{"id":15169,"date":"2012-12-11T16:15:41","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T22:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=15169"},"modified":"2013-02-07T14:21:20","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T20:21:20","slug":"enter-your-zip-code-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/culture\/enter-your-zip-code-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Fighter X Mega Man Birthday Bash!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Street Fighter&#8217;s 25th anniversery comes to a close, Mega Man&#8217;s 25th is about to kick off with a huge bang. Who would win in a fight: a super robot soldier who steals secret abilities via murder or martial arts masters that shoot fireballs?\u00a0<em>Mega Man<\/em> is a great series, one of the many I cut my teeth on, but sometimes murdering countless robots grows tiresome. Thankfully, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capcom-unity.com\/brelston\/blog\/2012\/12\/08\/street-fighter-x-mega-man-coming-december-17\">Street Fighter X Mega Man<\/a><\/em>, a series I didn\u2019t have the imagination to consider, will be released December 17, 2012. For free, on PC. Check out the trailer for some Street Fighter and Mega Man mixed up awesomeness.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/61-OMrOxyso\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"575\" height=\"330\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15162\" style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/techcitement.com?attachment_id=15162\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15162\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15162\" class=\" wp-image-15162 \" src=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comadmin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/2bd66f067f77667b1fbc56b699d6d7fa-514x273.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Can robots hit women? Is that okay?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Seow Zong Hui, a fan from Singapore, brought and demoed a rough early version of <em>Street Fighter X Mega Man<\/em> to the Capcom booth at EVO 2012. The game immediately wowed Christian Svensson and led to an incredible collaboration between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capcom.com\/\">Capcom<\/a> and its fans working to create a wacky and intriguing video game. Levels are redesigned, the game has entirely new bosses, <a href=\"http:\/\/ocremix.org\/artist\/4284\/a-rival\">A_Rival<\/a>\u00a0even put together a mash up of 8-bit Mega Man and Street Fighter music for the sound track.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15163\" style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/techcitement.com?attachment_id=15163\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15163\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15163\" class=\" wp-image-15163 \" src=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comadmin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/4fdbb17ba61300c04828eff215b7b97b-514x273.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Die, feeble floating robot heads!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This collaboration between Capcom and longtime fans of the series points to a great future for Mega Man. Capcom encouraged and supported a fan title, it&#8217;s being released for free, and it&#8217;s almost Mega Man&#8217;s 25th birthday. It doesn&#8217;t get any better than that.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15171\" style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comculture\/enter-your-zip-code-here\/attachment\/42eb1152e837681a9c6df8255be0a6de-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15171\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15171\" class=\" wp-image-15171 \" src=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comadmin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/42eb1152e837681a9c6df8255be0a6de1-514x273.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Why does everything hate me?!&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Street Fighter&#8217;s 25th anniversery comes to a close, Mega Man&#8217;s 25th is about to kick off with a huge bang. Who would win in a fight: a super robot soldier who steals secret abilities via murder or martial arts masters that shoot fireballs?\u00a0Mega Man is a great series, one of the many I cut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":15174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[905,3062,2221],"tags":[3683,1098,3682,3679,3678,3681,3680],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15169"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16413,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15169\/revisions\/16413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}