Street Fighter, Mega Man going mobile

by Jason Dobson { May 20th 2008 at 10:30AM }

How many times have we been sitting on the city bus, bored and without handheld, only to turn to our cellphone for some bastardized version of Snake or Bejewelled? It's not something we like to think about, being forced to drive down the nail of boredom with the Great Hammer of Meh. However, a new mobile partnership now looks to have us struggling to pull off dragon punches on our keypads as well.

According to mobile content provider Handango, the company has partnered with Capcom to bring the Street Fighter and Mega Man franchises to its online store and mobile client on BlackBerry and Windows Mobile phones. Other franchises are promised as well, including miniaturized versions of Are you Smarter Than a 5th Grader? and the deal's underwhelming debut release, Who Wants to be a Millionaire? It will be interesting to see what other Capcom franchises make the jump to mobile phones as part of this agreement, though honestly we're more interested in how in the world we're going to pull off that dragon punch.

Tags: capcom, handango, maegaman, mega-man, mobile, street-fighter, streetfighter

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Ninjakamster (XBL: RNK2K) @ May 20th 2008 10:47AM

Who is that on the right? Balrog(M. Bison in Japan)?

Joel Rose @ May 20th 2008 10:57AM

Yeah, basically. He's known as 'Mike' in the game pictured (SF1). It's assumed that he's the boxer in SF2. As you said, in Japan he's M.Bison, so that would make him Mike Bison. As you probably know, that's why Capcom changed the boss names around in the US.

JPN @ May 20th 2008 10:59AM

I bought Mega Man II for my mobile and it's unplayable. Horribly unresponsive. I'm considering calling to get my money back.

Joel Rose @ May 20th 2008 11:04AM

Yeah, it all depends on the phone. I have a port of the same mobile version on my Sidekick and it works fairly well. (The sidekick's layout helps a lot) The only issue is you can't control the height of your jump very well. You basically have to push 'down' after jumping to make a shorter jump. A friend of mine has a standard designed phone and also has Mega Man 2 and he has a lot of issues. If you try to get your money back, good luck. Some games are just not intended to be played with one hand.