Van Dammit.
Street Fighter: The Movie is, as the name suggests, based on the film which was loosely based on the game. Unlike the arcade version, the home version was actually developed internally by Capcom, which some might say was an attempt at salvaging the project and turning it into something playable.
You almost became a Jill sandwich!
Resident Evil is the first game in one of Capcom’s biggest franchises. It seemingly came out of nowhere in 1996 and took the world by storm – one of the first games of the then new fifth generation consoles to really break out. It was originally intended to be a remake of Capcom’s 1986 Famicom horror game Sweet Home.
The best Mega Man? I don’t agree, but many feel that way.
Mega Man 3 might not seem that different from its predecessor on first impression, but the addition of the slide move and Mega Man’s side kick Rush prove otherwise. It sold over a million units worldwide – a heck of a lot more than any recent Mega Man game.
The best sprites in the history of gaming?
Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike is (obviously) the third version of Street Fighter III and the second to be released for home consoles. 3rd Strike added five new characters, new music, the Guard Parry move and a multitude of other refinements. The game continues to be held in high regard amongst fighting game fans.
Welcome to Power Stone world!
Power Stone 2 can make a claim for being one of the best multiplayer games on the Dreamcast thanks to its madcap four player fighting action. It’s easy to learn, the stages are fully interactive and there are a ridiculous number of items to help you in your battles.
An oddball to say the least, but it is a Suda51 game.
Killer7 puts you in the shoes of an assassin with seven personalities of various professions, ethnicities and genders. You spend most of the game fighting bizarre invisible demons called Heaven Smiles. It’s kind of difficult to explain how it all comes together – it’s just better to go and play it.
Another series Capcom pretends doesn’t exist.
Set five hundred years after the first game, Breath of Fire II puts you in the shoes of Ryu, a 16 year old boy who finds himself alone in the world after demons kidnap his father and sister, and erase the memories of the local townsfolk. Of course, he turns out to be part dragon or something and sets off to save the world with a bunch of stereotypical J-RPG friends.
CPS brawling goodness.
Knights of the Round was one of Capcom’s great early 1990s arcade beat ‘em ups. As Arthur, Lancelot or Perceval, you must overthrow the evil king Garibaldi and unite England. And beat up peasants named Dennis.
Youtuber Hortyort has produced this amusing video telling the story of Final Fight as an epic poem.
Via GameSetWatch
One series that Capcom needs to stop neglecting.
Dino Crisis was directed by Shinji Mikami and developed by much of the team that would become Capcom Production Studio 4. The game was promoted by Capcom as being “panic horror”, as opposed to the survival horror of sister series Resident Evil, since there is quite a difference between worrying about wasting ammo on a couple of zombies versus the “oh shit” feeling of being chased by a giant T-Rex.
With the recent cancellation of Mega Man Legends 3, many fans feel like Capcom has abandoned the once iconic character. However, several members of the Capcom Sound Team recently banded together to start a band called “We Are ROCK-MEN” with the intention of creating a Mega Man arrange album.
The video posted above contains the first track that the group has released. It is from the Darkman level of Mega Man 5.
The group also revealed that the soundtrack will contain at least fifteen tracks from the Mega Man and Mega Man X series, and will be available for purchase from September 21st for the princely sum of 2,100 yen.
Late, late, late!
Yo! Noid is a NES platformer developed by Capcom with a reputation for being really goddamn hard. The game’s main character, the Noid, was the mascot of Domino’s Pizza in the 1980s. It’s actually a localisation of Kamen no Ninja Hanamaru with the plot and characters stripped out.
Capcom USA’s Corporate Officer/Senior VP Christian Svensson revealed on the Capcom Unity forums that the company will be releasing the semi-popular J-RPG Breath of Fire IV on the US PlayStation Network on August 16th.
Nothing has been said about a release on the PAL PSN, but there’s all kinds of rights issues and things that complicate a PAL release (mainly the distribution deal they had with Virgin, from memory – I could just be speculating though). Now they just need to acknowledge that Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter exists, and that people liked it and want another one, right?
Source: Capcom Unity
Capcom announced today through their Unity blog that they will be releasing Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online on Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network on August 23.
The new version of the game features polished graphics, a new tournament feature, an art gallery, online play and achievements/trophies.
Source: Capcom Unity
