{"id":997,"date":"2013-08-19T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=997"},"modified":"2013-08-20T18:33:21","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T23:33:21","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-capcoms-first-cd-rom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/997\/retro-scan-of-the-week-capcoms-first-cd-rom","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Capcom&#8217;s First PC CD-ROM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/megaman_x_cdrom_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/megaman_x_cdrom_small.jpg\" alt=\"Mega Man X CD-ROM advertisement - 1995\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Digging up video games in a mall ashtray<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I was a huge fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mega_Man_X_%28video_game%29\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Mega Man X<\/em><\/a> when it first came out on the Super NES in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Well, I rented it, anyway, and I played it more than any other side-scrolling Mega Man game before or since.  I loved finding the secret <a href=\"http:\/\/streetfighter.wikia.com\/wiki\/Hadoken\" target=\"_blank\">Hadoken<\/a> fireball power up, which I read about in Nintendo Power.<\/p>\n<p>Much to my present-day surprise (even though I owned this magazine when it was new), Capcom produced a version of <em>Mega Man X<\/em> for the PC, and on a CD-ROM no less.  Has anyone out there played it?  I&#8217;m wondering if the adaptation was any good.<\/p>\n<p>[ <em>P.S. Shortly after writing this entry, I tracked down a warez copy of Mega Man X for the PC, and it&#8217;s surprisingly well done.  However, its utilization of MIDI music provides for a pretty surreal Mega Man experience &#8212; surreal in the sense that the tunes generally sound horrible compared to MM games that are famous for their music.<\/em> ]<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Electronic Gaming Monthly, September 1995, rear cover ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> What&#8217;s your favorite Mega Man game of all time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digging up video games in a mall ashtray I was a huge fan of Mega Man X when it first came out on the Super NES in 1993. &#8230;Well, I rented it, anyway, and I played it more than any other side-scrolling Mega Man game before or since. I loved finding the secret Hadoken fireball [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,7,13,27,26,9,10],"tags":[151,150,178,551,295,576,573,574,575,60],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-computer-info-and-history","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming","category-computers","tag-151","tag-advertisement","tag-capcom","tag-cd-rom","tag-egm","tag-hadoken","tag-mega-man","tag-mega-man-x","tag-pc","tag-retro-scan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}