Keiji Inafune, a man who is often credited as “the father of Mega Man”, has launched a Kickstarter to fund a game with a familiar premise.

You play as Beck, the 9th in a line of powerful robots, and the only one not infected by a mysterious computer virus that has caused mechanized creatures the world over to go berserk. Run, jump, blast, and transform your way through six stages (or more, via stretch goals) you can tackle in any order you choose, using weapons and abilities stolen from your enemies to take down your fellow Mighty Number robots and confront the final evil that threatens the planet!

Color me excited. Here’s hoping Koji Igarashi is taking notes.