Kamegoro Maker (カメゴローメーカー Kamegorō Mēkā) is the boss of the first Wily Castle stage in Mega Man 3, an invincible machine that moves on a rail. It releases robotic turtles called Kamegoro into the water and controls them. The Kamegoros were originally created to verify the quality of water.
As Mega Man destroys a Kamegoro, the health meter of the Kamegoro Maker will deplete much quicker for each one destroyed.
Mega Man 3[]
Attack Pattern[]
Kamegoro Maker's arena is almost completely flooded with water. All of the walls and the floor are lined up with small pipes. During the fight, one of the pipes will emit a water current in the direction it is aiming. The water current is a small whirlpool that does no damage, but will push Mega Man along with it, even carrying him upwards if he's standing on it. There will always be a water current in play at all times, and the order of which they are sent out is random; once a water current disappears, any of the pipes can be selected to start generating the next water current.
The Kamegoro Maker itself moves along a horizontal rail above the water, immune to conventional attacks. After some time, the Kamegoro Maker will stop moving and release a robotic turle called a Kamegoro. The Kamegoro will move along the arena in a diagonal path, bouncing along the walls, and are the main to be destroyed. If left alone for a while, the Kamegoro will detatch its shell to speed up slightly. The shell hovers in place along the water, and can also be destroyed. The shell explodes upon destruction, but the explosion does not hurt the player. Once a Kamegoro is destroyed, the Kamegoro Maker will move around again before releasing the next Kamegoro. There are 5 Kamegoros that will get sent out, and each one gets progressively faster than the other.
Once the last Kamegoro is destroyed, the Kamegoro Maker self-destructs.
Weaknesses[]
Each Kamegoro has 3 HP, but there are a myriad of weapons that can destroy them in one hit. These include Hard Knuckle, Top Spin, Search Snake, and Shadow Blade. Shadow Blade is popular to use because of its multi-aiming, but Top Spin is definitely the best weapon to use as it'll make Mega Man invincible to the Kamegoros as long as he's spinning.
Hits Data Chart[]
Amount of shots/hits from Special Weapons it takes to destroy each Kamegoro.
| Mega Man 3 | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mega Buster | Needle Cannon | Magnet Missile | Gemini Laser | Hard Knuckle | Top Spin | Search Snake | Spark Shock | Shadow Blade | |||
| 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | * | 1 | |||
- Spark Shock will freeze the Kamegoro or its shell, but will not do damage.
Other media[]
Kamegoro Maker in Captain N: The Game Master.
Captain N: The Game Master[]
Kamegoro Maker and the Kamegoros appear in episode 32 as a trap in Wily's castle. The Kamegoros attack with powerful bites and are called "robot turtles" by Wily, and the Kamegoro Maker is a green retractable tube in the wall that releases three Kamegoros, which are avoided by Mega Man by throwing the Shadow Blade in the buttons of the Kamegoro Maker, making it suck in the water and the Kamegoros.
Mega Man (Archie Comics)[]
Kamegoro Maker in the Mega Man comic.
Kamegoro Maker and Kamegoros appear in one panel from issue 46, where Mega Man faces them in the sewers of the third Wily Castle, after some Penpens.
Etymology[]
- Kame (カメ) is Japanese for "turtle" and Gorō (ゴロー) is a common Japanese male given name that means "fifth son", possibly referring to the fact that Kamegoro Maker releases five Kamegoros.
Trivia[]
- Kamegoros also appear as enemies in the Mega Man 3 handheld game, where they are called "Turtles".
- The pattern at which the Kamegoro Maker's health is depleted is a reference to the Fibonacci sequence: two HP for the first one destroyed, three HP for the second one, five HP for the third, eight HP for the fourth one, and the last Kamegoro will deplete the last 10 HP for the Kamegoro Maker (though it is possible it was programmed to be 13, which is actually the next number on the sequence).
- In real life, turtles have shells whose plates follow the Fibonacci sequence.
- The Kamegoro Maker appears to be the spiritual successor of CWU-01P, as their fights share similar elements in design.