Do you ‘heart’ Capcom? You should, their legacy is amazing: Mega Man, Final Fight, Ghosts n’ Goblins, Strider, Bionic Commando, 1942, Power Stone, Breath of Fire, Dino Crisis, Devil May Cry, Onimusha, Viewtiful Joe, Dead Rising, Lost Planet, Okami, Monster Hunter and of course, Resident Evil and Street Fighter.So, thanks to new Aussie distributor THQ, let’s give away some Capcom prize packs!
First up, today and tomorrow, you’ve got the chance to win Resident Evil 5 ‘I Heart Capcom’ pack. There’s just one pack up for grabs, and it contains:
* 1 x Resident Evil 5 Collectors Edition game PS3 or X360
* 1 x Resident Evil 5 Comic Book, issue one
* 1 x Full set of Resident Evil 5 7″ figurines (Chris, Sheva, Executioner)
* 1 x Resident Evil 5 Prima Guide (courtesy of Bluemouth Interactive)
We’ll have more Capcom prizes on offer on Friday, so you’ve only got two days to enter if you want the Resident Evil 5 pack.
How do you enter? I want to hear about your love for a Capcom game. I want to hear the story of that one Capcom game that you obsessed over, fell in love with and how it changed your life. Leave your entries here in the comments and good luck.
Nathan Go
Monday, March 23, 2009 at 3:46 PMMy attempt for the Japanese Company of Sunshine and Lollipops:
Fight the Street
And Reside the Evil
It’s Capcom?
Cheers guys
Ron
Monday, March 23, 2009 at 6:46 PMResident Evil 5 made me enter a competition on Kotaku.
Some say I’ve never been the same man since.
:’(
ShaolinCowboy
Monday, March 23, 2009 at 10:11 PMOf course, it has to be Street Fighter II. Not only did it change my life – it changed everything. It created a genre, created a legacy, and for many, it created an addiction. Other fighting games tried to beat SFII with violence (Mortal Kombat), graphics (Virtua Fighter) and sheer size (King of Fighters)… but all failed to replicate the beautiful, simple playability of Capcom’s masterpiece.
Personally, I wasted almost an entire year’s pocket money playing the damn arcade machine. Then I bought the MegaDrive version… and played the game to death again despite the fact my controller had only three buttons. I got addicted again to Super Street Fighter. Then again Street Fighter Alpha. Then again to Street Fighter III. And, if it wasn’t for the fact that arcade games no longer cost 40 cents to play, I’m sure I would have been addicted to Street Fighter IV as well.
Capcom has failed many times. The Mega Man sequels are hit and miss. Resident Evil Survivor and Outbreak are almost embarrassing to think about. But the Street Fighter brand has remained true for more than two decades.
(….bar one unfortunate release titled “Street Fighter: The Movie”… but really, that was Kylie Minogue’s fault).
Rob_Jedi
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 10:28 AMThe obvious answer would be Street Fighter, but the fighter that really hooked my attention was at the start of the 3D fighters era. Rival Schools, with Sakura and her friends and rivals and it’s crazy tag team super moves I loved that game.
d3z_it
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 12:25 PMCapcom Made Me Do It!
I’ve always been trying to reproduce Street Fighter games since I was 14 yo, in the 90′s.
And because of it today I am a game programmer.
Jarrod
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 12:58 PMThe first Resident Evil – no question!
Bought it midday when I was working as a pizza delivery guy back in the day, but couldn’t play it as I was on shift.
I finished around midnight that night, came home, booted the game in the dark.
Got to that first room, with the zombie munching, turning it’s head slowly to look over it’s shoulder at me.
In my dark apartment.
Alone.
That’s when I knew games weren’t just for kids anymore.
(Then, of course, I turned it off vowing to continue bravely in daylight.)
alana stagg
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 1:56 PMmy favourite game has changed, just as my gaming platform has changed…from TUROK on the PC, to STREET FIGHTER with the old sega mega-system, through 2 playstation 2 and RESIDENT EVIL…& now currently…on my xbox360 still with RESIDENT EVIL…why?
its opened me up 2 a new genre of fantasy and horror which i really enjoy..im also learning new skills incase im ever in the
position of having 2 fight the dead!
Kaelora
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 4:57 PMCapcom games changed my whole life. It was the original Resident Evil for Gamecube that kicked off my desire to become a 3D artist for video games. It was more Capcom titles that carved it in stone for me. P.N.03, Devil May Cry and a host of others have shown me without a doubt that this is what I want to do.
If it wasn’t for Capcom, I’d probably be heading towards a boring office job surrounded by boring people. I’m sure you’ll agree that it would just be boring.
Grim
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 11:28 PMWhen young Grim was aged around 8, he had a young female playmate who lived two doors down. Young Grim would often visit her after school to play chasey, hide-n-seek and other innocent, childish games.
One day the young girl’s family got a new computer, an Amiga, which was far superior to Commodore 64 young Grim’s family owned. Two of the best games on that Amiga were Strider II and Ghouls ‘N Ghosts. Once young Grim discovered those games, he would visit his neighbour more and more often. At one point he realised he didn’t even care if the little girl was home, he just visited to play those games. Happily his neighbour’s parents obliged him.
That same Amiga now lives with not-so-young Grim’s grandparents, who use it to play cards. Grim still visits it occasionally and thinks of it fondly but has no idea what happened to the young girl that was his neighbour.
Belinda Bonello
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 12:31 AMDefinitely the Legend of Zelda, I have almost all of the zelda games, I love all of them, I remember me and my sister used to wake up at about 4am and get our quilts and stay up playing them games, it was so fun
maddi
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 10:08 AMOnce upon a time, Many years ago, there was a girl named Maddi, it was christmas morning. She had been dreaming of her present what would it be? A barbie? A stupid pony? she ran down stairs, tore open her packages and to her suprise The present was much different thats he had expected! It was Resident Evil 1. She fired up the old PS1 and started to play, She was hooked from “Wow what a mansion!”the game was nothing like she had ever experienced before, and she LOVED IT!
10 years later…Time may as well not have passed because this girl loved Resident evil as much as that fateful day all those years ago, except now she was a total expert! She had a Resident evil birthday party and went as Jill Valentine (of course), She had resident evil figurines and posters, She has all of the games, except one…She NEEDS that game.
sam i am
Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 7:35 PMStreet fighter stole my heart way back when i was scared of the dark
..ssh! still i tell not a soul
cause street fighter always stole the show.