I don't know if you are Megaman fans or if you come across this, but you have to see this! Capcom made a new release of Megaman (9). Against the common sense to move further and further with franchises and AAA, nextgen and all those picky buzzwords, they made it like Megaman 1 and 2 on the NES (or: "Famicon" in Japan).
This means: they took all restrictions, boundaries and problems you had time back then (limited enemies, flickering of sprites in certain situations, limited colors, 4bit music.. etc.) as artistic element, an approach to go back to the roots, make an new "original" Megaman release and satisfy at the same time the fans. You can download the game XBOX Live Arcade and also for Wii I think...
I find it very interesting. Capcom as afaik the first big company that does not simply "try" to reensemble old things in a new fashion (like Nintendo did in Zelda: Twillight Princess.. which is more a trip through all the old locations of the Zelda universe, especially OOT or enumerous other games). They truely stayed retro.
Dunno why, but this is very satisfying. A bright spot in that greasy landscape of nowadays games (and game development!!).
