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a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vBCSLbKJ7nI/SVvdZ4Dac0I/AAAAAAAAA-M/HFZZOWQbZKQ/s1600-h/RockR20a.png"img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 162px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vBCSLbKJ7nI/SVvdZ4Dac0I/AAAAAAAAA-M/HFZZOWQbZKQ/s320/RockR20a.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286062024262579010" border="0" //aAs the year comes to a close, let us take a moment to reflect upon the Rockman news stories that made 2008 and year we will never forget.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"March 2008:/spanbr /a href="http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2008/03/ryuusei-no-rockman-tribe-off-air.html"-Ryuusei no Rockman Tribe-Off Air!/abr /RnR Tribe's cancellation from Japanese air waves took many of us by surprise. The show's cancellation marked an end to Rockman's six year animated streak on TV Tokyo. A sad day indeed.br /br /-a href="http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2008/03/rockman-rockman-selling-like-hotcakes.html"Rockman Rockman Selling Like Hotcakes?/abr /In March, span style="font-style: italic;"Rockman Rockman/span saw a sudden surge in sales, two years after its original release. Sales were so high that it outsold the highly anticipated span style="font-style: italic;"Devil May Cry 4/span. The streak didn't last for more than a few weeks however, for a game that was considered a commercial failure, this was great news.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"April 2008/spanbr /a href="http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2008/04/rumor-zx-extremus-to-be-unveiled-at.html"-ZX "Extremus" To Be Revealed At CAPTIVATE '08/abr /Oh boy, this one was a doozey. a href="http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2008/05/rumor-round-up-rnr3-zx3-and-more.html"Rumors of a ZX3/a were prominent throughout 2008, but out of all the rumors, span style="font-style: italic;"ZX Extremus/span truly stood out. ZXE was said to be a prequel to the ZX series, starring a young Prometheus and Pandora as they set out to find potential Rockmen to outmatch Model ZX.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"June 2008/spanbr /a href="http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2008/06/holy-sh1t-rockman-9-is-coming.html"-Holy Sh!t, Rockman 9 Is Coming!/abr /What more can I say? Rockman 9's announcement remains the biggest news story of 2008. Thanks to the efforts of "a href="http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2008/06/rockman-9-shadow-speaks.html"The Shadow/a," PRC became span style="font-style: italic;"the/span source for Rockman 9 news-bringing in thousands of hits a day. You can check out a retrospective of The Shadow's activities a href="http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2008/09/shadow-retrospective.html"here/a.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"August 2008/spanbr /a href="http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2008/08/another-nail-in-zxs-coffin-zx-blog.html"-Another Nail in ZX's Coffin: ZX Blog Closing Its Doors /abr /The closing of ZX Blog was a huge blow to all of us. Whatever hope we was left for a third ZX ended upon the blog's shutdown.br /br /span style="text-decoration: underline;"-/spana href="http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2008/08/best-promotional-item-ever-capcom-to.html"Best Promotional Item Ever: Capcom to Release E-Tank Beverage /abr /August marked the debut of the Rockman 9 E-Can beverage, a sports drink cleverly disguised in the image of an E-Can. Many lolz ensured.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"September 2008/spanbr /a href="http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2008/09/inafune-destroys-cataclysm-theory-its.html"-INAFUNE DESTROYS CATACLYSM THEORY/abr /Finally, after years upon years of speculation, Keiji Inafune put an indefinte end to the notorious "Cataclysm theory." The Cataclysm theory states that Zero, upon his completion by Dr. Wily, massacred Rockman's family (Roll, Auto, Dr. Light, etc.) to bloody pulp. When Capcom USA announced a Qamp;A session between Inafune and the fans, I jumped at the opportunity and asked him the fateful question: "Did Zero really 'kill' the family between the events of the Classic Mega Man and X series? " His reply?br /br /"span style="font-style: italic;"No, Zero did not kill them. According to the way I created him, Zero is not such a person--it is not in his profile./span"br /br /a href="http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2008/09/megaman-9-box.html"-MegaMan 9 Press Kits/abr /In honor of MM9's US release, Capcom cleverly created a series of mock MM9 NES packages. A total of 200 press kits were created and distributed to members of Capcom-Unity.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Ocotober 2008/spanbr /a href="http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2008/10/rumor-sega-vs-capcom-to-be-revealed-at.html"-RUMOR: Sega Vs. Capcom To Be Revealed At TGS/abr /This fun little rumor claimed Sega and Capcom were hard at work on a crossover game known as "span style="font-style: italic;"SEGA vs. Capcom: Great Clash Generation." /spanThe game was described as a "hybrid RPG-fighting game" set to release on the Nintendo DS in Q1 2009 with a "likely" PSP port later in the new year.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"December 2008/spanbr /a href="http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2008/12/rumor-nintendo-dream-to-reveal-secret.html"-Nintendo Dream To Reveal "Secret" Rockman Project/abr /a href="http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2008/12/coro-coro-comics-teases-new-rockman.html"-Coro Coro Teases New Rockman, Holding Boss Design Contest/abr /Nintendo Dream's announcement to reveal a new Rockman project+Coro Coro's upcoming boss design contest seem to imply the coming of something new, but what? It is much too early for something along the lines of Shooting Star Rockman 4 however, we can't judge anything until the details of Coro Coro's design contest are revealed. Hopefully, a href="http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2008/12/newest-coro-coro-coming-soon.html"we won't have to wait too long./abr /br /2008 was a great year for Rockman and I sincerely hope you all had a good '08 as well. So, here's to 2009; I eagerly look forward to what's to come.

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