Happy Anniversary MegaMan!

Happy 25th Anniversary MegaMan!

It's hard to believe that the blue bomber has been around for 25 years now, although I'm pretty sure that's because it will lead to my own admission of age.



Today in honor of MegaMan's Capcom has released what was once a fame made game, Street Fighter X MegaMan. In Street Fighter X MegaMan you play as MegaMan, battling various Street Fighters with levels based upon each character's respective level stages from Street Fighter. Ryu you will fight on the roof tops of Japan and C. Viper you will fight in what appears to be S.I.N. head quarters. Street Fighter X MegaMan is available today via download here.


Also for MegaMan's anniversary X-Box fans will be treated to avatar props that will give you a mega buster prop replica, a full on MegaMan costume or one of seven more costumes of the original master robots. Capcom-Unity says to look for these by the end of the year. For the full Capcom-Unity blog on the Mega Man avatar props you can visit here.




Lastly Cacpom is prepped to release 6 new MegMan themed t-shirts. No matter your preference Capcom has you covered, be it MegaMan and his 8-bit self, Cut-Man for a little master bot love, Serve Bots, and yes, even MegaMan X.










Capcom, more so MegaMan, has seen a lot of turmoil over the past recent years with the cancellations of MegaMan Universe, MegaMan Legends 3, and the apparent snuff from Ultimate Marvel vs Capom 3 outside of just making a costume appearance for Zero. Even when Capcom gave a MegaMan as a PS3 exclusive for Street Fighter X Tekken in what seemed to be a brawl of mascots with Pac-Man Capcom gave us a fat aging MegaMan taken from the original box art, not the blue bomber himself. Capcom, in a recent statement, has come out to say they are not sure how to even proceed with the franchise, be it a continuance, or an all out reboot to the franchise.

Whatever Capcom has planned for MegaMan one thing is for sure, they seem to be on the right track. I, for one, am excited for the return of MegaMan in one form or another, but do you feel this is enough to breath life back into the franchise? Only time will tell.

-Nurd!