This a part of the doc particulars Guts Man’s weapon, which apparently had extra options at this level. Within the ultimate sport, Mega Man can raise rocks and throw them, however the catch was that the rocks needed to exist already within the stage design. This web page means that the unique plan was for Mega Man to have the ability to throw an infinite provide of smaller rocks when the boulders weren’t round. That might have made for a extra typical boss weapon, as a result of it’s fairly bizarre that Guts Man’s “weapon” is barely usable in choose components of the ultimate sport, and is principally simply Mega Man’s arm as an alternative of a gun of some type.
It’s all the time neat to get a have a look at a basic earlier than it grew to become a basic, and see what concepts didn’t make the ultimate reduce.
When Mega Man’s designers drafted these in 1987, they weren’t conscious of the worldwide phenomenon Mega Man would go on to change into. (Hell, they weren’t even conscious after the discharge of this primary sport, which solely carried out modestly.) Hopefully Capcom will launch extra behind-the-scenes stuff like this sooner or later.
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By the way in which, we seen Capcom City additionally enables you to play this primary Mega Man proper in your internet browser. Good luck when you do—it’s a tough one.