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Are You Ready to Have the Best Gaming T-Shirt Ever?

Akira_EX | July 22, 2008 | News | Playstation 3 Wii

Back during E3, summit-goers noticed Capcom execs wearing a peculiar T-shirt throughout the summit. That T-shirt happened to depicted the boxart for upcoming WiiWare/XBLA/PSN release Mega Man 9, in all its retro glory, bringing back memories of the Mega Man boxarts of old.

Well, Capcom USA is working on making these shirts available for purchase. Rejoice.

The image above is a photo of the super-limited edition t-shirts (1 of 4!) that we had created for Inafune-san and Takeshita-san to wear during E3. You should have seen people's eyes light up when they saw this image emblazoned across Inafune-san's chest; it's not often you see a global head of R&D sporting something so hideous on his torso. In fact, I wore one of the MM9 shirts to the unbelievable Rock Band party during E3 and I thought I was going to get ganked by a pack of slavering industry fanboys. Capcom's marketing team in the US is super-stoked that everyone is getting what we're doing with the box art (including the Japanese dev team) and I promise you that we'll have some t-shirts of this beauty available for purchase soon!

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Capn Droid | July 23, 2008

YOU

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WRONG
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  Akira_EX | July 23, 2008
  
  Mega Man 9 Boxart Shirt > Pokémon 151 shirts.
  
  Fact. The Pokémon 151 shirts must be great, but this trumps them in every way imaginable.
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    Capn Droid | July 23, 2008
    
    Because something that looks like it would have been good in the '80s is so much better than something that directly appeals to the teenage male audience. Also note there are only four of those shirts, thank God. I don't really care if you say "but it's so ugly, it's awesome" because nothing that's like this Megaman shirt should be considered awesome because it's awesome. It should be considered awesome because it looks horrendous. They even say so in the article.
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      BANDITO ATTACK | July 23, 2008
      
      it's awesome because when someone who understands the history, and the joke behind it, we laugh. hard.
      btw they only made 4 because they thought it was funny. they're going to mass produce them after the great reaction they got at E3.
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Deathsythe | July 23, 2008

I'm not a fan of the new "gangsta" Pokemon clothing.

80s tees bring me back to the good old days. Those T-shirts will be made of pure win when they come stateside.
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  MusiKon | July 23, 2008
  
  Gangsta? More like modern really.
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  Raziel_326 | July 23, 2008
  
  I fail to see how that's "gangsta".
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kspiess | July 23, 2008

That image is my current desktop wallpaper. Doing the retro-box art like that was such a good idea that honestly I'm surprised they actually did it.
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Koloth | July 23, 2008

I will so get that. It will go great with my Transformers Thundercats and Speed Racer Ts.
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BANDITO ATTACK | July 23, 2008

i'd love to say "im getting that" but i know i wont have any money for it.
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Drogo Baggins | July 23, 2008

Even though I find it kind of funny, for it "historically comedic value"(the only way I could describe it), I think the shirts pretty hideous. Lol, I would still like to have it, though, but I'd never wear it.