As many of us will be busy gorging ourselves with patriotism and grilled meats tomorrow, here’s a little something easy going: a storybook with Rockman! This kids book from 1996, a “Nagaoka’s Li’l Picture Book,” contains references from Mega Man 6, Mega Man 7, and even Mega Man 2 for Game Boy.

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While his name might not be greatly known outside of Japan, it’s one you surely know if you’re a big time Rockman fan. Takeshi Aono has portrayed Dr. Wily in nearly every Rockman game with voice acting since Rockman 8. This includes Rockman X4, Rockman Battle & Chase and Super Adventure Rockman. He most recently [...]

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In an all too familiar fashion, Keiji Inafune voiced his concerns about the Japanese video game industry, only this time in direct comparison to Western games at the biggest games show of the Western hemisphere: E3. VideoGamer.com sat down with Inafune last week and reveals that he believes Japan is now entering a ‘dark time’.  [...]

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One of Mega Man’s most iconic pieces of equipment is the jet sled, which was originally introduced in Mega Man 2 as Item 2, but essentially redefined as an alternate form of Rush the Robodog in Mega Man 3 as the Rush Jet. And while the hoverboard introduced in the movie Back to the Future [...]

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This preview image of Mega Man X comes from GameFan Vol. 1 issue 9. It’s been thrown around here and there, but my buddy AWD! just tossed this high quality scan at me. The issue probably came out close to the middle of 1993. From the looks of the screenshot shown the game was pretty [...]

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Here’s yet another story where I’m not terribly knowledge of the source material. However, you weirdo anime fans will probably know exactly what it’s about. This past December a PSP game in the popular Lucky Star series called Lucky Star: Net Idol Meister came out in Japan. Why am I bothering to post about this [...]

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The release of Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars has finally come. While many (myself included) never thought the game would come over here, Capcom thankfully proved us wrong. What does this have to do with Mega Man? Well, as you probably know by now, TvC features not one, but three playable Mega Man characters; each [...]

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Ippo Yamada, the primary musician for many Inti Creates titles, including the Zero series, ZX series and Mega Man 9, appears to be working on arrangements of music from the Zero series – but for what purpose we can’t really say. On Ippo’s Spiceman  blog, a collaboration between himself and manga artists Hitoshi Ariga and [...]

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This doesn’t relate to Mega Man directly, per se, but given that the Blue Bomber has had six releases in the Classic series released on the original 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System, that seemed like a good enough reason to look at the latest video by Rinry of the blog Rinry Game Game as she puts [...]

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They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but if the dog did something you never knew of? Imagine my surprise when I was (as usual) watching a skillrun of Mega Man 7 on Youtube.com and the player pulled off a rather amazing trick with the fight against Turbo Man. Upon seeing it [...]

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Generally speaking, we’ve all had our nightmarish encounters with the various Devil robots of the different Mega Man series, be they Yellow, Green, Shadow, or Rainbow. Thankfully, they’re all just make believe, and nothing like that exists in real life. But, that might just change soon enough, as iRobot reveals its first steps toward realizing [...]

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It is a cry which has echoed through the years among the fans of Mega Man, living on in infamy long after the words first passed the lips of a frantic Zero as Iris passed away in his arms in Mega Man X4. But despite the serious and dramatic intent of the writing, it has [...]

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Destructoid is reporting that 40 Japanese video game artists are banding together to form the “Video Game Sound Creator’s Alliance.” Who’s joining exactly? So far it has the likes of Akari Kaida (Mega Man & Bass, MegaMan Battle Network, MegaMan Battle Network 5), Seiko Kobuchi (Mega Man X7, Mega Man X Command Mission), Shinji Hoseo [...]

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If you pay attention to the fanart scene, you’ll know there’s something very popular in Japan called “doujinshi”. Basically, comics or illustration books done by fans. You’ll also know that outside of Japan, it’s very rare to see a doujin. If you’re one of the lucky few, you get one, but alas, it’s in japanese. [...]

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As I’ve mentioned before, Game Center CX is one of my favorite television shows about games. Starring Shin’ya Arino, a Japanese comedic personality, who does various game related segments such as talking to game developers and visiting game centers. But the most popular segment, which became the focus of the show, is Arino’s Challenge, which [...]

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