Rush Drill an in-house reference at this unused idea? Only Inafune knows for sure! Ironically, that Rush Drill bears a striking resemblance to Rush Marine! Which leads me to think the sprite probably looked something like Rush Jet's. According to the MMOCW, "it seems like they were thinking about having the drill burrow through the stage map to make a path for the player." The Rush Drill was mentioned in early gaming magazine previews for Rockman 3, so it was probably either in the game or in the solicitations for a while before being scrapped and replaced by Rush Jet (which is very similar to Rush Marine). How pre-Beat would have played is unkown. Evidently they had ideas for a bird support animal, but Rush was chosen instead.
Rockbuster!? No info is given and even the Rockbuster is a guess. The robot that one is an early version of the robot in Sparkman's stage I guess they thought he'd be better off flying than stationary because that's is the largest thing changed in his design.įrom MMOCW. The large robot beside him would be brought back for MM5. Doc Robot is shown more menacing here than he would be in the refined sketches, similar to his NES mugshot (no pupils in his eyes). it seems like the snail behaves like the porcupine does in needle's level. The snail idea would be brought back in MM4 and turned into a large boss (perhaps, at one point, there was an idea to bring in the small snail idea shown here). I can only guess at his intended role in the game. My Gassman guess was way off.Ĭall this one "Inspector CreepyGuy" because he looks veryĬreepy indeed. Get the artbook for a clearer picture.ĭevilman? Bullman has also been suggested to me and makes more sense. Even though most of them are in the MMOCW artbook I'll leave these up here. I traced some of the sketches shown to get a clearer view of them. In an internet interview and later shown in the Megaman Official Complete Works (aka Rockman 20) artbook. These characters were shown by Keiji Inafune himself The Well Known Controller-2 and Rush tricks