Feb 27, 2009 -- 5:55PM, Ginrei wrote:

Darn, LBD beat me to posting that comic...

What do you mean the announcer said his name, Slashy? Someone's found a clip of that??

brawlannouncer.ytmnd.com

Feb 28, 2009 -- 6:35PM, Matoto Man wrote:

Now that I think about it more, I wonder how Mega Man would play in a Smash Bros. game.

Would he be more like Kirby- absorbing enemy powers, or more like Fox with the frickin' lazer beams?

It's actually kind of depressing seeing the classic MM being replaced by MM Trigger in TvC. I always liked the crazy moveset that MM had in MvC2, mostly bringing to mind his super-combo-thing where he fuses with Rush and Beat and just unleashes.

I think that megaman would be more like fox. Him being able to ise his megabuster and maybe getting powerups.

I had wished every day on that old Smash Blog update for MegaMan to appear one time : (

Mar 15, 2009 -- 10:39PM, Gunslinger wrote:

No kidding.  I don't understand why neither side pushed for him to be in.  He's was easily the most wanted third party after Sonic, and , of all the TP characters they could have chosen, Snake getting in ahead of him was just insulting.

Not really; Kojima practically begged for Snake to be in Melee, but by that time it was too late.  So he got first dibs on Brawl.  It's actually pretty well chronicled, that.

As for why neither side pushed, there was clearly a mix-up in understanding how this thing works.  If a third-party wanted to be considered, it seems all they needed to do was ask.  Probably better to let people come to you than play favorites, after all.

Inafune never asked; he instead had the impression that if they wanted to use Mega Man, they would ask him or Capcom.  So he sat around, waiting (so to speak) for a call that would never come.

Meanwhile, apparently no one else had approached Sakurai about their character being in, either.

Rumor has it that Geno from Super Mario RPG, a character whose rights are held by Square Enix but tied strongly to a Nintendo property, had been in the cards at some point, but it's only a rumor, with no details supporting if or how it might have gone down.

--LBD "Nytetrayn"

Mar 16, 2009 -- 2:51AM, LBD_Nytetrayn wrote:

Mar 15, 2009 -- 10:39PM, Gunslinger wrote:

No kidding. I don't understand why neither side pushed for him to be in. He's was easily the most wanted third party after Sonic, and , of all the TP characters they could have chosen, Snake getting in ahead of him was just insulting.

Not really; Kojima practically begged for Snake to be in Melee, but by that time it was too late.  So he got first dibs on Brawl.  It's actually pretty well chronicled, that.

As for why neither side pushed, there was clearly a mix-up in understanding how this thing works.  If a third-party wanted to be considered, it seems all they needed to do was ask.  Probably better to let people come to you than play favorites, after all.

Inafune never asked; he instead had the impression that if they wanted to use Mega Man, they would ask him or Capcom.  So he sat around, waiting (so to speak) for a call that would never come.

Meanwhile, apparently no one else had approached Sakurai about their character being in, either.

Rumor has it that Geno from Super Mario RPG, a character whose rights are held by Square Enix but tied strongly to a Nintendo property, had been in the cards at some point, but it's only a rumor, with no details supporting if or how it might have gone down.

--LBD "Nytetrayn"

I knew about the Snake thing, but it seems to me that if you're going to put in one third party that has had almost no history with Nintendo, then you'd better put in at least one of the main NES video game franchises from that era too, and Mega Man is on the top of that list.

I also know about the mix-up (and for the record, I was following Brawl news pre-release like anyone else).  I still think that both sides should've been more pro-active.  He deserved to be in Brawl, but nobody seemed to care enough to take the first step. 

Oh, and I hadn't heard the Geno rumors.  Last I saw, he was just a fan favorite on the boards.  I'm sure the rumor was just made up by hopeful fans.