In a very surprising twist, the latest installment to the main megaman series – MEGAMAN 9, will be going back to its roots. Not just figuratively, but literally.

The game will feature Megaman and his enemies in his NES era glory and gameplay. The game will feature megaman, and the entire environment in their old school NES sprites. Even the gameplay will be based on the NES classic. This is certainly a big gamble on CAPCOM’s part to release old school styles gameplay and graphics to today’s modern gamers.

It is expected that the entire gaming community will be divided on this game for as long as the gameplay versus graphics battle exist.

However, with the good news, come the bad news. The earlier rumors of this game being on all 3 platforms were recently deconfirmed. This game will only be available for Nintendo’s Wiiware service.

UPDATE: now available for all three systems (PS3, 360, Wii) Hurray!!!