This Is Why You Don’t Debate Mayor Mike Haggar
Capcom’s been doing these little Mike Haggar mayoral moments — hopefully you remember Haggar as the Mayor in the classic beat-’em-up Final Fight whose daughter gets kidnapped and he decides to take his shirt off and beat up every criminal in the city himself — to promote the upcoming Final Fight: Double Impact on Xbox Live and PSN. There are two other videos; they’re not that funny, frankly, but there’s something about Mike Haggar that makes me laugh anyways, so I thought I’d share. I’m also impressed with the instant co-op here; I’m sure there are other online games that do this and I’m just behind the curve as usual, but the idea that I can join in a buddy’s game and it’s just like I inserted a quarter in the same machine astounds me with it simple awesomeness. Man, every classic arcade game on Xbox and PS3 should have that options. I’m writing a letter to the mayor.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.