Super Adventure Rockman

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Super Adventure Rockman

The game was released only in Japan, on June 25, 1998 for SonyPlayStation and September 23, 1998 forSega Saturn.

Story[]

In the 21st century, ancient ruins suddenly appeared in theAmazon Rainforest in South America. TheUnited Nations called scientists around the world to discover everything possible about the ruins. The scientists discovered that there was a strong electromagnetic field around the ruins that was capable of ceasing almost all the machinery that got close to it, including robots. Nothing electronic could reach it, making the investigation a difficult one. One year later, the U.N. ceased the investigation, claiming the ruins were from theMaya civilization. They named the ruins "Lanfront Ruins" and the pyramid "Temple of the Moon".

Three years after this,Doctor Albert W. Wily, now working together withDoctor Thomas Right, went to investigate the ruins because the electromagnetic field started increasing, this being a good chance to clear his name. A few days later, Wily uncovered an ancient alien super computer inside the temple,Ra Moon, which revived his variousRobot Masters fromRockman 2 andRockman 3 by analyzing the information about them in Dr. Wily's laptop. Wily thought it would be a great chance to conquer the world.

Three weeks after Wily found Ra Moon, the electromagnetic field begins to affect all the machinery and electronics around the world.Roll falls into a coma because of the electromagnetic field, and Wily makes a worldwide broadcast saying to the world surrender for him in two weeks, or else he will shut down all machinery, which would effectively kill Roll and all the robots around the world, and without them, humans would die as well. Dr. Right quickly immunizesRockman and his brothers (the Robot Masters fromRockman 1:Cut Man,Elec Man,Ice Man,Fire Man,Bomb Man, andGuts Man) from the electromagnetic field, and sends them to stop Dr. Wily before it's too late. During the adventure, Rockman and his comrades fought their way to the source of electromagnetic field, Ra Moon, battling the Robot Masters fromRockman 2 and3 in the process. In the end, Rockman manages to destroy Ra Moon and the electromagnetic field ceases, Roll recovers and all the machinery around the world starts functioning again.

Bosses[]

Episode 1: Temple of Moon (月の神殿,Tsuki no Shinden)

1. Metal Man
2. Bubble Man orHeat Man (Rockman can fight only one of them;Blues will defeat the other.)
3. Flash Man
4. Quick Man (optional, but skipping the fight means that the player cannot obtain theQuick Boomerang.)
5. Shadow Man

Episode 2: To the Death! Wily Numbers (死闘！ワイリーナンバーズ,Shitou! Wairī Nanbāzu)

1. Wood Man
2. Air Man
3. Clash Man
4. Snake Man
5. Needle Man
6. Gemini Man

Episode 3: The Final Battle!! (最後の戦い！！,Saigo no Tatakai!!)

1. Magnet Man
2. Hard Man
3. Top Man
4. Spark Man
5. Ra Thor
6. New Yellow Devil

Cast[]

• Ai Orikasa:Rockman
• Takeshi Aono:Dr. Wily
• Shōzō Iizuka:Dr. Right
• Konami Yoshida:Roll
• Ryōtarō Okiayu:Blues,Rush^[1]
• Norio Wakamoto: Narrator
• Other characters:^[1]
  • Akimasa Ohmori (credited as Masaki Ohmori):Bomb Man,Fire Man,Magnet Man,Spark Man,Wood Man
  • Akio Suyama:Bubble Man
  • Junichi Sugawara:Snake Man(?),Gemini Man(?)
  • Ken'ichi Ono:Guts Man,Flash Man
  • Kōsuke Okano:Metal Man,Shadow Man
  • Megumi Tano:Clash Man,Elec Man,Top Man
  • Nobuyuki Furuta:Air Man,Hard Man,Needle Man
  • Shōtarō Morikubo:Heat Man,Quick Man
  • Yuriko Fuchizaki:Cut Man,Ice Man

Other media[]

The game was adapted into the Archie Comics Mega Man comic, and set between Mega Man 2 and Mega Man 3. As a result, theMega Man 2 Robot Masters are here recreated byRa Moon, while theMega Man 3 set is created by Ra Moon from blueprints on a computer owned byDr. Wily.Proto Man, going by hisMega Man 3 alias of Break Man, also joins Wily's forces while he is based in theLanfront Ruins, and is accidentally responsible for damagingRoll prior to the planet-wide blackout. One ofMega Man 3 bosses,Shadow Man, who in his game of origin was originally an unidentified alien robot, is in the comics revealed to be a creation of Ra Moon who served as its escort when it traveled toEarth. Only a few of the originalMega Man game Robot Masters appeared in the adapt as allies ofMega Man, who is also joined by Break Man and theMega Man 2 bosses to battle Ra Moon and the mind-controlledMega Man 3 bosses. Ra Moon is also revealed to be the creator of theStardroids from Mega Man V, and sends a signal reporting its demise to them after it is defeated by Mega Man.

Worlds Collide (which crossed over into Sonic the Hedgehog) occurred inbetween the comic's adaptation ofSuper Adventure Rockman, and included a moment of Ra Moon being interested in the blue Chaos Emerald, only for Wily to demand he makes a Met rice cooker. Additionally, Wily and Doctor Eggman used many of their resources including Ra Moon to create both theSkull Egg Zone and theWily Egg.

Gallery[]

PlayStation box cover.

PlayStation Cover Manual & All 3 Discs.

Sega Saturn box cover.

Development[]

• Keiji Inafune considersSuper Adventure Rockman to be one of the worst titles of the original series due to the overall darker tones it takes in comparison to other entries in the series, like helicopters with human pilots being taken down by Wily.^[2]

Trivia[]

• The opening and ending themes of the game,Electrical Communication andBrand New Way, are the same fromRockman 8: Metal Heroes.
• Although the game states that the story happens in the Amazon Rainforest, the map shown in the game (See above) showsChocó, a department in the west of Colombia, that isn't related to the Amazon Rainforest. However, this regionis also a rainforest.
  • The indicated area is also very close to theLas Tangaras Bird Reserve.
• Additionally, the Mayan civilization didn't live in South America; they lived in what is now Mexico and Guatemala.
• Quick Man is the only Robot Master in the game that Rockman tries to make peace with.
• Before the fight, it is revealed by Wood Man that Shadow Man has been completely destroyed and cannot be rebuilt. Shadow Man is also the only Robot Master not to be shown revived by Ra Moon at the end of the game.
• This game marks the first time thatRoll is depicted onscreen with her hair down.
• TheSega Saturn port of this game was the finalRockman game to be released for a Sega console, asSega left the console business and became a third party developer and publisher in 2001 following the discontinuation of the Dreamcast.

See also[]

• Mega Man 7: Blackout - The Curse of Ra Moon

External links[]

Super Adventure Rockman in Capcom's site (archive)

• Super Adventure Rockman in Mega Man PC Website: Dr. Cossack's Lab.
• Super Adventure Rockman in The Mega Man Home Page.
• Super Adventure Rockman on Sega Retro

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