Mega Man gets his flicker on

Looks like Capcom are really going all out to please nostalgia fans with the upcoming Mega Man 9. In a recent interview with producer Hironobu Takeshita, he confirmed that you would have an option to turn on old-school glitches.

"On the NES you couldn't have more than three enemies on the screen at once, so we had to make sure that that's how it stayed in our game. At the part with the dragon and flames, there should be flickering and whatnot".

"In the options of this game, you can adjust that, unlike the old games. We purposely put some of those old-school bugs in, so it does recreate that feel".

I've also heard the game crashes unless you blow air into the Wii slot. It's gonna be good.

Rob Jones

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User comments

JRAPOCALYPSE said:

I just got two words, SWEET NOSTALGIA.

blab355 said:

This is complete and udder AWESOMENESS.

Diddy Kong Lover said:

Ok this is a bit much, couldn't they make it like the SNES games.

Nintendoof said:

The sweet smell of CLASSIC.

Mr Friend said:

I think the option to add those glitches in says something about the development team's dedication, but I for one will leave them off.

ffdgh said:

lol at goomba.

Nova said:

It's cool and all, but it may be a dangerous idea to go backwards instead of forwards. The video game industry can only survive if new ideas are presented and technological (as well well as gameplay) progress is achieved. Now it's fine that they do this sometimes but I hope we won't be seeing much more.

Master Foot said:

Since glitches like this from the 8-bit era are now back in style, I guess screen tearing low res textures will be the new retro "thing" in the next 20 years.