recommend getting off the RM and use the RC to go up and continue advancing through the upper part. Here we will avoid the "Gyoraibo" are the whales that throw missiles and the "Yambow", at the end we will find another energy tank, we take it and go up, we defeat the enemies and finally we will reach the boss.

 

Mega Man 3 boss Gemini Man

Mega Man 3 Gemini laser

This enemy at the beginning will be divided in two and will begin to move and we must attack him normally avoiding that this attack us when we have done enough damage this will unite in one here we will equip with the Hard Knuckle, from here the boss will attack us with a laser that bounces we must be attentive shooting him until we manage to defeat him once defeated we will obtain the Gemini Laser. The next boss will be:

 

Needle Man

 

Mega Man 3 Needle Man

We advance all to the right avoiding the enemies if necessary we grab the Weapon energy pellet, at the end we go down the stairs. Using the dash we pass this Needle Press that come down from the ceiling avoiding that they hurt us once crossed this section we will go up and we will arrive to an energy tank that is guarded by a "Hary Harry" the porcupine.

 

Mega Man 3 Hary Harry

Carefully grab the energy tank and continue. In the next section we defeat the Hammer Joe we go up and we will face "Bikky" if we want we use the dash and we pass him below and finally we reach the boss.


Mega Man 3 boss Needle Man

Mega Man 3 Needle cannon


We equip ourselves with the Gemini laser, this enemy will attack us throwing spikes jumping and sometimes paralyze us we must be agile to avoid their attacks while we attack him, it is recommended to attack him closely because the laser bounces, once defeated we will get the Needle Cannon and Rush Jet. Finally we will face the last boss:

 

Snake Man

 

Mega Man 3 Snake Man

We start this level moving to the right we face "Dada" the enemy that jumps and some snakes "Petit Snakey" at the end we climb the stairs we defeat the three snakes up and we will find the sub-boss "Big Snakey" we defeat the big snake. Once defeated the big snake we continue we will find inverted snakes we must be careful because they attack us and we can fall into the void.

 

Mega Man 3 sub-boss Big Snakey

Moving forward we will find a staircase containing two Energy capsule, go up and grab it defeat the snake and go down the stairs, move forward and we will find a new type of enemy "Bubukan" defeat them and go up here defeat the Hammer Joe and continue we will find two stairs go up with the help of RJ or RC and we will reach an area where we will find two secret containers. We grab them and go down we go up the stairs on the left and we will reach another large snake. We continue and up a ladder we will find life. Go up the stairs and defeat the spider that is on the other staircase and we will reach a new section here we will cross taking care of the "Bomb flier" finally we will reach the boss.

 

Mega Man 3 boss Snake Man

Mega Man 3 search snake

We equip ourselves with needle cannon, this enemy is easy to defeat simply attack us with snakes we must dodge them and attack him as much as we can, once defeated we will get the Search Snake. We have finally defeated all the bosses. However four new worlds have appeared in these are the eight Doc Robots that have the skills of the robot masters of Mega Man 2.

 

Mega Man 3 Doc Robots


Spark Man second

 

We start using RC to climb, we equip Gemini laser to defeat the enemy on the stairs, we move to the right avoiding the enemies and taking care not to fall into the void, after this section we climb up here cross us very carefully, we defeat the enemy we move forward and we will face the first boss Metal Man. To defeat this enemy we equip ourselves with Magnet missile, this will attack us with blades trying to dodge our attacks but with the magnet missile will be very easy to defeat him.

 

Mega Man 3 Metal Man

Once defeated we continue through the door there we will take life and carefully we will throw ourselves trying to avoid the spikes, once we get down we continue to the right until we reach the dumpster we cross it carefully and we will have reached the Quick Man boss. To defeat this boss we will equip ourselves with the Gemini laser, this enemy will attack us throwing us small boomerangs and jumping on us, we must attack him quickly throwing the Gemin laser we must be very agile it is recommended to carry energy tanks as this enemy will be very annoying to defeat, once defeated we will have finished this section.

 

Mega Man 3 Quick Man

Needle Man second

 

We move to the right taking care of the porcupine, we go down we continue to the end we will reach an area where using the RC we will grab life, we climb the stairs with the help of RJ we will take the 1-Up we go up and again with RJ we will take the energy tank we go up we defeat the porcupine and we will have reached the boss Air Man. To defeat this enemy we will equip ourselves with the Spark Shock, the battle against this enemy will be a little difficult, we will attack by throwing a tornado that we must dodge but it will be difficult to jump if we manage to jump we attack him and if necessary we will use the dash, we must be quite agile to defeat this enemy.

 

Mega Man 3 Air Man

Defeated this enemy we cross the door we grab the weapon energy with the RJ and cross the void with this recharging when we have the opportunity to do so at the end we climb the stairs recharge the RJ and continue we will find a Big Met that will attack us throwing us Mets and red balls once defeated we advance we defeat the enemies and we will find another Big Met this time we will attack us faster we defeat him we advance we grab the life and we will have reached the boss Crash Man. We equip ourselves with the Hard Knuckle, this boss will attack us throwing bombs at a distance but have a good radius of action so it is best to dodge them and attack him so we will defeat him easily.

 

Mega Man 3 Crash Man

Gemini Man second

 

We cross this first part carefully avoiding the enemies and taking care not to fall into the void at the end of the section we launched and we will see a surprise container using RC discover its contents if we are interested we take it, we move forward where we will see another container, we go down breaking the eggs and defeating the hatching until we reach the boss Flash Man. We equip ourselves with Shadow Blades, this boss attacks us by freezing the time and throwing himself against us we must dodge him although this enemy moves slowly do not be fooled is very strong if necessary we will use an energy tank, the best we can do is avoid him and attack him as much as possible until we defeat him.

 

Mega Man 3 Flash Man

Once defeated we go out the door we use RC to go up later when we get to the water we will use the RM to pass do not stop to grab ammo we must go ahead avoiding the enemies once we get up and go through the stairs area down and get to the boss Bubble Man. We equip the Shadow Blades again, we will notice that this boss jumps a lot and attacks us with bubbles we must avoid it and be careful with the ceiling as it is full of spikes, the best way to attack him is to calculate where he will fall and attack him as fast as we can so we can beat him.

 

Mega Man 3 Bubble Man

Shadow man second

 

We carefully throw ourselves to either side avoiding the spikes we must be careful where we fall avoiding the left because at the end there are spikes, we advance defeating enemies and taking care not to touch the spikes, we will reach an area where there are moving platforms that open carefully we cross it taking into account that we will do it in the dark. We go down the stairs and we will have reached the Wood Man boss. We equip ourselves with Needle Cannon, this enemy has a shield of leaves so we can not attack him until the shield is removed also fall leaves from above that we must dodge them, we must wait for the moment when this unprotected to attack him to defeat him.

 

Mega Man 3 Wood Man

Defeated this boss we cross the door and grab the life we will continue forward without difficulty until we reach an area where enemies fall from above and others jump towards us making us fall we must be very cautious in this part until we get through it once we have done it and after defeating an enemy we will reach the boss Heat Man. Equipping us with Shadow Blades again, this enemy will attack us by throwing small fireballs and throwing himself towards us we must avoid him although it will be a little difficult but nevertheless we will attack him when we can until we defeat him.

 

Mega Man 3 Heat Man

After defeating this boss we will fight Proto Man who will run away once again then we will talk to doctor light who will tell us that "Oh no! Right after we received the last element Willey ran off with Gamma!".


Dr Wily ran off with Gamma


Dr Wily's Fortress

Dr. Wily's Fortress


We must now go to Dr. Wily's Fortress. In the first phase using RC we grab the life at the end we grab the energy tank. We cross the water level with RM or jumping but we must be careful with the penguins. Climbing the ladder we will see a 1-Up that we can take breaking the green blocks with the Hard Knuckle climbing the ladder we can do the same by relying on the RJ. We climb and carefully pass the area of the spikes at the end is necessary to use the RJ to climb in the next area we can grab life avoiding falling on the spikes, we climb and reach the boss of this section Robotic Turtle Maker.

 

Mega Man 3 Robotic Turtle Maker

We will attack this enemy using the Shadow Blades, this enemy will attack us with turtles we must avoid these, when we have the opportunity we must shoot the turtles to defeat him. We continue to the next level.

 

DR wily fortress 2

We went up and reloaded weapon energy Shadow Blades continue up the left to grab the 1-UP continue in the next area will be careful of the beehive later with the help of RJ cross grabbing two energy tanks and several ammunition for the RJ at the end we will reach the boss Orange Devil.

 

Mega Man 3 Orange Devil

Equipping ourselves with the Hard Knuckle we will have to avoid the moment in which it is built when it is complete we will attack the eye until we defeat it.

 

DR wily fortress 3

Using RJ we go up and defeat the enemy we can use the hard Knuckle to grab the ammunition we continue up we grab the energy tank with the help of RC we go up we will reach a dark area, when we are in the part of the 1-Up we will make a dash and continue in the bottom we repeat the dash to grab life and Energy weapon.

 

Mega Man 3 spikes

We continue we will reach some enemies that we will pass underneath with the dash until we reach an area where we will climb on moving platforms very carefully. At the top we will get two surprise containers and we reach the boss Mega Man Clone Machine.

Mega Man Clone Machine


We must identify which is the original Mega Man and attack him with the Arm Cannon until we defeat him.


DR wily fortress 4


We will refill all the weapon energy we need, we will go down and defeat the enemy that throws garbage blocks at us, we will continue going down until we reach a room where we will fight all the bosses again. We already know how to defeat them.

 

Fight again masters

Once defeated using the same weapons we used to defeat them originally, we will reach Dr. Willey.

 

DR wily fortress final boss

This boss consists of two parts, the first is a mechanism located below that will attack us, in the second part Wily will release some balls that will attack us. During the first part of the fight we must equip the Spark Shock and avoiding the attacks we will attack him until we break the mechanism that attacks us, once broken will go to the next part in this Wily will attack us with energy balls, we will equip the Hard Knuckle, to defeat him we must dodge his attacks and wait for the moment when he is still that is the signal to jump and throw a Hard Knuckle, if we do it at the right time we will hit him, we repeat this action until we defeat him.

 

Dr Wily first part

Dr Wily second part

Defeated we will realize that we were fighting with a mechanical puppet of Dr. Wily. We advance in level and finally we will arrive to Dr. Wily.

 

Dr Wily puppet

This Gamma boss is a great enemy but it is easy to defeat during the first part of the battle, we equip ourselves with the Shadow Blades and attack his head, especially diagonally, until we defeat him.

 

Gamma first part

In the second part of the boss it will be much more difficult to attack since we will have to climb to the top but the tricky thing here is to avoid the horns because we will lose life immediately. We can go up with RC or RJ or when Dr. Wily shows his arm we go up to the platform, in all cases we will equip the Top Spin and if we attack him at the right point we will defeat him instantly.

 

Gamma second part

Finally we will have defeated Dr. Wily. Mega man will be unconscious due to the collapse of the laboratory but Proto Man will rescue us and take us to Dr. Light's laboratory where we will recover our consciousness.

 

Mega Man 3 Final

So we come to the end of this adventure, I hope you liked it, if you have any questions, comments or suggestions at the bottom you can leave me your message. If you want me to talk about any game don't hesitate to ask for it in the message section, see you in the next one.



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