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Who would have known Princess Peach was such a tease?

From the CGTalk forum, as seen on Kotaku

The Nintendo E3 conference was not as shocking and unexpected as the Microsoft conference the day before.  After all, the killer app (the Wiimote extension Wii Motion Plus) was revealed a day earlier.  Quite frankly, they don’t need to wow anyone.  Nintendo already dominates the mindshare of the mainstream consumer, and their conference really exploited that fact: the core gamer games were almost non-existent. The fact that the Nintendo conference was not targeted toward their loyal and rabid fanbase is pretty much a slap in the face and not a good sign of what’s to come.   NOA President Reggie Fils-Aime’s response on G4? “How could you feel left out?  The Animal Crossing that we’ve been hearing about that people wanted. Fully connected to the Internet, go to other people’s towns. Plus as I said, Grand Theft Auto on the DS. How do you feel left out with those types of announcements?”  Yeah, ok.  Anyhoo, casual games incoming!

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E3 2008 has already been filled with megaton announcements…and we’re not even through the first day!  Highlights of the day include a new Wiimote motion controller addon presumably featuring 1:1 motion detection, release dates for the second chapters of Fable and Gears of War, the update to XBox Live, and Final Fantasy XIII for the 360.  Yes.  The Xbox.  Dogs and cats living together total hysteria!

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Megaman 9 is coming to WiiWare!

The original Megaman franchise will be returning to consoles, according to several scanned images from the upcoming issue of Nintendo Power via the folks at the NeoGAF forums.

From the forums, the supposed roster for the robot masters include Magma Man, Galaxy Man, Jewel Man, Tornado Man, Concrete Man, Hornet Man, Plug Man, and Splash Woman(!), covering all the traditional weather environments as well as including a robot mistress for the first time in the series.

While it’s definitely true that the Mega Man series has perennially jumped the sharkman (the phenomena of the early games in new Megaman series starting out well and then degenerating into crap),  what makes this case extra special is that Capcom is seemingly returning to its 8-bit roots for this game and styling it to match the old NES era sprite graphics.

The Blue Bomber has always held a special place in my heart as the first third party NES game I have ever played.  Mega Man 2 and 3 are some of my all-time favorites on the console and just the mention of this incredible news brings back memories of early morning gaming sessions as a nine year old throwing metal blades at those stupid bats in the Woodman stage.  Props to Capcom: this is a good move!

How about Mega Man 2 and 3 to the Virtual Console to accompany 9, eh? EH!

Mega Man 9 – CONFIRMED for WiiWare! Time to clean out yo fridge!
OMG: Retro-Styled Mega Man 9 on WiiWare