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Pokemon Snap, too.

It's Friday, and that means Nintendo has lined up another pair of ageing beauties to glide Sophia Loren-like across your router's DMZ into the beckoning, slightly sweaty arms of your Wii's onboard flash memory. This week it's Mega Man 2 and the amazingly brilliantly named Top Hunter.

Nintendo has also chucked N64 title Pokemon Snap onto Virtual Console, although that's been there since Tuesday when the last patch was released. Like other N64 titles, it costs 1000 Wii Points.

Mega Man 2, of course, needs no introduction.

Top Hunter is a NeoGeo game from the mid-'90s, which Wikipedia suggests was originally even more amazingly brilliantly named Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy, and which is - you will probably want to sit down for this one - a side-scrolling platform game that pits you against forest, ice, wind and fire planets in a battle to kill lots of enemies and bosses. It costs 900 Wii Points.

In that, Mega Man 2 (which I have recently been informed does need introduction) has little in common with it, seeing as it costs 500 Wii Points, although on the other counts they're quite similar: Mega Man wanders around 2D platform levels until he reaches the eight robot bosses and kills them, or doesn't and then has to do the level again. He is blue and fires stuff out of his arm.

However he doesn't look much like Top Hunter, as you will see from our Top Hunter screenshot gallery. We don't have any shots for Mega Man 2, but if you imagine a Mega Man game it looks like that. Dan Whitehead will be here tomorrow with verdicts rather than waffle. Er, probably.

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FortysixterUK #1 4 years ago

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Megaman was a pretty dull platformer when it was released, can't see any reason why that ahs changed for VC
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toy_brain #2 4 years ago

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Top hunter is pretty fun from what I remember.
I paid quite a bit for the AES version and got plenty of fun out of it. Its been several years now, but Neo-Geo games tend to age fairly well.
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Triggerhappytel #3 4 years ago

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I loved the Mega Man games on the GameBoy, but never played them on the NES or SNES. They were bastard hard, though.
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Ranger101 #4 4 years ago

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Woah woah woah guys. Megaman 2 is the best of the MM series, and the pinnacle of NES era platform shooters. Jeez, I would've thought Megaman 2 being released on VC would've been herelded in. It's an absolute gaming classic.

The music, the non-linear level system, the strategy with choosing the right weapon for the right bad guys and the right boss. The Music (again!). Serious gaming classic. A must.
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dudefella #5 4 years ago

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Ranger101: Spot on. Megaman 2 ROCKS.

Proof: http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=eOokbBMKzqE
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KraftWerk #6 4 years ago

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Mega Man is my religion.
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