The NES version has received a Virtual Console re-release on the Wii, Nintendo 3DS, and Wii U, with the latter two versions including a save state ability, and is part of Legacy Collection for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, 3DS, and Nintendo Switch.
The game eventually saw a major re-release as part of Anniversary Collection for PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube and Xbox.
The game later received a 16-bit upgrade for the Sega Genesis as part of the Europe and Japan only Mega Man: The Wily Wars/ Rockman Megaworld cartridge (as well as the Japan-only Rockman 2: Complete Works PS1 port). Even Keiji Inafune himself calls this one his favorite game in the series. To this day, critics and fans alike consider Mega Man 2 not only one of the best NES games and one of the best games (if not the best game) in the whole series, but also one of the greatest video games of all time. While the original game was only a modest hit in Japan and an outright flop internationally, this sequel quickly put the series on the map worldwide and became the best-selling game in the entire series (over 1.5 million copies). Capcom also dropped the arcade-style score system from the original, but nobody really missed it. The presentation also received some extra love courtesy of well-designed stages, better sprite and artwork, a cartoony plethora of enemies cribbed from design contests, and a load of energetic 8-bit tunes to complete the picture. The boss roster received two extra slots (eight robots rather than six) and the stage designs are much improved over the previous game's.
Mega Man 2 offers two difficulty settings note only in the international versions the Japanese version only has the "Difficult" setting, a new password function, three special items, and energy-refilling E-Tanks to make the game more forgiving in difficulty. The developers made numerous changes, however, to make the gameplay more flexible and accessible to gamers. You, as Mega Man, run and gun through stages and defeat their bosses in a non-linear order while acquiring their weapons to use against another boss in a rock-paper-scissors strategy.
The core gameplay from the previous game remains largely the same. Light's industrial robots, these are designed to withstand and outmatch Mega Man - who, hero that he is, must defeat them and put down Dr.
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