Cave story

Cave story (or Doukutstu Mongatari) is a freeware PC game by Daisuke Ayama or Pixel as he prefers to be known.
Cave story is a 2d sidescroller/shooter much like the traditional Metroid games.
It was Released in 2004 and translated shortly after.
It has a wide array of weapons and items to find and level up.
Cave story is set to come out on wiiware in "early 2009" with updated graphics and music (Going for a 16-bit feel rather than the originals 8-bit feel) however you will be able to switch them to the originals if you prefer.
The Free PC version and more info can be found here:
http://www.miraigamer.net/cavestory/
And the official site for the wiiware release here:
http://www.cavestory.com/

Screenshots:
PC:


Wiiware:

Damn you shadworth. ¬_¬

I no rite Tamzworth.

I've been meaning to download it for a while now. Maybe on Wii.

I loved it, I downloaded it a year or so ago and it was immense. I'll probably go back to it at some stage...

Going to download it now.

I really need to download this.

Download it then, it's free =D