Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge

Set in the 21st century ("200X"), ''Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge follows the storyline of the original Mega Man series. The titular protagonist Mega Man, a super robot created by the benevolent Dr. Light, has restored peace to the world by halting the plans of the evil Dr. Wily and his powerful "Robot Masters". In Dr. Wily's Revenge'', the mad scientist returns to send eight of his old Robot Masters to contend with the hero once again. After vanquishing four of the Robot Masters, Mega Man heads to Wily's fortress and deals with the remaining half of them. The protagonist then battles a new robot designed solely for destroying him, the "Mega Man Killer" Enker. As Mega Man defeats Enker and obtains his Mirror Buster ability, Wily retreats to a space station. Mega Man gives chase and, using the Mirror Buster, destroys Wily's newly built, final weapon. After putting a stop to his nemesis once again, Mega Man travels back home via space shuttle. ==Gameplay==

''Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge'' is an action-platformer that shares many similarities with its NES counterparts. The player, as Mega Man, is able to choose among four stages to complete in whatever order desired. Each boss is weak to another's weapon, allowing the player to strategize the order in which they are beaten. Although they do not have their own stages, the player earns the special weapons of these bosses. Once all four are defeated, the player faces a new robot master created for the game, Enker. ==Development==

According to series artist and producer Keiji Inafune, ''Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge was the first Mega Man'' game to be outsourced by Capcom for its development. He felt the game turned out well because the project's leader was a "huge Mega Man fan" who appeared to understand the games better than some of Capcom's own people. Because he thought much of his artwork from the original Mega Man was not aging well, Inafune redrew many of his old illustrations to be used for the game's enemy character sprites. To keep with the musical motif of naming characters, the new character Enker was named after the Japanese genre enka. The North American version of this game and the first DOS Mega Man game share a similar cover art. Instead of being an all new illustration, the ''Dr. Wily's Revenge North American artwork is a simple touch-up of Mega Man 3'''s regional cover, with the surrounding landscape and robot masters cropped out of the picture. ==Reception and legacy==

General critical reception for ''Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge has been above average, a popular opinion being that the game retains the respectable run-and-gun gameplay of the earliest NES entries in the series. "What makes this game especially attractive to adults," proclaimed Entertainment Weekly''s Bob Strauss, "is that you can begin your quest on any one of four stages, thus avoiding that linear, start-over-again-from-scratch quality that only 12-year-olds find hypnotic." Reviewers have also commented on the game's high difficulty level. Craig Skistimas of ScrewAttack stated that certain parts of the game simply require one to have played before in order to succeed. Nintendo Power readers voted it the fifth-best Game Boy game of that year. In North America, ''Dr. Wily's Revenge'' was released under Nintendo's Player's Choice best-seller label in 1996. The game was followed by four sequels on the Game Boy, of which the first three similarly recycle content from the NES games. Capcom had planned to release a full-color compilation of all five Game Boy games on the Game Boy Advance in 2004, but the project was cancelled. In 2011, ''Dr. Wily's Revenge'' was released as a Virtual Console launch title on the Nintendo eShop for the Nintendo 3DS in Japan and internationally the same year. It was also released on the Nintendo Classics service for the Nintendo Switch with its sequels on June 7, 2024. The character Enker, who debuted in ''Dr. Wily's Revenge, appeared as a boss in the Game Boy game Mega Man V and as a playable character in the Super Nintendo Entertainment System game Mega Man Soccer. A downloadable stage in Mega Man 10'' features Enker as its boss and his Mirror Buster weapon as the reward for beating him. ==Notes==