This guy did WHAT to Spider-Man?!

Oh dang, one month? Yikes. I hate working retailer with randomized schedules.

The face of a rabid rapist.

If there's one reason I love playing Capcom's fighting games.  They're a blast to play with the bizarre variety of characters and the insanity these characters enable with their super-hyper-variable-attack whatever moves.

To over it briefly, Norimaro is this Japanese sketch character created by comedian Noritake Kinashi who, in the game, represents neither Marvel or Capcom but of the Japanese Nippon TV channel in Japan. He appears as a regular playable character exclusively in the Japanese arcade and console versions of the game, but was removed in all the overseas releases despite most of his taunt text being translated into English. 

A few years ago, I stumbled upon this video on Nico Nico Douga of Capcom staff introducing Norimaro to Japanese TV viewers in the Japanese version of Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter. In this segment, Norimaro performs a... questionable attack on a hapless Spider-Man. Just see with your own eyes.

What he's doing is a kancho, a Japanese prank that involves putting your index fingers together and sticking them up someone's ass, usually on friends. So now that you that fairly useless detail, please do not perform this in public. You'll probably be thrown in your local area's sex offender registry at the very least. 

What should be noted however, is that this particular move was actually removed from the final version of the game. Word of hearsay goes that a Marvel representative had seen this build and furiously demanded its immediate omission. I'm not really finding any concrete sources that validate this report, but you can bet in the event that I do I'll immediately update this post with the full scoop.

Needless to say, he's probably the only reason I'd play ever play Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter.

Let's all go mahval for an old E3 2000 trailer of Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 (Dreamcast)

Oh boy, this is probably my favorite fighting game of all time.

Having always played the Dreamcast version since I was in middle school, I was actually quite good with my team ─ which always consists of Tron Bonne, Mega Man and Cable, and usually at that order. I've never played on any tournaments, and I wouldn't last long in one if I ever tried. If you've followed me on YouTube, you'll know I did a PEMNAS run of the game about six years ago. At one point, it was the most searched final boss video of the game for a while. *grins*

I actually played an arcade cabinet of Marvel vs. Capcom 2 at a local arcade this past weekend on a trip with family. I actually kind of hate playing fighting games on a fighting stick because not only do I suck with them, I always get cramps on my fingers and knuckles if I play for a while, and that's what I felt after beating the game after one Game Over and two sittings (standings?).

Alright, so where am I going with this? Oh yes, I have a trailer of the game from that Capcom E3 Sales Presentation VHS tape that I've been posting other trailers* from in the past month or so. It's a kick ass trailer. It really gets you excited for the game's chaotic gameplay and because of that I decided to post it on YouTube. And just like the other ripped VHS tape clips I've posting, it rendered at 1080p60 so you can see the action as it's intended to be seen. So here you go.

I will be posting the video in its entirety sometime tomorrow or the following day. Consider it a late Christmas gift or a New Year's Day gift. Get crazy.

GOD DAMN RENDERING CANCELLED PREMATURELY!