#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

[hellman55]

X-Men (Arcade) Playthrough [Dual screen ver.]

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because my friend Jacob and I played these back to back and not because I once had a fever dream where I found a unpublished Marvel Vs Sailor Moon comic from the nineties in my attic for some reason and then started getting assassination attempt by Marvel comic collector.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

[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 👍👍

[acquired-stardust]

X-Men Arcade 1992

[nineties-effect]

[bean-chaa]

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

[rei-ismyname]

Merry X-Men Holiday Special Highlights

Happy holidays, everyone! It's been about a year since I started posting about the X-Men on Tumblr and if it wasn't for all the lovely folks who engage and discuss it wouldn't be so enriching. I'm super anti-capitalist and anti cultural Christianity so it's less 'Happy Christmas' and more 'I wish y'all the best.' ❤️💚

I wonder if Lockheed speaks Hebrew

Here's Kitty Pryde celebrating Chanukah in Genosha and remembering her father. Leading the special with an explicitly Jewish character observing a Jewish holiday is great, but the notion of saving the world by becoming president of the USA is a dubious one. The USA is an imperialist entity built on deep seated systemic inequality and worse. Even the most progressive of presidents is beholden to that. It doesn't mean we shouldn't try, but Kitty is kidding herself about 'saving the world the right way.'

Nature Girl hates Christmas, and it's hard to argue with her reasons. The parts about warmth are weird to me because I live in Australia where Christmas is always hot AF. One of the few days I hope for rain, tbh.

I'm not sure if Bobby quite understood what 'eschewing capitalism' means but this looks pretty fun. That tie dye X-Men tee slaps and I want one. I wonder what Kubark thinks of this human holiday.

This story with Magneto coming around on the pointlessness of lighting menorahs does the rounds every now and then, though not as much as I'd expect. The kids are particularly plucky and eloquent, and the one who emphatically tells Magneto he's wrong is a legend. I'm fond of any story where Magneto rethinks his beliefs, and this is a nice one.

It took me a while to notice that this is written by Charlamagne tha God, possibly because it's kinda funny to imagine Ororo knowing who that is. Idk why, I've just never seen any stories indicating that she's into Hip Hop culture. I like that it's a rejection of turning the other cheek where bigoted assholes are concerned. You can't reach some people, and there's no obligation to exhaust yourself trying. Fuck em. The Michelle Obama mention is a bit on the nose.

Old man Logan is cutting firewood and being gruff, as he does. Kurt gives him a picture of himself, which is a baller move. I was under the impression that this Logan was an alternate reality Logan, and doesn't have a particularly close relationship with these X-Men. Nothing about Logans makes sense, sometimes you just have to accept it as cute and cool.

Glob does stuff! Is that meant to be mistletoe? We don't have it down here. He nails up some plant matter and then chills by himself. Little bit depressing, but I can't talk.

Bobby Drake has a party! Interestingly neither Jewish nor Christian, but a pagan holiday that's become a bit more popular (like Christmas and Easter.) Hope is watching Cable do... something, in a recorded message from when she was the universe's most unpopular baby.

Some kids are sharing the rumour that Magneto merked Santa, which is hilarious. It's obviously untrue, not least because Santa is Mags' mutant brother. Kurt lectures them.

Jubilee beats up Arcade (yay!) and quotes Home Alone, rescuing Shogo (who's spending this Christmas as a dragon in Otherworld.) I really don't like Arcade, though he has done two excellent things. Torturing Sinister and creating the Proletarian - worker's hero of the Soviet Union.

Nightcrawler and Storm show up and Christmas is really just a backdrop for a light anti-capitalist tale. Cool! I'd expect Cyclops to be in this book, but no. It's Chuck-less as well.

[luc-and-harlee]

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

[s-pyder]

🕷️X-Men: The Arcade Game 1992🕷️

[wwprice1]

Awesome art by Steve Epting!