This article is about the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Famicom game. For the Game Boy game, see Mega Man II (1991 video game). For the arcade game, see Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters.
1988 video game
Mega Man 2
North American box art by Marc Ericksen
Developer(s)
Capcom
Publisher(s)
Capcom
Director(s)
Akira Kitamura
Producer(s)
Tokuro Fujiwara
Programmer(s)
Nobuyuki Matsushima
Artist(s)
Yasuaki Kishimoto
Naoya Tomita
Keiji Inafune
Akira Kitamura
Composer(s)
Takashi Tateishi
Series
Mega Man
Platform(s)
Nintendo Entertainment System, PlayStation, Mobile phone, iOS, Android
Release
December 24, 1988
Famicom / NES
JP: December 24, 1988[2]
NA: June 1989[1]
PAL: December 14, 1990[3]
PlayStation
JP: September 2, 1999[4]
Mobile phone
NA: June 2007[5]
iOS
NA: March 26, 2009[6]
Android
WW: January 5, 2017
Genre(s)
Action, platform
Mode(s)
Single-player
Mega Man 2[a] (stylized as MEGA MAN II) is an action game developed and published by Capcom for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was released in Japan in 1988 and in North America and PAL regions the following years. Mega Man 2 continues Mega Man's battle against the evil Dr. Wily and his rogue robots. It introduced graphical and gameplay changes, many of which became series staples.
Although sales for the original Mega Man were unimpressive, Capcom allowed the team to create a sequel. They worked concurrently on other Capcom projects, using their free time to develop the game, using unused content from the first game. Takashi Tateishi composed the soundtrack, with Yoshihiro Sakaguchi serving as a sound programmer.
Mega Man 2 is the second best selling Mega Man game, with more than 1.51 million copies sold. Critics praised its audio, visuals and gameplay as an improvement over the first game. Many publications rank Mega Man 2 as the best game in the series and one of the greatest video games of all time. The game's soundtrack has also been considered one of the greatest video game soundtracks of all time. It has been included in several game compilations such as Mega Man Legacy Collection, rereleased for mobile devices, and become a part of console emulation services. A sequel, Mega Man 3, was released in 1990.
^Nintendo staff. "NES Games" (PDF). Nintendo. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 21, 2010. Retrieved September 24, 2011.
^Mega Man: Official Complete Works. Udon Entertainment. January 6, 2010. pp. 10–5. ISBN 978-1-897376-79-9.
^Rignall, Julian; Matt Regan (January 1991). "Mega Man II Review". Mean Machines. No. 4. EMAP. pp. 16–19. ISSN 0960-4952.
^Mega Man: Official Complete Works. Udon Entertainment. January 6, 2010. pp. 96–7. ISBN 978-1-897376-79-9.
^Vasconcellos, Eduardo (June 26, 2007). "Mega Man II Review". IGN. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
^Buchanan, Levi (March 26, 2009). "Mega Man II on App Store". IGN. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
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