The Blue Bomber

So it's finals week. Sigh. Anyways, as I was feverishly doing homework and studying, I was struck by a sudden desire to blog (and as anyone who has been following this blog knows, I'm not struck by that feeling all that often) so I pondered what it was I wanted to blog about.

And I came up with Megaman. I don't know why. So here we go.

Megaman is a video game series heralding back to the 8 bit era featuring a cyborg-ish protagonist named Megaman who had been created by Dr. Light to fend of the scores of evil robot masters created by the evil Dr. Wily. Each level begins with Megaman warping in, defeating hordes of lesser robots and ends with a showdown between Megaman and the Wily TM Robot Master. Each Robot Master had some kind of theme like "Fireman" or "Woodman" or "Airman" and had attacks somehow related to their theme. Upon their defeat, Megaman would absorb whatever power they had and could use it against other robot masters, exploiting each one's weaknesses according to whatever weapons he has been able to obtain. Each special weapon has an energy bar that is quickly depleted and whenever Megaman adopts a new weapon, his classic blue coloring changes to whatever matches the weapon (i.e. he turns red and yellow when equipping Fireman's weapon. And that is the awesomeness, that is Megaman. (In Japan, he is known as Rockman, just in case you were wondering.)


Megaman vs Blobman


This was created by me on my mission when my companion was sick and in bed. I purchased a Megaman Action figure from a dollar store and had him stop motion battle a big blob of silly putty. Awesomeness.




This is a video that sums up the 8 bit video game experience. Music. Frustration. Awesomeness.
By way of explanation, the singer is getting frustrated because he keeps playing the Airman level and can't beat it. He's just venting his frustration at not being able to defeat Airman, who just won't die.



And for those of you that don't speak Japanese and don't like the subtitles... (Though the singing isn't nearly as enjoyable.)


And as an added bonus, here's a stopmotion video I made of Protoman (a contemporary of Megaman) taking his turn fighting the Shapeshifting Blobman!