Winston Wolf writes: "The appeal of the series may be its extravagance – whole teams of superheroes, ridiculously powerful supervillains, larger than life showdowns of mutant power versus mutant power against the backdrop of a world wary of both sides – and extravagance is a wonderful recipe for arcade success. Some X-Men cabinets were two-player. That’s modest. More often, they were four-player, right in line with the established norm. But for a lucky few, there was absolute awesomeness. There were six joysticks. There were eighteen buttons. There were separate quarter slots for each of the six playable characters and a doublewide monitor – no more would your character be punching henchmen lurking off-screen. If you ever played the six-man version, side by side with other players, the rest of the cabinets faded into the background that day."
The Cowabunga Collection is one of the best retro collections ever. Another '90s pop culture hit, the X-Men, could comprise a similar collection.
Im not so sure. There was only 1 arcade beat em up and the others were fighters. The home games werent that memorable.
The Home xmen games on snes and genesis made by Capcom and Sega were all memorable good
Side action beat em up is the way to go Xmen only have one cabinet I know of that was done by Konami and I have the arcade game on my PS3. Turtles have two arcade cabinets Turtles has always been a beatem up on the NES, SNES and Genesis minus the first game on the NES. Most of the XMEN games are side scrolling platformers or shitty one offs by LJN. You can't rival side action beatem ups with platformers.
Yeah, the x-men game on the nes was ridiculously bad.
And even the snes and genesis games, while they were ok, they aren't games we think of fondly as favorites (well barring this author anyway lol).
Spider-man and the X-Men was mediocre at best but X-Men 2 Clone Wars was actually pretty good especially in the sound department.
Arcade1Up X-Men 4-Player Arcade Machine is an excellent looking cabinet that includes three games with fantastic emulation and sound.
This is nice, but I wish it had all the marvel games from cps-1 and 2. Three games is just not enough
Loved this game. But it has been surpassed by Openbor with games like these.
Marvel Infinity War. Watch any video like this. So many Marvel characters to play and remakes of other games all packed in.
https://youtu.be/Fz1SyexD28...
Download Openbor, download the games from Zvitor br or Game jolt, add a Bluetooth controller and enjoy. Or multiple controllers on PC for multiplayer. You'll thank me later. Even Avengers United Battle Force is great.
Also, Justice League Legacy is also awesome for DC action.
https://youtu.be/An5pKJqjV3...
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