Each 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…
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.
I 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.
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.
Thanks 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):
Everytime I watch Pinky and the Brain cartoons, I’m always reminded of Dr. Wily, as both are always after world domination for no reason whatsoever. He’s probably my favorite villain in all of video games. IComeAnon on Cracked.com seems to agree, and came up with this handy-dandy Dr. Wily world domination chart for aspiring Evil Dictators to follow*.
Earlier this week we managed to turn our normally spacious lobby area into a place packed with a better ratio of Quality Fun Per Square Inch than Disneyland during our Capcom Digital Day. We invited members of the press and community to come and check out in person both the announced and unannounced new titles we have coming up this year. As the event title suggests, the focus was mostly on “digital” titles, downloadable titles to be released on XBLA, PSN, or PC, however, we still managed to sneak in a couple of full retail titles.
It’s no secret that Capcom’s got an amazing year (actually: three, at least) of games ahead. Our titles range far and wide, from family-friendly Wii (We Love Golf!) and DS (Mega Man Star Force 2) games to decidedly non-family friendly faire for the PS3 and 360 (Resident Evil 5).
What the heck is a “Digital Day”? On Monday, we rolled out the red carpet to some of our friends in the local gamer media as well as a couple of dudes (just like you!) from our community for an event we dubbed “Capcom Digital Day.”Fortuitous development timing and a huge slate of hot titles combined with an excellent public relations opportunity to form like Voltron and produce a half-day of announcements, updates, interviews and hands-on time with almost all of the games. We ended up with over 50 members of the San Francisco Bay Area games press in attendance, including folks from EGM, 1up, IGN, Gamespot, Gamespy, Gametrailers and Games Radar, as well as ladies and gentlemen from Wired, Joystiq and Destructoid and many, many more. Read on for titles announced, a brief lesson in “PR” and some other fun bits!
Just some OG Mega Man goodness from one of my favorite sites, Speed Demos Archive.
Yes, it’s Mega Man V, featuring the first and last appearance of fan-unfavorite, Gravity Man. Speed runner Josh Styger completes the entire game in 44 minutes and 12 seconds. Some notes on how the run was accomplished can be found here.
On the heels of our last batch of randomness, here’s some more stuff cluttering the place up that I thought people might get kick out of:
A “threadless”-style Bionic Commando tee that features our hero doing what he loves best–leaping from a tall building. Probably he’s about to dramatically grapple his way to somewhere awesome (or perhaps the disappointments of his post-apocalyptic lifestyle have finally caught up with him and these are his last moments).
Totally sweet Saturday Night Slammasters water bottle. It may have been bad 90s music addling my brain, but I thought Slammasters was really fun. Later in life I had a chance to play against the guys that won the US national Slammasters championships (yes, Capcom had a national tournament for Slammasters, for no readily apparent reason). They squished me like a bug, but I can still enjoy this water bottle.
Capcom Fighting Jam fan. The Japanese text and the fact that the western market doesn’t seem as into fanning themselves generally (it’s called air-conditioning technology, and the rest of the world should look into it) suggests this was a Capcom Japan promo item only.
My trusty Capcom mug. Usually filled with our special blend of grade-D Capcom Coffee, the mug today contains Harvey Birdman, who has his own, tinier coffee mug.
And, to end on a substantially more baffling note, we have a what appears to be a Mega Man radio. When the promo product’s initial design was deemed “awesome, but not awesome enough” by our exacting Marketing department, the developer went back to the drawing board and produced exactly the same item, only this time with suction-cup feet. And the rest, my friends, is history.
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