Modern Gaming: Mega Man Legacy Collection Vol. 1 (Nintendo Switch) Review · 12:47pm Jul 18th, 2022
A new edition of Modern Gaming Reviews is up, and we take a closer look at the Mega Man Legacy Collection on the Nintendo Switch. It is nothing new to this industry to release a completion of a company’s legacy backlog. In fact these actually started in the 90s when Namco and Taito would release classic Arcade games from the 80s. These were for the Super NES and Sega Genesis consoles but it’s not surprising that 4 MB cartridges were able to support those older titles at the time. Another thing that was surprising is how some were complaining about releasing “games for their parents when they were babies” back then. Funny how today it’s turned a 180 and now many people want legacy content more than ever. It’s not because many think modern gaming is crap (that is far from the truth) but due to a demand for them. That is why Indie developers are producing games akin to those legacy games such as Axiom Verge.
The collection Capcom put out for the Mega Man Classic series isn’t the first one to release from them. In 2004 they released Anniversary Collection for the GameCube, PS2 and Xbox to celebrate the Blue Bomber’s 15 years. While in the 2000s the completion might have been solid for what they were offering, I mean you were getting ten classic games. However, the emulation for those ROMs wasn’t good because of the way Atomic Planet scaled the Original games. Even the Xbox version — despite its emulation being slightly better — those older titles still weren’t scaled right to the Originals. Now, Digital Eclipse takes on the task from where the defunct Atomic Planet left off. With today’s tools to produce better emulation, can Digital Eclipse do what Atomic Planet failed to do?
