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2 unusual facts about Capcom's MVP Football


Capcom's MVP Football

A tournament mode permits players to take his team through the playoff bracket and into the Super Bowl.

Custom mode allows exhibition-type games to be played and for all the components of the game to be customized.


Alfa Records

Several albums were released including music from Sega, Konami, Hudson, Capcom, and Tecmo games.

Biohazard 4D-Executer

It was created by Capcom in cooperation with Visual Science Laboratory, and distributed by Digital Amuse.

Breath of Fire II

Breath of Fire II was developed by many of the same Capcom employees who worked on the previous game, including producer Tokuro Fujiwara and lead designer Yoshinori Kawano.

Capcom Fighting All-Stars

Capcom Fighting All-Stars: Code Holder was a 3D fighting game planned for the arcade and PlayStation 2 that was to be developed by Capcom.

Christophe Gans

Gans was to write and direct the Capcom video game Onimusha, however, after several setbacks he abandoned it and is now attached to the French film Fantômas.

Chun-Li

She and Ryu are the only Street Fighter characters to appear in every Capcom crossover title, including the SNK vs. Capcom fighting game series by SNK and the tactical role-playing games Namco × Capcom and Project X Zone by Namco.

Cricket Leigh

As of 2007, she recently provided the voice of Basil in Capcom's 3rd-person action game Lost Planet: Extreme Condition.

D. D. Crew

D. Crew is similar to Capcom's Final Fight, which is an archetypal side scrolling beat-em-up game.

Dark Void Zero

Talk show host Jimmy Fallon lent his name in the game based on a fictional story where Fallon won a contest from Capcom during his younger years.

Darq E Freaker

Infusing UK Grime and Hip-Hop with Capcom-esque electronica, Freaker's unique style of grime caught the attention of English grime MC Tempa T in 2012.

Data East USA, Inc. v. Epyx, Inc.

In 1994, Data East faced a copyright infringement claim from Capcom U.S.A. and a preliminary injunction to stop distributing the video game Fighter's History.

Dead Rising

The MKR Group, who holds the copyright to both the 1978 Dawn of the Dead film and its 2004 remake, sent letters on February 6, 2008 to Capcom, Microsoft, and Best Buy, claiming that Dead Rising infringes on the copyrights and trademarks of these films.

Devil May Cry

In a deal between Capcom and Atlus, Megami Tensei character designer Kazuma Kaneko did the designs for Dante's and Vergil's demonic forms in Devil May Cry 3.

Diverse

Two of Diverse's songs from his One A.M. album, "Blindman," produced by K-Kruz, and "Explosive (Caural Mix)," were featured on the soundtrack of Capcom's 2006 game Final Fight Streetwise for the PlayStation 2 and the Xbox.

Exed Exes

It was also included with its original name on the Capcom Generations Volume 3 for Saturn and PlayStation, Capcom Classics Collection of PlayStation 2 and Xbox and Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded for PlayStation Portable.

Final Fight 2

According to the Associated Press, Final Fight 2 did not have the amount of moves in Capcom's Street Fighter II, but the addition of a two-player mode was seen an improvement over the SNES original.

Firebombing

The Capcom videogame Dead Rising 2 contains a scenario where the dire outcome of the plot may lead to the fire bombing of the fictional city Fortune City, Nevada.

GamersGate

GamersGate sells games for over 250 publishers and developers, including Electronic Arts, Atari, Bethesda Softworks, 2K Games, Ubisoft, SEGA, Capcom, Paradox Interactive and Epic Games but also smaller independent video game development developers such as 2D Boy, Jonathan Blow and Amanita Design.

Ian Flynn

Since his hiring at Archie he has also written Sonic Universe, the Capcom series, Mega Man, and New Crusaders, a superhero title published by the Archie Imprint Red Circle Comics.

Kabu Trader Shun

Adventure mode is much like Capcom's Ace Attorney series, where Shun travels around town furthering the story.

Keiji Inafune

Dead Rising, released by Capcom in the U.S. on August 8, 2006, is a zombie-slaying game heavily influenced by George A. Romero's 1978 movie Dawn of the Dead.

Kinji Fukasaku

Near the end of his life, Fukasaku branched out into the world of video games by serving as the director of the Capcom/Sunsoft survival horror game Clock Tower 3.

Knuckle Bash

Knuckle Bash resembles Capcom's Final Fight, which many beat 'em ups would resemble for some time. Unlike that game, the stages of Knuckle Bash chiefly consist of various "scenarios" of single or few strong boss-like enemies, instead of the typical long series of weaker enemies with a boss at the end of the stage.

Kuroyume

The single "Alone" was selected by Capcom to be used in the Japanese advertisement campaign for Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D.

Lost Planet 2

In addition, if the Lost Planet 2 multiplayer demo reached one million downloads by midnight Pacific Time on May 5, Capcom will donate $50,000 to Music for Relief, a charity founded by Linkin Park members to provide aid to victims of natural disasters.

To create a buzz around the launch of Lost Planet 2, Capcom conducted an experiential marketing campaign at The Arches in London Bridge, two months ahead of its UK launch.

Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds

Marvel vs. Capcom 3's first and only international representation (due to the release of Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3) as a main tournament fighting game at the renowned e-sports event, the Evo Championship Series, was in July 2011, held in the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Mega Man X7

Prominent Mega Man artist and Capcom producer Keiji Inafune had little involvement in the Mega Man X series after the fifth installment.

Nintendo Entertainment System Game Pak

In Japan, these companies manufactured the game cartridges for the Famicom: Nintendo, Konami, Capcom, Namco, Bandai, Taito, Irem, Jaleco, Sunsoft and Hudson Soft.

P.N.03

In November 2002, Capcom announced development of the Capcom Five, a group of video games produced by Capcom Production Studio 4 and overseen by Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami.

The game is part of Shinji Mikami's Capcom Five, a group of five Capcom games intended to be exclusive for the GameCube.

Riot City

Riot City resembles Capcom's 1989 arcade hit, Final Fight, which is an archetypal side scrolling beat-em-up game.

Shu Takumi

After the commercial success of Dino Crisis, Capcom asked their developers to bring a new sequel to this game.

Shuma-Gorath

Shuma-Gorath appears as a playable character in the Capcom fighting game Marvel Super Heroes and sequels Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter and Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes.

Stern Electronics, Inc. v. Kaufman

Capcom U.S.A., Inc. v. Data East Corp (Fighter's History): scenery and characters deemed commonplace or standard are not copyrightable under the doctrine of scenes-à-faire.

Street Chaves

It is made in style of other fighting games such as Street Fighter, Art of Fighting, Darkstalkers and even The King of Fighters, of game companies like Capcom and SNK.

Street Fighter IV

Before producer Yoshinori Ono pitched the idea to Capcom R&D head Keiji Inafune, the prevailing attitude around Capcom was that a new numeric entry to the Street Fighter series would not be made.

Studio 8

Capcom Production Studio 8, a development studio part of Capcom USA, Inc.

Super Street Fighter II Turbo

In 2008, Capcom released a downloadable online version titled Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix for the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade, featuring 1080 pixel high definition graphics (compared with the original 224 pixel) and a rebalanced roster, based on the source code from Super Street Fighter II X for Matching Service for Dreamcast.

Capcom released Super Street Fighter II X for Matching Service for the Dreamcast in Japan as an exclusive mail-order release via the online Dreamcast Direct store (later known as Sega Direct) on December 22, 2000.

Supercool Creative

Supercool Creative is currently responsible for the social media marketing for Street Fighter X Tekken, a AAA fighting game being released in March, 2012 by Capcom.

Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars

Certain versions of Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars are bundled with a Mad Catz arcade stick, whose artwork was produced by Japanese artist Shinkiro.

Three Wolf Moon

Capcom prepared a limited run through iam8bit of a "Three Wolf God Sun" shirt for the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International, featuring images of the wolf gods Amaterasu and Chibiterasu from their video games Ōkami and Ōkamiden.

Yamaha YM2151

It was also used in arcade games, starting with Atari's Marble Madness, and later being licensed for use by many other companies including Sega, Konami, Capcom, Data East Pinball and Namco, with its heaviest use in the late 1980s, as well as in the Sharp X1 and Sharp X68000 home computers.

Yodo-dono

She also appears in Capcom's recent addition of the Onimusha series, Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams, as Toyotomi Hideyoshi's concubine and sister to playable character Ohatsu, who affectionately calls Yodo by her childhood name, "Cha-Cha".


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