TV and Lust

In a new character trailer for Street Fighter X Tekken, Capcom has revealed that the two most iconic characters from the companies involved in the crossover will be playable in the upcoming fighter. Like the previously announced Toro and Kuro (Sony mascots in Japan) and Cole from inFamous, Mega Man and Pac-Man will be exclusive to the PS3 and Vita versions of the game.

If you feel like like something strange is afoot, I suggest you look up the box art for the North American version of Mega Man on NES. Pac-Man seems to be piloting the Mokujin training dummy from the Tekken series.

Director of the title, Yoshinori Ono (whom gamers have nicknamed “Trollno”), says that he talked to Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune about using Bad Box Art Mega Man about a year ago, which places the conversation some time around Inafune’s departure from Capcom.

While many gamers are seeing this as salt in the wound after so many cancelled Mega Man projects and exclusions from games, I see it as a tongue-in-cheek poke at Capcom itself. Keiji Inafune himself was planning on using Bad Box Art Mega Man in the now cancelled Mega Man Universe.

[From: Twitter]