The Most Mega of Men

Must…stop…hyperventilating!  They’re coming out with Megaman 9, and some holiest of holies has inspired them to make it a retro game!  Sweet mother of Christmas!  It looks like it will be available for download for the Wii, 360, and PS3 for whatever amount of money equates to 1000 wii points.  You should totally go read more about this game, as it looks like they took the Megaman 1, 2, and 3 engine and just made a new game with it.  This pretty much instantly takes me back to the mental state of a 10 year old…except I’m pretty much always in that mental state so there’s not far to travel.

As someone who played Megaman and any Megaman game no matter which combination of numbers and/or letters were placed behind it, I can tell you with no ego that this game will rock your fucking socks off.  They nailed the equation so well the first time around that even Pythagoras had to do a double-take.  Chaos in civilized lands?  Check.   A grouping of six to eight robot masters causing all the trouble?  check.  Some big bad mo-fo with a terrible afro behind it all? Typically, check, though sometimes they tried to make him cooler but it ended up just being more lame than an evil doctor with crazy hair.  This will only add fuel to my propensity for randomly including Megaman villains in everyday conversation.

It also looks like Capcom is selling t-shirts for the game with hilarious bad spoof artwork that mocks their screw up on the original game’s artwork.  Also, if you’re visually inclined (sorry to those of you reading this in braille) then head over to AZM and watch the gameplay youtube.  Did I mention that I’m flipping stoked about this?  I hope it opens up the potential for tons more NEW retro games to be released on the virtual platforms.