[Multiplatform] Mega Man 9 - Gnarly McNuggets

Well I finally got around to playing this game, and I have to say that it's awesome! At first I hated the fact that Mega Man didn't have the slide or chargeable megabuster that I'd long become accustomed to, but I was surprised to find that I really didn't miss it that much.

I also love how balls-out hard it is. There are so many random enemies and death traps in the game, that you've just got to laugh. Never before have my deaths in a game made me laugh like this. It feels like the same guys that write Aqua Teen Hunger Force designed some of the stages in this game because, in comparison to the NES originals, they just feel wacky.

All in all it's a great game, and a wonderful addition to the franchise. What I'd like to know is on what hardware they made the game. I'm sure that all the original NES dev kits are scrap by now, so I wonder what they did to ensure those same constraints. I guess they could use an emulator, but I wonder if it was one of their own design or exactly how they went about it.

Lastly what are those achievement like pop-ups that come up during the stages? They aren't actual achievements, and I don't remember what one of them said, but they pop up in-game.

Jam it back in, in the dark.