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All is calm, all is bright. I hope you’re enjoying your vacation time, assuming you are one of those lucky folks that gets it during this time of year. For the rest of us, onward and upward as we slither into 2009…

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One more week, one more round of downloadable games available on the Wii Shop Channel. This time around, Wii owners can tee off with their favorite plumber and his friends, go ten frames at the after-hours bowling alley, reunite the heroes of the Shining Force, or leave no stone unturned with this week’s Shop Channel releases.

Every Monday, Nintendo adds more new and classic games to the Wii Shop Channel library. In case you missed them when they went live on Monday, here’s the official list of new games and descriptions, straight from Nintendo.
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Capcom has released Mega Man on the Wii Shop Channel today, to celebrate the September release of Mega Man 9 in September. Capcom also promised that Mega Man 2 will soon be released on the Virtual Console as well. I look forward to that. For me Mega Man brings back a lot of great memories and serves as a reminder why the NES was so great and personally a very expensive system. See, games like Mega Man were responsible for me killing at least four NES systems.

Games like Mega Man and Super Mario Bros. did not have a save function and did not have any kind of password system, so in order to play through them you had to leave the system on. This of course kills the system eventually. So while renting and playing through Mega Man 9,000 times I killed many Nintendo systems.

The beauty of having the game on the Virtual Console is that you can basically leave the “system on” by exiting to the Wii Menu, then return to it later in the state you left it. For me this process seems normal enough considering that I rented a lot of games that didn’t have any way to save. My point is that Nintendo needs to say thank you to Capcom and companies like it because they inevitably made the NES system a top seller by developing games like Mega Man.

Anyway, enough nostalgia - you can find Mega Man on the Wii Shop Channel for 500 points. There are some other releases this week but nothing worth talking about to be honest with you.

Capcom revealed three of the bosses you’ll have to take on its decidedly retro Mega Man 9. Today they reveal three bosses and three weapons the blue bomber will attain by defeating them. More after the jump.

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