Mega Man 9 Delivers Classic Gaming at its Best

Back in June, we first learned of Capcom’s brilliant move in releasing another 8-bit title, and as it happened, you could hear the millions of gamers lose their breath for a few moments after realizing that it meant a new Mega Man game was on the horizon. There’s few people who’ve grown up with a console and haven’t played a Mega Man game, so the excitement is definitely shared all over the world.

The game has launched on the Nintendo Wii already, and according to initial reports, it’s already sold 60,000 copies. Thursday will see the Playstation 3’s launch, while gamers on the Xbox 360, for whatever reason, will have to wait until next Wednesday to get their hands on the blue bomber.

IGN has a video review available that says what we were expecting… the game delivers more of what we love. It features 8-bit everything… graphics, audio, even the glitches that we’ve come to expect from old NES titles. Capcom really has a winner on their hands here, so hopefully we’ll see them continue this tradition and also see other developers take the hint.

You’re going to get the same experience on every version overall, but those that want to sit down and critique the truly minimal differences between the builds will find that the emulation between the three versions is going to differ ever so slightly. The Wii version has more of the 8-bit look overall to it, but that also means there are harder edges, and a more pronounced “blocky” look.