Official Box Art for the new Mega Man game.

[kane_magus]

That is so awesome.

(Oh, forgot to link my source.)

Comments

[korby.livejournal.com]

Win, though it looks more like the classic MM1 box art than like the later, more cartoony box art in the series. I wonder if Capcom would even consider producing the game in NES cartridge form? I suspect though that since they aren't bound by the programming constraints of the NES that they probably wouldn't be able to retroport it successfully. Plus then it would immediately get dumped into a ROM and pirated all over the place...not like it isn't going to be anyways to some degree.

[rabbitucker.livejournal.com]

That is not official.

No freakin' WAY that's official.

Is it kitschy fun, harkening back to the first, so-square-it's-hip box art? Sure! (And the second, too, for that matter.) I'm not saying I don't like it on that level. It's cool like that. But... dude... no freakin' WAY!

It could be official as a nostalgic, viral marketing technique, set up as an orchestrated hoax by the Capcom people to drum up some buzz amongst older gamers like you and me. That's how I see it. But as the actual box art that's going to be used to try to sell the game to kids at GameStop or Wal-Mart? No way!

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Given that's it coming out for WiiWare, XBLA, and PSN and won't actually be physically sold in stores (afaik), I think it's kind of a moot point what the "box art" looks like, so they're free to go wild and be as uber-retro as they want.

[jeva.livejournal.com]

that is rad.

[rabbitucker.livejournal.com]

For serious?!

Aww... That means I have to subscribe to some game internet service if I want to get on it?

What crap!!

[yamen.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not technically a subscription, just a purchase.

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

Depends on what you consider a subscription and what you consider a purchase. I consider anything DRMed to be a subscription regardless of if it's a monthly expense or not.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

For WiiWare (http://www.nintendo.com/wii/wiiware) or Virtual Console (http://www.nintendo.com/wii/virtualconsole) there is no subscription. It's simply like buying something over the Internet using a service like Amazon or whatever, the only difference being that you're doing it through the Wii itself and it's being directly downloaded to the console. Well, except that you have to purchase "Wii Points (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_Points)" and then use those to buy stuff instead of just using money directly.

The same is true for the Silver (free) XBox Live membership (http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/features/silverage.htm). Yeah, you'd have to have Xbox Live, but Silver is free, if you're not willing to pay for a Gold account. Similar to the Wii, you'd have to have "Microsoft Points (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Points)" first.

I have no personal experience with PSN (http://www.us.playstation.com/PS3/Network), but I would assume that it's similar to WiiWare and XBLA.