{"id":17,"date":"2008-09-23T21:26:48","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T01:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2011-02-20T23:09:47","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T03:09:47","slug":"mega-man-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/23\/mega-man-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Mega Man 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mega Man 9<\/em> just came out yesterday for the Wii Virtual Console. It’s an old-school 2D platformer in the style of the original Mega Man<\/em> series (MM1-6), with 8-bit graphics and sounds. The developers even made some promotional box art<\/a>, reminiscent of the original Mega Man<\/em> box art<\/a>. Unfortunately, since the game can only be downloaded, only a select few will be able to get their hands on the boxes.<\/p>\n

Mega Man 9<\/em> will be coming out for the Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network in the near future; I’m going to wait until it does so to get it. Not only is the Xbox 360 controller far<\/strong> superior to the Wiimote for platformers, but the XBLA version comes with some of the most hardcore achievements<\/a> of almost any Xbox 360 title to date.<\/p>\n

Being an XBLA title, it’s already at a disadvantage compared to regular Xbox 360 games \u2014 only 200 achievement points instead of 1000. In most games, you can often get about 1\/4 to 1\/2 of the achievement points by playing through the game and beating it once. Some games, though, especially the ones that came out early in the 360’s life, are pathetically easy – if you pick the right games, you can get 6000 points<\/a> without really trying.<\/p>\n

But Mega Man 9<\/em> is different. Beat the game, and you get a paltry 5 points out of 200. Scoring all 200 points is worth some serious bragging rights, but you’re playing the wrong game if you’re a Gamerscore whore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mega Man 9 just came out yesterday for the Wii Virtual Console. It’s an old-school 2D platformer in the style of the original Mega Man series (MM1-6), with 8-bit graphics and sounds. The developers even made some promotional box art, reminiscent of the original Mega Man box art. Unfortunately, since the game can only be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}