In celebration of Mega Man's 30th anniversary, Capcom and iam8bit are teaming up to re-release Mega Man 2 and Mega Man X on NES and SNES, respectively. Both games are being reprinted on actual NES and SNES cartridges (playable on all NTSC consoles), complete with deluxe packaging and special edition instruction manuals. More details after the break!
Mega Man 2 - 30th Anniversary Classic Cartridge ($100)
• Limited Edition of 8,500 *
• Brand-New Playable Cartridge
• Dual-Fold Box w/ Foil, Gloss & Embossments
• Premium Instruction Booklet w/ Foreword by Author Salvatore Pane
• Retro Pack-In Surprises
• Package Design & Restoration by Jango Snow Art & Design
• Manufacturing by Retrotainment Games + Infinite NES Lives
*Cartridge colorways are randomly inserted into sealed, unmarked boxes. The total edition of 8,500 is comprised of: Opaque Light Blue (7,500 total); and Translucent, Glow-in-the-Dark Blue (1K total). We cannot guarantee which version you will receive. It truly is completely random, even for us.
Mega Man X - 30th Anniversary Classic Cartridge ($100)
• Limited Edition of 8,500 *
• Brand-New Playable Cartridge
• Tri-Fold Box w/ Foil, Gloss & Embossments
• Premium Instruction Booklet w/ Foreword by Jirard “The Completionist” Khalil
• Retro Pack-In Surprises
• Package Design & Restoration by Jango Snow Art & Design
• Manufacturing by Retrotainment Games + Infinite NES Lives
*Cartridge colorways are randomly inserted into sealed, unmarked boxes. The total edition of 8,500 is comprised of: Opaque White (7,500 total); and Translucent, Glow-in-the-Dark Blue (1K total). We cannot guarantee which version you will receive. It truly is completely random, even for us.
Both cartridges are anticipated to ship in September. Hit up the links above to pre-order!
Geez! So much Mega Man material! This is feeling like the year of Mega Man!
ReplyDeleteWho cares. If you're going to do reprints, then do it for the hard-to-find/stupidly expensive games (like X2 and X3 on the SNES).
ReplyDeletethese prices are stupid
ReplyDeletere release X2 and X3 at more affordable prices and I'll def buy both of those
Please, they cant cause the Cx4 chips!
DeleteThis is just Snake's Oil bait for Speculators and Millenial Hipsters, you know, those inbreed morons who dont care about actually playing games and they just wanna post le funny pictures on facebook for internet points!
I wonder how many of this shitty things actually are sold.
Knowing iAm8bits pre orders, you'll be lucky if this ships by the end of the year or midway through next. Still, looks pretty cool
ReplyDeleteI had the Johto Legends vinyl preordered from them. It was delayed constantly and emails to them are no help. Plus on this youtube video they don't even allow comments. I had to email there uk branch and get paypal to step in just to get a refund from them. This is a horrible idea letting iam8bit do anything. They have a horrible very very lazy track record.
DeleteBelieve me when I say I love stuff like this. But I wouldn't trust iam8bit to release a penny coin mailed to me much less this. And at $100 each there just doing the same thing they did with the Street Fighter 2 snes carts at the same price. Reproductions of this exact thing can be made a lot faster for a lot cheaper price and not even be so limited edition.
I only say all this because every time I did deal with buying from iam8bit I've had terrible results. I no longer buy from them ever and I won't be getting this. If they where actually good about what they do I would buy from them. But they don't.
Thanks for the info buddy.i hope im8bit guys read this.
DeleteAt that price you might as well just try to get the real thing off ebay.
ReplyDelete$100 each for licensed repro carts that arguably look worse than the originals? Disgusting.
ReplyDeleteKinda ironic they are doing this when both Mega Man and MMX have new collection for all current platforms.
ReplyDeleteSorry to say it, but that baby blue cartridge for MM2 immediately makes me think of Color Dreams/Wisdom Tree bootlegs. Not quite the same shade, but close enough. The white X cartridge looks alright though.
ReplyDeleteBut yeah, for that price, why not just buy the originals on ebay or something? I could maybe see that price for the same package but with MM1-3/X1-3 on each cart. Even then, there are the Legacy Collections so I'd think it'd still be a bit difficult to sell.
I know they'll never do this, but for the price of $100, I would've liked if they included a demake version of Vile mode from Maverick Hunter X in the X1 reprint. Just to make it a little more enticing. Because the most expensive price for X1 I've seen online is $50, with plenty of copies going for way less. I know they've got all these extra little goodies thrown in, but I dunno. Would at least be a novelty.
ReplyDeletewas thinking of getting these but I haven't heard anything good about iam8bit
ReplyDeleteThe 2 most common mega man games are the ones re released at a ridiculous amount on cheap plastic and worse looking than original carts. They got me with the street fighter II one and it took so long to show up i forgot i got it, the second i opened the box i was immediately disappointed. I've bought so many copies of mega man 2 over the years (pal version us version psx version psx long box version famicom) that even I as a collector just have to look at these and laugh.
ReplyDeleteCool idea, that 100 price point for the lulz is ridiculous.
Of course comments are disabled on the video... They probably don't want people complaining how expensive they are.
ReplyDeleteI have nothing against rereleasing older games but these just look like 90's Hong Kong or Chinese bootlegs to me, they look very cheap and not worth the money. Besides that though, Megaman 2 and Megaman X are not hard to find in their original form.
ReplyDeleteEvery time I try ordering from this site, they cancel my order saying my information was “fraudulent.” Looks like ill miss my chance with this one. Sigh.....
ReplyDeleteI think this is cool.I pre-ordered.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if the content of the booklet is different with the old version.
ReplyDeleteWhen I first saw this, I was actually pretty excited. Then I read the comments and was like, yeah, this is why Capcom doesn't do things for Megaman fans.
ReplyDeleteAm I thrilled about the price? No. TBH though this might be my one and only chance to buy them at this price given they are only making 8,500 of each. I'm sure there are more than 8,500 Mega Maniacs in the world let alone unique users/visitors of this site year to year. Do I want to buy them on the scalper market for double the price or more? No.
ReplyDeletePeople keep saying they can find the originals for less money online... Yeah, you can... But cartridge only...and with wear and tear in most cases, so that comparison makes no sense. I do agree these strange colors they chose are so ugly... How come they didn't just stick to the gray colors? Or at least new but decent ones? But the whole packaging plus goodies are cool... but not for a 100 (+ shipping...) price tag. 60-80 would have been decent.
ReplyDeleteFor $100 can I get physical copies of Mega Man 9 and 10 for the Nintendo Switch?
ReplyDeleteIf you are willing to pay 100$ for Mega Man 9 and 10 physically on the Switch, I'm guessing you'd be willing to pay that price for any other game on Switch, cause damn.
DeleteIf this is what Mega Man fans are willing to pay I am shocked Capcom doesn't charge 1,000$ for MM11/
People like you are the reason why things are the way they are right now. Sigh...
DeleteThings are the way they are because people like me are willing to pay good money for quality products?
Delete1.) People gripe endlessly about high costs and will always settle for inferior products to save a little cash. That's why quality is so rare these days.
2.) Companies like Capcom don't even consider releasing the kind of products people like me want. And on the rare occasion they do listen to the irate consumers, they still smear their offerings in feces before letting the public get a taste.
That's how things are and they are completely contrary to my wishes. So again, how are people like me to blame for the current status quo?
"people like me are willing to pay good money for quality products"
DeleteYeah quality is paying exorbitant amounts of money for 2 10 year old digital marketplace 8-bit games that already exists for a new Nintendo handled but is now quality because they come in a box and plastic.
I wonder why this franchise is now an 8-bit meme.
The box and plastic are non-essential. Having those games on tangible game cards so they can still be played in 10 years is.
DeleteNobody needs another redundant means of playing Mega Man 1-6. Those games are available in a variety of formats. 9 and 10 are DLC games that can no longer be purchased for the Nintendo Wii, someday the same thing will be said for the redemption codes in MM Legacy Collection 1+2.
Call me crazy, but when I buy something I like to actually own it. And if something unfortunate happens to it at some point in the future, I'd like it to still be possible for me to replace it.
And no, I don't consider buying it for PS4 a reasonable alternative because I don't expect many PS4's to be functional in 10 years.
That's a poor excuse, you can preserve digital media and copy it on as much physical storage as you see fit for personal use completely legally and you can do it for less than 100$.
DeleteIn fact the Switch all but requires you to put downloaded games on physical media, since it comes with a measly 32 gigs of storage memory.
Even if any of that stuff wasn't relevant, why 100$? Why not 15$ Or at BEST 30$? 100$ just for 9&10 to be physical on current gen? Yeah that's just asking for swindling by companies.
Since Capcom is playing it cheap and only putting the more common Megaman games on a Switch game card, it seems to me that the swindling isn't coming from outrageously high prices but outrageously low quality.
DeleteIf it costs a bit more to make a 2-game card collection, charge more for it. I'll pay it. But I won't buy another redundant Megaman collection that doesn't offer any content I can't already enjoy from a variety of sources. And I definitely won't buy a collection where the biggest enticements have a limited shelf life.
Go big or go home, Capcom.
These look really neat and I'd love to have one each, but that $100 asking price is just a deal-breaker for me.
ReplyDeleteJust think. 100 years from now, these might even be worth more than $100.00. (If they survive aging, I mean.)
ReplyDeleteI say "100 years" because these fancy, gold-plated Pokémon cards I have are still only worth about $40.00, 19 years later. Even the super-rare Tengen Tetris cart is only about $40.00 on eBay, right now.
So… yeah. Those are some questionable prices.
I was just on E Bay looking at the prices for Mega Man X. It was ranging from $50-$100.00... If you want a really good or Minty copy of the game it will be almost $100.00. If you want it decent to good shape its around the $70.00 price... Go take a look guys. So 8bit wanting $100.00 is around what's on E Bay...
ReplyDeleteDo you understand how insane that logic is?
DeleteYou are comparing an official reprint to 3rd party eBay resellers. I mean come on man.
So are you calling Capcom insane? They are the ones along with 8Bit who decided to go with that price point... They probably took a look on E Bay and compared prices... Right now a Mint copy is going for around $100.00 or more... You guys think $100 is insane but prices have gone up for video games now... And since they are clearly calling this a collector's item and very limited they have every right to name whatever price they want for this... Do I personally think it's high? Yes I do... I can see $60-70.00 for this... But clearly they decided on a reseller price point...
DeleteI'm calling the logic insane. Of course they decide the price.
DeleteI am also calling people who buy these things at massively inflated prices insane and enabling this type of practice. But that's just me because I believe the whole reason why a game gets inflated prices over time naturally is because of scarcity due people buying them thus the people who bought them now reselling them at inflated prices, NOT because they are meant to be sold by companies at that inflated price. If this was a collectors item they'd sale it at you suggested 70$ or what have you (personally I say even that's too much maybe 60) and let that price inflate naturally for collectors on the second market.
Also modern day video games are costing around 60 and such to get because they are massively expensive to produce a lot of the time, but despite DLC to make up the costs a lot of the time that is still less money than it was to buy SNES games when they were new. Now people are willing to fork over 100$ for widely play available NES/SNES games cause artificial "my collector's item" status.
But hey don't let me let Capcom and such sucker people from parting with their cash.
Well you're right the logic is insane but sadly that's just the way it is. It's gotten worse over the years with this kind of stuff. I know with the Street Fighter 2 edition it sold out and now people are selling it around $150-200.00 and much more for the Glow in the Dark edition. I don't see the prices going down for a long while... Same thing will happen with the Mega Man games...
DeleteWow. Just when I thought they couldn't get anymore blatant with their Mega Man 2 favoritism.
ReplyDeletePutting that aside, they're charging $100 dollars for 20+ year-old games that are not only available on just about every digital market there is, but are already much cheaper ($5-$8)? Seriously? Has Capcom gone insane?
DeleteMeh, I've seen repos go for around $80-$100 (they come with cool colored carts with box and manual). I think people are missing that the point of these products are the novelty factor. I don't think anyone is going to be opening these up and play it on their NES/SNES.
ReplyDeleteBut if you DON'T open it you'll never know which version you have inside.
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