Mega Man (Game Gear)

Mega Man (Game Gear version) is a Mega Man game released on USA for Game Gear in 1994.

Story
After so many tries, Dr. Wily came up with an idea to destroy Mega Man that is foolproof. His plan is to kidnap and hold Dr. Cossack and Kalinka as hostages while he uses his holograms to make him look like Dr. Cossack. He then revives some of his old creations and a few extras to help along. Mega Man naturally proceeds to stop the framed Dr. Cossack, not realizing the danger he's about to encounter.

Robot Masters
 Stage Select   Cossack Citadel 
 * Stone Man
 * Napalm Man
 * Bright Man
 * Star Man
 * Wave Man
 * Toad Man

Walkthrough
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Trivia

 * Despite the fact Dr. Wily is masquerading as Dr. Cossack, only two of the robots you can fight -- Bright Man and Toad Man -- were created by Dr. Cossack. The other four were created by Dr. Wily himself.


 * Furthermore, we never see Dr. Wily as Dr. Cossack in-game. The introduction screens don't even make mention of Dr. Cossack.  Only Dr. Wily.


 * Star Man's Face icon has a miscolor,as his helmet is green,but in gameplay,his helmet is Gold/Yellow/Orange.


 * Freestyle Software did a marvelous job keeping all stages and enemies accurate to their NES counterparts and even improved in some areas. However, given the smaller screen size, this can lead to some interesting "leap of faith"-style jumps, especially for players who've never played Mega Man before.


 * Interestingly enough, Beat, Eddie and Proto Man are both missing from this game, as is Dr. Light. Power-ups that would have been dropped by Eddie are just laying where he would have been.


 * Unlike all other Mega Man games, you're only allowed to have two buster shots on-screen at once, instead of the usual allotment of three.


 * A fully-charged buster shot does 4 units of damage instead of 3 in this game.


 * The Robot Masters in this game all act and move considerably faster and more aggressively than their NES counterparts.


 * Most of the weaponry in this game is just called "(Robot Master name) Weapon" when you gain it. The Napalm Bomb and Rain Flush weapons are called "Bomb" and "Rain Weapon", respectively.  The exception is the Star Crash, which is just called the "Crash Weapon."


 * If a Robot Master has a weakness in this game, it does 4 units of damage. No more, no less.


 * Wave Man's theme was changed to Gravity Man's theme for this game.


 * Wave Man also has no weakness outside of the Mega Buster.


 * Skull Castle consists of one stage (a graphically-enhanced version of Quick Man's stage) then a hallway which leads to the final battle with Dr. Wily (and a small final Wily stage that was taken from Mega Man 5).


 * Interestingly, even though we see Skull Castle before fighting Dr. Wily, it's actually Cossack Citadel that's exploding in the end of the game.