You know what Mega Man needs? A gun and the face of a middle-aged smoker.

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• Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You might appreciate this: Leaked Memos Explain Why Every Mega Man Cover is Terrible. (satire)

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  • MajorHavoc@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s a delight!

    Here’s a helpful companion - MegaMan Box Art Image Collection

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    • Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not really needed, you can click on the “memos” to see the corresponding artwork.

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    • samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I loved that 9 and 10 made intentionally terrible 80s “box arts.”

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    • Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The link isn’t loading for me, unfortunately. Not sure if it’s a browser thing (I use Firefox) but I suspect that it’s the “*removed*” in the URL causing trouble.

      However, if you tap / click on those memos in the article I linked, it reveals the box art.

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• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ugh. When did that happen? I played through all the NES Mega Man games many times. His blaster arm was way cooler than any pistol.

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  • TheEEEdiot@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It was the original box art. I used to have Mega Man 2 when it first came out too.

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    • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Odd. I think that’s the label I remember on the cartridge too, but I just never noticed the pistol. I played 4 the most because I loved the weapons the most.

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    • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think the first 3 were like this, i had 3 and it was similar. 4 was the first one I saw where Megaman actually looked right

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  • BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    1987

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• mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  and a pose that says “I just megashit my megaself”

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  • zod000@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks for reminding me that Megaman actually talked like that in the awful Saturday morning cartoon I watched as a kid (Captain N: The Game Master)

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Captain N? The gamer? Uh oh

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    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      oh yeah he was a squeaky lil fucker

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  • CrayonRosary@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “megashat” is the word you’re looking for.

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• troybot@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Capcom used the box art Mega Man in Street Fighter x Tekken and I wish they would do more with the character.

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• CidVicious@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I mean, it’s likely that it wasn’t capcom us rejecting the japanese design. Far more likely that Capcom JP didn’t share marketing materials with US branch and left them on their own to figure out how to market it. Japanese companies not taking any interest in how things were localized for other markets was completely the norm during that time period.

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• samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• quickenparalysespunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pardon me, but the character is correctly known as Rockman, and is correctly depicted only as a prepubescent human cannonball with one apocalyptic death-ray arm. 😂

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• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Chud gamers be like “this was because of woke DEI initiatives!”.

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• But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Call the best Sudanese movie poster artist, we have a job for him”

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• diemartin@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  American Kirby Is Hardcore!

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• Binette@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Meguhman my beloved

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• nthavoc@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  For those of you who remember Captain N … Even had a smoker’s voice for whatever reason. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULslwGCpOdc

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• Retrograde@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I need context for this lol

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  • The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t know the story, but that’s the genuine cartridge art they used for the first Mega Man in the US. It’s just terrible and looks nothing like the game.

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• yarr@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• yarr@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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