| Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge | |
|---|---|
 North American cover art | |
| Developer(s) | Minakuchi Engineering |
| Publisher(s) | Capcom Nintendo (EU) |
| Producer(s) | Tokuro Fujiwara |
| Designer(s) | Masashi Kato |
| Programmer(s) | Masatsugu Shinohara |
| Artist(s) | Keiji Inafune Hayato Kaji Miki Kijima Etsuko Taniguchi |
| Composer(s) | Makoto Tomozawa |
| Series | Mega Man |
| Platform(s) | Game Boy |
| Release | |
| Genre(s) | Action, platform |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge, also known as Mega Man in Dr. Wily's Revenge or in Japan as Rockman World[a] is an action-platform video game by Capcom for the Nintendo Game Boy. It is the first game in the handheld series of the Mega Man franchise. It was released in Japan on July 26, 1991, and was localized in North America that December and in Europe the following year. The game continues the adventures of the android hero Mega Man as he once again confronts the evil Dr. Wily, who has dispatched his revived "Robot Masters" and a new "Mega Man Killer" named Enker.
Dr. Wily's Revenge is an action and platform game in the same vein as the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Mega Man games. The player is tasked with completing a series of four stages in any order desired. Beating a stage's boss will earn the player a special weapon that can be selected at will and used throughout the rest of the game. Dr. Wily's Revenge specifically takes components of the original Mega Man and Mega Man 2, including their enemies, stage aesthetics, and Robot Masters.
According to series artist Keiji Inafune, Dr. Wily's Revenge was the first Mega Man game to be outsourced to a developer separate from Capcom. Critical reception for the game has been favorable, and most sources have denoted it as a competent, if excessively difficult, portable version of the popular NES series. Dr. Wily's Revenge was a best-seller and spawned four sequels of its own on the Game Boy, many of which follow its trend of reusing elements from their home console counterparts. In 2011, Dr. Wily's Revenge was made available as a Virtual Console launch title on Japan's Nintendo eShop for the Nintendo 3DS. It also appeared on PAL region and North American eShops later that year.
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- ^ Mega Man: Official Complete Works. Udon Entertainment. January 6, 2010. pp. 64–65. ISBN 978-1-897376-79-9.
- ^ East, Thomas (September 12, 2011). "Mega Man: Dr Wily's Revenge coming to 3DS eShop this week". Official Nintendo Magazine. Future plc. Archived from the original on November 3, 2014. Retrieved September 16, 2011.
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