Mega Man 4 heading to Virtual Console

By Tom Bramwell Published 15 April, 2010

Plus WiiWare and DSiWare updates.

Nintendo has announced this week's line-up of Wii and DSi digital downloads, due out on WiiWare, Virtual Console and DSiWare tomorrow.

To begin with, Virtual Console fans can get their saturated mitts on the retro stylings of Mega Man 4, presumably the NES version since it's 500 Wii Points.

WiiWare watchers, however, can choose between arena-based fighting game Rage of the Gladiator (1000 WP), which even supports Wii MotionPlus, and the basic-sounding Bloons (500 WP), in which you pop balloons for 70 levels.

DSi owners have an even broader choice, meanwhile. First there's the fantastically named Combat of Giants: Dinosaurs - Fight For Survival, in which you pick a breed of dinosaur and go on a fighty adventure, all for 800 DSi Points.

Then there's Mr Driller: Drill Till You Drop for 500 DSi Points, derived from the arcade classic and promising 40 stages of drilling.

Elsewhere there's System Flaw: Recruit, which is also 500 DSi Points and which involves investigating your surroundings using the DSi's camera to progress through 100 levels.

Finally there's Pocket Pack Words & Numbers, another 500-pointer, which is a compilation of word and number games including anagrams, sudoku and kakuro.

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Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (8) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • KDR_11k #1 2 years ago

    I believe System Flaw was released as retail in the US? Or maybe that was another game using the exact same trick. Either way it was criticised for being way too simple for a retail game, I guess at 500 points it may be acceptable.

  • carrotcake #2 2 years ago

    Noticed mm4 on the nintendo site. That's cool, keep going Capcom. The only one they can't release on virtual console is playstation's mm8, but that is what psn is for.

  • thisisatempaccount #3 2 years ago

    I would actually rather see the Gameboy Megamans (Megamen?) on the VC, as they're much harder to find (inasmuch as it's 'easy' to get a hold of any pre-128bit game these days).

    Megaman 4 seems to be universally maligned, but while it doesn't quite match up to the stellar 2 and 3 there's still a lot of really interesting stuff going on (Dust Man in particular has an unremittingly bleak world strewn with danger and decay). Enviromental puzzles and minibosses are nothing new, but this is the game in which memories of both really stick out from the series.

  • SlackMaster #4 2 years ago

    It'd be nice if they sorted out the slow down that seem to plague MM3 to 6 on the VC versions.

  • muscleblade #5 2 years ago

    I want the first Mega man games on XBLA. The first 4 at least.

  • muscleblade #6 2 years ago

    "It'd be nice if they sorted out the slow down that seem to plague MM3 to 6 on the VC versions. "

    It used to plague the NES versions too when theres lots of enemies on screen.

  • My1stLoveJak #7 2 years ago

    MM4 was a pretty sweet game, even with the stupid charge shot. This game still had some cool bosses, like Drill Man, Dive Man, Dust Man...I'll probably buy MM4 when it comes out, but that's as far as I go! Centaur Man, Tomahawk Man...can we just forget about MM6, please? No way I'm buying that sequel, haha

  • aine #8 2 years ago

    More Mr. Driller is always good news. :D