Category Archives: the power fighters

The Adorable Mobi-chan Girl

Written by #20 on 2011/03/11 Friday — 6 Comments

Earlier we heard Dr. Right explaining the origins of Capcom’s arcade mini-mascot, and just this week we saw Mobi-chan hanging out in the Capcom Secret Laboratory report on Rockman 2: The Power Fighters (which incidentally, Mobi-chan appears in as bonus item). Now check out Mobi-chan as you’ve never seen before: unmasked to reveal a cute […]

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Ultimate Justice on Parallel Earths

Written by #20 on 2011/03/07 Monday — 8 Comments

Rockman 2 The Power Fighters always felt like it had a lot going on. Building up to Rockman’s 10th Anniversary, it was in many ways a marked improvement from the first Rockman arcade title, incorporating separate but intertwined stories and objectives, new challenge mode rankings like time attack, the return of the animal helpers, new […]

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Bedtime for Duo Week

Written by #20 on 2010/09/03 Friday — Leave a Comment

I’m putting Duo week to bed with one last image from the Grand Rockman Exposition ’96 Secret File.

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Big Duo, it is now SHOWTIME!

Written by #20 on 2010/09/02 Thursday — 2 Comments

As Duo week (belatedly) winds down, we’ll take a look at the Rockman 2: The Power Fighters prologue that appeared in the official game soundtrack booklet ~ a version of the story that didn’t appear anywhere else. Action!

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The Birth of Duo

Written by #20 on 2010/09/01 Wednesday — 2 Comments

Duo made his first appearance in 1996 with the arcade title Rockman 2: The Power Fighters, in which he acted as a sort of promotional teaser for Rockman 8‘s release later that year. He was touted as a mysterious new character who was stylistically quite unlike most of the other characters in the Rockman universe, […]

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