#X-men Arcade

[macmanx]

OMG WUT?! 😍

[writebackatya]

I need 5 mutuals to come here right now and play the X-Men Arcade Game with me!!

[urkel-fan420]

autodesk sketchbook, 2020

[runimanio]

2024 Game Clears #23 X-Men Arcade and Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Arcade

Putting these together because my friend Jacob and I played these back to back and not because I once had a fever dream where I found a unpublished Marvel Vs Sailor Moon comic from the nineties in my attic for some reason and then started getting assassination attempt by Marvel comic collector.

Starting with X-men, like a lot of people right now X-Men 97 really has given me mutant fever and now i'm X-Men stuff I always wanted to get to but never had time, Reading Dark Phoenix, rewatching the Fox movies for the first since I was kid and yes playing Konami's X-Men arcade game. As a kid my rural town randomly had a 2 player cabinet in the bar, my parents never would give me quarters but I still would mash the buttons and pretend I was playing during the attract demo.

And yeah playing it 20 year later, it's a fun classic Konami brawler! It does have some weird oddities like the designs being from that Pryde of the X-Men 80's pilots, Magneto having a sentinel army is kind of strange but non of that detracts from it being a great time also shout out to being able to wail on downed enemies

On the Sailor Moon side... This game is so pretty all the sprites and animations are so nice... well I could do without Mercury's throw animation which is just a prominent upskirt you just gotta accept with 90's Sailor Moon sometimes unfortunately look at Usagi's desperation attack, I love how she just flails around

I think X-Men is probably a better game, its a little less repetitive and has less of the retro beat-em-up game design tropes that kinda bother me such as X-men only having friendly fire on throws while SM it can genuinely kinda hard to not get in each other way but I do think Sailor Moon looks nicer and I think I liked this a bit better then the consoles Sailor Moon beat-em-ups.

its hard to write about brawler like this because I can be like "oh it's just kinda just a button basher" but who cares about that, grab a friend and launch one of these up and you'll have a fun time for hour

(also playing Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon™ (Arcade Game) made me what to watch Sailor Moon again Toei when are we getting Cosmos over here what's taking so long?)

Jacob's Note: "I had a fun time raging out as Colossus lol

(should logically with that note end the post with a gif of Colossus screaming but that too much flashing light so uhhh here's Usagi gaming instead)

[nikademus1969]

@dumplin323, we need to go here someday soon...

[saikyo78]

[arcadebroke]

[louiejoyce]

They put the X in X-Men vs Street Fighter!!! So hyped on that recent news hey. Need to draw the other side too!

www.louiejoyce.com

[dammarchy211]

Per the description of the heartless perk “robots are now confused by you”

Also chapters 2 and 3 are out for that post game fic I’m writing 👍👍

[nineties-effect]

[klauswalz]

Last touch…. A pair of the most ultimately killer shades.

[bean-chaa]

today i offer you crap sketches, tomorrow? who knows (probably nothing)

[luc-and-harlee]

Sabes hun your like me let's dig in!!

[wwprice1]

Awesome art by Steve Epting!

[merrymarvelite]

Cover of the Day: X-Men #111 (June, 1978) Art by Dave Cockrum, Terry Austin, and Danny Crespi

[devileaterjaek]