Capcom was founded in 1979 as Japan Capsule Computers, a company devoted to the manufacturing and distribution of electronic game machines.
Capcom is one of my favorite video game publishing company. It is the creator of many of my favorite
games like the action role-playing game Devil May Cry series, the patformer Mega Man series and, the fighting game Street Fighter series. It is also the creator of many of the popular games arround the video gaming industry like Resident Evil series, Viewtiful Joe series, Dead Rising series, Lost Planet, Onimusha series,Capcom vs SNK and Marvel vs Capcom series.
On the past, Captain Commando, which forms the Capcom when the first syllables of both words are combined, is the official mascot of Capcom but because of immense popularity of Mega Man, Mega Man superseded Captain Commando as the official mascot while Ryu of the Street Fighter series is one of the more prominent Capcom characters not only the face of Capcom's fighting games, but is generally associated with the fighting genre.
Capcom also influenced general media making their games and characters therein being featured in a number of anime, cartoons, and theatrical movies, some of which include :
The company mascot, Mega Man, played a supporting role in a Nintendo inspired TV-show Captain N: The Game Master and has later been featured in three separate cartoons: Mega Man produced by Ruby-Spears, and the two anime series Megaman Nt Warrior and Mega Man Star Force. He also starred in three OVA's originally released in Japan in 1993, released later on DVD in North America, and the NT Warrior anime series spawned a 48-minute feature film (only in Japan) entitled Rockman EXE: The Program of Light and Dark, Mega Man's first ever appearance on the big-screen.
Street Fighter II has also been a popular source for films, anime, and cartoons. A popular anime adaptation was made, followed by a live action adaptation, both in 1994. Shortly afterwards, two different animated series, a Japanese series and an American series were produced in 1995 as well as a second anime feature. A new live action movie, Street Fighter 2 : The Legend of Chun-Li, was released in early 2009.
The fighting game Darkstalkers was made into two animated adaptations, in Japan and in the United States.
Another fighting game, Power Stone, saw an anime adaptation.
So far the most successful series of films based on a video game has been based on Capcom's popular survivor horror series Resident Evil. The first film was received well at the box office, earning $102 million worldwide. Its VHS and DVD sales were even stronger leading Screen Gems and Sony to make a sequel, which also proved to be a financial success. The third part Resident Evil : Extinction was released in 2007. Another sequel titled Resident Evil: Afterlife is scheduled for release in September 2010.
An anime series based on Viewtiful Joe was made in 2004. It consists of 52 episodes and is based loosely around the first and second games. It features new characters, such as Captain Blue Jr. and Sprocket, who were later introduced into the GameCube and PSP game, Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble. Viewtiful Joe the anime series used to air on Kids' WB! but was cancelled shortly before the network changed to The CW.
An anime based on the series Devil May Cry aired in Japan for 12 episodes. It was handled by Madhouse.
A manga version of the courtroom drama action series Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney is being produced in Japan.
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