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Mega WallMay 6th, 2008 Chris Tou
Spotted on dergutemoritz’s Flickr pool (Thanks Liz for the Google Reader share!), these are a sequence of images documenting how a classic NES Mega Man was made from lots 7×7cm paper squares totaling about 2m in height. Check out the Flickr pool for bigger pictures and brief instructions on how to create your own Mega Wall. I wonder if we have enough paper around here to make one for our wall… 8-Bit Mega Man: the Shirt!April 30th, 2008 Seth Killian
You ask, we listen. You wanted to see some more Capcom t-shirts in the Capcom Store, so we’re proud to bring you the first of what we hope is many: the Blue Bomber in his original 8-bit glory. Get them quick cause these are going to go FAST! One (well, 46, technically) for the books: Mega Man in the Guiness BookApril 28th, 2008 Chris "Kramez" Kramer
That’s right, the Mega Man franchise has been recognized as being milked like no other milking in the history of video game milkings! The Guinness Book recognizes 46 games, but I’m pretty sure that the actual total is far more than twice that number (even Wikipedia lists more than 100 titles). According to IGN, Guinness sez that:
Let’s fix this number! Fer instance, off the top of my head, they are forgetting: Mega Man Soccer (fun fact: Mega Man’s first appearance on the SNES!) Mega Man Battle & Chase (only hit the US in the Mega Man Collection) Mega Man Powered Up! (PSP remake of MM1) Mega Man Rock Board (Japanese-only, Mega Man-themed board game) Mega Man Power Battle (arcade game designed for kids) Super Adventure Mega Man (Dragon’s Lair-stylee anime adventure, released in Japan around Mega Man’s tenth birthday) Somebody get on this project and figure out how many friggin’ Mega Man games there have been, please. We’re counting Mega Man games only, not appearances in other games (Marvel Vs. Capcom, Dead Rising, Cannon Spike, etc. do not count) Semi-Official Capcom Gold Star of Complementarianism and some kinda random prize to whoever completes this assignment successfully! Mega Man 2 Featured On EGM #1!April 24th, 2008 Chris TouLove makes you do silly things like serenading in public. For the simple reason of love, Retromags has, through donations to their site, secured a copy off of eBay of EGM issue #1 from May of 1989, which they’ve then scanned and painstakingly cleaned up.
The first issue of EGM featured the Mega Man 2 box art on the cover (Which was a slight improvement over the infamous Mega Man 1 box art) with an accompanying sneak preview into the game. If you haven’t play Mega Man 2, I suggest you don’t download and read the PDF until you play it, lest you spoil the game for yourself. Life The Great: Mega ManApril 18th, 2008 Chris TouAn Atlanta rapper named Life The Great recently released a nerdcore song called Mega Man. The song samples the opening theme from the classic Mega Man games. Actually, “sampling” is an understatement, since the song is based on the opening theme of Mega Man. Though lyrics isn’t entirely about Mega Man and Capcom (He mentions the “Konami code”, for example) it’s still pretty good. Check out the song by playing the second track on the player below, courtesy of sitdownstandup.com (I’d list the song by itself, but I couldn’t figure out how to embed just the one song).  This Is Old SchoolApril 18th, 2008 Chris TouEach day, I get reminded that I’m getting older by making references to games that younger gamers have never seen/heard/played, many of which, of course, are classic Capcom games. No matter! Those whipper snappers will never understand the joy that I feel when I watch this video of 100 great Super Nintendo games in 10 minutes. I’ve played almost every game in the video, and seeing it again, some for the first time since the SNES days, has totally made my day. If only they included the sound effects and the music from the games too…
To see the full list of games, Read the rest of this entry » Capcom Kirbies!April 16th, 2008 Chris Tou
I’ve been meaning to post this, but webcomic VG Cats had a strip one day, probably in celebration of a game that totally should have had Mega Man in it, called “100 Kirbies”, dedicated to the “what if” forms that Kirby could take on if he had to chance to suck them down like so many Slurpies. How many incarnations can you recognize above? (Hint: They’re all Capcom related) After you’re done with that lineup, check out the full strip. Scroll to the bottom of strip if you’re wondering which Kirby each is. You Got A Real World In My Video GameApril 11th, 2008 Chris TouI don’t remember how I stumbled upon these, but a Picasa Web Album titled, “Gamer Art” has some nifty art that I haven’t seen much. The artist, Mike, obviously has some pretty good Photoshop skills, a healthy obsession for all things gaming, and a lot of free time. While not exactly a winning formula for world domination, it does allow him to take “some random pictures he found and put game sprites in them”. The result? Some cool pixels in the real world imagery, such as this Mega Man In The City.
To see the whole album, click on the image! Mega Man 3 Like You’ve Never Heard It BeforeApril 8th, 2008 Seth Killian
The sounds of Mega Man 3 (aka Rockman 3), vocalized. That’s game start, an entire level, and a boss fight (against the anemic Snake Man), sung by what appears to be helium-addicted Japanese chipmunks. I suggest watching this no more than once if you value your sanity. Mega Man artwork ‘discovered’ in Duke Nukem years ago. Still no one cares.March 31st, 2008 Gary LakeThanks to the hard work of Internet researchers, bits and pieces of one of the better-left-forgotten Mega Man conversions for the PC have been found in Duke Nukem 1, the original. Thus proving originality was never a strong point for video games (Capcom excepted): http://www.student.tue.nl/p/f.a.m.smeijers/sfp/games/duke1.htm#copied_art
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