November's Japanese VC lineup: Ogres battle Mega Man

It's a pretty light month for releases on the Virtual Console in Japan, but it's still a good month, mostly for one reason: Mega Man 3. Even though we'll be happy with any Mega Man games that Capcom decides to put on the Virtual Console, Mega Man 3 is, generally speaking, from the period before Mega Man games started to go downhill. So it's actually good! We'd love to see how new Mega Man 9 players react to a game designed with sliding in mind.

The other really big news is Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen, the first Ogre Battle strategy game, and a classic of the genre. Personally, we're happy to see Mercs, Cadash, and the CD version of the Kunio soccer game! The full list is after the break.

Famicom

Rockman 3: Dr. Wily no Saigo!! (November 4)
Smash Ping Pong
Dragon Buster

Super Famicom

Densetsu no Ogre Battle

Master System

Sonic the Hedgehog 2

Mega Drive

Senjou no Okami 2 (Mercs) (November 4)

PC Engine

Nekketsu Koukou Dodgeball-bu CD Soccer Hen (November 4)
Volfied
Kaze no Densetsu Xanadu
Cadash

Reader Comments (8)

...I'm disappointed, but I'm starting to ignore VC. I mean, fine, there's a couple decent games in there, but... 2 years into the Wii's life, we have only 15 N64 games but 77 NES games, and November... more NES games, no more N64 games, 1 SNES game... Nintendo rarely is releasing their good games and I understand they don't wanna release them all at once but... it seems they don't wanna really release them at all.

I recently downloaded Megaman 2 and it was pretty good, but I'm just not a huge Megaman fan.

It's too bad the N64 probably has the weakest lineup when it comes to all those systems you mentioned.

Seriously, do you remember the N64 back in the day? There would be like 5 games released in a month. It was a slower time than the Gamecube. Sure, we look fondly back on the great games the system had, but they were few and far between.

Not to say there aren't any games for the N64 I don't want. Ogre Battle 64, Mischief Makers, Blast Corps, and a few others would be nice. But the majority of titles I already own.

Honestly, I would take the dozens upon dozens of great Genesis and SNES games left rather than a handful of great N64 games and the rest of the crap that comes with it.

I had always founf Rockman 3 poster the most disturbing of all

I went back and played Megaman 3 after completing 9, and found it to be ridiculously easy. Is 9 really that hard?

Ogre Battle?!?!? Never thought Id see that on VC.. We need that in north america..

eww the n64 had like 100 games total(like 1000 games less than the competition), and what is worse, only 10-20 were half decent.NES dominated the market , just like as SNES,but the n64 was the dark nintendo era.So i dont know who wouldnt want more N64 games.

May we have March of the Black Queen? That or Ogre Battle 64 will be fine.

I might have to pick up Ogre Battle if it ever comes to NA. Not because I've ever played it but because it's named after two (two!) Queen songs. Anyone that pays tribute to Queen in their games has their priorities straight and is alright with me.

November's Japanese VC lineup: Ogres battle Mega Man

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