Here's hoping for another 8-bit Summer like last year!

Sorry Rory, I'm a huge fan of the show and so far your arguments (except for #5) don't sound strong enough to completely avoid it. Maybe NL's and the other existing bad reviews in other sites support getting this game in a bargain bin, but you never addressed the story or voice acting of this game! Was it AMC quality, or just completely coffee table coaster-worth?

Looks great and pretty intense. However.....there's something about it (the level design so far and characters) that doesn't seem very "Capcom" to me......so I have a "wait and see" attitude.

Spot-on review Phillip. This was my exact same impression of playing this game after downloading it - my memory served me as this game being a "step down", but replaying it made me re-think my opinion. It's a little more fun and colorful than what I remember it to be, but some of the level music probably needs work on the catchiness Mega Man 3 left us. Definitely still worth getting though based on the things you pointed out above. And on its own, it's a solid and enjoyable platformer.

This game also has one of my favorite Mega Man boss music tracks.......up there with Mega Man 2, 3, and X2.

Really well written article - I enjoyed the interview and seeing not only the perspective but the history of a Scandinavian game publisher. Brjann also had an opinion of the DSiWare shop that didn't occur to me before. I'm an advanced gamer but I do thoroughly enjoy platfomers (the late 80's and early 90's made a big impact on my taste), so I'm hoping Steamworld Dig has a storyline that expands as the game goes on. There's a lot of good word about this new title so I will be checking it out in depth once it arrives into the "stores"!

P.S. More interviews like this, please, Nintendo Life! Brjann had a lot of good insight about the industry and this is the kind of stuff the gamers should be exposed to.

Wow, it's great reading everyone's memories of these toys. I loved them, but since my parents were pretty tight with the toy money, I only had 10 of them. I didn't think I'd wouldn't see them again after a couple of years (they wound up soon at the Thrifty Drug Store toy section). I remember the commercial vividly and only found out last year they were related to the Transformers.

Just last year I looked them up on Ebay and yep, out of my price range. But I still have my toys somewhere in my parents's garage. At least, I'm pretty sure. I would love to own them all someday!

I'm confused why this article is titled "Super Pang" and listed as a game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment system, when in fact it was a game for the Super Famicom. This name is the Japanese version of that game.....correct?

Was it called "Super Pang" in Europe? Then I would understand.

Definitely different times for the 3DS since 2011. I'm glad to hear the Wii U is also being stocked up with supposed-quality games, but I don't think it's anythng stressful for the consumer. More options = happy gamers.

And somehow in that equation above, more options also means that even though we can't buy or play all the games at once due to "financial or time constraints", this factor is still a positive note due to the fact that over tme, games drop in prices anyway as competition for your hard-earned dollar sizzles!

All good news to me!

It's on sale this week, and I've heard how good this game is. Might be worth my Mario munnies if I'm sold by it's demo. I'm a huge fan of retro games and always cautious about my purchases. I love Gunman Clive so I'm pretty sure I'll love this one too.

Philip - understandable! It's just that I know your love for the franchise (at least as high as mine!) but you're right, there are VC reviews on this site too.

No offense taken, I hope.

Mega Man 3 definitely outdid Mega Man 2 in terms of fun, challenge, colors and a more interesting story. It gets "darker" from this point on.

One note for Nintendo Life: I love Phillip Reed's writing, love for retro games and excellent game reviews, but could we have a NON-Mega Man fan write the rest of the Virtual Console Mega Man reviews? It'd be nice to have a non-biased reviewer take a look at these retro games and maybe even offer a perspective that some of us retro gamers might be overlooking.

This is the best one in the series so I'm looking forward to this immensely! Say what you want about Mega Man 2 - Mega Man 3 is a solid successor.

Oh yeah, one more thing. I own this portable version on the GBA, which has gotten many hours, so I'm not exactly motivated to pick this version up. If I already own a cartridge portable version, why bother?

Loved all the Castlevanias I've played so far. The original and part IV are the best IMHO. I have yet to play Simon's Quest, but I'm not looking forward to bothering due to the bad things I hear about it. I did download Castlevania III on the Wii VC, and barely started it.

Guys, try this one out if you're a Castlevania fan. You can't go wrong with the original and you'll probably enjoy seeing the first appearances of the common enemies!

By the way, Castlevania Chronicles on the PS is a great version. I downloaded it off the PSN and it's a nice 16-bit version of the Commodore game. Also, I am very interested in playing Dracula X on the SNES..........once I beat Rondo of Blood of course

Love my Game Boy but mine broke somehow. The machine won't work and there's a Japanese character sitting squarely in the middle of the screen! I still have a list of original Game Boy games I'd like to own - maybe it's time, now that it's only getting older and hard to find, to make the effort to get them!

For those of you that have it on your 3DS.......you guys got that copy for FREE (unless I'm missing out on something?). If I had that opportunity to get that at 30 cents too on a home console, it's a no-brainer to drop the money that would have cost you 3 phone calls back in 1985!

Hey guys, help me out please So, I don't own a Wii U yet, but right now, if I purchased one, would:
1. it cost me money to transfter the games over to the Wii U?
2. it include, if it does cost me money, those third-party titles like Final Fantasy IV: After Years, Mega Man 9, Contra Rebirth, etc.?
3. it change in some sort of way by transferring it over? Meaning, would it still be on my Wii console too?

Thanks for any replies in advance!!

I can relate with MadAussieBloke - Tropical Fish was one of my first video games and to this day I remember the purchase of it. I had that little game for many many years and I'm sure it's stashed somewhere at my parents house. Granted, I carved my name on it but I remember getting so good at it and even using it as an alarm clock when I woke up in the mornings as a child.....even when I had no reason to!

My brother got Donkey Kong Jr. the same day and I have memories with that game too.

Nowadays, both can be found on GBA's Game & Watch Gallery 4, but I still wish Tropical Fish had its own DSi game just like Donkey Kong Jr. G&W. I have that game on my 3DS and it's nice how the graphics have made the screen even feel like the original toy.

I just downloaded the Game & Watch game "Chef" on the 3DS, just to get a similar feel to Tropical Fish. I'm glad I grew up in this era as I can still appreciate the simplicity of these kind of games.

Not difficult to accept! All I asked was if those older unlicensed games I mentioned met your criteria or not, but you just answered that

You're totally entitlled to shape your collection the way you want. I buy games to play them and associate a little bit of my 8-bit nostalgia. I asked if those Tengen and Camerica games were in your collection because they are also unlicensed but created in a box and instructions just like these homebrews were. Except for the part that they were actual companies.

Of course it matters how good or bad unlicensed games are. That's one of the points from this thread above and what I'm trying to convey to the rest of my fellow gamers - just because it is not licensed by Nintendo, it's not necessarily a complete judgment call on its quality.

Omega - your collection also does not include the super-rare unlicensed Camerica and Tengen games from the late 80's, right? I remember those were sought after and would guess have a high degree of value due to the number created, especially the Tengen Tetris game.

Don't judge a game by it's lack of license! There's enough games out there that didn't get the Nintendo Seal of Quality to justify this argument.

Tasuki just reminded me why I was so upset with the GC version of MMAC - so much that I returned it for the PS2 version. All it took was one button configuration mishap to make me drop it.

Anybody know any good Christmas-themed games..? Just curious. And good ones, mind you.

This needs a North American release...! Big River City Ransom and Nintendo World Cup Soccer fan here!

By the way, this report is the SECOND best news I've heard all day

Isn't the link to SFXMM just: www.capcom-unity.com/mega_man ?

Did they take it down already? Glad I have mine, then...

By the way, it's ENCOURAGED to download the version from the Capcom website, as Capcom-Japan is keeping its Mega eye on it........

The only Mega Man games I haven't played yet are the PC versions of Mega Man 1 and Mega Man 3. Which have new bosses too..........."Shark Man" anyone?

I owned them all as a kid and remember beating Mega Man 3 the same day I bought it. I still have all of them with their boxes.