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Capcom
Capcom, which is short for "Capsule Computer" is a video game company that makes lots of acclaimed game series, but unlike other companies, they haven't made a console, instead preferring to make games for all sorts of different systems. They also made some surprisingly good licensed games for NES back in the day. They also really hate the Art of Fighting game series for some reason.
Games Made By Capcom
- Mega Man (probably their most well-known)
- Street Fighter (probably their next most well known)
- Resident Evil 4 (and the rest of the Resident Evil series)
- Okami
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
- Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney
- Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth
- Devil May Cry
- Darkstalkers
- Super Gem Fighter: Mini Mix/Pocket Fighter
- Ghosts 'n' Goblins/Ghouls and Ghosts
- Captain Commando
- Strider
- Marvel vs. Capcom series
- Capcom vs. SNK: Millenium Fight 2000
- Capcom vs. SNK: Mark of the Millenium 2001
- Zack and Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure
- Final Fight
- Breath of Fire
- Viewtiful Joe
- We Love Golf!
- Cyberbots
- Vulgus (their first game)
- The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons (developed by Capcom with help from Nintendo)
Crossover Series
In 1994, Capcom earned the rights to use Marvel characters in a few fighting games. Thus, X-Men: Children of the Atom was born. It featured members of the X-Men as they basically decided to use Battle Royale in order to determine who should go on to face Magneto. The game was a success, and as an in-joke, Capcom threw in Akuma from Street Fighter II as a hidden character. The inevitable happened and voila; X-Men VS Street Fighter was born. You could choose characters from the X-Men game, as well as Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, Dhalsim, Zangief, M. Bison, Charlie, Akuma and Cammy from Street Fighter Alpha. When Capcom also went on to make Marvel Super Heroes, which added some more Marvel characters alongside the X-Men, they followed up with Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter. The game kept Wolverine, Cyclops and most of the Street Fighters (adding Dan Hibiki and Sakura while removing Cammy), and added Spider-Man, Captain America, The Incredible Hulk, and others. Next, Capcom took it one step further with Marvel vs. Capcom, which took out a few Marvel characters (and most of the Street Fighter characters, leaving Ryu, Ken (sort of), Chun Li, Zangief and Akuma (sort of)), but on the other hand, added Venom and Gambit, as well as adding a few Capcom characters from other games, such as Mega Man, Morrigan, Strider Hiryu, Roll and Captain Commando. Finally, the last (and arguably greatest) installment arrived in 2000 with Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes, featuring just about everyone from the previous games (excluding the palette-swap characters), added characters like Dr. Doom, Jill Valentine, Tron Bonne, Anakaris, Cable and Iron Man, added some new gameplay features and was just plain awesome.
Capcom also did a few more crossovers, such as a 4-game (plus some card-battling games) crossover with SNK, featuring characters from Street Fighter, King of the Fighters and Samurai Shodown, a strategy RPG with Namco (which tends to feature lots of the more obscure characters from both companies), and a crossover against various Tatsunoko properties. Mega Man would've been in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, but Keiji Inafune was waiting for Sakurai to approach him, while Sakurai was waiting for Inafune to come over and ask if Mega Man could be in the game. Oh the irony.
Trivia
- Some of their most well-known franchises have been turned into bad cartoons.
- Marvel vs. Capcom 2 is going to be rereleased for Xbox 360 and PS3 as a downloadable title in late June 2009. Wii owners, prepare to be massively screwed over because of not enough memory.
