We’re sold out (for now). You said you wanted the Mega Man Zero Official Complete Works art book. As soon as we made it available in the Capcom Store, you backed up your words big time. Orders are still coming in. Thanks! If you place an order and get a notification that your book is on backorder, please be patient. If stars Capcom and Udon align, we will be getting more.
Look out for the brief return of the Street Fighter Eternal Challenge, Shinkiro hardcover edition coming soon and the Street Fighter Tribute Book coming later this summer.
Gaming jobs are awesome. Why? Well, just last week I spent the entire week in Las Vegas from Tuesday to Saturday, living it up in a posh hotel on the 32nd floor with free booze, food, video games and 150 like-minded video game folks to play them with. Plus we got to shoot at zombies. Now, before you’re overcome with jealousy, live the event vicariously by clicking through and checking out all the games we showed off at Captivate 08.
Nerve.com put together a nice Top 10 list of the greatest Fire Levels in gaming history, complete with videos. With winners from Mega Man, Resident Evil, and Super Ghouls n’ Ghosts, the list is dominated by Capcom, showing that even when you’re doing a cliched level type, you can still do it RIGHT.
I’d personally nominate “Crimson River” from Lost Planet Colonies as well
The Gaming Historian travels back to investigate the origins of the Blue Bomber. In addition to being filled with a bunch of Mega Man fun facts, it also opens with quote from the father of the New Criticism, Robert Penn Warren. Classy!
A lovely piano arrangement of the classic theme from Dr. Wily’s Castle. Fan-made Mega Man music is always great (well, maybe not always) and there’s a ton of it, but here are few more of our recent favorites:
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…
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!
How the heck did this get past us? Back in March, the Guinness people published the Guinness World Records: Gamer’s Edition 2008, which contains an amazing amount of gamer ephemera and questionable records. Amongst the records recorded is “Most Number of Games In a Single Series,” handed to our very own Blue Bomber.
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:
There are 17 games in the “classic” series starring the original character. There are also 11 Mega Man X games, four Mega Man Zero games, two Mega Man ZX games, three Mega Man Legends games, six Mega Man Battle Network games, plus three Mega Man Star Force games
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!)
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!
Love 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.
An 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).
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