During a recent Q&A session, Capcom producer Ben Judd was asked if there was a slight possibility that the original Bionic Commando for NES would hit Nintendo’s retro-lovin’ Virtual Console service. You know, to coincide with the release of the forthcoming remake on XBLA and PSN.

Guess what? It’s not happening. Straight from Judd himself:

Q: How about the original version, on Virtual Console?

Judd: That also couldn’t happen.

Q: Why not?

Judd: I can’t say. Let’s just say this. If I’m making this, making the next gen one, we have a comic book on the community site, we’re doing pod casts — I’ve tried to hit every single angle I can, I’ve pushed this as a new franchise. If it’s not on the Virtual Console, you can bet there’s a reason for it.

Q: Nintendo doesn’t like exploding heads?

Judd: I don’t think it’s exploding heads.

If it’s not due to exploding heads, that leaves us with a single question: why is Nintendo blocking the release of this 8-bit classic?

Bionic Commando Q&A [IGN]

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