Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Interactive Rockman Storybook

Now here's a neat little obscure item. Reader James sent in these photos of an interactive Rockman storybook, produced sometime in 1993.




Designed with children in mind, this easy-read has kids guiding the Blue Bomber in the fight against eight Robot Masters from Rockman 6. Each Robot Master offers a different activity such as solving puzzles, mazes and brain teasers. Completing activities yields a battle between Rockman and a Robot Master. Battles are carried out through a "digital slot machine" (pictured above right) embedded within the book itself. Successfully line up a specific set of numbers, and the boss will be defeated. Sounds simple, but James notes he's yet to successfully defeat anyone. Nevertheless, the book looks to be a blast,...for kids and adults.

If you're interesting in purchasing the book for yourself, be sure to scope out Yahoo! Japan Auctions as stuff like this pops up every now and then.

Thanks for sharing, James!

10 comments:

  1. Sounds like a fun book. :) I hope he can provide pics of the other pages sometime.

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  2. Man, that's cool.

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  3. Eh, I'd rather just play Mega Man 6.

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  4. Should be released for WiiWare! XD

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  5. I have a copy of this book! I could take pics if people are interested. It is pretty big and has an interactive audio feature.

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  6. Some pics would be great! Thanks!

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  7. Sorry to hijack the comments section, but where do I post them or should I just e-mail them to the site?

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  8. Just post them in the comments. I'll update the post to include them.

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  9. Hi Protodude, here's pics of the rest of the book and pics of my collection. I have a ton of obscure Rockman stuff like this :)

    http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/xx354/allenb2/SDC11005.jpg

    http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/xx354/allenb2/SDC11006.jpg

    http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/xx354/allenb2/SDC11007.jpg

    http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/xx354/allenb2/SDC11008.jpg

    http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/xx354/allenb2/SDC11009.jpg

    http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/xx354/allenb2/SDC11010.jpg

    http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/xx354/allenb2/SDC11011.jpg

    http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/xx354/allenb2/SDC11012.jpg

    http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/xx354/allenb2/SDC11013.jpg

    http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/xx354/allenb2/SDC11014.jpg

    http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/xx354/allenb2/SDC11015.jpg

    http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/xx354/allenb2/SDC11016.jpg

    Collection:

    http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/xx354/allenb2/shelves-11-09-02.jpg

    http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/xx354/allenb2/shelves-11-09-01.jpg

    http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/xx354/allenb2/shelves-11-09-03.jpg

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  10. HOLEH CRAP^ sooooo jealous

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