Takaya Imamura is the designer of Fox McCloud, Tingle, and Captain Falcon.

As you may already be aware, Capcom recently announced what it is calling the 12th official entry in the Mega Man series, Mega Man: Dual Override, and, to celebrate, it is currently hosting a robot masters design competition over on Twitter/X.

This competition sees the developer and publisher asking artists across the globe to submit their own unique designs for "a Robot Master who has a right arm with immense suction powers", with the top prize being the chance to see their creation face off against the blue bomber in the new game.

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The Perks of Being A Hundred Wallflowers is about a teenager with the superpower to turn into an army of shy people.

Original illustration used for an officially licensed 1997 Mario Kart 64 jigsaw puzzle from Japan.

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The prototype version of Yoshi’s Island contained a segment that took away control from the player for an absurdly long time seemingly purely for comedic effect.

After shooting an Arrow Cloud with an egg, the egg is shown to bounce between a large number of Arrow Clouds in a convoluted manner for 16 seconds, accomplishing nothing except collecting a few coins, and falling into a pit at the end.

While the finished game does include segments where an egg is made to bounce between Arrow Clouds, these are several times shorter and are utilized for more useful purposes like getting one of the level’s collectibles.

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"Nice of him, that compliment (in my mind anyway)".

Gregg Mayles recently announced his departure from Rare after 36 years, which means the brains behind such classics as Battletoads, Donkey Kong Country and Banjo-Kazooie is no longer with the legendary British studio.

While he's very much focused on his future, Mayles is equally keen to promote his past, and has been digging into his personal archives to unearth material related to Banjo-Tooie, which recently celebrated its 25th birthday.

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