
He glides on his Oil Slider like a surfboard and lobs flammable globs of his namesake around to slip Mega Man up. Oh dear! Tar baby allusions aside, it didn’t help that Capcom made him talk with some urban hip speak to go with his slick personality. According to him, Ice Man is the only one who fights right on time, not early nor late. Wily to swipe and perfect into Flash Man. It’s suggested he serves as a prototype for Dr. He was built for possible time travel experiments, but his only power is Time Slow and tossing lasers shaped like clock hands. The two major additions in Powered Up were a short prologue stage to set up the story of Wily’s deceit and Mega Man’s transformation as well as an expansion of the level selection to eight Robot Master stages, as was originally planned back in 1987.Ī very strictly punctual bot that doesn’t mess around with his schedule. These remakes brought about many new modes to each game, along with spoken dialogue and multiple tweaks to the games’ systems.

Powered Up was released alongside a remake of Mega Man X named Maverick Hunter X.

Each remade game would have used 3D polygon models in a 2D plane with many changes and additions to flesh out the originals. As the series neared its 20th anniversary, Keiji Inafune laid plans for a series of portable remakes of both the classic and X series for the PSP.
