This was released on Xbox live arcade on the Xbox 360 with options to play the 4 player, 6 player, english, and japanese versions as well. So it did eventually make it to consoles.
@@dmo848 it used to be released on 360/PS3 back then now it's been taken off the market due to licensing let along with a few more other games we enjoy playing smh
Yeah this thing was a behemoth back in the day! So fun to play on that huge arcade machine as a kid. Cool that it’s playable on one screen for MAME since I only ever saw the 2-screen setup.
Just imagine being 8 to 12 years old, and you walk into the arcade room and see this monstrous cabin for the first time it blew your mind away... game is awesome, one of the best next to tmnt
I will never forget playing the 6 player X-Men in the arcade at the mall attached to the food court as a kid. Epic. "WELCOME TO DIE!!" P.S. I love how the voice of Wolverine is Australian in the Pryde pilot, then Hugh Jackman ends up with the role. A bit of foreshadowing I'd say.
Also, in a long awaited clap back to this game, in Marvel Vs. Capcom 3/Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3, as you know, Magneto said, in the game in this video, "X-Men, welcome to die". However, if you put Deadpool against Magneto, one of the quotes that he says is, "Magneto, welcome to die". Now, the fact that this is obviously a long awaited response from Capcom to Konami about that game is patently obvious, but what makes it more humorous, as well as ironic, is that Deadpool was ALSO a member of the X-Men himself.
Man, I LOVED playing this game at Haunted Trails (Chicago suburbs)! This game, the Capcom arcade game The Punisher, and the Data East arcade game Captain America and the Avengers were all awesome!
Because they wrote the X-Men back then? Fair, but I was referring to the narration stye, that bombastic, over the top excited tone that was so characteristic of the older guys. @@emanueljackson1728
I have this on my Xbox 360, and from Arcade1up 3/4 scale home arcade cabnet. Always loved feeding this game quarters when I was a kid playing it in the arcades.
It's definitely on my bucket list to play through the entirety of the X-Men arcade game on a six-player machine with five of my friends. I've only had once opportunity to play the 4-player cab, and it was awesome, but it's been ages.
At Magfest, this game was in the arcade section. For some reason the volume was really loud, so when Colossus did his special, you could hear the roar throughout the hotel. There is a rule that you can’t do the roar because it could disturb the other hotel guests.
I fortunately bought the X-Men arcade game on Xbox 360 when it was available. And it's still installed on my 360. Fun game, still. The thing that I remember the most about the game in arcade was... the fact that in the 3rd stage Nightcrawler's "mutant power" would frequently get me killed due to the teleport spam stopping over a pit. That, and the voice lines. Such as Magneto saying "Welcome to DIE", and "I am Magneto, master of Magnet". Not that I ever got far enough personally to experience that, but I watched others do so.
This is why I love the new Handheld PC’s cause I’m able to play these games whenever I want. Cadillacs & Dinosaurs, Die Hard, The Simpsons, TMNT, X-Men Vs Streetfighter and many more games that I grew up playing 🤘🏾🔥
We had an arcade in my town and it was 5 floors up in a building downtown. As soon as you get to the top of the steps there was a glass double door and right when you walked in to the right was a 6 man X-Men cabinet. Sadly it closed in 2005 but the 10 years before that was awesome. That place had everything but the X-Men Arcade game was my favorite.
Konami blew their chance to give us a home console version of X-MEN (as well as The Simpsons) & made the ham-handed decision to hand off the rights to LJN/Acclaim. 😫
X-men arcade, Turtles in Time, The punisher with Nick Fury, The simpsons game, kids today will never know how much joy a pocketful of quarters can bring you.
@@Filthy_Larry didn't get a chance to play that one, but I do remember Ninja Gaiden in the arcade and that was a dream. Not to sound old but nothing beats a school field trip to a place that had an arcade, Go-Karts, and mini-golf in the nineties.
We had the 6-player version at our arcade and were friends with one of the managers, so we got unlimited plays whenever we wanted because they were making bank on SF2. The chaos of 6 players using their super simultaneously was so incredible. Top 5 arcade beat em up all time.
I remember walking into the arcade at laurel mall back in the day and this game was always in the front. Loudest game in the arcade. Line of people waiting to play. Miss those days
I remember playing this at South of the boarder in 91 when my family and I were driving back to Philly some south or North Carolina and nightcrawler was my go to. In Jan 2011 I brought it and Simpson for 10.00 each! So glad to have them in my ps3 and look back at my childhood! Thanks for this video !!!
Definitely one if the most fun and greatest arcade beat em ups Top Hat ...i never beat it in the Arcades when i was young but always enjoyed playing it at my local pizza hut 😆..beat it once it came to home consoles years later as an adult
@@zombieboyfiend Absolutely! TMNT and Streets of Rage 4 are fantastic! Already imagining the extended roster being unlockables, maybe the bad guys being DLC
The Nintendo Entertainment System version of the Uncanny X-Men was a major disappointment to me as a child because i wanted the Arcade version at home so bad 😢😢.
The other magical thing about this era was $5 and your parents dropping you off could give you hours of entertainment. Nowadays $5 can't even get you lunch at a cheap fast food restaurant.
Actually, this game DID receive home ports, twice, actually. I think that it was a PSN and Xbox Live release for the PS3 and Xbox 360, albeit with some alterations. The PSN release was worldwide on December 14, 2010, and the Xbox Live release was on December 15, 2010.
The bowling alley near my house had this game when I was a kid. I remember everyone always fighting over the characters they wanted. I was the youngest so.I always got stuck with Dazzler. Her attack was OP tho so joke was on them.
I would lead a team with cyclops. We would talk like we were x men. When it was time, I’d tell the team to back up as I’m about to beam Blob. Soon as he’s down, I order colossus to punch him. Soon as blob stands up again, I tell Wolverine to unleash. Then we all give out mutant powers and fk shyt up.
I was unfortunate that I didn't really have an arcade near by as a kid. I do remember a X-Men game on the Megadrive/Genesis. It was a platform/beat em up. Was hard but I enjoyed it.
I remember seeing this six player arcade cabinet at Canada's Wonderland Arcade!! OMG it was the best,,... Killer instinct and mortal kombat right near it :) - mmmmm
Best arcade games were X-Men, Captain America and the Avengers, the Simpson’s and TNMNT. All of those games used to have lines with people waiting to play.
These used to be all over the place in California. I remember the tvs we're not always lines up perfectly or had the same colors over time lol this was annoying when walking across the screens or being half way in one screen and the other. I did not know x men and I remember I could just never get into it. I played it rarely. I also remember no one ever wanted to be the silver guy, he was always available lol everyone wanted to be Wolverine, nightcrawler, cyclops.
I was always a huge cyclops fan as a kid and he was always available as kids wanted to be colossus, wolverine, storm and nightcrawler....nobody ever wanted dazzler
I remember hearing stories and on one awesome field trip I got the chance to play this gem everyone didn’t give a damn about the game but I cared a lot actually and downed all of my tokens and had the time of my life playing solo ^^
Hey, Top Hat Gaming Man. You should definitely do a video on Battle Circuit. It was Capcom's last beat 'em up they released for the arcade and its only came out in Japan and Europe in 1997. Too bad it didn't get a release on any video game console until the release of Capcom Beat 'Em Up Bundle in 2018 on modern consoles (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC and Nintendo Switch) for the first time. Would you mind doing a video on said game?
I wrote a letter to Konami asking them to port it to the 16-Bit systems and they replied by telling me they didn't have the X-Men license to port to the home consoles.
The real reason there was never a home version of the Konami X-Men game was it's 6 player and two screen version couldn't actually be put on the home councles.
Walking into the arcade and hearing collosus roar over all of the other cabinets. Those were the days man.
I’m playing storm so I’m not standing next to colossus
Yes sir this proves that you were there lol 😆 colossus no joke loudest thing ever in the arcades.
RAAAAAHHHHH!!!!
Missing juggernaut twice with nightcrawlers power cuz ur zooming around randomly and he's running
Lol or thinking ur about to clear the field only for nightcrawler to hit 2 sentinels...
5 iconic X-Men, and Dazzler.
Instead of Phoenix, Rogue and Shadowcat… They gave us friggin' Dazzler…
😑 -> 😒 -> 🙄
Her power wasn't too shabby, though.
The version we had at our local arcade had storm instead of dazzler
This was released on Xbox live arcade on the Xbox 360 with options to play the 4 player, 6 player, english, and japanese versions as well. So it did eventually make it to consoles.
Is it available on the Series S/X?
@@IrishKyokushin I have no idea, since the 360 was the last Xbox console I've had, but I doubt it. Liscensing and whatnot.
I owned it, and enjoyed the port for many years. Unfortunately, it’s been delisted, so I can’t even access the game I paid for 😢
I had fun getting those Trophies. 👍
@@powerfilter777 At least there's still emulation.
This is definitely one of my all-time favorite beat-em-up arcade games
So hard to find. Still too this day, I don't think I've emulated it. Like what system even runs it. 🤷
@@dmo848 it used to be released on 360/PS3 back then now it's been taken off the market due to licensing let along with a few more other games we enjoy playing smh
Yeah this thing was a behemoth back in the day! So fun to play on that huge arcade machine as a kid. Cool that it’s playable on one screen for MAME since I only ever saw the 2-screen setup.
I think that was the Deluxe Cabinet that had 6 player setup.
Just imagine being 8 to 12 years old, and you walk into the arcade room and see this monstrous cabin for the first time it blew your mind away... game is awesome, one of the best next to tmnt
Took my weekly allowance every time
I will never forget playing the 6 player X-Men in the arcade at the mall attached to the food court as a kid. Epic. "WELCOME TO DIE!!"
P.S. I love how the voice of Wolverine is Australian in the Pryde pilot, then Hugh Jackman ends up with the role. A bit of foreshadowing I'd say.
Also, in a long awaited clap back to this game, in Marvel Vs. Capcom 3/Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3, as you know, Magneto said, in the game in this video, "X-Men, welcome to die". However, if you put Deadpool against Magneto, one of the quotes that he says is, "Magneto, welcome to die". Now, the fact that this is obviously a long awaited response from Capcom to Konami about that game is patently obvious, but what makes it more humorous, as well as ironic, is that Deadpool was ALSO a member of the X-Men himself.
11:52 - the attention to detial with Nightcrawler teleporting safety after the fall is a nice touch
"A succulent Chinese meal"
😂😂 Great work Top Hat. I'm sure that reference was missed by a lot of viewers here.
Man, I LOVED playing this game at Haunted Trails (Chicago suburbs)! This game, the Capcom arcade game The Punisher, and the Data East arcade game Captain America and the Avengers were all awesome!
That little detail when they were falling when night crawler telephoned to avoid hitting the ground is everything.
Lee and Kirby would have been proud to hear your narration of this old school gem. Well done.
I'm sure Claremont and Byrne would have been even more proud
Because they wrote the X-Men back then? Fair, but I was referring to the narration stye, that bombastic, over the top excited tone that was so characteristic of the older guys. @@emanueljackson1728
I have this on my Xbox 360, and from Arcade1up 3/4 scale home arcade cabnet. Always loved feeding this game quarters when I was a kid playing it in the arcades.
*presses Colossus' mutant power button
RAWWWRRRR
This is by far the most detailed description of a side scrolling beatem up. Well done
Used to love playing this game which was a 6 player 2 Screen Cabinet at the Tilt! Arcade in Saint Louis MO back in the 90s and early 00s
Man, I played it at the Tilt, too. I was hyped when I went through and saw it there, I was like "wuuuuut?" lol.
I'm so glad my arcade has the X-men arcade game
It's definitely on my bucket list to play through the entirety of the X-Men arcade game on a six-player machine with five of my friends. I've only had once opportunity to play the 4-player cab, and it was awesome, but it's been ages.
Arcade 1UP seriously helps the nostalgia of my Childhood.
As a 13 year old boy I actually wrote Konami begging them to release this game for the SNES. The actually wrote me back saying they weren’t going to .
Used to play this on the way out of Super K Mart with my brother lol. I got it on my snes mini too.
One of my all-time favorite arcade games! 😁
Also, I believe that the Arcade 1UP comes with the Avengers arcade game.
Huge fan of the X-Men and Beat 'Em Ups so this is heaven sent. Now I'm going to cover one of their themes immediately. It looks so fun
You knew you were in a real arcade if this was on the floor!👌
This Xmen, TMNT turtle in time, and The Simpson was godlike back then in arcade
This was on the apple app store a long time ago
At Magfest, this game was in the arcade section. For some reason the volume was really loud, so when Colossus did his special, you could hear the roar throughout the hotel. There is a rule that you can’t do the roar because it could disturb the other hotel guests.
Even when it was originally in the arcades it was like that. You could always hear it at the other side of the arcade.
Me and my Uncle spent so many quarters on this game at Myrtle Beach when I was a kid. Great memories.
If only they done a game just like this but set in the AOA universe :), thank you dude, keep up the good work yeah :)
i remember as a youngster expecting xmen the arcade and the simpsons arcade games to get home ported to the super nintendo but never did
I fortunately bought the X-Men arcade game on Xbox 360 when it was available. And it's still installed on my 360. Fun game, still. The thing that I remember the most about the game in arcade was... the fact that in the 3rd stage Nightcrawler's "mutant power" would frequently get me killed due to the teleport spam stopping over a pit. That, and the voice lines. Such as Magneto saying "Welcome to DIE", and "I am Magneto, master of Magnet". Not that I ever got far enough personally to experience that, but I watched others do so.
YES! This TMNT and the Simpsons game ruled the arcade back in the day.
I have this game on my PS3 (that Simpsons Arcade, Scott Pilgrim, and TMNT: TiT Reshelled) and it's one of the few reasons I still play my PS3.
This is a true classic!!! I love this game!!! The Avengers game on console was pretty good too!!!🔥🔥
This is why I love the new Handheld PC’s cause I’m able to play these games whenever I want. Cadillacs & Dinosaurs, Die Hard, The Simpsons, TMNT, X-Men Vs Streetfighter and many more games that I grew up playing 🤘🏾🔥
We had an arcade in my town and it was 5 floors up in a building downtown. As soon as you get to the top of the steps there was a glass double door and right when you walked in to the right was a 6 man X-Men cabinet. Sadly it closed in 2005 but the 10 years before that was awesome. That place had everything but the X-Men Arcade game was my favorite.
As a child i played xmen on the nes on an 8 inch black and white TV with a really fuzzy signal. Still better than most gaming now.
It sucks we had to wait for the 360 to get the arcade X Men game at home but I am glad we got the 2 Genesis games
We?, i played xmen arcade on a modded og Xbox😂
Konami blew their chance to give us a home console version of X-MEN (as well as The Simpsons) & made the ham-handed decision to hand off the rights to LJN/Acclaim. 😫
It would’ve probably happened if X-MEN and The Simpsons kept their Konami licenses in the 2000s like how TMNT did.
Hearing collosus yell AHHHHH as i walked into chuckie cheese was the highlight of my day. Take my tokens
X-men arcade, Turtles in Time, The punisher with Nick Fury, The simpsons game, kids today will never know how much joy a pocketful of quarters can bring you.
You forgot ALIENS with Ridley and Hicks.
@@Filthy_Larry didn't get a chance to play that one, but I do remember Ninja Gaiden in the arcade and that was a dream. Not to sound old but nothing beats a school field trip to a place that had an arcade, Go-Karts, and mini-golf in the nineties.
Succulent Chinese meal 😂 impressive deep cut
When I was little you couldn't tell me Colossus mugant power wasn't spontaneous combustion. I loved this game
I have very fond memories of playing this with my bro whenever we went anywhere with arcades.
We had the 6-player version at our arcade and were friends with one of the managers, so we got unlimited plays whenever we wanted because they were making bank on SF2. The chaos of 6 players using their super simultaneously was so incredible. Top 5 arcade beat em up all time.
I remember walking into the arcade at laurel mall back in the day and this game was always in the front. Loudest game in the arcade. Line of people waiting to play. Miss those days
It took $5 dollars for me to beat it as a kid. Which seemed like a lot to my young mind. But I felt so good leaving the arcade that day.
I remember playing this at South of the boarder in 91 when my family and I were driving back to Philly some south or North Carolina and nightcrawler was my go to. In Jan 2011 I brought it and Simpson for 10.00 each! So glad to have them in my ps3 and look back at my childhood! Thanks for this video !!!
this game was released on xbox live for xbox 360 and i played it as a kid at arcades, absoultely LOVE this game
I am of certain years and I miss the arcades dearly.
Definitely one if the most fun and greatest arcade beat em ups Top Hat ...i never beat it in the Arcades when i was young but always enjoyed playing it at my local pizza hut 😆..beat it once it came to home consoles years later as an adult
I always played Nightcrawler as i loved his zipping around special move.
Im glad i got it downloaded on my ps3. Just did a 6 player paythrough a few months back. Love this game.
I still have this on my Xbox 360. I pop it out and play with my kids once in a while.
I remember this machine always had a long line back in the day.
This brings back memories! Would love to see Dotemu do a version of this game
I was thinking the very same thing. They definitely did the TMNT justice and I bet they could do the same for the X-Men (with a bigger roster).
@@zombieboyfiend Absolutely! TMNT and Streets of Rage 4 are fantastic! Already imagining the extended roster being unlockables, maybe the bad guys being DLC
Do the X-Men: Legends, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, and LEGO Marvel Super Heroes video games not fill that void?
@@paxhumana2015 Nope!
The Nintendo Entertainment System version of the Uncanny X-Men was a major disappointment to me as a child because i wanted the Arcade version at home so bad 😢😢.
Uncanny X-Men was released before X-Men Arcade…
… and it wasn’t a good start…
I miss Muppet babies! And Crime fighters is a underrated arcade Gem 💎
The 80s, 90s cartoons were all like candy.
Best episode yet!
The other magical thing about this era was $5 and your parents dropping you off could give you hours of entertainment. Nowadays $5 can't even get you lunch at a cheap fast food restaurant.
Un tremendo señor clásico de clásicos este Game 🤩🤗😎!!!!!!
Top Hat Gaming Man welcome! To Entertain!
I'm so sad I missed when this game came out in 2010 I had no idea😢 I love this game as an arcade
Magneto was the king of trash talk.
"Magnets!!" - Magneto
Actually, this game DID receive home ports, twice, actually. I think that it was a PSN and Xbox Live release for the PS3 and Xbox 360, albeit with some alterations. The PSN release was worldwide on December 14, 2010, and the Xbox Live release was on December 15, 2010.
"Alas, that was Mystique, not Magneto. Magneto is in another place. *GO!* "
The bowling alley near my house had this game when I was a kid. I remember everyone always fighting over the characters they wanted. I was the youngest so.I always got stuck with Dazzler. Her attack was OP tho so joke was on them.
I would lead a team with cyclops. We would talk like we were x men. When it was time, I’d tell the team to back up as I’m about to beam Blob. Soon as he’s down, I order colossus to punch him. Soon as blob stands up again, I tell Wolverine to unleash. Then we all give out mutant powers and fk shyt up.
Those were the days man. Online gaming just isn't the same.
Konami made some strange decisions
In the comics, The Dinobots get their alt modes from The Savage Land
I was unfortunate that I didn't really have an arcade near by as a kid. I do remember a X-Men game on the Megadrive/Genesis. It was a platform/beat em up. Was hard but I enjoyed it.
Master of magnetism? You mean MASTER OF MAGNET!!!
Miss those days
Man! I played this in Chuck E. Cheeses almost every time lol
My cousin have the Arcade version at his house!
It may have underground caves, but it never had the - almost mandatory - 'sewer level'
I remember seeing this six player arcade cabinet at Canada's Wonderland Arcade!! OMG it was the best,,... Killer instinct and mortal kombat right near it :) - mmmmm
6:40 No.. the MASTER... OF MAGNET!
Nice video game steam
every arcade i went into always had the 4 player version
Best arcade games were X-Men, Captain America and the Avengers, the Simpson’s and TNMNT. All of those games used to have lines with people waiting to play.
HEY!!! I still have this on my PS3!
These used to be all over the place in California. I remember the tvs we're not always lines up perfectly or had the same colors over time lol this was annoying when walking across the screens or being half way in one screen and the other. I did not know x men and I remember I could just never get into it. I played it rarely. I also remember no one ever wanted to be the silver guy, he was always available lol everyone wanted to be Wolverine, nightcrawler, cyclops.
This actually came on the PS3 online, along with The Simpsons arcade game!
lol was j7st playing this yesterday, still fun to play
I was always a huge cyclops fan as a kid and he was always available as kids wanted to be colossus, wolverine, storm and nightcrawler....nobody ever wanted dazzler
I remember hearing stories and on one awesome field trip I got the chance to play this gem everyone didn’t give a damn about the game but I cared a lot actually and downed all of my tokens and had the time of my life playing solo ^^
Hey, Top Hat Gaming Man. You should definitely do a video on Battle Circuit. It was Capcom's last beat 'em up they released for the arcade and its only came out in Japan and Europe in 1997. Too bad it didn't get a release on any video game console until the release of Capcom Beat 'Em Up Bundle in 2018 on modern consoles (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC and Nintendo Switch) for the first time. Would you mind doing a video on said game?
It was on the Xbox arcade back in the 360 days.
This game was so fun.
Thank you Margret! LOL
I still have this game on my ps3
I stay play this on my 360, $2.99 Xbox Black Friday sale years ago.
Too effing bad it wasn't released on SNES and Genesis back then!
I wrote a letter to Konami asking them to port it to the 16-Bit systems and they replied by telling me they didn't have the X-Men license to port to the home consoles.
I wish they would give this the shredders revenge revamp. I’d pay good money
This game no joke, would have made serious bank if they ported this game on the PS1 back in the 90s. having marvel and Konami split the roytalies.
Was there an official reason given as to why the game wasn't released from home gaming systems?
i bet it was about licensing
Played this all the time on Xbox Live
I think I have this in my PS3… need a cabinet!
The real reason there was never a home version of the Konami X-Men game was it's 6 player and two screen version couldn't actually be put on the home councles.