Throwback Thursday: X-Men games!

Alright, lets just pretend I posted this thursday like I wanted to instead of saturday morning. X-Men have had a pretty interesting past on both consoles and in arcades. Going back so far to the NES X-Men Game isn't such a good idea, and everyone knows about Legends, so I'll try to show off some of the good stuff in between. Arcade's Revenge was a somewhat terrible game from Acclaim (surprised?) released on the SNES, and mostly starred Spider-Man anyway. Mutant Apocalypse was released by Capcom and as you can probably guess, it was a LOT better. Capcom would go on to release some of the best known and loved X-Men titles, including the arcade game Children Of The Atom (pictured to the left). Sega wasn't out of the running on the X-Men fun. They developed 2 games exclusively for the Genesis. The first called simply X-Men I'm kinda low on info. I never played it, and the inter-net doesn't seem to have any good dedicated page about it. X-Men 2: Clone Wars was for whatever reason better remembered, and one I managed to rent once. Back then pretty much ALL video games were platform/action adventure games, and this was a pretty standard one. One game that seriously stands out above all of these was Konami's 6 Player X-Men Arcade Machine. This is to date probably the biggest game cabinet I've ever seen that didn't involve a light gun or steering wheel. Konami made some great 4 player brawlers with TMNT and The Simpsons, but they obviously knew they wanted to go better than before. 2 Monitors side by side gave many players widescreen gaming well ahead of Microsoft's HD Era, and players got to mash attack and mutant power buttons through a hundred billion zillion sentinels and gladly stuffed more quarters in when they lost their lives. As a lad, I attended Wizard World in Philadelphia one year and was treated to a free play machine at the marvel both where myself and a rotating cast of comic geeks pounded through the entire game. "Welcome To Die!"