History VideoGame / MegaManDOS

Two years later, the game would get a sequel titled ''[[UnInstallment Mega Man 3]]: The Robots are Revolting''. What little plot there is in this installment seems to be borrowed from [[VideoGame/MegaMan3 the NES game of the same game]]; six Robot Masters have gone berserk, and it's up to Mega Man to defeat them and find energy crystals ([[AllThereInTheManual Not that the latter actually appear in the game itself, anyway]]) before confronting Dr. Wily.

Two years later, the game would get a sequel titled ''[[UnInstallment Mega Man 3]]: The Robots are Revolting''. What little plot there is in this installment seems to be borrowed from [[VideoGame/MegaMan3 the NES game]]; six Robot Masters have gone berserk, and it's up to Mega Man to defeat them and find energy crystals ([[AllThereInTheManual Not that the latter actually appear in the game itself, anyway]]) before confronting Dr. Wily.

The first game was made entirely by Stephen Rozner, with the second having his brother William Rozner involved with making graphics. Both games are notorious for their awkward controls and physics, awkward sprite work, and overall lack of polish. However, the first game was able to achieve relatively smooth horizontal and vertical scrolling on DOS even before the original VideoGame/CommanderKeen, which was a fairly impressive accomplishment, and Rozner would later go on to do the MS-DOS port of the VideoGame/MegaManX1 ''with only the audiovisual assets'', having to code it entirely from scratch.

* DeadlyDroplets: Dyna Man's stage in the original has red damaging droplets. In 3, two thirds of robot master stages have the same hazard.

* ExcusePlot: The story is simply "Infiltrate Wily's base, get the key cards from the robots, and defeat Wily in the core room".

* DolledUpInstallment: Stephen and William Rozner originally developed it as an environmentally-themed game titled ''Eco Man'', but Hi Tech Expressions only agreed to publish it if it was turned into a ''Mega Man'' game, since they had an exclusive publishing deal with Creator/{{Capcom}}.

The first game was made entirely by Stephen Rozner, with the second having his brother William Rozner involved with making graphics. Both games are notorious for their awkward controls and physics, awkward sprite work, and overall lack of polish.

Two years later, the game would get a sequel titled ''[[{{Unstallment}} Mega Man 3]]: The Robots are Revolting''. What little plot there is in this installment seems to be borrowed from [[VideoGame/MegaMan3 the NES game]]; six Robot Masters have gone berserk, and it's up to Mega Man to defeat them and find energy crystals ([[AllThereInTheManual Not that the latter actually appear in the game itself, anyway]]) before confronting Dr. Wily.

Two years later, the game would get a sequel titled ''Mega Man 3: The Robots are Revolting''. What little plot there is in this installment seems to be borrowed from [[VideoGame/MegaMan3 the NES game]]; six Robot Masters have gone berserk, and it's up to Mega Man to defeat them and find energy crystals ([[AllThereInTheManual Not that the latter actually appear in the game itself, anyway]]) before confronting Dr. Wily.

* DummiedOut:
** Code for a simple anti-piracy measure can be found; it would have worked by showing an enemy from the game, and requesting that the player type the name given to the enemy in the manual.
** On top of 16 different levels of gravity/anti-gravity (of which only 6 are used), tiles can be set to have one of 8 levels of friction or conveyor belt speeds, with only one of each being used in the final game.

* EternalEngine: ''Every single level'' is at least partially one of these (Sonic Man's stage doubles as DownTheDrain, with Dyna Man mixing in DownInTheDumps). [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as the whole game takes place in Wily's lair.

* NonstandardCharacterDesign: Most of the enemies look oddly realistic, to the point where you'd be forgiven for thinking they aren't robots.

* NonstandardCharacterDesign: All three of the Robot Masters have unnatural eye shapes and sclera colors.

Two years later, the game would get a sequel titled ''Mega Man 3: The Robots are Revolting'' (the reason for skipping over ''2'' is anyone's guess). What little plot there is in this installment seems to be borrowed from [[VideoGame/MegaMan3 the NES game]]; six Robot Masters have gone berserk, and it's up to Mega Man to defeat them and find energy crystals ([[AllThereInTheManual Not that the latter actually appear in the game itself, anyway]]) before confronting Dr. Wily.

** The box of ''The Robots are Revolting'' simply uses a cropped version of the box for the NES version of ''VideoGame/MegaMan3'', removing Rush, but ''not'' Spark Man.

* SpreadShot: Blade Launcher and Water Shooter both fire spreads of projectiles (blades for Blade Launcher, water balls for Water Shooter) at an upwards angle. Blade Launcher's projectiles can fly, while Water Shooter's move in an arc.

** Code for a simple anti-piracy measure can be found; it would have worked by showing an enemy from the game, and requesting that the player type the name given to the enemy in the manual. Since said manual doesn't actually have the names, hacking the game to find the right answers is the only way to learn what most of the game's enemies are named.

A FanRemake combining the two games, known as ''VideoGame/MegamanDOSRemake'', is also available.

* AllThereInTheManual: What little plot there is can only be found on the boxes of the games, which is also the only place where the subtitle for ''Mega Man 3'' can be found

* HoppingMachine: Of the 12 bosses in the two games combined, the only that move through means other than jumping are Sonic Man (who swims), Bit Man (who runs into walls), CRORQ (who walks back and forth), and Dr. Wily in ''3'' (who floats in a pool of green liquid).

* PinballProjectile: Sonic Wave is a sound wave that bounces off solid surfaces.

* SpreadShot: Blade Launcher and Water Shooter both fire spreads of projectiles (blades for Blade Launcher, water balls for Water Shooter) in an upward spread. Blade Launcher's projectiles can fly, while Water Shooter's move in an arc.