Mega Man 3/Items

There are a number of items in Mega Man 3, most of which have appeared in the other NES Mega Man games.

In-level items

• Energy tank– A blue canister with an E on it. Using one of these will recover all of your health meter. They can't be found from defeating enemies and are always in a fixed location in levels, usually kind of tough or tricky to get to. You can have up to 9 of them in your inventory.
• Surprise cansor?-cans- shoot them and obtain a random item.
• Life Energy pellets– A flashing black/white dot. These will restore some of your health meter, and they come in 2 sizes, small and large. Small ones recover about 2 units, big ones recover about 8.
• Weapon Energy pellets– A blue/green dot/oval-shaped object. These restore some energy to one of your special weapons, and also come in 2 sizes. Note that you MUST equip the special weapon you want to recover energy for in order for it to have any effect.
• Extra Life– Looks like Mega Man's head. Self-explanatory, it gives you an extra life. You can have up to 9 of them in reserve.

Rush items

• Rush Coil– You start the game with this. Rush transforms into a springboard and can catapult Mega Man to great heights. Vital for scaling some otherwise unsurpassable obstacles.
• Rush Marine– Get this by beating Shadow Man. Rush turns into a submarine. Very nice to have in aquatic levels/sections of levels. There are three stages where it can be used: Gemini Man's, Gemini Man Revisited and the first Skull Fortress stage.
• Rush Jet– Get this by beating Needle Man. Rush turns into a jet platform, and you can freely control him around the screen. Great for scaling areas filled with bottomless pits and spikes.

Items per stage

E-capsules and W-capsules come in two sizes: large ones (L) refill 10 units, small ones (s) refill two units only.

Stage	E-can	?-can	1-Up	E-capsule	W-capsule	Rush & water
Snake Man	-	2				-
Top Man	-	-				-
Shadow Man	-	-	-	-	4s	Rush Marine
Spark Man	-	-	-	1L	1L+4s	-
Magnet Man	-	-	-	1L+4s	1L+2s	-
Hard Man	1	-	-	3L+3s	-	-
Gemini Man	2	1	2	2L	3L	Water (use Rush Marine)
Needle Man	1	-	-	1L	-	Rush Jet
Doc Men & Break Man
Stage	E-can	?-can	1-Up	E-capsule	W-capsule	Rush & water
Needle Doc Man	1	-	1	2L	6L	-
Shadow Doc Man	-	-	-	1L	4s	-
Spark Doc Man	-	-	-	2L	-	-
Gemini Doc Man	-	2	-	-	3L	Water (use Rush Marine)
Break Man	-	-	-	-	-	-
Skull Fortress
Stage	E-can	?-can	1-Up	E-capsule	W-capsule	Rush & water
Skull Fortress 1	2	-	2	4	4L	Water (use Rush Marine) 5 walls (use Hard Knuckle)
Yellow Devil	2	-	1	3s	6L	-
Skull Fortress 3	1	2	1	4s	3L	3 walls (use Hard Knuckle)
Teleport System	-	1	1	4s	2L + 8s	-
Dr. Wily	-	2	-	-	2L	-
Gamma & Dr. Wily	1	2	1	1L	2L	-

Gallery

• Energy cans

E-cans always take the color scheme of Mega Man's active weapon.

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  Hard stage (n.1)

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  Gemini stage (n.2)

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  Gemini stage (n.3)

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  Needle stage (n.4)

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  Needle-Docman stage (n.5)

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  Skull Fortress stage 1 (n.6)

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  Skull Fortress stage 1 (n.7)

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  Yellow Devil stage (n.8 & n.9)

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  Skull Fortress stage 3 (n.10)

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  Gamma's stage (n.11)

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• Surprise cans

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  Snake stage (n.1 & n.2)

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  Gemini stage (n.3)

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  Gemini-Docman stage (n.4)

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  Gemini-Docman stage (n.5)

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  Skull Fortress stage 3 (n.6 & n.7)

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  Dr. Wily stage (n.8 & n.9)

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  Gamma's stage (n.10 & n.11)

Evolution of surprise cans

Surprise cansare introduced in Mega Man 3 and featured in this game only. Anyway, they are not unique in the series. In fact, in later games they are replaced by other items with the same characteristics:

1. they contain a random item;
2. they appear at fixed locations;
3. they cannot be transported.

Game	Item
Mega Man 3	?-cans
Mega Man 4 Mega Man 5 Mega Man 6	Eddie
Mega Man 4 (GB) Mega Man 5 (GB)	Eddie & Protoman
Mega Man 7	-
Mega Man 8 Mega Man & Bass	Surprise box (floating)