Mega Man III is a horrible, horrible game.

[DigitalSpace]

That's what the author of this article (http://sydlexia.com/mega_man_3_sucks.htm) says.

SPOILER: He's talking about the PC version.

[Wraith Storm]

It was an interesting read. Good find by the way.

Although I always liked Mega Man 3, I do agree with alot of what was said.

[ccovell]

Very interesting that Shark Man's level was a level rip-off of The Little Mermaid's sunken ship. And that fish looks like one out of the Night Sea level of Little Nemo.

Just because a lot of 12-year-old fanboys loved Capcom was not a reason for the company to grant two of them a development license. :-P

Re: The spoiler, I was 100% sure it was that the moment I read the thread title.

[Blitzwing256]

sean baby reviews stopped being funny about 3 years ago.

I bought the game back in the day, where it wasn't quite up to capcom levels of quality, it was still a pretty fun game to play considering what pc gaming was at the time. (certainly alot more playable then the street fighter port)

[guitargary75]

It's hard, but I don't think that it's horrible.

[Atari 5200]

Hmm...interesting. Somehow I never knew there was a pc version....NOW I gotta try it out!

[drunkninja]

I played through the PC version when I was kid. It was actually my first Mega Man game. I'm only just now playing through all the NES games (just finished 1-5, playing 6 now) and it's amazing the difference in quality between the versions.

[skaar]

PC games have become such big budget affairs that it's impossible for companies to pull that crap. Besides, you can just Google the game's name and find out within seconds if it's any good. But back in 1992, such production values and instant gratification eluded us. The only way we could begin to tell if a game was good or not was by reading a write-up in a Scholastic/Arrow flyer or by reading the back of the box at Egghead Software. Thank God that times have changed.

Probably the best bit in the article. Was amusing, but I started to skim by the second level.

[Jorpho]

If you want a copy of your very own, you can stilll buy it here:
http://www.cdaccess.com/html/quick/megaman3pj.htm

[skaar]

This is so much more useful:

http://www.cdaccess.com/html/quick/ftpwin95pj.htm

[old_skoolin_jim]

Yeah, I used to have it too. A friend of mine gave it to me for free back in '96 or so. I still had it until a few years ago when the disk got corrupted somehow (it was 10+ years old after all...).
I never really cared for the game itself, but it was an interesting curiosity piece. I didn't read the link yet, but hopefully they explain it was published by hi-tech expressions, the same folks responsible for 'hits' (perhaps $hits?) like 'Muppet Adventure' for the NES and 'We're Back: A Dinosaur's Story'.
Needless to say, I never finished it.

[ShinobiMan]

This looks better than Mega Man (PC) that was released in 1990. Just take a look at this crap.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXvQQZwKE1I

I used to play it over at my grand parents house on their DOS computer. Used to take me an hour to load the damn thing.

This is why I am a console gamer.

[James8BitStar]

At least its better than Mega Man 1 for PC, which only had THREE ROBOT MASTERS.

Okay, maybe its not such an improvement.

[old_skoolin_jim]

Oh man... MM1 looks HORRIBLE. I seriously just LOL'ed when I saw the boss select screen. Were the bosses drawn by a 2nd grader? I love the total lack of real animation they give them, too.

[PentiumMMX]

I remember playing this. It was that bad, except the bosses where harder to fight because of my PC (Unless you're playing on a 386, it runs too fast)

[rbudrick]

Man, I had this funny juvenile post all lined up where I was gonna say (without even knowing who the author was yet):


Mega Man III is a Horrible, Horrible Game"Yeah, well, you have AIDS!"

Then I realized it was SeanBaby and said to myself, "Oh crap. Not fair to make fun of *real* AIDS patients."

EDIT, ok, ok, I know it's not Sean, but that woulda been really funny, right? Right?

(crickets)

-Rob

[rkotm]

i have it on my desk. It was awful. Jump with J, and move with the arrow keys! Reverse hands...it just sucked. I found a few grammatical errors while on the can reading the manual.

[old_skoolin_jim]

Oh man, I completely forgot about the whole "jump with J" aspect.
Again... what a terrible game.

[SpaceHarrier]

Wow, had no idea this existed. Kind of wanna play it anyway. Kind of don't.

[Rob2600]

This looks better than Mega Man (PC) that was released in 1990. Just take a look at this crap.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXvQQZwKE1I

Wow, thanks for posting that link. Mega Man for DOS was garbage.

How come in 1990, a $100 NES was able to produce fantastic audio, but a $2,000 computer was only able to produce Atari-2600-quality audio?

[FantasiaWHT]

I had one on PC, but I can't remember which one.

[Jorpho]

Apparently numerous graphics from Mega Man 1 PC were "borrowed" for Duke Nukem, so at least it wasn't a total loss, right?
http://www.student.tue.nl/p/f.a.m.smeijers/sfp/games/duke1.htm

[Tupin]

The boss select screen in Megaman 1 on the PC looks like it was drawn in MS Paint in like two minutes. LOL


How come in 1990, a $100 NES was able to produce fantastic audio, but a $2,000 computer was only able to produce Atari-2600-quality audio?

Because the programmers obviously didn't care. You think Megaman was butchered? Take a look at Contra on DOS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2YxE73gQNA

Terrible, absolutely terrible.

[Jorpho]

Because the programmers obviously didn't care. You think Megaman was butchered? Take a look at Contra on DOS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2YxE73gQNA

Terrible, absolutely terrible.

But according to Mobygames, Contra preceded Mega Man 3 by four years, so at least it had some excuse.

Might it be said that the PCs of the day, despite their high price, simply were not intended for use as gaming machines?

[Kitsune Sniper]

Apparently numerous graphics from Mega Man 1 PC were "borrowed" for Duke Nukem, so at least it wasn't a total loss, right?
http://www.student.tue.nl/p/f.a.m.smeijers/sfp/games/duke1.htm

I actually have the full version of this somewhere. On two different CD releases, no less.

I should take a look to see if it's the same version.

[Jorpho]

Isn't it odd that when Capcom released Mega Man Powered Up for the PSP so many years later, one of the new bosses just happened to be Oil Man?

[Tupin]

Isn't it odd that when Capcom released Mega Man Powered Up for the PSP so many years later, one of the new bosses just happened to be Oil Man?
Capcom doesn't acknowledge the PC version of Megaman, kind of like how Nintendo doesn't acknowledge the Mario and Zelda CD-i games.

[p_b]

Is sydlexia run by seanbaby?

[dgdgagdae]

You think Megaman was butchered? Take a look at Contra on DOS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2YxE73gQNA

Terrible, absolutely terrible.

Contra didn't really look all that bad to me, for a CGA port. Someone doesn't know how to play the game though...man, that was frustrating to watch.

[wallydawg]

I had megaman 1 on PC so long ago, could never beat that dog (although my memory seems to remember it as a tiger) in the beginning sequence. I always tried to kill it though, never tried to run past it like that haha.

[Famidrive-16]

sean baby reviews stopped being funny about 3 years ago.


What does SeanBaby have to do with this?

[j_factor]

How come in 1990, a $100 NES was able to produce fantastic audio, but a $2,000 computer was only able to produce Atari-2600-quality audio?

Because those were crappy DOS machines. Anybody who cared about game audio would get an Amiga (or maybe ST). Or if you want to go the $100 route, you could probably get a C64 for that price (if not less) in 1990.

[Gentlegamer]

Because those were crappy DOS machines. Anybody who cared about game audio would get an Amiga (or maybe ST). Or if you want to go the $100 route, you could probably get a C64 for that price (if not less) in 1990.I think there were DOS machines that were decent, but pricey, and games were written for the lowest common denominator in specs. You're quite right about the Amiga and C64 being far superior home computer gaming platforms, though.

[kainemaxwell]

Wow...that really does look like crap. Most the graphics look like they were made on MS Paint or Photoshop 1.0.

[drunkninja]

Isn't it odd that when Capcom released Mega Man Powered Up for the PSP so many years later, one of the new bosses just happened to be Oil Man?

Let's not forget Wave Man in MM5...

Though like the other guy who responded to you said, Capcom doesn't officially acknowledge these versions. Doesn't mean they didn't take a few names, though.