With Mega Man 9 on the horizon sometime in September, Capcom has decided to keep building the hype by releasing the original Mega Man to the VC. Even better, they're wasting no time in doing so. The game will drop tomorrow, according to a post on the Capcom Unity Blog. I, for one, welcome back our Robot Masters.
The good news doesn't stop there, though. Early in September, Capcom plans to also release Mega Man 2. If you could see me right now, you would witness a man so full of love for the world. This is my favorite videogame of all time and now I finally have a reason to plug my Wii back in.
The popularity of the Mega Man series and Capcom's love of re-releasing, updating and utterly destroying its good name with endless lousy titles makes this bit of info unsurprising. We all knew the games would find their way to Virtual Console, we just didn't know when.
No word yet on if we'll be seeing more of the franchise, but I think they should probably stop with Mega Man 3. Okay, they can toss in the first three X games, but that's it. You hear me Capcom? No more.
[Via Capcom Unity Blog]
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3:04 PM on 08.03.2008
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i think youve been had america!
Also as wilbo said, Europe already had it for over a year.
A lot of people like to say MM5 is the lowest point of the series, but really, in 2008, MM2 is no better than 5. The original is probably the weakest game by now, but anyone with a love for the series really shouldn't mind that anyway.
And I don't know why people say Mega Man 5 is so bad. It's way better than 3,4, and 6.
megaman 9 already pleeeease
I have both Anniversary Collections and I'll be sticking with them, thanks. Still want Megaman 9 though.
Also Jonathan you have betrayed me saying that 5 is better than 3 or that 1 is better than 3. If you think that, then you sir aren't a Megaman fan.
you are weird!
We've had the original Mega Man and Mega Man II for a while now, I think.
At least, I'm pretty sure we do...
Also, I think there's some value in owning just the the plain 500 point Mega Man on VC.
If its following the trend of most other VC games, the title will be pretty much unfucked with. So it will at one not have the annoying "Navi" hint popups that the Anniversary collection does, and wont' have the slightly SNES looking snazzy Health and Weapon meters from the Collection. And And, maybe the select-elec cheat will work on the rock dude in Wily's castle (I don't think it worked in the Collection)
Also, that Mega Man II oughtta have that two difficulty levesl found in the original NA release.
Petty purist, archival collectionist nitpicks, I'll admit. But I'm in fact kinda psyched about playing the game with the sideways remote.
I'm willing to bet it will have the difficulty levels, because I just downloaded a cell phone version of Mega Man 2 and it has them.
capcom.. please also release rockman: mega world on the vc, or "mega man the wiley wars" that was an amazing compilation, if they didnt just upscale some of the sprites.. it would have been perfect.