@Edwin Requena what if you lose your hard drive, what if your heart becomes corrupted or damaged? I guess the same could be said for the disks, but just having the disc and also digital copies is beneficial.
@Turd Ferguson what's real sneaky is when they sell you a physical copy, and inside is basically a blank disc and you still have to enter a code to download the game online...
X-Men arcade is definitely one of my all time favorite games. I spent most of my 12th birthday party trying to beat it. Great video Pat thanks for the memories.
I worked at Marvel Games when home release came out. There was a point when we were asked if we wanted to "correct" the voices since that needed to be re-recorded. For a brief moment, we considered it, but ultimately we felt it just wouldn't be the original game without "welcome to die" and other badly translated lines. (This was largely my personal decision since I was the biggest fan of the game on staff. What I REALLY wanted was both -- but that just wasn't possible due to Konami's resources for the game.) Also worth noting: The re-recordings were not so much "licensing reasons" as they were to protection against being sued -- no one knew who recorded them originally! The records simply did not exist.
They're ok, I like After Burner, Altered Beast, and Ninja Kun. I remember being in 1st grade in 1988 going to to the Arcade at the Paddle Wheel in Las Vegas. It was the original Casino before it turned into some Debbie Reynolds thing. But I remember hearing that "Rise from your grave" and those dudes punching rotten skeletons and I was transfixed and was telling all my friends about it at school the next day.
I've spent so much money playing X-Men. This arcade still remains one of my favorites from Konami which they were on fire in the video game industry during that time period.
Thanks for posting this! Konami's X-Men arcade game is one of my all-time favorites! I was in college in 1992 and I would play this all the time with friends.
1:48 The picture of the X-Men arcade cabinet you use isn't the actual arcade cabinet. It's a miniature replica somebody made and sells. I know because I thought about buying one. Plus the joysticks look like pool noodles...
If the Arcade 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. Omega Red and Sabertooth would be among the bosses.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Possibly. It's just weird how that worked out. Konami made a 6-player game out of what turned out to be just a 22-minute animated pilot. Making a game out of a series with only thirteen episodes I can see, especially since they did that with the Bucky O'Hare series from 91', but banking their huge cabinet on a pilot episode... now that was a gamble. Fortunately the game was good and that huge cabinet was eye-catching. The game stood on its own despite a reboot of the show. That's an accomplishment for the history books.
@@blazerocker1734 While the game might of have been based off the short-lived show, Bucky O'hare started out as a comic which was pretty popular. So Konami was exactly gambling on a unknown or new series, when making those games. It already was a some-what well-known series with a decent fanbase. Probably, the same reasoning behind the X-men series as well, they decided to get in on the success of the comics and license it before they show started and got popular, which would've raised the price significantly. While I admit I personally never fully watched that original series that the arcade game was based on, I actually think it's cool that it's based of it because of how it more accurately portrays the style/look, storyline and characters (and their costumes!) of the comics at the time, than the 92 animated series since there eventually was a ton of games and content that used the style and story-lines from that series. (Although, I do think that sequel to this based off the '92 series would've been simply amazing!!)
This game was pure chaos with it's six player action. It's crazy having the full team which the game has more special effects and explosions than a Michael Bay movie as players fire off their mutant powers. While I think the other konami fighters had deeper move sets than Xmen, it still a very fun fast paced game. I wish they kept the power ups and health system from the Japanese version. It was lame you lost health even if you had a blue orb in the US version. Between that and the machines difficulty being cranked up this game was a real quarter muncher as was very hard not to die since bosses really took a beating and was no way to heal yourself.(Despite that being Wolverine's main super power.) Having played this on my PS3 it's much much easier to go thru the Japanese version on the normal setting. I have seen 3 different versions of this cabinet in the wild. The huge six player version, a 4 player version, and a 2 player one I saw once at a hotdog place near my house. The Ps3 version let's you switch between the 4 and 6 player modes while playing the game. If you're speed running the game (to get the trophy for beating it under 20 minutes or so.) you want to pick the four player version. You can just blast thru the game as Colossus since the game has a closer perpective than the 6 player screen, your mutant power will cover the entire battlefield when you unleash it. On side note speaking of Colossus, this game influence the comics. Prior to the game Colossus when gradually change forms when he shifted between his super mode and human form in the comics. After this game the comics made it so Colossus would flash when draw like the Xmen arcade game, and his powers became more energy based. While he never unleash an energy burst like the game, this caused comic writers to reimagine how his powers worked. It's one of those instances where something that started outside of comics migrated back.
I remember if you played as Nightcrawler, on certain boss levels if you position the character next to the boss and "saved up" your specials, you can hit the boss twice with that special. (specifically Juggernaut and Nimrod) One great part of the game was when Magneto is defeated and the game "ends" it simply repeats the gameplay from the beginning,
I remember playing this at Wildwood in the summer on vacation as a kid. When you had 6 players playing at the same time it was a breeze. Nothing could stand in your way. Bosses were such a joke as everyone would just use their mutant powers on them. Kids today just won't understand how fun it was to play an arcade game with total strangers!
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries , um, the new TMNT game also allows up to six players to play it, AND in same system, shared systems/televisions, LAN, online, and possible cross-platform ways, too, just saying.
I was 19 or so when this came out and a huge X-Men collector. Flipped out at how great it was back then! Colosus was my favorite and I loved playing as him. You could hear his, "Yaaaargh!!" all across the arcade. Lol Thanks for this review.
Another great video; love the delivery of the information! I'll never forget rolling up on an arcade with a five dollar bill (which was a ton of money for me back then and certainly my whole arcade budget for a day), and grinding through the entire game, start to finish, 25 cents at a time. Other players came and went, but when I finished it, I was so proud. There was one catch, however: I panicked and slipped up during the fight with Magneto, and after playing for nearly twenty rounds as Nightcrawler, I accidentally selected Dazzler and just happened to beat the game on that quarter. It felt a bit wrong that Nightcrawler didn't get to close it out after all that, but I was still tremendously pleased with my how five dollars was spent that day. Thanks for the reminder of some great times.
I remember this in the arcade. To hide the bezel, they put one monitor facing up with a mirror and the other facing forward to give the illusion that the screen was really wide.
I absolutely loved this game because I was a huge comic fan and have watched "Pryde of the X-men" many times. It's only 25mins long and definitely worth checking out on TH-cam.
The time is 6:28 which is 2 times the number of pi, and which is the circumference of a circle with the radio of 1, just like how blob is a big fat circle Coincidence?
Thankful Dazzler the legend was chosen to be in this video game... my youth. She's an underrated Marvel icon. Her powers are unstoppable and she's fun.
Hey! I just saw Paul Rudd on here! It's really cool to see commercials featuring well known actors before they became famous. Oh...on a side note, I absolutely LOVED the XMen arcade game when it first released. Fed the cabinet at my local arcade many, many quarters. The memories! 😊 Also, I love your videos! I am seriously addicted to them. Keep up the good work!
Hmm, Paul Rudd, in a commercial for this game, and yet, years later, he becomes a part of the official Marvel Cinematic Universe, namely, as Ant-Man, and also, by extension, so do the X-Men, so, foreshadowing much?
They used to have that arcade game back at an old Mall of mine in Pittsburg/Antioch, California called "County East Mall". The arcade place was called "pocket change" It was the six player dual-screen one.
This was the only game I wanted to play in the arcade at the movies. My nanna would sneak us into 2 or 3 movies and afterwards wait patiently as we ran out of coins quickly playing X-Men. Some of the best memories of my childhood, I miss you so much Nan
Storm in this game is literally the best and most balanced character in the game because of her scepter/wand gave her the best reach, she's pretty quick to maneuver around, her mutant power with the tornado cleared out the most enemies in one shot, her combos seem to be the best and Storm's normal strength wasn't too bad. I remember playing this on an actual arcade machine years ago and wanting to play as Storm for some reason. I'm glad I did, because she was the best in the game, and I don't think many people realize how good she really was. I seen people just picking Wolverine because well he's Wolverine, and Colossus because of his strength and "the yelling". I wonder why Konami never imported this to the home consoles at the time. Probably thought it was too hard or not good enough to have X-Men the arcade game on the Genesis, NES or the SNES at the time
Patman went over why it was never ported to home consoles. LJN held exclusive console video game rights to just about every popular Marvel property, including the X-Men, so Konami literally had no way to publish their arcade game on home consoles. Marvel would've had to cut ties with LJN (and endure contract severance penalties) in order to give Konami the rights. A shame, really, because most of LJN's Marvel games were cancerously bad.
I remember playing the 6 player version at Putt-Putt Golf back in the day, when it was new. Just in the fact that it was so huge, blew me away. Later, when I worked at Chuck E Cheese, and we had the 4 player version. When my twins were about 5 or 6(11 now), I used to hook my laptop up to my 65", and let them play MAME multiplayer games(TMNT, SIMPSONS, ETC). X-Men sticks out, because my son kept quoting the line "YOU WILL DIE, X CHICKEN!!", because he thought it was so funny.
I used to play this fantastic game when it was still in arcades. I found, on my first attempt no less, that with Storm and proper spacing while attacking you could beat the game on a single quarter. Still, easily, one of my favorite arcade games.
Gotta say I really enjoy your vids, always takes me back on time. Just decided to subscribed and thanks a lot for sharing this awesome oldschool info. Can't beat a classic! 😎👍🏻
Cyclops all the time! This game is a party magnet in the arcades! Would have so much fun beating the snot out of bad guys; So much fun to play when you're not doing it solo.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries No problem. It's funny to see a pre "Friends" Paul Rudd looking so young. I wonder if Nintendo gave him a console and a few games for filming the commercial.
Disney is the problem. They're completely incompetent, especially when it comes to video games. MvC Infinite & Disney Infinity toy-line/games are strong proof. See also, the newer Star Wars Battlefront series from EA. If it is good, like MvC Infinite was, Disney sabotages it. All Disney/Marvel products are merely shilling for their woke movies. Sad.
All these years and this is still a dope game. I remember , as a kid , I couldn't beat it and when I got a little older , I finally beat the game. I played this game at the arcade and downloaded this game on the PSN store. Classic dope game.
I loved this game, they had it in the Student Center Arcade on campus when I was in college. Thank goodness for Ramen and bologna, or I would have starved. I spent all of my money on this game. haha One thing I could never understand...Why was Dazzler in the game? They could have picked Beast, or Gambit, or literally almost any other X-Man other than her. People used to get so upset when they got stuck with Dazzler. :)
The only thing I could think of was they wanted a another female X-Men in the game they were limited on choices. I think dazzler is the worst one on the roster so do a lot of other people :-)
Dazzler is in the game because it's based on the 1989 cartoon pilot "Pryde of the X-Men" and the team members are the ones from that cartoon (as are most of the enemies).
I played this in the arcade and was blown away by how big it was. That machine devoured my quarters and I have no problem saying it! I still have the one I downloaded on my ps3. Maybe this will be the next big thing from arcade one up in the next 2 years
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries To be honest, I barely even watched any past Play vids for more than a minute or so.. But the recent stuff with History you dig up along with the images and variety of info you give is incredible ! I'm sure your channel will start picking up Subs fairly quickly !!!
Nothing beat getting up early in the morning on Saturdays and watching cartoons till noon and then heading to the arcade for the rest of the day. Those were the best times at James Games in Upland, CA.
Konami should've made another installment called X-Men: Brotherhood where the story is altered with the X-Men as bosses and the playable characters are : - Toad - Blob - Pyro - Juggernaut - White Queen - Magneto
I never seen the 6 player wide screen version with a seamless stitching lol. The screens used to fold into each other causing a warp down the middle or screen burn in EVERY cabinet I played this on in the 90's lol.
I remember going to Disneyland with my summer camp and seeing the 6 player cabinet when it first came out. We all stood there in disbelief as we watched the opening cinematic and then dumped all of our money in to it.
X-men 92' arcade is hands down my favorite arcade game of all time. Our local arcade had a 6 player cabinet and I was fortunate to have beat the game several times in games with all 6 players playing (I was always Wolverine!) I remember waiting/hoping for an X-men II arcade based on the 92' Fox animated series. That would have been amazing.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-DocumentariesDefinitely! I always tought Wolverine, Cyclops, Gambit, Rogue, Storm and Beast would be a pretty solid roster for the sequel.
Loved X-Men arcade game when i played it young. I loved the original series and all that followed after. I always played as Wolverine or Cyclops and be cool to see it as next cabinet arcade for walmart.
Having played previous Konami beat-em-ups in the arcade like: TMNT and The Simpsons... when X-Men was released, I was all too happy to part with my pocketfuls of quarters to play this arcade classic with a bunch of my friends. Nothing was more satisfying than finally getting to the last stage and beating Magneto (the master of magnet) into submission. Looking forward to your next video and remember, "Nothing moves The Blob!" 😂
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries as long as your doing the whole Take you back to the past thing, I do hope you'll do the Jurassic park arcade game since I have a theory that game was retailed exclusively at chuckie cheese franchises.
I've been going through your videos, and I'm not done yet so if you've already done it, I'll get there. I'd love to see a video on Black Tiger from the arcade, and especially be interested to hear why the NES version I ordered from a Sears catalog as a kid never came out. I'm now 40, and I'm still pretty upset about it :-) All I've ever found online is a single screenshot, and several forums where others have asked the same question. Anyway, Black Tiger was a fantastic arcade game and deserves much more love than it gets. thanks for the videos!
Those cabinets were gorgeous. Unfortunately in Europe we didn't get them, most arcade games were placed in generic two player or four player cabinets and the owners just changed the games inside, there were exceptions like Sega and Namco's most advanced games.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries It was not so bad, it allowed the owners to change games more often, the real problem came with games that required more buttons than the cabin had, it was pretty common to see Street Fighter 2 cabinets with only three buttons, limiting the experience.
I remember reading a magazine review for this game when it came out. It said the only bad thing about playing 6 players is that one of your friends will hate you for being stuck with Dazzler.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries they couldn't do Jean because she is just a weakling and have no idea how to display physic abilities. So having explosion is way better than nothing.
@@tr1bes The actual reason was because the game's plot was loosely based on the animated pilot Pryde of the X-Men. The X-Men they went with are the ones featured in that.
This game brings back some good memories for me from a time when I was struggling emotionally as a teen. It was a good escape from what was bothering me. I was really good at the game too. I could play over and over on one quarter without getting hit using Nightcrawler. The trick was herding the enemies up and down into a group and jumping through them diagonally so you clipped them all Only using the teleport power when i would miss a hit and was in danger to interrupt the enemies attacks. Some of the other characters you could do this trick but not as well. Depending on how quickly they moved and how they jumped across the screen.
Jean was a pretty weak mutant back then. Rogue was too new and no body from the past knew. Dazzler was well known way before Rogue. I think they remove her and put in Jubilee to get all the children, females and mid teen to get involved with Xmen 90s style. Rogue wasn't popular until the 90s cartoon.
Konami based the arcade game characters after the pilot episode: Pryde of the X-Men. They only made the one episode and Wolverines voice was Australian for some reason? The cartoon did not get picked up in that form, but Konami liked the look of the characters and so we got that wonderful game. I don't like Dazzler either, but she was in the cartoon.
This game is my all-time favorite Marvel game and Beat 'em up. The game is timeless and still looks fantastic today. I probably used NightCrawler the most because Wolverine and Cyclops were always taken by other players.
A truly great arcade experience, but that game could get crowded, especially if the cabinet was stacked close to other games. I was as puzzled as anyone by Dazzler. Sure, she was a character that has been around since the 70s but they could of easily put in Jean Grey, Shadow Cat or Rogue instead.
I remember this game. Growing up going to the mall was the thing to do on a Friday night. I think I was one of the only girls that loved to go to the arcade, I put so much money into this machine. I did beat the game with several boys, great memories!!
I remembered I visited a bar in Columbus Ohio that has this game back in 2015. Way cooler to see in person. I do actually have this game & The Simpson’s still on my PS3 in the storage.
PatmanQC - History of arcade game documentaries thanks, I’m huge with preserving downloadable games when it came to the PS3/360 generation which is impossible to find now. I think the biggest one in my library is the Marvel vs Capcom: 2 & Origins. Both games just disappeared on the face of the earth after the licensing.
You got me right in the feels with this video. X-men was the go to game for laying the smackdown on Magneto's forces. Oddly enough this game lasted way longer than the cartoon it was based on.
There were two things I recall noticing when I played this in the arcades. The first was that some of the X-Men had rather unusual powers for their super attack - adamantium laser, seriously? The second was that the healing and mutant ability power ups never showed up if you were only playing as a single player making it even harder.
A correction to something you said about the xbox version is it's only 4 players local because the system only supports 4 controllers even with wireless controllers but when playing online it supports 6 players just like the arcade. I really wish the game was available again because I wasn't able to get it when it was out. Would be nice if konami could get the rights again to release it and their other arcade games on current systems.
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Re-release, and then taken away, this is why physical copies are always needed
X-men and Turtles is my answer when people love to talk about the greatness of digital format. I still have my Xbox360 just for these 2 games.
Look at stadia, bunch off ass.physical ownership is still needed.
@Edwin Requena what if you lose your hard drive, what if your heart becomes corrupted or damaged? I guess the same could be said for the disks, but just having the disc and also digital copies is beneficial.
@Turd Ferguson what's real sneaky is when they sell you a physical copy, and inside is basically a blank disc and you still have to enter a code to download the game online...
That Guy - Yeah, but it does state on the game box that a game that requires a digital download will have a code inside of the box.
X-Men arcade is definitely one of my all time favorite games. I spent most of my 12th birthday party trying to beat it.
Great video Pat thanks for the memories.
Hi Tim, thanks for sharing your story. I really enjoy reading them, thanks
About the same age, that game made me love nightcrawler (who I had no idea existed prior to).
Yeah I spent a lot of quarters and time playing the 6-player cab at my local skaterink back in the early 90s...best multi-player arcade game EVER.
@@BuddyLee23If Nightcrawler wasn't available I didn't play the game 💙
I worked at Marvel Games when home release came out. There was a point when we were asked if we wanted to "correct" the voices since that needed to be re-recorded. For a brief moment, we considered it, but ultimately we felt it just wouldn't be the original game without "welcome to die" and other badly translated lines. (This was largely my personal decision since I was the biggest fan of the game on staff. What I REALLY wanted was both -- but that just wasn't possible due to Konami's resources for the game.)
Also worth noting: The re-recordings were not so much "licensing reasons" as they were to protection against being sued -- no one knew who recorded them originally! The records simply did not exist.
Okay, thank you for clarifying that make sense. I'm glad you kept the original dialogue intact cheese and all :-)
Ummmm a home version was never released
@@jakeholland1848 It was released on Xbox live and PlayStation network
December 15, 2010. Delisted three years later. You can find the trailer and gameplay on this very TH-cam. I’m sorry you missed it.
Any idea if they will ever release these again?
8:41 wow that's a young Paul Rudd! (Ant-Man main)
Well spotted..!!
Best arcade hands down. This, Simpson’s and Wrestlemania are my all time favourites
All three classic games
PatmanQC - History of arcade game documentaries did Konami make wrestelmania as well?
You forgot Turtles in Time.
The Hollanesian I like turtles in time too but I played it so much I got sick of it bro
They're ok, I like After Burner, Altered Beast, and Ninja Kun. I remember being in 1st grade in 1988 going to to the Arcade at the Paddle Wheel in Las Vegas. It was the original Casino before it turned into some Debbie Reynolds thing. But I remember hearing that "Rise from your grave" and those dudes punching rotten skeletons and I was
transfixed and was telling all my friends about it at school the next day.
I've spent so much money playing X-Men. This arcade still remains one of my favorites from Konami which they were on fire in the video game industry during that time period.
You're right, they were absolutely on fire during this period
"There is no way the master of magnet could stand a chance against the powerful forces of the X-Men"
...and enough quarters
LOL, the master of magnet kills me every time :-)
The machine was the Real Magneto cuz it sucked those quarters right out of your pocket
The irony of all those metal quarters being the key to Magneto's defeat...
"I am Magneto master of magnet! Hahahaha!"
Thanks for posting this! Konami's X-Men arcade game is one of my all-time favorites! I was in college in 1992 and I would play this all the time with friends.
Thank you for watching, glad you enjoyed it
I loved this game when I used to hit up arcades as a kid. Watching this makes me hate LJN even more.
LOL, I hear you :-) because of them they were a lot of arcade conversions we didn't receive
What does LJN means?
@@jinfrozenfire Laughin Jokin Numbnuts
@@jinfrozenfire - Its initials for the guys name who started the company I believe...
@@jinfrozenfire It's an old publisher of notoriously bad games and arcade ports.
1:48 The picture of the X-Men arcade cabinet you use isn't the actual arcade cabinet. It's a miniature replica somebody made and sells. I know because I thought about buying one. Plus the joysticks look like pool noodles...
If the Arcade 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.
Omega Red and Sabertooth would be among the bosses.
It would've turned out a whole lot better,
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Possibly.
It's just weird how that worked out. Konami made a 6-player game out of what turned out to be just a 22-minute animated pilot. Making a game out of a series with only thirteen episodes I can see, especially since they did that with the Bucky O'Hare series from 91', but banking their huge cabinet on a pilot episode... now that was a gamble. Fortunately the game was good and that huge cabinet was eye-catching. The game stood on its own despite a reboot of the show. That's an accomplishment for the history books.
@@blazerocker1734 While the game might of have been based off the short-lived show, Bucky O'hare started out as a comic which was pretty popular. So Konami was exactly gambling on a unknown or new series, when making those games. It already was a some-what well-known series with a decent fanbase.
Probably, the same reasoning behind the X-men series as well, they decided to get in on the success of the comics and license it before they show started and got popular, which would've raised the price significantly. While I admit I personally never fully watched that original series that the arcade game was based on, I actually think it's cool that it's based of it because of how it more accurately portrays the style/look, storyline and characters (and their costumes!) of the comics at the time, than the 92 animated series since there eventually was a ton of games and content that used the style and story-lines from that series. (Although, I do think that sequel to this based off the '92 series would've been simply amazing!!)
The game was based on the Pryde Of The X Men video. It was actually a pilot for the tv series that was later developed.
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This game was pure chaos with it's six player action. It's crazy having the full team which the game has more special effects and explosions than a Michael Bay movie as players fire off their mutant powers. While I think the other konami fighters had deeper move sets than Xmen, it still a very fun fast paced game. I wish they kept the power ups and health system from the Japanese version. It was lame you lost health even if you had a blue orb in the US version. Between that and the machines difficulty being cranked up this game was a real quarter muncher as was very hard not to die since bosses really took a beating and was no way to heal yourself.(Despite that being Wolverine's main super power.) Having played this on my PS3 it's much much easier to go thru the Japanese version on the normal setting.
I have seen 3 different versions of this cabinet in the wild. The huge six player version, a 4 player version, and a 2 player one I saw once at a hotdog place near my house. The Ps3 version let's you switch between the 4 and 6 player modes while playing the game. If you're speed running the game (to get the trophy for beating it under 20 minutes or so.) you want to pick the four player version. You can just blast thru the game as Colossus since the game has a closer perpective than the 6 player screen, your mutant power will cover the entire battlefield when you unleash it.
On side note speaking of Colossus, this game influence the comics. Prior to the game Colossus when gradually change forms when he shifted between his super mode and human form in the comics. After this game the comics made it so Colossus would flash when draw like the Xmen arcade game, and his powers became more energy based. While he never unleash an energy burst like the game, this caused comic writers to reimagine how his powers worked. It's one of those instances where something that started outside of comics migrated back.
@Grime Fork Thats a shame. I feel like that's the true experience of this game.
I remember if you played as Nightcrawler, on certain boss levels if you position the character next to the boss and "saved up" your specials, you can hit the boss twice with that special. (specifically Juggernaut and Nimrod)
One great part of the game was when Magneto is defeated and the game "ends" it simply repeats the gameplay from the beginning,
I remember playing this at Wildwood in the summer on vacation as a kid. When you had 6 players playing at the same time it was a breeze. Nothing could stand in your way. Bosses were such a joke as everyone would just use their mutant powers on them. Kids today just won't understand how fun it was to play an arcade game with total strangers!
Thanks for sharing yes the social aspect is definitely Gone today
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries , um, the new TMNT game also allows up to six players to play it, AND in same system, shared systems/televisions, LAN, online, and possible cross-platform ways, too, just saying.
This is like having your grandfather tell you a bedtime story about video games. I LOVE THIS!
Thank you….I think
"Nothing moves the blob!" *laser....kick in bollocks for good measure* and I lost it XD
LOL, that gets me every time along with "I am the master of magnet" LOL
I was 19 or so when this came out and a huge X-Men collector. Flipped out at how great it was back then! Colosus was my favorite and I loved playing as him. You could hear his, "Yaaaargh!!" all across the arcade. Lol Thanks for this review.
LOL,, in my arcade they had the volume cranked up really loud with this machine. Thanks for watching
Another great video; love the delivery of the information!
I'll never forget rolling up on an arcade with a five dollar bill (which was a ton of money for me back then and certainly my whole arcade budget for a day), and grinding through the entire game, start to finish, 25 cents at a time. Other players came and went, but when I finished it, I was so proud.
There was one catch, however: I panicked and slipped up during the fight with Magneto, and after playing for nearly twenty rounds as Nightcrawler, I accidentally selected Dazzler and just happened to beat the game on that quarter. It felt a bit wrong that Nightcrawler didn't get to close it out after all that, but I was still tremendously pleased with my how five dollars was spent that day.
Thanks for the reminder of some great times.
Thank you For the nice words. Thanks for sharing your little back story with the game and dazzler :-) at least you got to beat the game though.
I remember this in the arcade. To hide the bezel, they put one monitor facing up with a mirror and the other facing forward to give the illusion that the screen was really wide.
I absolutely loved this game because I was a huge comic fan and have watched "Pryde of the X-men" many times. It's only 25mins long and definitely worth checking out on TH-cam.
6:28 “nothing moves the Blob!”
*continues to seriously beat him
up*
LOL my thoughts exactly
The time is 6:28 which is 2 times the number of pi, and which is the circumference of a circle with the radio of 1, just like how blob is a big fat circle
Coincidence?
Daniel Dorn I think not!
I used to love beating the piss out of that overstuffed calzone. Grotesque turgid slab of meat. I have very fond memories of wasting the BLOB.
Mike 7 haha I bet
Thankful Dazzler the legend was chosen to be in this video game... my youth. She's an underrated Marvel icon. Her powers are unstoppable and she's fun.
I still play this on my home arcade I built last year. Such a good game.
It's a great brawler
So glad I bought it on the PSN. Brings me back to when I was younger everytime I play it
It's a fun beat him up especially in multiplayer
Hey! I just saw Paul Rudd on here! It's really cool to see commercials featuring well known actors before they became famous. Oh...on a side note, I absolutely LOVED the XMen arcade game when it first released. Fed the cabinet at my local arcade many, many quarters. The memories! 😊 Also, I love your videos! I am seriously addicted to them. Keep up the good work!
Thank you for the kind words, I appreciate
Hmm, Paul Rudd, in a commercial for this game, and yet, years later, he becomes a part of the official Marvel Cinematic Universe, namely, as Ant-Man, and also, by extension, so do the X-Men, so, foreshadowing much?
They used to have that arcade game back at an old Mall of mine in Pittsburg/Antioch, California called "County East Mall". The arcade place was called "pocket change" It was the six player dual-screen one.
The Xbox Live version has BOTH 4-player (local) and 6-player (online) options.
I came in to say this. You could play both 4 or 6 players online on XBL, but I remember everybody played 6 players cause more screen space.
This was the only game I wanted to play in the arcade at the movies. My nanna would sneak us into 2 or 3 movies and afterwards wait patiently as we ran out of coins quickly playing X-Men. Some of the best memories of my childhood, I miss you so much Nan
Thank you for sharing your memories. I always enjoy reading them
Storm in this game is literally the best and most balanced character in the game because of her scepter/wand gave her the best reach, she's pretty quick to maneuver around, her mutant power with the tornado cleared out the most enemies in one shot, her combos seem to be the best and Storm's normal strength wasn't too bad. I remember playing this on an actual arcade machine years ago and wanting to play as Storm for some reason. I'm glad I did, because she was the best in the game, and I don't think many people realize how good she really was. I seen people just picking Wolverine because well he's Wolverine, and Colossus because of his strength and "the yelling". I wonder why Konami never imported this to the home consoles at the time. Probably thought it was too hard or not good enough to have X-Men the arcade game on the Genesis, NES or the SNES at the time
Patman went over why it was never ported to home consoles. LJN held exclusive console video game rights to just about every popular Marvel property, including the X-Men, so Konami literally had no way to publish their arcade game on home consoles. Marvel would've had to cut ties with LJN (and endure contract severance penalties) in order to give Konami the rights. A shame, really, because most of LJN's Marvel games were cancerously bad.
Oh man I want to play this game again loved this arcade game it was dope 🔥🔥 man miss these days
It was really fun, especially with six players
Great channel my man! I love being transported back to my childhood
Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed the content
I remember playing this as a kid. I was really surprised when Juggernaut showed up and shouted, "I'M THE JUGGERNAUT, BITCH!"
LOL, I must've missed that part :-)
I think he means from the Xmen the Last Stand film.
I remember this would be the first game I would play when I got to the arcade. I always started with Cyclops. Thanks for making these videos
There is one of those at an arcade bar in reno, nv. They also have tnmt and simpsons.. and they are quarter munchers...
They absolutely are, still fun gameS though though
I have a place in providence ri that has all those and it cost $5 to play all you want. FreePlay is the name.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries spider-man arcade next
Place in Reno is called Press Start.
I remember playing the 6 player version at Putt-Putt Golf back in the day, when it was new. Just in the fact that it was so huge, blew me away. Later, when I worked at Chuck E Cheese, and we had the 4 player version. When my twins were about 5 or 6(11 now), I used to hook my laptop up to my 65", and let them play MAME multiplayer games(TMNT, SIMPSONS, ETC). X-Men sticks out, because my son kept quoting the line "YOU WILL DIE, X CHICKEN!!", because he thought it was so funny.
LOL, that's great. I love reading about stories where families bond over videogames. Thanks for sharing
I used to play this fantastic game when it was still in arcades. I found, on my first attempt no less, that with Storm and proper spacing while attacking you could beat the game on a single quarter. Still, easily, one of my favorite arcade games.
I always love the game
Wolverine is actually known for that epic mask. I personally love the design and shape of this mask for him the most.
I’m glad I bought it on PSN when I had the chance to.
It's a good thing you did, who knows if it will ever come back
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries ...And it came back..
Great work! I didnt know about the six player x-men arcade. You make really good videos for retro gamers. Thanks man !
Thank you very much, I appreciate the nice words
Gotta say I really enjoy your vids, always takes me back on time. Just decided to subscribed and thanks a lot for sharing this awesome oldschool info. Can't beat a classic! 😎👍🏻
That's very nice be to say,Thanks for subscribing
Cyclops all the time! This game is a party magnet in the arcades! Would have so much fun beating the snot out of bad guys; So much fun to play when you're not doing it solo.
Exactly, multiplayer is where it's at
Paul "Ant-Man" Rudd is the young man playing the SNES in the commercial you are using.
I just learned this earlier thanks
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries No problem. It's funny to see a pre "Friends" Paul Rudd looking so young. I wonder if Nintendo gave him a console and a few games for filming the commercial.
Along the same lines, there's also a widely-shared commercial for Pitfall on 2600 with kid Jack Black.
@@jasonblalock4429 that's not nearly as cool unless you like Tenacious D, and they totally suck ass.
Talk about foreshadowing
They sould base new Marvel games in this fashion with more characters , just with Vectors or unreal engine.
Disney is the problem. They're completely incompetent, especially when it comes to video games. MvC Infinite & Disney Infinity toy-line/games are strong proof. See also, the newer Star Wars Battlefront series from EA. If it is good, like MvC Infinite was, Disney sabotages it. All Disney/Marvel products are merely shilling for their woke movies. Sad.
Yeah I can imagine a Fantastic Four game in this engine
Excellent work as per usual, really enjoyed this instalment
Nightcrawler mains stand up lol. My dad took me to the arcade and was always Colossus, Wolverine was my secondary.
I think nightcrawler is the best character in the game
All these years and this is still a dope game. I remember , as a kid , I couldn't beat it and when I got a little older , I finally beat the game. I played this game at the arcade and downloaded this game on the PSN store. Classic dope game.
It is a classic game an extremely fun and multiplayer
I loved this game, they had it in the Student Center Arcade on campus when I was in college. Thank goodness for Ramen and bologna, or I would have starved. I spent all of my money on this game. haha One thing I could never understand...Why was Dazzler in the game? They could have picked Beast, or Gambit, or literally almost any other X-Man other than her. People used to get so upset when they got stuck with Dazzler. :)
The only thing I could think of was they wanted a another female X-Men in the game they were limited on choices. I think dazzler is the worst one on the roster so do a lot of other people :-)
They always avoid Jean Gray, latter they use Psylocke or Rouge.
Dazzler is in the game because it's based on the 1989 cartoon pilot "Pryde of the X-Men" and the team members are the ones from that cartoon (as are most of the enemies).
@@timf7413 yeah most people think of the other cartoon when someone says xmen cartoon
I played this in the arcade and was blown away by how big it was. That machine devoured my quarters and I have no problem saying it! I still have the one I downloaded on my ps3. Maybe this will be the next big thing from arcade one up in the next 2 years
There is enough demand for it it's possible but yes the cabinet was massive
The Uncanny X-Men. The coolest superhero team of all time. Fond memories of this game. Still have it on my old phone. Priceless.
It's a classic
8:41 is that ant-man guy??
It's Paul Rudd.
You deserve about 50k more subscribers, excellent work on these videos. Subbed!
That's very nice of you to say, glad you enjoy my videos
These History lessons in Great Old Games are Vastly superior to your earlier Play vids. !
Keep em comin !!!
I agree 1000%. My play videos were just me playing: bowling games and were terrible LOL
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries To be honest, I barely even watched any past Play vids for more than a minute or so..
But the recent stuff with History you dig up along with the images and variety of info you give is incredible ! I'm sure your channel will start picking up Subs fairly quickly !!!
Nothing beat getting up early in the morning on Saturdays and watching cartoons till noon and then heading to the arcade for the rest of the day. Those were the best times at James Games in Upland, CA.
Konami should've made another installment called X-Men: Brotherhood where the story is altered with the X-Men as bosses and the playable characters are :
- Toad
- Blob
- Pyro
- Juggernaut
- White Queen
- Magneto
It wasn't too long after this that capcom got the license was possible they didn't have time
The biggest memory for me about this game was the music. Man, they put a lot of time and effort into that soundtrack.....
I never seen the 6 player wide screen version with a seamless stitching lol. The screens used to fold into each other causing a warp down the middle or screen burn in EVERY cabinet I played this on in the 90's lol.
I remember going to Disneyland with my summer camp and seeing the 6 player cabinet when it first came out. We all stood there in disbelief as we watched the opening cinematic and then dumped all of our money in to it.
X-men 92' arcade is hands down my favorite arcade game of all time. Our local arcade had a 6 player cabinet and I was fortunate to have beat the game several times in games with all 6 players playing (I was always Wolverine!) I remember waiting/hoping for an X-men II arcade based on the 92' Fox animated series. That would have been amazing.
Absolutely, with a better roster….Or release someone to replace dazzler :-)
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-DocumentariesDefinitely! I always tought Wolverine, Cyclops, Gambit, Rogue, Storm and Beast would be a pretty solid roster for the sequel.
Loved X-Men arcade game when i played it young. I loved the original series and all that followed after. I always played as Wolverine or Cyclops and be cool to see it as next cabinet arcade for walmart.
It's a possibility
Having played previous Konami beat-em-ups in the arcade like: TMNT and The Simpsons... when X-Men was released, I was all too happy to part with my pocketfuls of quarters to play this arcade classic with a bunch of my friends. Nothing was more satisfying than finally getting to the last stage and beating Magneto (the master of magnet) into submission. Looking forward to your next video and remember, "Nothing moves The Blob!" 😂
LOL, thank you very much.
Def one of my top 5 arcade games. The voices just made it more fun "No one can move the Blob!!!"....rofl
they absolutely did
"welcome to die".
"I am the master of magnet"
Just got recommended this video great job now to binge watch your videos
Thank you very much, hope you enjoy the rest of my content
One of my all time favorite arcade games. So many Saturdays and quarters spent back in the day. We need arcades again!
I agree 1000%
you have this weirdly charming quality where your voice and editing makes these videos feel like they came from 2008 XD
Thank you very much
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries as long as your doing the whole Take you back to the past thing, I do hope you'll do the Jurassic park arcade game since I have a theory that game was retailed exclusively at chuckie cheese franchises.
I've been going through your videos, and I'm not done yet so if you've already done it, I'll get there. I'd love to see a video on Black Tiger from the arcade, and especially be interested to hear why the NES version I ordered from a Sears catalog as a kid never came out. I'm now 40, and I'm still pretty upset about it :-) All I've ever found online is a single screenshot, and several forums where others have asked the same question. Anyway, Black Tiger was a fantastic arcade game and deserves much more love than it gets. thanks for the videos!
My Favorite comic book store here in Philadelphia has the 6-player X-men cabinet in back fully functional for everyone to play.
Awesome, I would love to go there :-)
Where is this place ?
Had an absolute blast with this game back in the day!! There was only one 6-player cabinet around here. The others were all 4-player.
There were a few in my area but not many
Those cabinets were gorgeous. Unfortunately in Europe we didn't get them, most arcade games were placed in generic two player or four player cabinets and the owners just changed the games inside, there were exceptions like Sega and Namco's most advanced games.
Oh really?That sucks.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries It was not so bad, it allowed the owners to change games more often, the real problem came with games that required more buttons than the cabin had, it was pretty common to see Street Fighter 2 cabinets with only three buttons, limiting the experience.
Thank you so much for this video. I still have a copy of my X-Men game for Sega Genesis.
I remember rin San Diego THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD had this with +2 monitors on top just in case noone can see + its hud bars was gone.... perfect!!
That's awesome
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Special in Narc game Cabnit...they say jbl speakers were used or somethin good for speakers installed!
I keep finding videos I haven't seen or haven't liked yet. Some are years old, man I'm getting old.
There is quite the collection on my channel that's for sure :-)
It was based on the Pryde of the XMen animated pilot that never was picked up.
I remember reading a magazine review for this game when it came out. It said the only bad thing about playing 6 players is that one of your friends will hate you for being stuck with Dazzler.
LOL, that's funny.Of all the X-Men I don't know why they had to include her
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries they couldn't do Jean because she is just a weakling and have no idea how to display physic abilities. So having explosion is way better than nothing.
@@tr1bes The actual reason was because the game's plot was loosely based on the animated pilot Pryde of the X-Men. The X-Men they went with are the ones featured in that.
This game brings back some good memories for me from a time when I was struggling emotionally as a teen. It was a good escape from what was bothering me. I was really good at the game too. I could play over and over on one quarter without getting hit using Nightcrawler. The trick was herding the enemies up and down into a group and jumping through them diagonally so you clipped them all Only using the teleport power when i would miss a hit and was in danger to interrupt the enemies attacks. Some of the other characters you could do this trick but not as well. Depending on how quickly they moved and how they jumped across the screen.
Thanks for sharing your memories that's pretty awesome with nightcrawler, I was pretty good with them but nowhere near as exceptional as you
These videos are top class keep up the good work
Thank you very much, I appreciate the nice words
The xbox 360 version allowed for 6 player online as well. it was never an exclusive feature.
My mistake, thank you
@@taked0wn127 Thank you very much glad you enjoyed the channel
I have always loved this game. One of my local comic shops has it up and ready to play.
It is really fun especially in multiplayer
I always felt that Dazzler should have been swapped for Rogue or Jean. That still bothers me.
Either one of those would've been 10 times better than what we got
Jean was a pretty weak mutant back then. Rogue was too new and no body from the past knew. Dazzler was well known way before Rogue. I think they remove her and put in Jubilee to get all the children, females and mid teen to get involved with Xmen 90s style. Rogue wasn't popular until the 90s cartoon.
Dazzler had her own comic in the 80s, Rogue got popular until jim lee redesigned the x-men costumes to how they looked in TAS.
@@tr1bes yeah Jubilee would have been the best choice at the time.
Konami based the arcade game characters after the pilot episode: Pryde of the X-Men. They only made the one episode and Wolverines voice was Australian for some reason? The cartoon did not get picked up in that form, but Konami liked the look of the characters and so we got that wonderful game. I don't like Dazzler either, but she was in the cartoon.
The animation for this version of the cartoon looks incredible!
I agree
new sub, binge watching ....LOVING your videos
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This game is my all-time favorite Marvel game and Beat 'em up. The game is timeless and still looks fantastic today. I probably used NightCrawler the most because Wolverine and Cyclops were always taken by other players.
It's a whole lot of fun especially in six players
Im 42 and still never completed that dam game
I only did because of the Mame emulator
same here, lol
Great arcade cabinet with beautiful box art
Absolutely it wasA work of art
If I was ever rich, I would buy a six person X-Men cabinet for my basement.
Thanks for all the wonderful memories! I'd forgotten all about Time Pilot.
xmen ‘s graphics was ahead of its time, reminds me of Children of the Atom
Yes very much so
A truly great arcade experience, but that game could get crowded, especially if the cabinet was stacked close to other games. I was as puzzled as anyone by Dazzler. Sure, she was a character that has been around since the 70s but they could of easily put in Jean Grey, Shadow Cat or Rogue instead.
I agree 100% :-)
I remember this game. Growing up going to the mall was the thing to do on a Friday night. I think I was one of the only girls that loved to go to the arcade, I put so much money into this machine. I did beat the game with several boys, great memories!!
The indoor soccer arena by my house had an arcade cabinet with the six player option. It was sick.
That's very cool
Magneto: HA HA HA HA HA!!!! X-MEN WELCOME TO DIE!!!!
Deadpool: MAGENTO WELCOME TO DIE!!!!
LOL, that's a classic
No idea it came back out on xbox live dang i missed out on that one
Hopefully it comes back
This was 8 year X men movie by fox
Remembering playing this at Aladdin’s Castle in Southpark Mall. Loved that game.
Hey now! I loved the old Aladdin's castle at South Park. Right by the old Montgomery wards. :-)
I remembered I visited a bar in Columbus Ohio that has this game back in 2015. Way cooler to see in person. I do actually have this game & The Simpson’s still on my PS3 in the storage.
Good for you, because it's been off the PSN for quite some time
PatmanQC - History of arcade game documentaries thanks, I’m huge with preserving downloadable games when it came to the PS3/360 generation which is impossible to find now. I think the biggest one in my library is the Marvel vs Capcom: 2 & Origins. Both games just disappeared on the face of the earth after the licensing.
I still can't believe you have not yet done a documentary on Defender!
I can't believe it either
Loved this game as a kid. And it was similar to the Pryde of the X-men pilot. X-men were so great in the 90s when I was a kid .
Absolutely
You got me right in the feels with this video. X-men was the go to game for laying the smackdown on Magneto's forces. Oddly enough this game lasted way longer than the cartoon it was based on.
From what I have read, the cartoon existed only in pilot form meaning it was only one episode. Glad you enjoyed the video
There were two things I recall noticing when I played this in the arcades. The first was that some of the X-Men had rather unusual powers for their super attack - adamantium laser, seriously? The second was that the healing and mutant ability power ups never showed up if you were only playing as a single player making it even harder.
Absolutely, some of the powers were a bit ridiculous
I didn't know Paul Rudd was in an SNES commercial at 8:40 !!!
Yes
There's a hell of a lot of older bosses at Konami who watched really good 90's cartoons in this time.
LOL, exactly
A correction to something you said about the xbox version is it's only 4 players local because the system only supports 4 controllers even with wireless controllers but when playing online it supports 6 players just like the arcade.
I really wish the game was available again because I wasn't able to get it when it was out. Would be nice if konami could get the rights again to release it and their other arcade games on current systems.
Thanks for the correction