Slacker Solutions: Origins

Having a weekend set aside to beat The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess alongside my lovely girlfriend, I decided some productivity must also bear fruition while she collects enough rupees to get a slingshot. Thus, Slacker Solutions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ieWrWLjii0

Rufus Hussey, the beanshooter man... he could be Link's future if he had stayed home instead of becoming the Hero of Time.



Capcom is set to release Marvel Vs. Capcom II for the 360 and PS3 later this summer. Painfully aware that I do not have either of those systems, I turn to their secondary project, Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom, a Wii exclusive with a street date some time in winter '09.

There are a few reasons I'm excited for the new Capcom fighting games and most of them have to do with Mega Man.


(Courtesy of Capcom Entertainment)

Here, they're using the Mega Man model from the Mega Man Legends series, a personal favorite of mine.

Mega Man/ Spiderman is my combo whenever I play the Marvel Vs. Capcom arcade machine at the local pizza place, Papa Dino's.

Gin, my friend and coeditor at The News Record, tells me that Lost Planet was originally going to be Mega Man Legends III. Having not played the game, it suffices to say that watching a gameplay trailer of Lost Planet convinced me Gin wasn't fooling.

If only Capcom had so willed its creation...