 Sssssssss😑 that's drunk Alright, folks. It's time for a good ol' fashion's regular old Sorry, I just had to hear that, but uh yeah, I I initially wanted to do a regular structured review for this game and I realized that would be kind of silly because everybody already knows this game! Everybody knows this game is awesome! It's a lot of fun It's one of the best beat-em-ups ever made one of the best arcade games ever made so Let's take a look at X moon as a Professor X said there here. We got our demo but yeah, I'm playing this on maim and We're gonna take a look and Do a deep dive into this game and like play through the whole thing. We'll see how many quarters I'll need To get through this one's see how much money it will cost me My favorite character to play in this game is a Colossus That's not entirely true. That wasn't really Magneto's Everyone's standing there like what us really? Okay, so I love Colossus because of his special move It was back in the day when you'd be walking around a mall or something like that or like a in my case It would be the state Minnesota State Fair and you would hear the out There's a certain time when I want to use it use the special move coming up here in a bit, but um you would hear that sound and It was like oh, they've got X men here like you you didn't even need to hear anything else It's like oh that they've got X men. That's all the arcade was worth visiting if they had X men But yeah, as a beat-em-up this game is so fast-paced. This game is So good-looking The backgrounds are awesome. You I mean for everything from God this guy sucks Everything from like the cracks in the streets. Here we go When you when you heard that sound it was like, you know music to my ears So Yeah, I when I heard that I was like, okay. I'm where I'm supposed to be in life right now I am near an X men arcade game so yeah, this game came in two different forms one was a four player and one was a six player and This is one of the very first multiplayer games that I can remember where it was like Such an event to play and it was it felt like such like a big deal to play because the state the Minnesota State Fair The penny arcade over there, which it wasn't sadly was not actually a penny arcade but they had the six player version of this and There would be kids, you know two rows deep three rows deep either they were just waiting for their turn to To play or they were just content to just stand there and watch Everybody else play and it was it felt so cool once you got your chance. Well, there's one quarter down There one one life down. I should say you get two lives per quarter Yeah, fire Yeah, what? Pyro sucks That's one thing about this game. That was not that didn't It was kind of a bummer that the villains in the brotherhood of evil mutants were so kind of lame Like the blob. It's just a big fat guy pyros kind of not great It's like I went when it came to to video games and especially with how good this game looks and it captures the likenesses of everybody so well and I wanted to see like mr. Sinister and apocalypse and and by the way, what is with these like Humanoid sized sentinels. What are they foot soldiers? And they're donning the foot soldier colors But yeah, it's I always thought that was weird like okay. These are miniature sentinels. You do fight a slightly bigger sentinel later But yeah, no, they got the story. They I mean it's an arcade game. What kind of story I could you hope for? You know what I mean like it's It's like oh his Magneto is taking over the world. It's like no not necessarily He wants to create a world a better world for mutants. He wants to Doesn't want to destroy the planet or whatever the hell when I first um Got into X-Men. I remember it was because of my childhood friends Had gotten into X factor and all that sort of stuff and this would have been in the early 90s and He just I don't know he just ended up with an ex an issue to X factor and he liked it and that grew into like buying all sorts of other Comics and stuff and I remember my first one for me was uncanny X-Men 304 and that was toward the be the start of What's called the fatal attraction series where shit went down In that part of the story and it so I was hooked immediately the fatal attraction series some people might know better as the comics with the holograms on the front and uncanny 304 had one of Magneto and It's where he comes back from the quote-unquote dead because he had supposedly been spoiler alert, but They thought he got blowed up real good Yeah back in when they launched the regular X-Men comic And they separated out to X-Men blue team and gold team Blue team went up to Was it asteroid and at that point I think it was yeah, it was asteroid and to fight Magneto because He thought he was like the See I have I forget exactly what his motivation was at that point. I think he had the acolytes as his His followers at that point So it was like Fabian Cortez and all these dudes that thought he was God or the god of all mutants or something like that and Then that like doubles down the fact that he served asteroid M crashes to earth and I might be getting this totally wrong by the way I think because on fatal attractions, that's when Exodus shows up and He's like the he's the guy that's like oh the acolytes failed him and they did but Yeah, that's when he shows up and they start kind of like a new army But yeah, it was cool it was really it really hooked me some major shit goes down in X-Men number 25 Involving Wolverine involving Magneto and it was after that. I was like oh my god. This is so Intense and just crazy over the top and the artwork was amazing and all that sort of stuff. So Naturally, I mean this game came out in 92 and I didn't really get into X-Men until like maybe the next year until like 93 94 I think that's when fatal attractions Happened but and then the cartoon started Yeah, so this still you know despite coming out in 92 this game stayed popular for years and years I mean, I would still go to This the state fair every year and every year they'd have that six-player X-Men arcade cab and There'd be a shitload of people there watching and it was always super fun. Oh There we go. That felt good right there Arguably What does that mean doesn't mean you can't move yourself? Look at his knees His knees look like eyes But yeah, the blob is so lame they had to give him like a mace Yeah, let's just use up all these To knock him down. I do plan on switching characters eventually I also like using Wolverine in this game. That's a pretty he's got a pretty good special attack I think Cyclops probably has the most powerful or at least one of the most powerful special attacks but yeah this should be probably I would guess about a 40-minute playthrough or something like that Pretty long for a beat-em-up really and Then of course there's the boss gauntlet at the end that you have to get through there's all sorts of other characters that get involved They need to look so happy there Alright now we're on Island M and I think Isn't this where like Sauron and those guys were supposed to be involved This is usually how far I would get as it when I played this as a kid and Cuz these dinosaur. Oh, I hate that these dinosaur dudes would Would really screw me up That's what one thing this game does really That makes it hilarious is that one enemies are prone on the ground You can still wail on them There's the the move set here. Isn't what like like right here. I hate your groin You hate your groin He Got him losing lives left and right here Those dinosaur dudes are so goofy looking. It's just like I don't know why I'm calling them dinosaur dudes I just I guess they're alligator dudes They're just they're wearing gloves they're wearing they're not just wearing gloves. They're wearing like Madonna material world Jessica rabbit gloves the hell. Hey, come on man. Oh my god damage loop Not anymore Wow, that was that's your classic cheap arcade damage loop where every time you even get up before you have the opportunity to press a button Nope the game says no. Oh Yeah, this this level has got some creepy enemies and some really good sprite animation here through some good artwork Ah, those guys are so cheap. Geez They jump from practically like All the way across the screen to get you But yeah, no, there's there's not a lot of Move set here. It's just you know grab a guy punch him in the head Kick him while he's down really the the main thing this game has going for it is The way it looks the way it sounds how fast paced it is The just the look of the game and the sound the music all that sort of stuff is what holds up extremely well In my opinion anyway If you're just playing one player like I am It might not be that fun, but this is easily one of the most fun multiplayer games ever just because The game moves along that much faster when you've got another player involved like you're able to eat the same amount of enemies come at you I'm pretty sure and That's it's a so so the you're just able to just eat through these guys so quickly That's one technique by the way if you ever want to increase the difficulty of a beat them up One thing you can do is start out playing multiplayer Or at least two player and then just have the second player die and Then just keep keep them dead and the computer will continue to act like there's two players And it'll send more enemies in some games. I know it does that in um I want to say it's turtles to the arcade game and I think Turtles in time does it but only the super famicom version which is kind of goofy But yeah, that's one thing you can do if you want to increase. Oh, here we go. Here's the famous line Well, thank you. That's very nice of you. I feel welcomed. It's nice to be welcomed to die Maybe he means the maybe maybe it's german And he and you know, he interrupted himself by the way, if you can't hear the Dialogue all that well or the or the certain sounds or the music um I'm not sure how to fix that and may him to be honest with you the sound just kind of Is what it is at this, you know at this point just trying to do my best over here See this is another kind of a lame villain in my opinion. I mean he makes for good, uh video game boss fodder When to go but um, he's not all that interesting as a character or anything like that Uh-oh I am out of quarters. I'm going to flip to uh, wolverine So he's him and magneto are probably my favorite characters overall. I know that's It's kind of a cliched answer Everybody loves wolverine and everybody loves Magneto those the two most interesting characters are the most interesting back stories Well, I'd say gambit's backstory is pretty dang cool, too With the thieves guild down and okay Wolverine's like all right I guess I go in here And now yeah, another thing this game kind of has going against it is that uh, You'll notice by now the enemies the enemy variety and the enemy patterns Aren't all that interesting. We just have color swaps For different stuff like oh now it's these gator guys, but now they're Kind of an off-white with a green tint to them instead of orange And then we've got uh iron man cosplaying sentinels And we got this guy again, this is this is a samus cosplay person Just walking around with a big ass gun The music in this stage is really cool That was the other thing about playing this in the arcade. Uh, it was always really tempting to watch this game anytime you went past it because It's a pretty long game and there's a lot of different levels and settings and there's all sorts of different characters Obviously there's six different characters um So if you if every time I walked by it looked it felt like I was doing something new Or seeing something new rather Um like whoa, I've never seen this part of the game before or Something like that. I've never seen that character's special move I swear I would just sit at the X-Men arcade cabinet for like 45 minutes or some and just ignore everything else So that's how much I love this game Wolverine's attack you'd think he'd shred these guys no problem with his claws, but I guess not that's fine That's fine And you think Wolverine's house would come back too Uh more of these guys Yeah, it would have been nice to see a little more enemy variety for sure Let's see. What else do I remember about X-Men? There's also, uh the cartoon and the cartoon theme song Which is uh right up there with ninja turtles as one of the greatest Theme songs for any cartoon ever. I've put duck tails up there too Ninja turtles Yeah, and the X-Men cartoon, which is uh if it hasn't happened yet somebody needs to like sample that Song or at least turn it into like a freaking Hip-hop song or something like that because it would be perfect God the freaking computer sends out like 20 guys at once This freaking thing is so hard to hit. It's not hard to hit. It's just annoying. Come on get over here What is this? You got an army of spiros? What the hell's going on? Yeah, the X-Men cartoon was another huge deal when I was a kid. Um, that was appointment viewing Uh never missed a week Although I did get I was one of those annoying kids, especially in grade school like in fifth and sixth grade I would get really annoyed if the cartoon didn't quote unquote properly follow the comics like the the stuff they did with uh The stuff they did with uh, I want to say it was um, uh, was it uh gene gray and and dark Dark phoenix and all that sort of stuff. I know they messed up cable story big time Um with all the time travel. They just did whatever they wanted with that They were just like let's go crazy with this Now here is a super sentinel or is this actually nimrod like I don't I don't even know Yes, its name was nimrod. Um, I'm not even sure what the heck uh I forget what this dude's proper name is Another annoying thing is that um, this game employs or yeah all sorts of different, uh Arcade tactics that are extremely cheap Like any time you use a special move it takes away life And not just one bar of life like you know how in final fight you If you do your uh double kick or your uh jump kick or whatever your spin kick Uh, it takes away just like a tiny fraction. Whoops. Sorry kitty. Didn't mean to blow you up there Hopefully you didn't get singed by that explosion my bad Boy, she looks like she dresses at marshals okay Pans over them. They have no reaction uh Ooh now we've got uh silver and green uh, michigan state spartan sentinels I guess All right, although I guess they're more uh white and green and more of these guys Again awesome looking background there with the storm Oh, shit. I did not I forgot that was a thing Oh these stupid things. Here's another damage loop to eat your quarters Oh god, come on That was ridiculous. I forgot about that Pits and the thing totally cheap. Oh well, at least I can uh Switch characters soon once I die Yeah, the music on this level is really good too I hate these things. They're so creepy They do some sort of like whimper And they only take three hits Wow, now this game is getting all g.i.jo. This is some cobra Bullshit here Oh, and she welcomes me to die too. I forgot about that. Thank you or welcome me to to german v Thank you Poor white queen. She can't even get a proper boss fight. All right, let's flip to storm I never see enough people play storm in this game. So Yeah, and her power is Also gigantic and rarely misses this target Yeah, white queen doesn't even get a proper boss fight Sad So where do I go from here? Do I go? Oh, I go down here. Okay Oh more arcade cheapness More enemies flying from off screen Absurd And he got you got to love storms outfit. Oh come on So cheap At least I was almost dead anyway. So whatever Storms outfit is very 70s 80s style and then they gave her a Kind of a I think it was when jim lee became Took over or was it mark silvestry that did? um Uncanny I can't remember when she was a leader of the gold team and they the way they kicked that story off was With bishop showing up from the future saying there's a traitor and all that sort of stuff and Yeah, and storm that's when they gave her the Silver costume the silver cat suit Ah, jeez. That was just bad luck Yeah, I still have those comics, but they're back home with my uh at my parents house and in minnesota So I as much as I would like to read them again Uh, I do not I I would have to lug them down here To albuquerque and I I don't imagine Doing that anytime soon. Whoops. I did not mean to do that So what do we got coming up here when we got more of these guys? Does he zap you? Nope. He just Has some dudes coming out of his mouth For a second. I thought it might be like, uh So should we continue on now? Let's do good old night crawler He's another really popular choice in this game because his Power is like a clear screen attack. I'm telling you if you play this game with colossus And night crawler as your two players you will Frickin beat this game in no time flat You'll still have to deal with all this stupid arcade Nonsense like enemies from off-screen appearing in less than a second than running you over and Unstoppable vehicles You still have cheap boss fights You still have all sorts of uh, yeah arcade cheapness Oh, that's the other thing. Yeah, you can actually hit enemies twice with your um Special attack with night crawler, which is I mean, why the heck does juggernaut have this giant cannon? He doesn't need it. He's he's the freaking juggernaut for god's sake He's got some nice boobs though. Look at those all right over there But wait, it's not professor x at all. It's actually And you fall and fall and you land on your feet just fine Actually night crawler would land on his feet just fine If that were anybody else that they'd get fucked up pretty bad. I guess storm would fly Uh Colossus colossus I he'd be able to take the damage I suppose Cyclops would be dead Wolverine would be fine dazzler would be dead Yeah, this the music change here really gives the impression that you're getting toward the end of the game when in fact I think there's There's at least one more level after this and then a boss gauntlet Yeah, don't want to fall here. Oh, wow that actually took those guys out sweet feels like Night crawler is almost too overpowered. I think I'm gonna switch to uh, let's do cyclops Yeah, if I were to pick my four Best yeah, see cyclops just makes shit go boom. It's awesome Um gotta love the heads rolling around after you. It's the little touches like that that really make this game something Like a real like visual treat Yeah, cyclops's power is absurd. It's awesome. Um His kicks look weak as hell though Oh, here's the first part of our uh boss revisit, but these guys are super weak And on with the show, um Oh now we got our pen state sentinels Just white and blue Um Oh, these guys are so annoying and then cyclops's regular attack is shitty as hell. Look at that kick. Come on Freaking jubilee has a stronger attack than that dude. She's a 15 year old girl Yeah, no, my my top four for this game would probably be Uh colossus night crawler cyclops just for just for his optic blast And I would say either storm or wolverine. I'm just not a big dazzler fan her uh Special move is pretty good, but Yeah, I don't know. I just was never big enough. Oh, yeah, that's right. These things come alive And are these fellows even from the comic? Or the cartoon or anything? Are they from something? I don't even know It's just like, oh, what do we do we come up with a boss? I mean these guys might as well be from something like metamorphic force or violent storm or something like that some other Arc come up Konami arcade beat them up I'm doing I'm I am doing pretty well with cyclops though Oh, and then guess what the middle one comes alive. How about that? Yikes, he can send your own attack back at you. Damn. See if he does that again. Nope All right, should I stick with cyclops? Ah, since I've been badmouthed in dazzler, let's uh, Give her um her time to shine here This is not what I meant by shine Yeah, her jump is kind of weird. I guess she's good at avoiding stuff It just seems like for whatever reason cyclops's attack range is so much Is not What it should be it's so it seems smaller than the rest of the characters Hey, professor X. Why don't you warn me about mess mystique you idiot? nice Oh the pixel art here is so good It's such a good representation of the comic And of course we can breathe on this asteroid. No problem. Why wouldn't we be able to? Yeah, we fight outside here and then we go inside. I think and then that's when the boss gauntlet resumes And they won't be nearly as easy as uh Poor pyro was who took like one hit Yes, and now we've upgraded to solid gold Uh sentinels. What are they made by sony? Is this a ps5 promotion or something? Each of these sentinels cost 500 bucks or how what are they charging for that ridiculous gold bullshit? I don't even know if anybody knows what i'm talking about. I saw something about a gold ps5 being made and it cost like $1,800 or something like that something stupid All right. Yeah, now we're working our way into our building Yeah, her jump attack is pretty interesting. It's it covers a lot of ground Yeah, let's just give them one of those Look out Look out Okay, you know what dazzlers winning me over here. I think I might pick her over cyclops But definitely not over colossus or nightcrawler Oh, not these guys These guys are pain They just Bash her on the head with a with their guns. Why don't you try shooting her? There's certain flaws in your attack strategy, sirs Maybe the maybe the glass is preventing them from seeing properly He's wasting ammo firing it in the air Well, I guess if you try and jump over him that might hit you eventually Well, that was kind of a waste but whatever God these guys are annoying and they're purposefully annoying to eat your quarters. God more of these dudes All right dazzler. Let's uh Go back to my favorite colossus Yeah, there we go. That's always so satisfying. Oh, and then we've got a blob fight anyway, so Uh, that was a quick death Blobs got a rack too. I mean geez. Oh, and we fight when to go at the same time Gah Take that Oh, yep, and then we got white queen. She's not a real level boss. She's a more of a mini boss, but she at least Gets her time to shine once again In the boss gauntlet. Yeah, let's roll with colossus again. We're doing one quarter at a time at this point I don't know how much money I've spent but uh Ah, wow, I didn't know you could do that for boss fights I got thrown into white queen and it knocked her over Yeah, I'm getting sick of this guy Oh god screw you guys Oh Yeah, look at that. He threw me into a juggernaut. That's awesome. I did not realize that was a thing See be cool if he took damage from the other guy blowing up. Oh no, professor x and his Brown corduroy pants and tweed blazer Oh, whoops, sorry to interrupt you magneto Or quote unquote magneto I was gonna see if you wanted to welcome me to die again What a nice guy welcoming people to to die Okay, so let's get this over with here. Let's just Let's pull off the mask and see who this really is. I'll give you one guess and let's also uh Let's do close our uh cyclops Just because I like that explosion that happens I mean, what is what exactly is being blown up here if it's just Oh, it's mystique Wake up old man Yeah No shit Sherlock Oh Oh Final boss time You gotta love that. How could you not love that this this boss fight the sounds there are just the cherry on top Well, that was quick He actually laughs and says you are dead now in in in the comics and in the cartoon Wolverine is always going to be having massive disadvantage Against magneto. Thankfully does that does not manifest itself at all in this arcade game But yeah magneto would absolutely twist and tear Wolverine to shreds Because you know adamantium skeleton magnetic That's so funny. That will never not be funny Let's go with storm I rarely see people play as storm at the end of the game You gotta live when bosses conveniently just stand there waiting to get hit. Yeah, let's just freaking Spam him with special attacks What there's no second form. Come on. I'm disappointed in the arcade lack of arcade cheapness in The uh at the final boss here Magneto has defeated x-men succeed to rescue professor and return to earth with the victory Up I couldn't uh note so the game is not over yet Yes, it is All it does is start you back at the beginning again Now i'm not going to play through this one again, but I will say uh the game does Once it still wants your corridors even after you beat it Which is pretty I guess I shouldn't be surprised So if anybody out there was counting I'd love to know how much money I actually spent Uh If you if you count one quarter for two lives So I spent a dollar $1.25 at the beginning with to get 10 lives for uh colossus at the beginning and then I gave wolverine 10 lives I spent probably around 10 bucks. I'm guessing You know what it's 10 bucks. Well, we're spent one of the best arcade beat-em-ups ever even if it is cheap and It dupes you into thinking there's more to this game and no you just start over Actually, I I never bothered playing through it two times in a row. So if there's more to this game the second time around Uh, please let me know because I get A little burnt out on this game after a certain amount of time because the enemy patterns just get so repetitive Uh, yeah, and it's a beat-em-up. You know beat-em-up shouldn't be longer than Exactly how long this one is which is like 30 some 30 some minutes, but uh, hey listen, I want to thank you for checking this video out Thank you for watching and I hope you have a great rest of your day. Cheers