 A few months ago I did a video on the colossally disappointing Alien vs. Predator game for Super Nintendo, a game where you play as the ultimate badass for all time, the Predator, and shoot lasers that sound like this. Man, I don't want to think of this when I think of Alien vs. Predator, I'd rather think of something like this. Yeah, that's more like it, so let's do a quick video on the Alien vs. Predator arcade game made by Capcom, just for the hell of it. As you can clearly see from the footage here, this is a pretty simple game, just kill anything that moves, but what carries Alien vs. Predator is the sheer spectacle of it all. There's a gazillion enemies on screen, you can annihilate them in any manner of ways, and the game is compatible for up to three players. There's a total of four playable characters here, the Predator Warrior, the most balanced of the four, the Predator Hunter, who's a little more agile, but takes damage easier, Lieutenant Lin Kurosawa, a human cyborg who's the fastest of the four and uses weapons like a handgun and a katana, and Dutch. Yeah, that's right, the guy Arnold plays in Predator. Okay, it's a little bit of a bummer that it's not actually Arnold, but still, he plays a little bit like Hagar in Final Fight, just a big, slow, strong dude with really powerful attacks and a mechanical arm with a gun mounted on it, so yeah, they may dutch a cyborg for some reason. That or he's really into Mega Man cosplay. Each character also gets their own power-ups that enemies or barrels drop here and there. For the two Predators, it's their shoulder-mounted energy weapons, normally you can only shoot two of these before allowing the mechanism to cool down, but power-ups enable a 10 second timer, so you can go nuts shooting anything that moves as fast as you can, I mean, just look at the carnage here. The Predators, as well as Lin, can also drop their melee weapons if they take too much damage, making you vulnerable for a bit, but what's cool here is that anyone can pick up anyone else's weapon and use it as a temporary projectile, so it can help you in a pinch, but its original owner can still claim it back. Dutch may not have his own melee weapon, other than his cybernetic arm, but he can still use someone else's, which is pretty cool. All four characters are great and well balanced, but come on, let's face it, who doesn't want to be the Predator and make stuff go boom? There's seven levels here, and the last one is a doozy, getting more and more difficult and completely crazy the further you progress, until your final showdown with the Alien Queen. There's also interesting bosses along the way like the Mad Predator, who provides some cool visual effects, while also being really tricky to fight. Now obviously this game's biggest strengths are its visual sound and the speed of the gameplay, it's a simple game that's just extremely well done, but another aspect that gets right is the pacing. The levels are never too long, the boss fights are never too much of a slog, the settings are varied and the structure here is strong. Certain enemies also drop weapons here and there that you can use for a limited amount of time, so that's cool. There's a story here too, but the problem is that even pressing a direction on the joystick or the d-pad will skip the dialogue section, so I never really got a clear sense of what was going on. I mean, not that that matters, I don't know anyone who plays a beat em up for the story. Come on, this is Alien vs Predator, how much story do you need? Also I want to mention real quick that in order to switch your ROM from two players to three players, you just go into the service menu by pressing F2, then go to configuration and system, and flip it to three players. So yeah, this is just a quick video about one of, if not the best beat em up of all time, Alien vs Predator. Not only is this game absolutely insane wall to wall action, but it also includes some laugh out loud moments you only find in beat em up games, like the Predator eating a salad. Just imagining that visual is hilarious. Probably it would have been impossible to replicate this kind of craziness on the Super Nintendo at the time it came out, but I find it incredible that this game still has not been made available on any home console since then. I mean, come on, what is the hold up? Get this game on PS4 or Xbox or some kind of compilation somewhere, anywhere. As it is, you can play this one on the MAME emulator, which can be kind of clunky and tricky to operate properly, but hey, it's better than nothing. Alien vs Predator is always my easy go to answer for the question, if you could own any arcade cabinet, which would you pick? I would definitely pick this one. So if you somehow haven't played Alien vs Predator, Go! Now! Do it! Get to the chopper!