I have so many great memories with this game. At the time, the only place that I knew it was available was Chuck E. Cheese, and the only way for me to get there was to be part of a friend or classmates birthday party. Needless to say, I always tried really hard (and was often successfully able) to convince them to have their birthday party there, just so I could play some more. And for those that are unfamiliar with Chuck E. Cheese, you're in for a wild ride. There's a dude in a giant rat costume. Overpriced and bad pizza is served. There's some mechanical puppet shows and they're kind of terrifying. It has a huge arcade and a playpen riddled with every possible substance that a child could deliver. If you went in the ballpit as a child, you're likely immune to the corona virus and will live forever. What a place.
2:10 Actually, that's Steve Ditko. Co-creator of Spider-Man with Stan Lee. As well as the creator of the second Blue Beetle, (Ted Cord) and The Question.
Definitely one of the greatest X-Men games ever I remember playing this game with my cousins when I was a kid this X-Men arcade game was just fantastic to play especially with four to six players now that was just freaking phenomenal.
The old school cartoon where Wolverine who is Canadian has an Australian accent then then five years later an actor who is Australian plays Wolverine who is a Canadian.
Wonderful sentiment but these games aren't really what can be called side-scrollers. That would be Bad Dudes, Shinobi, Altered Beast or Kung Fu Master. THOSE are side-scrollers, or action games. Turtles, X-men, Double Dragon, Golden Axe and the like are all BEAT'EM-UPS.
Whomever needs to get the license to this game (KONAMI?) needs to do so and do it ASAP, so that these gems, including The Simpsons Arcade can be made playable on the Nintendo Switch!!
One of the few arcade games I ever saw the ending to on the actual arcade machine. It took a lot of quarters for me to get through, but it was a heck of a fun game to play. Amazing how the game still holds up.
Agree. Saturn even had a six players adaptator that would have allowed a full arcade experience. I guess that it was due to Capcom owning the X-Men rights at that time, but it's all right, they made Children of the Atom and it led Marvel Superheroes and the Marvel VS Capcom series.
@@Hektols I agree some what. I think Sega had X-Men/Spiderman home rights for a time and then I believe Acclaim got Spiderman and possibly Wolverine (Adamantium Rage?). Capcom had X-Men and Marvel SNES games. I'm glad that it seems WB (DC) and Marvel are getting more control of their properties with regards to current videogames. However, I wish their was a better effort to have collections of these comic book games.
The double screen six player cabinet is the only one I've ever seen and played on. A true gem in my childhood. I sacrificed so many quarters to this beast.
There used to be an urban legend going around the Internet back in the day that suggested that the producers of the show accidentally blew their entire 13 episode budget on one episode. I found this believable back then because that one episode looked miles better than anything else the studio had produced lol
This cabinet compared to TMNT & The Simpsons was the only one that demanded at least one play session whenever and wherever it was encountered. We mostly had the four player version, but on occasion we would run into the six player one for some made fun.
Their arcade debut had a number of different configurations but its largest one allowed six players to co-0p through the adventure together on a giant cabinet equipped with a double monitor setup. One monitor was hidden below inside the cabinet and reflected up to create a widescreen effect allowing all six players to see what was going on. It was similar to the same technique used by Taito in '86, ’87, '89, and '92 using a three monitor setup for their Darius, Sagaia, The Ninja Warriors, and Warrior Blade: Rastan Saga Episode 3 to create a triple widescreen (but which only had 2-player co-op) and Tecmo's Tecmo Bowl in '87. It was a far cry from Galaxian 3’s 28-player theater but small enough to fit into a local arcade with room to spare. The original arcade cabinet supported up to 4-players and used the exact same hardware hugely popular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and its sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time, Crime Fighters, Punk Shot, The Simpsons, Vendetta, Sunset Riders, and G.I. Joe.
Wow perfect timing. Right now,Im working on a custom figure of Cyclops, in the outfit from this game. This is exactly the kind of content I want to watch at the moment.
Anyone who frequented arcades when this game was at the height of its popularity will forever remember this timeless classic. Short, simple, frantic, and fun. Arcade perfection.
Don't know if it was mentioned previously in the comments, but this game was in fact released on Xbox 360 and PS3, I still have the download license on my 360. If I remember though I think the PS3 version could allow up to 6 players due to 360 only having a limit of 4 controllers. Something I'd have to recheck by hooking it up again.
If Arcade 1up Ever Does an Arcade Home Cabinet for the X-Men. Then it Has to be 4 Player like the TMNT Arcade Machine Cabinet. 6 Player Would be Far too big.
If this game was based on the 1992 animated series: Cyclops, Storm and Wolverine would wear their costumes from the show. Colossus, Nightcrawler and Dazzler would be replaced by Beast, Gambit and Rogue. Kitty Pryde would be replaced by Jubilee. Sabertooth and Omega Red would be among the bosses.
I remember finishing it with my cousin, uncle and brother @ Future Kids Arcade located in the basement of khaligiyah Tower @ kuwait city. It was the 4 player version. Cheers!
There three things I remember about this game. First thing I remember is playing this monster size arcade machine at the local bowling alley, next one is there is a two player version at a skiing place that I went to for a school field trip as well place had a old Fun House pinball machine which is one of my favorite pinball games, and the last part is if not the best part is it only cost one quarter to play where if you die in the middle it cost a quarter to continue playing unlike most arcade games I played in the 90's that cost way over 50 cents. I'm very sure you wouldn't be disappointed with the game unless you forgot pack few extra quarters.
The "6 playable characters" at a time thing is so genius. You're much less likely to get off the cabinet after a game over if your 5 friends are still playing. Birthday party? You can all either split off onto different games, watch and take turns, or just play X-Men. The presentation alone encouraged me to just not stop hitting continue, I don't know what it was, but X Men was one of the few games I was ok with dumping all my quarters into.
I have the most nostalgic connection with my dad driving me to the next town over to play this arcade game with me. That Nightcrawler version, I loved. From the 90s animated series.
It's one of the rare games i managed to end in arcade when I was a teen(not counting the various times I won on emulator). I was in an arcade with a friend of mine and some guys were playing the game. We didn't want to disturb but at some point we were like "ok let's get in". The guys were ok to play with us and we ended up playing the damn game with my friend along with 4 strangers. We did lost some tokens but i had a blast teaming up with some dudes to kick Magneto's ass. In the end, everyone was like "cool" and we all went on our separate ways, without asking for our names or whatever. It was just six guys playing an X-Men game, wining and going home. Still one of my best gaming memories to this day
I have a Pandora's box 4+. Honestly I have played all beat em ups over last 2 years. Yet I do find myself playing so many games you keep reviewing like Sat night slam, to sf2 123+# turbo champion hyper rainbow edition, actually yeah do a SF2 Rainbow edition M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, M6 & M7 versions. Now that would be great
I could be wrong, but I think I remember someone putting out a somewhat similar side-scrolling beat-em-up for the GBA that might have re-used scaled-down assets from this game. I remember having and playing what I'm referring to b/c the graphics and play style reminded me SO MUCH of *this* game.
A six player game that me my three brothers one of my cousin and childhood friend could all play together. I remember everyone fighting to be Wolverine and Nightcrawler. I was always Storm.
Back when I was a kid, I remember going to the pac-man arcade in Pasadena all the time back in the early 90s and playing the shit out of this game (as well as several other games) with my brothers.
"Welcome to DIE!" I remember playing the 6 player multi-screen version at the Mall as a kid, epic. Yes, Malls and arcades...👀 The irony...Wolverine in "Pryde of the X-Men" was Australian.
I remember this game. You could beat it on one credit (no continues), but you had to know how to deal with some of the cheap traps in that game and the boss patterns. I think Storm was the easiest to use to 1 credit it. Beat it several times with her. TMNT1 had similar patterns and I was able to beat that one too. Simpsons was hard, I could make it to the last boss but coudn't beat him. Turtles in Time was impossible due to the "Stealth nerfs" which would kill solo players who took more than 5 minutes and 9 seconds to pass a level (this could be avoided until the Pirate ship map, when even if you used a stopwatch to time the "kill bomb", there was just not enough time to react because the level floor was closer to the top of the screen.
I played the crap out of this game back in the day. It kept me coming to the arcade when my local arcade got rid of the TMNT game (which irked me endlessly). Nightcrawler and Dazzler were my go-to characters. It was pretty fun going solo, but it was endlessly awesome when other players were in on it too. I also liked that, after the credits, it looped back to the beginning and kept going so that it didn't feel like that one more coin was wasted just to finish off Magneto. There was one time I was playing as Nightcrawler and all other five characters were taken by other players. The dude playing Storm kept laughing his ass off every time I had Nightcrawler jumping on fallen enemies. It never failed. Every single time Nightcrawler hit downed enemies... raucous laughter from my immediate right. It never seemed to get old for him, either. By the final stage, he would still crack up at that every bit as much as he had in stage one. It was crazy. Even back then I got why there was never a home port of the six-player version, but since they'd done a four-player version as well, I thought they could have at least tried a home multi-player version on the SNES using the SNES Multitap (I also wished they'd done this for Battletoads Arcade, another favorite of mine). Sure, it wouldn't have been exactly like the arcade game, but it would have been something. After all, Turtles In Time made a good SNES game. (And speaking of the Multitap... but, what's the use?) Anyway. It was an incredibly fun game, especially with other people.
I loved this game. I would sit there and play this game until I was out of quarters. Most days I only had 2.00 in change to play this. All together I had to spent at least 7-10K on this game. NO DOUBT. I loved it. I fell asleep next to this game at the arcade. I used to have to use a booster stand to see the screen it lol. That is how big X-men was. Huge man. Everyone loved it. We had the toys. We had the cars. We had the clothes and wallets.... man it's priceless to go back to experience it again.
This one hits close to the heart as over my years I've played the 2,4 and 6 player versions of this game. Always a fond memory and always preferred Wolverine
"X-MEN, WELCOME... TO DIE!" Lmao I LOVED this game. They had the six player version at the arcade by my grandparents house in the second half of the 90s. The only problem was the Storm controls had a broken attack button, so she could only jump and use her special. But Cyclops, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Colossus... and Dazzler lol all worked. And every time me and the other kids in their neighborhood went there, I always tried to get them to join me to play this absolute masterpiece. Yes, the dialog was nonsense. But the gameplay was so dope.
Truly a classic , I used to play 6 player in my home town, it's a shame it never had a port for Snes or Sega The music in this game was amazing, Dance with a Crocodile is a work of genius
I used to go to the arcade in our mall when I was like...5 I think and I would pump all of my quarters into this game. Played it every week for probably 2 years straight.
I loved that game and still do, there is a local Barcade that has it. I also bought it for the iPhone some years ago, unfortunately it hasn't received updates for the newer OS's. I didn't know it was once on PSN, I hope it still is.
Back in the early 90s, I was 10 or so and there was an arcade very near where I was living. It took me a while to really aknowledge that big Xmen machine and back then I was thinking that Wolverine's name is XMEN !! I was playing the snes game Spiderman Xmen : arcade revenge and it was then that I became more and more interested about the characters names and details , stuff like SCOTT SUMMERS aka CYCLOPS . Then I went back to the arcade with that info in mind and the game felt great !! It was still a hard game to finish and I would only get past lvl1 or lvl2. At one point my mom brought me to the arcade and she watched me play some. Good memories !!
HAHAHAHA! I remember this game being everywhere in the early 90's! Proper Arcade Places.... Movie theaters..... Airports....Malls..... there were 2 versions of the machine.... The HUGE 6 player one and a smaller one.... Geez! I am old!
I used to play this at the arcade at circus circus in Las Vegas when I was a kid. So fun. Dropped some serious coin on this game..... Sadly I never beat it 😭
Konami really knew how to make fantastic and addictive Arcade games with little to work with. ( Xmen had to work with a failed Xmen pilot and even the Simpsons had only the 1st 2 seasons worth of material). Yet, made some truly epic and memorable gameplay that still made us fans clammer with our quaters to play more!!!!
I'm so mad at myself I didn't download it to my PS3 before Disney forced them to remove it and everything Marvel from the PSN store when they had beef with Fox. Had so many great memories playing 6player in arcades.
Thanks for the memories. I didnt remember how bad the fighting animations and fluidity were. This game was greater in my memories :P That arcade setup was amazing, although it must be annoying playing on the far sides. That Gaunlet game was also amazing in those years, with the huge screen far away from the control panels. And then came that Nascar game :D I remember as a kid in vacation with my family in the US, all I wanted to do was go to the arcades to play this X-Men game, the Terminator shooter and Street Fighter 2 :P instead of the boring beach hahaha
A local pizza hut had the 6 player game, I loved going thru it even if it was a quarter muncher. Playing the game again on my PS3, it's far easier than the cranked up arcade setting, and the japanese version works it so you only lose health when you fire off the mutant power without an orb rather than always losing health. There's also health powers up and bonus orbs thats enemies drop.
side note Scott Summers will always be the true ultimate Captain America to me and something greater than that, the Captain of the X-Gene people and the very first X-Man
This Konami classic and The Simpsons Arcade are two of the best beat em up ever, it is a damn shame that there are no ports of this gems for any console, they were only available digitaly on xbox live arcade and ps store for the xbox 360 and PS3 but just for a short period of time,but they no longer are in this stores anymore... DAMNED YOU KONAMI, RE RELEASE THIS GAMES!!!
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I have so many great memories with this game. At the time, the only place that I knew it was available was Chuck E. Cheese, and the only way for me to get there was to be part of a friend or classmates birthday party. Needless to say, I always tried really hard (and was often successfully able) to convince them to have their birthday party there, just so I could play some more.
And for those that are unfamiliar with Chuck E. Cheese, you're in for a wild ride. There's a dude in a giant rat costume. Overpriced and bad pizza is served. There's some mechanical puppet shows and they're kind of terrifying. It has a huge arcade and a playpen riddled with every possible substance that a child could deliver. If you went in the ballpit as a child, you're likely immune to the corona virus and will live forever. What a place.
Tell me a story
Used to play it there too, rocker! Was obsessed with it.
That’s enough X Chicken
You forgot that you may actually BE a mutant after emerging from the giant Petri dish that is the ball pit 😂
Thanks grandma, tell me another story please
2:10 Actually, that's Steve Ditko. Co-creator of Spider-Man with Stan Lee. As well as the creator of the second Blue Beetle, (Ted Cord) and The Question.
Glad somebody pointed this out
At the 2:07 mark yep you beat me to it.
Glad that you pointed it out, was going to but you did it already.
Also Doctor Strange
It's Kord, actually, but other than spelling, you are correct.
YES!!! The soundtrack to this game was amazing!
Definitely one of the greatest X-Men games ever I remember playing this game with my cousins when I was a kid this X-Men arcade game was just fantastic to play especially with four to six players now that was just freaking phenomenal.
Really?
This and Turtles are the gold standard in side scrollers. If you've never played this on the 6-player cabinet, you have never lived.
Fun times. A 6 six player game that could accommodate me my three brothers my cousin and childhood friend.
The old school cartoon where Wolverine who is Canadian has an Australian accent then then five years later an actor who is Australian plays Wolverine who is a Canadian.
Wonderful sentiment but these games aren't really what can be called side-scrollers. That would be Bad Dudes, Shinobi, Altered Beast or Kung Fu Master. THOSE are side-scrollers, or action games. Turtles, X-men, Double Dragon, Golden Axe and the like are all BEAT'EM-UPS.
Add The Simpsons to that list...
Whomever needs to get the license to this game (KONAMI?) needs to do so and do it ASAP, so that these gems, including The Simpsons Arcade can be made playable on the Nintendo Switch!!
One of the few arcade games I ever saw the ending to on the actual arcade machine. It took a lot of quarters for me to get through, but it was a heck of a fun game to play. Amazing how the game still holds up.
Why couldn't Acclaim make deals with Konami and release home versions of X-Men, The Simpsons, Aliens. 32x or Saturn ports would have been killer apps.
Agree. Saturn even had a six players adaptator that would have allowed a full arcade experience.
I guess that it was due to Capcom owning the X-Men rights at that time, but it's all right, they made Children of the Atom and it led Marvel Superheroes and the Marvel VS Capcom series.
@@Hektols I agree some what. I think Sega had X-Men/Spiderman home rights for a time and then I believe Acclaim got Spiderman and possibly Wolverine (Adamantium Rage?). Capcom had X-Men and Marvel SNES games. I'm glad that it seems WB (DC) and Marvel are getting more control of their properties with regards to current videogames. However, I wish their was a better effort to have collections of these comic book games.
The closest to home release was back on PS3.
They allowed the Downloads of both the X-Men and Simpsons
LJN owned the console license for Xmen
They owned the exclusive rights for the consoles for a certain period of time. Plus given Ack-Lame track record they would have been terrible ports.
The double screen six player cabinet is the only one I've ever seen and played on. A true gem in my childhood. I sacrificed so many quarters to this beast.
Metamorphic Force is made by the same team with many of the same assets. Its obscure but damn is it a good one.
There used to be an urban legend going around the Internet back in the day that suggested that the producers of the show accidentally blew their entire 13 episode budget on one episode.
I found this believable back then because that one episode looked miles better than anything else the studio had produced lol
Yeah...that's why Wolverine spoke like an Aussie because it was Zartan's voice actor.
This cabinet compared to TMNT & The Simpsons was the only one that demanded at least one play session whenever and wherever it was encountered. We mostly had the four player version, but on occasion we would run into the six player one for some made fun.
oh wow I forgot about that Simpsons game hahaha thx
Love this game. I spent so much time at the arcades playing this game when I was very young.
I'loved this magnificent game, legions of enemies AND bosses hardest,good times....
This game is a gem. Plus a must play for anyone who loves comics or gaming. It was fun, wild, and challenging 😊
Was I the only one who really loved playing Dazzler? I loved that light grenade.
Their arcade debut had a number of different configurations but its largest one allowed six players to co-0p through the adventure together on a giant cabinet equipped with a double monitor setup. One monitor was hidden below inside the cabinet and reflected up to create a widescreen effect allowing all six players to see what was going on. It was similar to the same technique used by Taito in '86, ’87, '89, and '92 using a three monitor setup for their Darius, Sagaia, The Ninja Warriors, and Warrior Blade: Rastan Saga Episode 3 to create a triple widescreen (but which only had 2-player co-op) and Tecmo's Tecmo Bowl in '87. It was a far cry from Galaxian 3’s 28-player theater but small enough to fit into a local arcade with room to spare. The original arcade cabinet supported up to 4-players and used the exact same hardware hugely popular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and its sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time, Crime Fighters, Punk Shot, The Simpsons, Vendetta, Sunset Riders, and G.I. Joe.
I love the resource material and commentary on your videos so much that I started watching ads even some of the longer ones 😂
Wow perfect timing. Right now,Im working on a custom figure of Cyclops, in the outfit from this game. This is exactly the kind of content I want to watch at the moment.
Anyone who frequented arcades when this game was at the height of its popularity will forever remember this timeless classic. Short, simple, frantic, and fun. Arcade perfection.
“Go save the city!” Boy professor X can be so demanding
TRIVIA BIT: There were only two voice actors tapped to produce the voice samples for the game - Kyle Hebert (all the men) & Mela Lee (all the women).
Kyle Hebert, voice of Gohan from Funimations english dub of Dragonball
the factory in stage 2 had the best music
Don't know if it was mentioned previously in the comments, but this game was in fact released on Xbox 360 and PS3, I still have the download license on my 360.
If I remember though I think the PS3 version could allow up to 6 players due to 360 only having a limit of 4 controllers. Something I'd have to recheck by hooking it up again.
The picture at 2:10 is of Steve Ditko.
If Arcade 1up Ever Does an Arcade Home Cabinet for the X-Men. Then it Has to be 4 Player like the TMNT Arcade Machine Cabinet. 6 Player Would be Far too big.
It has been confirmed that it will be 4-player.
Are you interested?
Yeah but it's like 700.00
@@clotasantana62 Then that's a No for me.
I hope Konami re-releases the game for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, and Nintendo Switch.
Fun Fact: The Japanese version of X-Men has certain enemies when beaten will drop life energy capsules, as well as mutant power orbs.
It was the settings. U.S. arcades use to turn power ups off to bleed us kids of our quarters.
I remember it cost me and my cousin $22 to play through the game at the grocery store while my mom and auntie was shopping.
Love this game I'm able to play it at my local retro game store
It's a 4 player cab, I havent seen a 6 player cabinet in a long time
The answer is Yes. Next video
If this game was based on the 1992 animated series:
Cyclops, Storm and Wolverine would wear their costumes from the show.
Colossus, Nightcrawler and Dazzler would be replaced by Beast, Gambit and Rogue.
Kitty Pryde would be replaced by Jubilee.
Sabertooth and Omega Red would be among the bosses.
So happy to have picked this up on Xbox 360 before it was removed!
Same here. Got Simpsons, X-Men, and others on Xbox Live. X-Men is my favorite though.
Wish they would put this game back on the Xbox. Loved playing it online with other people
This might be the Arcade game I sunk the most quarters in, this or marvel vs capcom. Loved this x men game when I was a kid.
Another amazing video from an amazing series from THE most AMAZING CREATOR!! ;)
Thanks again!
I remember finishing it with my cousin, uncle and brother @ Future Kids Arcade located in the basement of khaligiyah Tower @ kuwait city. It was the 4 player version. Cheers!
I'm probably one of the few people to pick Dazzler.
The only time I saw people use Dazzler would be if the other 5 X-Men were already being used.
Dazzler is a great character in this game along with storm because of their long range physical attack.
Dazzler and nightcrawler were the sheet
"I AM MAGNETO MASTER OF MAGNET..."
“X-men, welcome to DIE!”
6p cabinet is available at Barcade in Chelsea, NYC
Alien vs predator was my FAV! Super addictive but this game stole so much of my quarters at my corner store lol lol
I worked at Chuck E. Cheese mane. This, metal slug, guilty gear, the simpsons was able to beat them all
Always a joy to play in the arcade the soundtrack was a joy to listen to
Capcom and Konami just knew how to nail fight em up in the late 80s early 90s
There three things I remember about this game.
First thing I remember is playing this monster size arcade machine at the local bowling alley, next one is there is a two player version at a skiing place that I went to for a school field trip as well place had a old Fun House pinball machine which is one of my favorite pinball games, and the last part is if not the best part is it only cost one quarter to play where if you die in the middle it cost a quarter to continue playing unlike most arcade games I played in the 90's that cost way over 50 cents.
I'm very sure you wouldn't be disappointed with the game unless you forgot pack few extra quarters.
The "6 playable characters" at a time thing is so genius. You're much less likely to get off the cabinet after a game over if your 5 friends are still playing. Birthday party? You can all either split off onto different games, watch and take turns, or just play X-Men. The presentation alone encouraged me to just not stop hitting continue, I don't know what it was, but X Men was one of the few games I was ok with dumping all my quarters into.
I have the most nostalgic connection with my dad driving me to the next town over to play this arcade game with me. That Nightcrawler version, I loved. From the 90s animated series.
It's one of the rare games i managed to end in arcade when I was a teen(not counting the various times I won on emulator). I was in an arcade with a friend of mine and some guys were playing the game. We didn't want to disturb but at some point we were like "ok let's get in". The guys were ok to play with us and we ended up playing the damn game with my friend along with 4 strangers. We did lost some tokens but i had a blast teaming up with some dudes to kick Magneto's ass. In the end, everyone was like "cool" and we all went on our separate ways, without asking for our names or whatever. It was just six guys playing an X-Men game, wining and going home. Still one of my best gaming memories to this day
I have a Pandora's box 4+. Honestly I have played all beat em ups over last 2 years. Yet I do find myself playing so many games you keep reviewing like Sat night slam, to sf2 123+# turbo champion hyper rainbow edition, actually yeah do a SF2 Rainbow edition M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, M6 & M7 versions. Now that would be great
I could be wrong, but I think I remember someone putting out a somewhat similar side-scrolling beat-em-up for the GBA that might have re-used scaled-down assets from this game.
I remember having and playing what I'm referring to b/c the graphics and play style reminded me SO MUCH of *this* game.
A six player game that me my three brothers one of my cousin and childhood friend could all play together. I remember everyone fighting to be Wolverine and Nightcrawler. I was always Storm.
I was always either Nightcrawler or Colossus, usually Nightcrawler. He wasn't as popular around here.
Back when I was a kid, I remember going to the pac-man arcade in Pasadena all the time back in the early 90s and playing the shit out of this game (as well as several other games) with my brothers.
"Welcome to DIE!" I remember playing the 6 player multi-screen version at the Mall as a kid, epic. Yes, Malls and arcades...👀
The irony...Wolverine in "Pryde of the X-Men" was Australian.
Nobody ever wanted to be dazzler. Although she had the most mutant power. Everybody was reaching for wolverine lol.
I remember this game. You could beat it on one credit (no continues), but you had to know how to deal with some of the cheap traps in that game and the boss patterns.
I think Storm was the easiest to use to 1 credit it. Beat it several times with her. TMNT1 had similar patterns and I was able to beat that one too. Simpsons was hard, I could make it to the last boss but coudn't beat him. Turtles in Time was impossible due to the "Stealth nerfs" which would kill solo players who took more than 5 minutes and 9 seconds to pass a level (this could be avoided until the Pirate ship map, when even if you used a stopwatch to time the "kill bomb", there was just not enough time to react because the level floor was closer to the top of the screen.
I played the crap out of this game back in the day. It kept me coming to the arcade when my local arcade got rid of the TMNT game (which irked me endlessly). Nightcrawler and Dazzler were my go-to characters. It was pretty fun going solo, but it was endlessly awesome when other players were in on it too. I also liked that, after the credits, it looped back to the beginning and kept going so that it didn't feel like that one more coin was wasted just to finish off Magneto.
There was one time I was playing as Nightcrawler and all other five characters were taken by other players. The dude playing Storm kept laughing his ass off every time I had Nightcrawler jumping on fallen enemies. It never failed. Every single time Nightcrawler hit downed enemies... raucous laughter from my immediate right. It never seemed to get old for him, either. By the final stage, he would still crack up at that every bit as much as he had in stage one. It was crazy.
Even back then I got why there was never a home port of the six-player version, but since they'd done a four-player version as well, I thought they could have at least tried a home multi-player version on the SNES using the SNES Multitap (I also wished they'd done this for Battletoads Arcade, another favorite of mine). Sure, it wouldn't have been exactly like the arcade game, but it would have been something. After all, Turtles In Time made a good SNES game. (And speaking of the Multitap... but, what's the use?)
Anyway. It was an incredibly fun game, especially with other people.
I live this game. I played Nightcrawler the most and Storm 2nd
Great video as always, Top Hat. 6 player arcade gameplay looks insane.
I loved this game. I would sit there and play this game until I was out of quarters. Most days I only had 2.00 in change to play this. All together I had to spent at least 7-10K on this game. NO DOUBT. I loved it. I fell asleep next to this game at the arcade. I used to have to use a booster stand to see the screen it lol. That is how big X-men was. Huge man. Everyone loved it. We had the toys. We had the cars. We had the clothes and wallets.... man it's priceless to go back to experience it again.
This one hits close to the heart as over my years I've played the 2,4 and 6 player versions of this game. Always a fond memory and always preferred Wolverine
I remember being a kid when the 6 pllayer version came out. Omg those where good times.
Would’ve been great if you could have added a half second or two of the games sound, the game had some awesome sound effects and music
Oh Konami...what happened to you?
Ah, this video smells like every Pizza Hut I visited in the early 1990s.
That's where I played it
This game was life back in the day.
Another excellent video! Top Hat reviews are always a welcome addition to my TH-cam feed...
You know that the Juggernaut means business when he brings a bazooka into battle. He wasn't playing around. ;o)
"X-MEN, WELCOME... TO DIE!"
Lmao I LOVED this game. They had the six player version at the arcade by my grandparents house in the second half of the 90s. The only problem was the Storm controls had a broken attack button, so she could only jump and use her special. But Cyclops, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Colossus... and Dazzler lol all worked. And every time me and the other kids in their neighborhood went there, I always tried to get them to join me to play this absolute masterpiece. Yes, the dialog was nonsense. But the gameplay was so dope.
Truly a classic , I used to play 6 player in my home town, it's a shame it never had a port for Snes or Sega
The music in this game was amazing, Dance with a Crocodile is a work of genius
I live in Sydney Australia & remember a 6 player version in the city. My local arcade had the 4 player version
I used to go to the arcade in our mall when I was like...5 I think and I would pump all of my quarters into this game. Played it every week for probably 2 years straight.
I loved that game and still do, there is a local Barcade that has it. I also bought it for the iPhone some years ago, unfortunately it hasn't received updates for the newer OS's. I didn't know it was once on PSN, I hope it still is.
Back in the early 90s, I was 10 or so and there was an arcade very near where I was living. It took me a while to really aknowledge that big Xmen machine and back then I was thinking that Wolverine's name is XMEN !! I was playing the snes game Spiderman Xmen : arcade revenge and it was then that I became more and more interested about the characters names and details , stuff like SCOTT SUMMERS aka CYCLOPS . Then I went back to the arcade with that info in mind and the game felt great !! It was still a hard game to finish and I would only get past lvl1 or lvl2. At one point my mom brought me to the arcade and she watched me play some. Good memories !!
My late wonderful Dad as a kid in the 60's and early 70's had Issue #1 X-Men and Issue #1 Fantastic Four
One of the greatest, no but it’s pretty good.
Hats off to you Top Hat Gaming Man. Much respect for this.
Nice (and subtle) Back To The Future reference. Tip of the hat to you sir. :-)
HAHAHAHA! I remember this game being everywhere in the early 90's! Proper Arcade Places.... Movie theaters..... Airports....Malls..... there were 2 versions of the machine.... The HUGE 6 player one and a smaller one.... Geez! I am old!
I used to play this at the arcade at circus circus in Las Vegas when I was a kid. So fun. Dropped some serious coin on this game..... Sadly I never beat it 😭
Great Video!
I used to play this game as a kid. When I was eleven, I managed to beat the game on one quarter using Nightcrawler.
Ooh, my favorite. Yeeeeeeaaaaaaaahhhhh...
This game was super hard I lost alot of quarters on this game.
Konami really knew how to make fantastic and addictive Arcade games with little to work with. ( Xmen had to work with a failed Xmen pilot and even the Simpsons had only the 1st 2 seasons worth of material). Yet, made some truly epic and memorable gameplay that still made us fans clammer with our quaters to play more!!!!
"Before finally facing off in an encounter with the Jugernaut...BITCH!"
Alright, you're going to jail.
I'm so mad at myself I didn't download it to my PS3 before Disney forced them to remove it and everything Marvel from the PSN store when they had beef with Fox. Had so many great memories playing 6player in arcades.
:Colossus scream:
This was my favorite arcade game as a kid, also how I met my future wife. keep up the great work TOP HAT!!!!
'X-MEN WELCOME TO DIIIIIE''
much love Magneto and beautiful X-Gene people
One of my favorite arcade games. Are you gonna do a video on AvP arcade game?
I love this arcade game. They need to re release this back on the major game platforms.
There are many versions of this. I remember playing this with my friends in the arcade with 2 players only and no additional screen.
*The Juggernaut.... BITCH*
HE SAID IT... HE SAID THE THING!
0:23 finally realized it at 3:18 is that MAME? Players 1-4 assigned the same buttons? Did I do this to my game too? Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
I used Colossus when I first played it, then I would use Cyclops all the time.
Thanks for the memories. I didnt remember how bad the fighting animations and fluidity were. This game was greater in my memories :P
That arcade setup was amazing, although it must be annoying playing on the far sides. That Gaunlet game was also amazing in those years, with the huge screen far away from the control panels. And then came that Nascar game :D
I remember as a kid in vacation with my family in the US, all I wanted to do was go to the arcades to play this X-Men game, the Terminator shooter and Street Fighter 2 :P instead of the boring beach hahaha
A local pizza hut had the 6 player game, I loved going thru it even if it was a quarter muncher. Playing the game again on my PS3, it's far easier than the cranked up arcade setting, and the japanese version works it so you only lose health when you fire off the mutant power without an orb rather than always losing health. There's also health powers up and bonus orbs thats enemies drop.
Never knew about this game. Thank for this.
side note
Scott Summers will always be the true ultimate Captain America to me
and something greater than that, the Captain of the X-Gene people
and the very first X-Man
I love this game!
Before I start watching the video, yes. It is one of the best arcade games ever made ;)
The nearby cinema had the 6 player cabinet...one of my friends bought it when they changed ownership.
This Konami classic and The Simpsons Arcade are two of the best beat em up ever, it is a damn shame that there are no ports of this gems for any console, they were only available digitaly on xbox live arcade and ps store for the xbox 360 and PS3 but just for a short period of time,but they no longer are in this stores anymore... DAMNED YOU KONAMI, RE RELEASE THIS GAMES!!!