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Look I drink ...
... and from time to time this makes me a little late on trends in the world. M.U.G.E.N. is something that I have totally missed the bus on ... by eight full years. No, I am not talking about Honda's tuning division, I am talking about the game engine. Wikipedia describes it as such:
"M.U.G.E.N is a free 2D fighting game engine designed by Elecbyte, written in C with the Allegro library. The engine allows for anyone to create characters, background stages and other game objects through interpreted text files, graphics, and sound compilation."
Now, I may not have any idea what that means, but I want it bad. A special thanks goes out to JudgeSpear for giving us great video footage. Be sure to check out our previous coverage and find out just how dumb and out of the loop I am. Here, here, and here, over here, and man do I feel dumb.

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joepekula's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2007 14:53
joepekula
Why does chugging the DUFF take away Homer's life?
heroclixer87's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2007 14:59
heroclixer87
I would pay for a game like that. The quagmire jumping out and defiling homer was genius.
Hamza CTZ Aziz's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2007 14:59
Hamza CTZ Aziz
Family FTW
Hamza CTZ Aziz's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2007 15:00
Hamza CTZ Aziz
Family *Guy*, damn it.
free touch's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2007 15:01
free touch
free touch's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2007 15:02
free touch
I used to be into mugen. Hell, there's a metric-eff ton of characters to pick from, its completely customizable, blah blah blah. The problem I had is it just seems to stop working everyonce and a while.
ShinAmano's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2007 15:03
ShinAmano
Awesome...I would buy it...they just need to work on the backgrounds as that one did not fit at all.
velcroman's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2007 15:03
velcroman
MUGEN is how i found Dtoid last summer. I was just wondering if more stuff cool stuff being made for it.
Toneman's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2007 15:06
Toneman
My friend made a MUGEN game. If anyone wants to snag it, click here and then here. It's about 550 megs because we're dumb and don't know how to shrink it. Just extract all those files into a folder and run winmugen.exe. Oh, and we put our voices into it. You can play as me!
DoctorEuphony's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2007 15:06
DoctorEuphony
fucking amazing.
galagabug 's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2007 15:09
galagabug
MUGEN is like crack. i think my character list is up to about 800, which makes selection really really difficult.

if you're interested in getting started, check out mugen infantry.

then say goodbye to your loved ones.
kawaiizilla's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2007 15:26
kawaiizilla
You know you're old school when... you saw the MUGEN article Niero posted waaay back in Dtoid history (pre-Summa and pre-Faith Naked times).

Still.. MUGEN RAWKZ!111
RskimB's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2007 15:54
RskimB
i havent played MUGEN since like 8th grade
Mxyzptlk's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2007 16:18
Mxyzptlk
Wow, I remember vaguely from way back, but never tried it out. I should probably correct that.
Cheesyhoboe's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2007 16:55
Cheesyhoboe
MUGEN is fun when you're adding characters to your roster, but once you actually play the game after the whole 'OMG IS THAT RYU VS KEN VS SOL BAD GUY VS GOKU VS PIKACHU VS GREEN POWER RANGER' stage you realize that it's not actually that fun to play due to imbalances in the game.
fearian's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2007 18:08
fearian
freakin awesome. brilliant video. would never play it though, I just dont get fighting games...
tim's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2007 18:48
tim
I liked the Quagmire thing but Homer should've won.
Necros's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2007 19:36
Necros
That chicken fight in the last five seconds made the whole thing worth it. Totally not expecting that.
Paul Soth's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/27/2007 21:50
Paul Soth
Needs more Yaranaika:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=g_jcW3QTbPQ
trunxkam45's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/28/2007 01:19
trunxkam45
Needs more shingo.
s0lesurviv0r's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/28/2007 01:22
s0lesurviv0r
Gamechamp's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/28/2007 01:34
Gamechamp
I got real interested a while back, but I wanted to start from scratch and work my way up adding characters and stuff with just a basic little set.

Thing is, the moron who made the basic little set didn't include any instructions to anything other than adding characters, so the game screen is about about 1 inch big.

I really need to figure out how to get it full screen.
Kif 's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/28/2007 14:08
Kif
I remember MUGEN on Dtoid. I think it was the M Bison run on Super Mario world 1-1. God that was a long time ago.
Venomex's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/29/2007 12:04
Venomex
was it just me, or did Peter have only 3 moves.
michiyoyoshiku's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/29/2007 12:18
michiyoyoshiku
The Mugen community are the biggest assholes on the internet.

VERY selfish people I hate them with a passion
Confused_soul's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/15/2007 07:11
Confused_soul
Where the hell is the button that says download?
Fading Star's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/09/2008 09:59
Fading Star
Awesome.
RAB's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/12/2008 16:27
RAB
somebody should make a MR DESTRUCTOID fighter

and tell me where to download him
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