You wait literally decades for a decent Mega Man PC port – now the new and shiny Mega Man 11 is out, capping off a nineteen> game streak of platform shooters featuring Capcom’s iconic Blue Bomber, assuming you’re counting the Legacy Collections. The first main-line Mega Man game since 2010, this one offers familiar platforming with a modern cel-shaded 3D look and some new options to ease players unused to ‘NES hard’ games into the fun. Oh, and bullet time – check out the launch trailer below.

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For the first time, Capcom’s entire Mega Man X series of platform shooters is available on PC. ‘X’ may live in a slightly darker world than his smaller, cuter predecessor Mega Man, but these are still games about a heroic blue robot running around, collecting new weaponry and equipment and shooting stuff with energy bolts that look like lemons. General save-the-world stuff, time and time again. Eight times, in fact. The Mega Man X Legacy Collection (broken up into two releases featuring X1-X4, and X5-X8) is out now, having launched on Tuesday.

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Nineties platformer icons are a recurring theme this summer. While the return of Crash Bandicoot doesn’t exactly set my heart ablaze, I am entirely> down with the entire 8-game Mega Man X series coming to PC, bringing us generations worth of grim anime platform robo-murder all in one place.

The two compilations now have a Steam store page and a price-tag to accompany earlier news of some interesting new playmodes, along with news that Mega Man X5’s bizarre English-only Guns N’ Roses references have been cut.

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