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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land This week is not only notable for the Christmas holiday but (possibly even more importantly) this week also happens to be the 20th Anniversary of MegaMan (aka RockMan). Website Platformers.net has taken a little look back at the long running franchise. It’s a nice medium length retrospective that will be perfect for holiday reading if you want to learn a little bit more about the man in blue and all his various games.
Happy Anniversary, MegaMan. May you see twenty more without becoming boring and repetitive.
Japan Focus| Happy Birthday Rockman! [Platformers.net] The Official Megaman Website [Capcom] [Thanks, Graham]
Swedish magazine Level’s latest issue commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Blue Bomber, featuring stunning artwork of Mega Man that should embarrass just about every print outlet that isn’t Edge. The piece, from Hitoshi Ariga, responsible for Rockman Megamix and The Big O manga, was passed on to us in ridiculously large resolution (1200 x 1600) by a reader who, coincidentally also goes by the name Mega Man. The original scan, which can be used for wallpaper creation purposes, can be found here.
Many thanks to “Mega Man” for bringing this to our attention. You’ve made my own desktop very proud.
Because we’ve had just about enough of the Nintendo ones. There are other 8-bit heroes that need pumpkin representation. Jonathan writes: It’s not a masterpiece by any means, but I think it turned out pretty well… and I hadn’t seen other megaman pumpkins yet. My friend was going to do a quickman pumpkin so he’d have someone to fight against, but that didn’t work out :-) Anyway, I hope you like it!
We do! Our condolences over Quickman, though. His passing will leave a gaping chasm in the vegetable-themed Megaman universe.
