6:24 Jon St. John as captain america paints a really funny image in my head. "I'm here to kick ass and fight for France. And this A doesn't stand for France."
For the edification of the community, this is an adaptation of a comic book crossover event from 1992 where the Avengers intervene in a war between the Kree and the Shi'ar Empire. That's where the name comes from and why these specific characters, including a bunch that most people have never heard of, are featured. Operation Galactic Storm was a direct reference to Operation Desert Storm, IE the United States' first war in Iraq. The weird thing is that the comic book event was not a huge hit critically or commercially and this game was released years after it ended. Makes you wonder what happened?
@@dreamlandnightmare Possibly, but my suspicion is they got the license when the event came out and then had development problems. Edited to add: A quick glance at the wiki page reminded me that Data East had Avengers games rights prior to this game. They made the decent beat em up Captain America and the Avengers in 1991. The Operation Galactic Storm comic book event happened in 1992. I even more strongly suspect that this game was intended to come out around the time of the comic event to help promote it, but due to production issues and the game being kind of terrible it was repeatedly delayed and is probably why Marvel started working with Capcom instead. This game eventually came out the same year as Marvel Superheroes by Capcom.
If anything, it does kinda make me long for the days when comic book companies commissioned for games to be made based off of comic book events and not the hot new thing on TV or movies
I was wondering why most of the villain cast were Kree. Galen-korr, Minn-erva, Korr-lath, Ronin The Accuser, Shatterax (Roco-Bai), and what I'm guessing is the Supreme Intelligence? That's almost all Kree for the villains. Haven't read the book but I'm guessing we were siding with the Shi'iar?
@@PJMegaw It's been forever since I read it, I think it was more that the Avengers were trying to stop the war because they were concerned the Earth might get caught in the crossfire. That led them to conflict with both Kree and Shi'ar forces. I don't know why the game doesn't seem to have any Shi'ar characters, possibly they intended to include members of the Imperial Guard and they got scrapped due to the production issues? Looking at the wiki the playable Avengers featured in the game were all on the team that was dispatched to try to negotiate with the Kree, except Thunderstrike who I don't think appeared in the comic story at all (well he did, but he was Thor at the time, not Thunderstrike).Maybe that's why they are fighting the Kree and no Sh'iar characters. Ultimately the story ends with the Shi'ar detonating a super weapon that devastates the entire Kree Empire and the Avengers learning that the whole war, including the genocidal acts of the Shi'ar had been instigated by the Supreme Intelligence who was trying to retake control of the Kree. The Avengers have a significant falling out with a contingent led by Iron Man deciding that the Supreme Intelligence should be executed for war crimes and a contingent led by Captain America opposing this course of action. Iron Man and his crew defy a vote by all the Avengers involved in the story to not execute the Supreme Intelligence and seemingly kill him anyways. Leading to a rift between Captain America and Iron Man. The Shi'ar end up annexing the remnants of the Kree Empire and the Avengers end up taking the blame among the surviving Kree for the whole affair.
@@GoldMetalSonic How was that NOT a SpongeBob character, and Giant Man's hand? Giant Man may as well be a SpongeBob character at this point, if he's THAT gigantic. He could almost match Galactus. How would Ant-Man's hand look if it were in the game? Since he can both increase AND decrease size at will, (with his suit) I wonder... or even, how it would've looked if it were Iron Man's hand instead?
Who would've guessed that Lani Minella would go from voicing Crystal and Dr. Minerva in this game to being the voice of Rouge the Bat, Omochao, Luke (from the Professor Layton games), half of the Koopa Kids (Larry, Lemmy, Morton, and Wendy), Bubsy, and many others!
@@psirensongs Thank you. I was almost afraid that me referencing Rerez would get lost in translation, or something...I did love the Hyperscan episode. I mean, I'm a huge fan of the Ben 10: Alien Force series,(and Yuri Lowenthal, as a voice actor, dude's just awesome) and the X-Men, and I never knew or heard of the Hyperscan, and just thought it was a made up console you see in people playing in the background of movies or cartoons, or games, or one you hear about being advertised, but then you never see it, or sounds like a parody of what an actual console would be like, but it turns out, the makers had no idea what they were doing, and were just trying to scam the people out of their money, and should've been called the "HyperScam"!
Oh yeah, this game is based on a comics saga that was ongoing when this game came out. Basically the Kree and Shi'ar are at it and the Avengers decide to interfere because their little war is messing up with earth. Spoiler: things don't end well.
I honestly do really enjoy the main theme of the game, Funk For Avengers. Data East's Gamadelic team didn't skimp out on that at least. Beyond that, yeah this game is a complete train wreck in the *best* possible way.
I actually had to look it up - Supremor is an android body controlled by the Kree Supreme Intelligence. And yes, it was called that in the comics before this game was even a thing.
@@PapaJoJ Eh, you're right. But when your favorite Marvel Super Hero is either Spider-Man or Wolverine, and you have no other options, you just gotta play something like "Marvel Super Heroes: Slight Disagreements Amongst Friends Because of Shiny Gemstones". But yeah, MVC is definitely better, and truly where it began. But then again, I started with "MVC2: New Age of Heroes", because I saw Wolverine and Spider-Man, about fight Ryu, from SF, and Mega Man, and while I didn't know who Ryu or Mega Man were back then, I knew they looked cool, and if someone like Captain America could trust Ryu, and Cyclops could shake hands with him and make HIMSELF look somewhat cool, they'd done their jobs right. Plus, that's when I was just getting into both the '94 X-Men cartoon, and the Spider-Man cartoon, which is why they're my favorite superheroes, and why Wolverine is the BEST one, but don't forget about Gambit or Havoc either...
I always liked Thunderstrike, but I.. do understand why one likely would not. Hehe. Edit: Elaboration! What I remember, Thor was out of commission for a time, and Eric Masterson was chosen to take his place in the meantime. So for a while he was formally Thor, but of course Odinson came back and he got demoted to min-Thor as Thunderstrike. They were nice enough to forge him his own hammer and all and let him keep heroing.
Is that in the Earth-616 continuity? Asking because they did something similar in A-Next under the MC2 imprint a.k.a. the Marvel subline that was created because Spider-Girl (who debuted in an issue of What If?) was popular enough to get her own book.
@@KamisamanoOtaku Wow, that sucks, for both Thunderstrike AND his son...sorry to hear, died in-game, replaced by his son, only to be used for a limited issue comic series, then NEVER used him prominently again? So he was just like, Thor's disgraced 3rd brother or nephew or cousin or some crap? That I bet barely ANYONE had ever heard of? Geez. He may as well be the 3rd brother of the Odinson family...but maybe there was more to him than we thought? We'll probably never know. He also sounds like a rejected side character from MVCI.
@@shawnfields2369 Pardon me if it was explained in the video, but there's more to the original Eric Masterson (original Thunderstrike). I looked it up for myself, though some of this I was around for and reading: At first, Eric Masterson was a supporting character in the _Thor_ comic (Thor #391, May 1998). Starting with issue #408, Eric _merged_ with Thor, serving as his civilian identity. Eventually, as of issue #432 classic Thor was separated from Eric but Eric kept the Thor powers and filled in as Thor on Earth. Classic Thor wouldn't return until issue #459. *After all that,* while Thor reclaimed his role as Thor, then Eric Masterson was given his own hammer (this wasn't the first time a new, Mjolnir-like weapon was created) and that is when Eric became Thunderstrike, with his own self-titled comic. Unfortunately, _Thunderstrike_ (the comic) only lasted about 2 years, and ended with Eric doing the heroic-sacrifice-thing. Eric had the option of Valhalla, but chose to go to whatever the Marvel Comics ultimate "afterlife" is. Where he remained until a few years later when the supervillain "Grim Reaper" revived him (as well as some other then dead Avengers) for some plot. Eric was returned to the afterlife after this event, merely asking Thor to look in on Eric's son, Kevin. Years later, Steve Rogers gives Thunderstrike (the Mjolnir-like mace) to Kevin. Kevin cannot use it to transform at first, but eventually does to save someone's life. I guess it is implied he's actually in his father's old Thunderstrike body while transformed? O_O From what I can tell, I think Kevin is still Thunderstrike, just not being used in any titles. *In addition,* I'll mention the MC2 Thunderstrike, who came _after_ the original Thunderstrike but _before_ the current Thunderstrike. Given that the MC2 version *predates* the current Kevin Masterson Thunderstrike, he may have inspired him. *How?* Well, the MC2 version is _also_ Kevin Masterson, who _also_ received the Thunderstrike Mace as a young man. I think he even _also_ was unable to use it to transform *except* instead of eventually unlocking the power, Kevin actually _absorbed_ the Thunderstrike Mace's powers into himself directly.
Oddly enough if I'd have played this game in the 90s I wouldn't know any of the bad guys. I only know them in the 00s after reading the actual story this game takes place in, operation galactic storm. I found out about this game like 2008 somewhere.
Personally, I find this game really ....odd. The presentation, the weird picks in the character roster , the music , the involvement of Data east ..... the whole thing is just a really strange , ' one and done' kind of thing . I appreciate it though.
I must be one of the few people with fond memories of this game. Back when I was in high school, a local laundromat had this game, and every so often after school, I’d play it. Being that I was a big fan of Marvel and the Avengers comics in particular, I had a decent awareness of the Kree characters being presented in the game, especially Dr. Minerva and Att-Las. (I had one of their first appearances in an issue of Quasar.) Also, looking up Galen-Kor, he’s a bit of a badass; he’s an admiral for the Kree army who played a huge part in the Galactic Storm war against the Shi’ar Empire. As for Thunderstrike, he was Eric Masterson, who was given the power to transform into Thor for a good while, until Thor was resurrected (a LONG story I’m not going to get into over here). As a reward for his dedication to carrying the mantle, he was given a hammer of his own, as well as his own powers over thunder and lightning. So we had Thor, Thunderstrike, and Beta Ray Bill (a story for another day).
Crazy how Iron Man is merely an assist character when he was a selectable character in the Captain America & The Avengers arcade game (also by Data East). I guess they weren't that big of a deal back then, so who would care outside of the ultra nerds (like me).
Iron Man's popularity in the 90s was... weird. Even though he had a cartoon that lasted 2 Seasons, sometimes he was a big deal and sometimes he was a mind controlled villain that was killes and replaced by his teenage self who was pulles from the past and I've gone cross-eyed.😅
@@KamisamanoOtakuYeah Iron Man before the movie was that one superhero that wasn't mainstream but was well known enough so any people would be like "oh heah the guy with the armor" ironically Cap was way more popular in spite of only having cameos on the marvel cartoons
@@KamisamanoOtaku Yeah things were weird with ironman in the 90s. He had a cartoon, he apperared in numerous games like MSH by capcom and a crossover in ironman/xo which was strange in itself. Like he was popular to comic nerds at least even if he wasn't mainstream yet. Him being tied to an assist would've made me angry as a kid.
@@Raytheman581 I don't get WHY an awesome character like Iron Man wasn't super popular back then, but how was he a mind controlled villain at times, or killed for awhile only to be "replaced" by a teenage version of himself pulled from the past? Did I get that right? Geez, before the Iron Man movies, did anybody treat Iron Man like he was worthy of being an Avenger, or before RDJ's portrayal of Tony Stark, was he just the guy with an awesome moveset in MVC2; New Age of Heroes, who shot a MASSIVE cannon out of nowhere, and nearly disintegrates you with it, and was also Marvel's answer to Batman, but slightly more cocky and just a smidge more arrogant, but likeable, and also, awesome? Because it's hard to tell.
@@shawnfields2369 I think in the early 70's and 80s he was a very popular avengers character more so than in his own books. From what I can tell people liked the character, but in the 90s xmen-spiderman,batman were the rule of cool at the time. even F4 popular dwindled by the 90s. Despite not being super popular I'm glad games gave him a chance and he was in some cool games. Even before the Ironman movie ironman made a cameo in that punisher game for ps2 in 2004 ish.
Galactic Storm was my first Avengers story ever! And it isn't a great starting point for any reason... Captain America and Iron Man are bickering all the time, Thunderstrike is this new and inexperienced Thor - and to this day I still have no idea what's his deal - and there's a lot of lore and backstory since this is about the Kree being at war with the Shi'ar which might destroy Earth just as they are going for Captain Marvel (the original one that died of cancer in the 1980's). Hell, this is a crossover event between 7 Marvel titles (Captain America, Iron Man, Avengers and West Cost Avengers, Quasar, Wonder Man and The Mighty Thor) with 20 chapters! But I still remember it fondly for what it was, and it has a special place in my heart. The game, however, is impossible to defend.
My initial thoughts when I first saw this at my local movie theater back in the day: (sees the cabinet) Excitement, (sees the game) confusion, (further sees the gameplay/graphics) disgust and more confusion. Why was this made? Can we get a Wha Happun?
I actually have a ported version of this game. If you buy the X-Men arcade 1UP game cabinet (the one with Wolverine, Cyclops, Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler, and Dazzler), it also comes with Captain America and the Avengers, as well as Avengers in Galactic Storm.
I have to imagine someone at G-Mode (current owners of most of Data East's library, including this game's code) got a call from Arcade1UP and told them, "Do you really want THIS game in your guys' compilation? Looks a bit dodgy right next to the other games in your cart..."
Deep cut reference in the intro, that pool is a well-known location for Japanese adult videos. Man, it's so obvious that it's just two people voiced this thing too. It's so bad 😂 If you play with someone, does the announcer prioritize player one for the winner/loser announce? Lazy decision there if they did that to save money.
I've seen that pool in a LOT of JAV (Japanese adult video; basically, live-action Japanese corn) videos myself, and I've always wondered if it's some rooftop pool in a clandestine apartment complex or some studio set made to resemble one.
@@Loader2K1 I got curious so I looked it up ("有名なプール AV" which is literally "famous pool AV") and it was the first result, turns out it's owned by a filming location rental business called pstudio. They refer to it as 例のプール (nuance is "THAT pool"), and they also rent out dental offices, classrooms, abandoned buildings, ambulances... I see that some music videos were shot in these locations, but surely most of these are used for AV 😂
Wasn't Minerva the Kree character played by Gemma Chan in Captain Marvel before she got blowed up, and then Gemma Chan played Sersi in Eternals because all her roles in the MCU have to be named after greco-roman mythological figures?
Oh I can easily prove that Supremor is an actual Marvel character. Just read the comic this game is based on, he is there as part of the Kree Empire’s equivalent of the Ginyu Force.
I always found the Kree and all the stuff surrounding them incredibly silly. I was an x-men kid though and never really followed the Avengers (my brother was the avengers guy) So I know the Shi'ar, and some ancillary Kree stuff from the Rogue/Ms. Marvel incident. The movie versions of the Pheonix saga always fail because they dont include Li'landra and her incredible metal haircut.
I don't know whats worse, that the graphics look like DOS-trash like a Capstone FPS, or that half of the cast is Z-list marvel characters while Tony and Thor are just assists for Steve
@@TheN1ghtwalker It still doesn't make sense though, ironman even to comic people were still more known than the villains in this game and more popular than the heroes outside cap as well. His omision makes zero sense especially since he was playable in data east other game cap and the avengers.
Supremor it's been in marvel comics since the late 60s. It was created by non other than Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in the fantastic four. Is the supreme liner of the Kree. He is been a recurrent character in FF and all the different iterations of Capain Marvel. "He" actually appeared in the marvel movies, it's just that "he" was played by Annette Bening and didn't resemble the original character at all....
Sort of. Supremor is the android physical form The Supreme Intelligence uses on the rare occasions it needs to do anything directly itself with a physical body. Anette Bening played a gender-flipped version of the OG Captain Mar-Vell, Dr.Lawson. The Supreme Intelligence took on her form at the end to taunt Carol.
They tried to give Black Knight "the shove" in the early 90s as the focus of the Avengers book for quite a while. Then he went to the Ultraverse and fell off a cliff, even when he came back. He's always on the periphery.
hey speaking of Data East, has Matt played Trio The Punch? that game is probably the most unhinged beat'em up ever made and I would be very interested to see him play it
Ahhh, okay! Cuz I always thought the supreme intelligence as the big blob face that Kree would communicate with. Like, literally assumed he was a giant floating head, and not like, an actual flesh and blood guy. Thanks for the nerding!
@@flophouseplays you're right actually, the kree supreme intelligence usually is just that giant floating head thing. the supremors are android host bodies it can inhabit, but they've been used so rarely in the comics that basically nobody remembers them.
I've never played this game, but I have seen some YT playthroughs of it. In my humble opinion, the 3D character models look like someone at the now-defunct Date East tried to emulate the art style of Bruce Timm when designing them. I do like that staff-roll BGM a lot, though.
I’ll give the game this, most of the roster sucks but Crystal and Black Knight are legitimately cool deep cuts that I wouldn’t mind seeing in an MvC game.
17:14 i understand you not knowing a lot of the characters as also don't but crystal the inhuman princess Who dated the human torch had a daughter with quicksilver and in last comic i read married Ronan the accuser, she was the 70s fantastic 4 cartoon and the 94 if no one mention it
If I were a billionaire I'd host a street fighter 6 tournament, offer millions in prize money,then switch it out to this. Mena RD vs Nuckledu playing this raw and really trying would be sensational
Its not really a beat em up mode, it's just a fighting game, with some quick text screens in between fights, and I think you can only control the good guy side.
It’s funny that this game is technically the most comic accurate superhero fighting game of all time and possibly even all superhero games. All for an extremely forgettable issue focusing on Cap within an extremely forgettable Avengers event.
How was it forgettable? Plenty of people liked the galatic storm event. It was also another one of those instances that furthered the wedge between cap and ironman at the time.
I saw a playthrough of this more than a decade ago on World of Longplays. It certainly is...a game that exists. It's one of those "I see what they were going for, but" games. It''s not just the weird super shiny mid 90s 3D character graphics, but the roster, too. Kudos for the roster, I guess. A lot of choices that people wouldn't know of unless they read the comic this game was based on. The final boss though. I thought it was Supremor from looking at the initial roster because of his design and what role he appeared to have but no, it's this Galen Kor guy that even less people would know of. It doesn't help that he's the very first guy you fight in the game's Story Mode, making a very unremarkable first impression. I guess it doesn't help how unimpressive he is because unlike every other character, he doesn't have a stylized name. He did indeed instigate the events of Galactic Storm, but when you see the guy, he's not some unknownable being, leader of a shadow orgnization, an ultimate mastermind or the like. No, he's just some guy with a gun leading a lone unit of troops. That's it. What's even worse is that in the original story, Galen got hold of a Universal Weapon, the same weapon Ronan the Accusor wields, but he doesn't even have it here.
The action figure-ass art style of this glorious dumpster fire makes me want either a Smash clone or an arena fighter (or maybe even a beat-'em-up?!) with a Marvel Legends aesthetic. I want to earn new characters in a video game build-a-figure style.
I knew we were in for a treat when, on the character select screen, the characters and the platform they were on rotated in opposite directions. What kind of sense does that make?
Main memory of Thunder Strike was him gaping in the middle of NY while Sue Richards was containing a nuclear explosion. She got annoyed and told him to get rid of it already.
Korath is the dude that says “Who?” When Starlord tells him who he is:
HOLY SHIT
Is that irony I smell?
@@PGO5490Nope, just Korath, being burned by Star Lord.
6:24 Jon St. John as captain america paints a really funny image in my head.
"I'm here to kick ass and fight for France. And this A doesn't stand for France."
For the edification of the community, this is an adaptation of a comic book crossover event from 1992 where the Avengers intervene in a war between the Kree and the Shi'ar Empire. That's where the name comes from and why these specific characters, including a bunch that most people have never heard of, are featured. Operation Galactic Storm was a direct reference to Operation Desert Storm, IE the United States' first war in Iraq.
The weird thing is that the comic book event was not a huge hit critically or commercially and this game was released years after it ended. Makes you wonder what happened?
Maybe the event was new Japan when it was developed. Also, licensing it was probably cheaper than more recent and popular events.
@@dreamlandnightmare Possibly, but my suspicion is they got the license when the event came out and then had development problems.
Edited to add: A quick glance at the wiki page reminded me that Data East had Avengers games rights prior to this game. They made the decent beat em up Captain America and the Avengers in 1991. The Operation Galactic Storm comic book event happened in 1992. I even more strongly suspect that this game was intended to come out around the time of the comic event to help promote it, but due to production issues and the game being kind of terrible it was repeatedly delayed and is probably why Marvel started working with Capcom instead. This game eventually came out the same year as Marvel Superheroes by Capcom.
If anything, it does kinda make me long for the days when comic book companies commissioned for games to be made based off of comic book events and not the hot new thing on TV or movies
I was wondering why most of the villain cast were Kree. Galen-korr, Minn-erva, Korr-lath, Ronin The Accuser, Shatterax (Roco-Bai), and what I'm guessing is the Supreme Intelligence? That's almost all Kree for the villains. Haven't read the book but I'm guessing we were siding with the Shi'iar?
@@PJMegaw It's been forever since I read it, I think it was more that the Avengers were trying to stop the war because they were concerned the Earth might get caught in the crossfire. That led them to conflict with both Kree and Shi'ar forces. I don't know why the game doesn't seem to have any Shi'ar characters, possibly they intended to include members of the Imperial Guard and they got scrapped due to the production issues? Looking at the wiki the playable Avengers featured in the game were all on the team that was dispatched to try to negotiate with the Kree, except Thunderstrike who I don't think appeared in the comic story at all (well he did, but he was Thor at the time, not Thunderstrike).Maybe that's why they are fighting the Kree and no Sh'iar characters.
Ultimately the story ends with the Shi'ar detonating a super weapon that devastates the entire Kree Empire and the Avengers learning that the whole war, including the genocidal acts of the Shi'ar had been instigated by the Supreme Intelligence who was trying to retake control of the Kree. The Avengers have a significant falling out with a contingent led by Iron Man deciding that the Supreme Intelligence should be executed for war crimes and a contingent led by Captain America opposing this course of action. Iron Man and his crew defy a vote by all the Avengers involved in the story to not execute the Supreme Intelligence and seemingly kill him anyways. Leading to a rift between Captain America and Iron Man. The Shi'ar end up annexing the remnants of the Kree Empire and the Avengers end up taking the blame among the surviving Kree for the whole affair.
The plastic artstyle makes them look like characters from Small Soldiers
Gimme a Rodeo Burger ASAP.
The plastic CG look was all the rage in gaming in the 90s. I bet this game's look was inspired by 1994 Killer Instict.
@@s.p.d.magentaranger1822: I effing loved the Rodeo Burger in the late '90s from Burger King.
Or Clay Fighters
Giant Man hand at 2:09 was real Spongebob energy there! LOL
@@GoldMetalSonic How was that NOT a SpongeBob character, and Giant Man's hand? Giant Man may as well be a SpongeBob character at this point, if he's THAT gigantic. He could almost match Galactus. How would Ant-Man's hand look if it were in the game? Since he can both increase AND decrease size at will, (with his suit) I wonder... or even, how it would've looked if it were Iron Man's hand instead?
I like how the cg makes the characters look somewhere between action figures and RTS units.
GotDAMN calling them "RTS units" is so specific but so accurate! 😂
Who would've guessed that Lani Minella would go from voicing Crystal and Dr. Minerva in this game to being the voice of Rouge the Bat, Omochao, Luke (from the Professor Layton games), half of the Koopa Kids (Larry, Lemmy, Morton, and Wendy), Bubsy, and many others!
That's such a wild career profile!
Also Nancy Drew in the majority of the franchise
And also Bubsy. Guess she really needed that paycheck then and there.
Lucas in Smash too iirc?
The decision to go with pre-rendered graphics feels very in line with Marvel's obsession with "CUTTING EDGE" holographic foil covers at the time
I feel bad for Data East. Imagine having to publish this thing at around the same time Capcom were putting out their Marvel games.
All Kree names are spelt with that dash in the middle. Att-las, Minn-erva, Mar-vell, etc.
Ahh cool, didn't realize!
This is the arcade cabinet you and your friends got to play when there were no Capcom cabinets nearby.
And if there were any nearby, there's no way you're waiting for THAT long. You need your Marvel fix anyway you can.
This is not the most cursed marvel fighting game. That honor goes to X-Men on hyperscan.
Never heard of it, probably for good reason.
@@Raytheman581Probably because it's...just...bad or something like that, but I don't know either honestly...
@@shawnfields2369 I understood that reference
@@psirensongs Thank you. I was almost afraid that me referencing Rerez would get lost in translation, or something...I did love the Hyperscan episode. I mean, I'm a huge fan of the Ben 10: Alien Force series,(and Yuri Lowenthal, as a voice actor, dude's just awesome) and the X-Men, and I never knew or heard of the Hyperscan, and just thought it was a made up console you see in people playing in the background of movies or cartoons, or games, or one you hear about being advertised, but then you never see it, or sounds like a parody of what an actual console would be like, but it turns out, the makers had no idea what they were doing, and were just trying to scam the people out of their money, and should've been called the "HyperScam"!
@@theotherjared9824 Sounds like we have a contender for Worst Fighting Game.
Oh yeah, this game is based on a comics saga that was ongoing when this game came out. Basically the Kree and Shi'ar are at it and the Avengers decide to interfere because their little war is messing up with earth.
Spoiler: things don't end well.
Unlike the distilled adaptation made in Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, of course.
@@chaosgreyblood So, was this the event that lead to the Avenger's Civil War?
I have almost have no words for this. The music, the sounds, the voiceovers- "GIANT MAN!"-, the visuals. It's a beautiful and cursed mess! XD
I honestly do really enjoy the main theme of the game, Funk For Avengers. Data East's Gamadelic team didn't skimp out on that at least. Beyond that, yeah this game is a complete train wreck in the *best* possible way.
I actually had to look it up - Supremor is an android body controlled by the Kree Supreme Intelligence. And yes, it was called that in the comics before this game was even a thing.
"We have Marvel Super Heroes at home"
This truly was the home version
@@PapaJoJI'd love to have any of the older Marvel Super Heroes games at home.
@@shawnfields2369 even this one? Yikes. Just get the Marvel V Capcom collection instead
@@PapaJoJ Eh, you're right. But when your favorite Marvel Super Hero is either Spider-Man or Wolverine, and you have no other options, you just gotta play something like "Marvel Super Heroes: Slight Disagreements Amongst Friends Because of Shiny Gemstones". But yeah, MVC is definitely better, and truly where it began. But then again, I started with "MVC2: New Age of Heroes", because I saw Wolverine and Spider-Man, about fight Ryu, from SF, and Mega Man, and while I didn't know who Ryu or Mega Man were back then, I knew they looked cool, and if someone like Captain America could trust Ryu, and Cyclops could shake hands with him and make HIMSELF look somewhat cool, they'd done their jobs right. Plus, that's when I was just getting into both the '94 X-Men cartoon, and the Spider-Man cartoon, which is why they're my favorite superheroes, and why Wolverine is the BEST one, but don't forget about Gambit or Havoc either...
This is the Marvel Super Heroes game you get at Walgreens or Rite Aid.
I always liked Thunderstrike, but I.. do understand why one likely would not. Hehe.
Edit: Elaboration! What I remember, Thor was out of commission for a time, and Eric Masterson was chosen to take his place in the meantime. So for a while he was formally Thor, but of course Odinson came back and he got demoted to min-Thor as Thunderstrike. They were nice enough to forge him his own hammer and all and let him keep heroing.
Technically he’s been in the Capcom fighters too. MSH is based on Infinity Gauntlet and Eric was Thor during that story with the same design
Supremor is the SUPREME INTELLIGENCE of the Kree in a battle body form.
5:34 Oh my God. More video games need to say "The Loser" for poor end results. Really just rub that salt all the way in there.
Damn, I feel so old for remembering the Galactic Storm story. Matt, you didn’t miss much
@@C.V317 So, it wasn't worthwhile then? Was it the catalyst for the Avenger's Civil War then?
I once saw one of these cabinets in the wild
I ended up being physically inured which I'm saying is eveidence of this being cursed for real
0:05 Was about to question your familiarity with *that* location and then I was like "Oh duh, he's friends with Hitomi" 😂
The Ultima X choking bit had me in tears lol
The Thunderstrike that is in the game is dead they replaced him with his son for a six issue series and never used him prominently again.
Is that in the Earth-616 continuity? Asking because they did something similar in A-Next under the MC2 imprint a.k.a. the Marvel subline that was created because Spider-Girl (who debuted in an issue of What If?) was popular enough to get her own book.
@@KamisamanoOtaku Wow, that sucks, for both Thunderstrike AND his son...sorry to hear, died in-game, replaced by his son, only to be used for a limited issue comic series, then NEVER used him prominently again? So he was just like, Thor's disgraced 3rd brother or nephew or cousin or some crap? That I bet barely ANYONE had ever heard of? Geez. He may as well be the 3rd brother of the Odinson family...but maybe there was more to him than we thought? We'll probably never know. He also sounds like a rejected side character from MVCI.
@@shawnfields2369 Pardon me if it was explained in the video, but there's more to the original Eric Masterson (original Thunderstrike). I looked it up for myself, though some of this I was around for and reading:
At first, Eric Masterson was a supporting character in the _Thor_ comic (Thor #391, May 1998). Starting with issue #408, Eric _merged_ with Thor, serving as his civilian identity. Eventually, as of issue #432 classic Thor was separated from Eric but Eric kept the Thor powers and filled in as Thor on Earth. Classic Thor wouldn't return until issue #459.
*After all that,* while Thor reclaimed his role as Thor, then Eric Masterson was given his own hammer (this wasn't the first time a new, Mjolnir-like weapon was created) and that is when Eric became Thunderstrike, with his own self-titled comic. Unfortunately, _Thunderstrike_ (the comic) only lasted about 2 years, and ended with Eric doing the heroic-sacrifice-thing.
Eric had the option of Valhalla, but chose to go to whatever the Marvel Comics ultimate "afterlife" is. Where he remained until a few years later when the supervillain "Grim Reaper" revived him (as well as some other then dead Avengers) for some plot. Eric was returned to the afterlife after this event, merely asking Thor to look in on Eric's son, Kevin.
Years later, Steve Rogers gives Thunderstrike (the Mjolnir-like mace) to Kevin. Kevin cannot use it to transform at first, but eventually does to save someone's life. I guess it is implied he's actually in his father's old Thunderstrike body while transformed? O_O From what I can tell, I think Kevin is still Thunderstrike, just not being used in any titles.
*In addition,* I'll mention the MC2 Thunderstrike, who came _after_ the original Thunderstrike but _before_ the current Thunderstrike. Given that the MC2 version *predates* the current Kevin Masterson Thunderstrike, he may have inspired him.
*How?* Well, the MC2 version is _also_ Kevin Masterson, who _also_ received the Thunderstrike Mace as a young man. I think he even _also_ was unable to use it to transform *except* instead of eventually unlocking the power, Kevin actually _absorbed_ the Thunderstrike Mace's powers into himself directly.
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Ah yes, caps ultimate attack: "SECOND TO LAST JUSTICE"
@@BroomPusher2024 So, is it just called: "Penultimate: Slight Justice", then?
This game's roster is just bizarre. I'm a hardcore comic book nerd who loves obscure characters, and even I barely know who Shatterax and Ultimus are.
Oddly enough if I'd have played this game in the 90s I wouldn't know any of the bad guys. I only know them in the 00s after reading the actual story this game takes place in, operation galactic storm. I found out about this game like 2008 somewhere.
This game ain't taking me on a ride...Not even a drive through around the corner and back..
Personally, I find this game really ....odd. The presentation, the weird picks in the character roster , the music , the involvement of Data east ..... the whole thing is just a really strange , ' one and done' kind of thing . I appreciate it though.
I must be one of the few people with fond memories of this game. Back when I was in high school, a local laundromat had this game, and every so often after school, I’d play it. Being that I was a big fan of Marvel and the Avengers comics in particular, I had a decent awareness of the Kree characters being presented in the game, especially Dr. Minerva and Att-Las. (I had one of their first appearances in an issue of Quasar.) Also, looking up Galen-Kor, he’s a bit of a badass; he’s an admiral for the Kree army who played a huge part in the Galactic Storm war against the Shi’ar Empire.
As for Thunderstrike, he was Eric Masterson, who was given the power to transform into Thor for a good while, until Thor was resurrected (a LONG story I’m not going to get into over here). As a reward for his dedication to carrying the mantle, he was given a hammer of his own, as well as his own powers over thunder and lightning. So we had Thor, Thunderstrike, and Beta Ray Bill (a story for another day).
Finally some REAL marvel fighting action!
We got us a Seinfeld here, kids...😑
Crazy how Iron Man is merely an assist character when he was a selectable character in the Captain America & The Avengers arcade game (also by Data East). I guess they weren't that big of a deal back then, so who would care outside of the ultra nerds (like me).
Iron Man's popularity in the 90s was... weird. Even though he had a cartoon that lasted 2 Seasons, sometimes he was a big deal and sometimes he was a mind controlled villain that was killes and replaced by his teenage self who was pulles from the past and I've gone cross-eyed.😅
@@KamisamanoOtakuYeah Iron Man before the movie was that one superhero that wasn't mainstream but was well known enough so any people would be like "oh heah the guy with the armor"
ironically Cap was way more popular in spite of only having cameos on the marvel cartoons
@@KamisamanoOtaku Yeah things were weird with ironman in the 90s. He had a cartoon, he apperared in numerous games like MSH by capcom and a crossover in ironman/xo which was strange in itself. Like he was popular to comic nerds at least even if he wasn't mainstream yet. Him being tied to an assist would've made me angry as a kid.
@@Raytheman581 I don't get WHY an awesome character like Iron Man wasn't super popular back then, but how was he a mind controlled villain at times, or killed for awhile only to be "replaced" by a teenage version of himself pulled from the past? Did I get that right? Geez, before the Iron Man movies, did anybody treat Iron Man like he was worthy of being an Avenger, or before RDJ's portrayal of Tony Stark, was he just the guy with an awesome moveset in MVC2; New Age of Heroes, who shot a MASSIVE cannon out of nowhere, and nearly disintegrates you with it, and was also Marvel's answer to Batman, but slightly more cocky and just a smidge more arrogant, but likeable, and also, awesome? Because it's hard to tell.
@@shawnfields2369 I think in the early 70's and 80s he was a very popular avengers character more so than in his own books. From what I can tell people liked the character, but in the 90s xmen-spiderman,batman were the rule of cool at the time. even F4 popular dwindled by the 90s. Despite not being super popular I'm glad games gave him a chance and he was in some cool games. Even before the Ironman movie ironman made a cameo in that punisher game for ps2 in 2004 ish.
Galactic Storm was my first Avengers story ever!
And it isn't a great starting point for any reason... Captain America and Iron Man are bickering all the time, Thunderstrike is this new and inexperienced Thor - and to this day I still have no idea what's his deal - and there's a lot of lore and backstory since this is about the Kree being at war with the Shi'ar which might destroy Earth just as they are going for Captain Marvel (the original one that died of cancer in the 1980's). Hell, this is a crossover event between 7 Marvel titles (Captain America, Iron Man, Avengers and West Cost Avengers, Quasar, Wonder Man and The Mighty Thor) with 20 chapters!
But I still remember it fondly for what it was, and it has a special place in my heart. The game, however, is impossible to defend.
I would love a Data East Avengers collection featuring this and Captain America and the Avengers
That humongous arm grab by Giant Man had me rolling.
My initial thoughts when I first saw this at my local movie theater back in the day: (sees the cabinet) Excitement, (sees the game) confusion, (further sees the gameplay/graphics) disgust and more confusion. Why was this made? Can we get a Wha Happun?
10:30 Now i lowkey do want to see Max playing this game.
I actually have a ported version of this game. If you buy the X-Men arcade 1UP game cabinet (the one with Wolverine, Cyclops, Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler, and Dazzler), it also comes with Captain America and the Avengers, as well as Avengers in Galactic Storm.
I have to imagine someone at G-Mode (current owners of most of Data East's library, including this game's code) got a call from Arcade1UP and told them, "Do you really want THIS game in your guys' compilation? Looks a bit dodgy right next to the other games in your cart..."
Deep cut reference in the intro, that pool is a well-known location for Japanese adult videos.
Man, it's so obvious that it's just two people voiced this thing too. It's so bad 😂
If you play with someone, does the announcer prioritize player one for the winner/loser announce? Lazy decision there if they did that to save money.
I've seen that pool in a LOT of JAV (Japanese adult video; basically, live-action Japanese corn) videos myself, and I've always wondered if it's some rooftop pool in a clandestine apartment complex or some studio set made to resemble one.
@@Loader2K1 I got curious so I looked it up ("有名なプール AV" which is literally "famous pool AV") and it was the first result, turns out it's owned by a filming location rental business called pstudio. They refer to it as 例のプール (nuance is "THAT pool"), and they also rent out dental offices, classrooms, abandoned buildings, ambulances... I see that some music videos were shot in these locations, but surely most of these are used for AV 😂
Play Hulk: The Pantheon Saga!
Wasn't Minerva the Kree character played by Gemma Chan in Captain Marvel before she got blowed up, and then Gemma Chan played Sersi in Eternals because all her roles in the MCU have to be named after greco-roman mythological figures?
Oh I can easily prove that Supremor is an actual Marvel character.
Just read the comic this game is based on, he is there as part of the Kree Empire’s equivalent of the Ginyu Force.
I always found the Kree and all the stuff surrounding them incredibly silly. I was an x-men kid though and never really followed the Avengers (my brother was the avengers guy) So I know the Shi'ar, and some ancillary Kree stuff from the Rogue/Ms. Marvel incident. The movie versions of the Pheonix saga always fail because they dont include Li'landra and her incredible metal haircut.
I don't know whats worse, that the graphics look like DOS-trash like a Capstone FPS, or that half of the cast is Z-list marvel characters while Tony and Thor are just assists for Steve
Sounds about right. These two were never popular before 2008
@@TheN1ghtwalkerthey were more popular than the engire roster though, like there's not justification for the fk up
@@TheN1ghtwalker It still doesn't make sense though, ironman even to comic people were still more known than the villains in this game and more popular than the heroes outside cap as well. His omision makes zero sense especially since he was playable in data east other game cap and the avengers.
15:44 - "He's just a big nimrod."
No, Matt, Nimrod fought the X-Men, not The Avengers.
This looks like ragnagard or a bit like Killer Instinct
"I won't play Hulk: The Pantheon Saga."
So what you're saying is you're a coward. /jk
I am!!
Supremor it's been in marvel comics since the late 60s. It was created by non other than Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in the fantastic four. Is the supreme liner of the Kree. He is been a recurrent character in FF and all the different iterations of Capain Marvel. "He" actually appeared in the marvel movies, it's just that "he" was played by Annette Bening and didn't resemble the original character at all....
Sort of. Supremor is the android physical form The Supreme Intelligence uses on the rare occasions it needs to do anything directly itself with a physical body. Anette Bening played a gender-flipped version of the OG Captain Mar-Vell, Dr.Lawson. The Supreme Intelligence took on her form at the end to taunt Carol.
They tried to give Black Knight "the shove" in the early 90s as the focus of the Avengers book for quite a while. Then he went to the Ultraverse and fell off a cliff, even when he came back. He's always on the periphery.
WELCOME BACK, WARRIORS, TO THE WORST FIGHTING GA- oh, wait, wrong channel.
Galactic Storm was a Avengers event in the comics at the time
Let's not forget that one soundbyte that comes from this game that always cracks me up...
*VISION!*
hey speaking of Data East, has Matt played Trio The Punch?
that game is probably the most unhinged beat'em up ever made and I would be very interested to see him play it
This game is actually dope! The Discord is super active, too
Supremor is the supreme intelligence and leader of the kree race sorry had to come in and be a nerd
Ahhh, okay! Cuz I always thought the supreme intelligence as the big blob face that Kree would communicate with. Like, literally assumed he was a giant floating head, and not like, an actual flesh and blood guy. Thanks for the nerding!
@@flophouseplays you're right actually, the kree supreme intelligence usually is just that giant floating head thing.
the supremors are android host bodies it can inhabit, but they've been used so rarely in the comics that basically nobody remembers them.
Every great fighting game needs a GIANT MAN
Give me a Data East fighting collection with Mutant Fighter, Fighter's History Dynamite, Suiko Enbu and this game.
Mom can we have Marvel Super Heroes?
We have Marvel Super Heroes at home
is that...? the legendary indoor pool?
Data East may have still had rights to The Avengers specifically from when they made the arcade beat-em-up.
15:28 Cause they weren't in the storyline in the comics.
We got MvC, the world is ready for the Avengers in Galactic Storm HD remaster
Only if they include Jeff the land shark & Squirrel Girl as DLC...😆
I don't think I'm going to get over Giant Man's assist sound
G I A N T M A N
Finally Rise of the Imperfects isnt the worst Marvel Fighting game. (I love that game)
Why does Spider-Man have a fatality? Why, Electronic Arts, WHY?!
There's always X-Men for the Hyperscan...
@@GreenChillZone Because Its...Just...Bad. Oh wait, wrong channel, whoops...my bad.
4:44 That big green Supremor head reminds me of that floating green head dude from Contra: Legacy of War. Not a great connection.
I've never played this game, but I have seen some YT playthroughs of it. In my humble opinion, the 3D character models look like someone at the now-defunct Date East tried to emulate the art style of Bruce Timm when designing them. I do like that staff-roll BGM a lot, though.
the ending screens look like they just assembled some toys there and pixelated the photo 😂
Matt saw Att-Las.
And he shrugged.
Requesting that Iron Man and X-O Manowar playthrough! I still have that game from the 90s.
This graphic’s look bad but the music is so hype!
I’ll give the game this, most of the roster sucks but Crystal and Black Knight are legitimately cool deep cuts that I wouldn’t mind seeing in an MvC game.
17:14 i understand you not knowing a lot of the characters as also don't but crystal the inhuman princess Who dated the human torch had a daughter with quicksilver and in last comic i read married Ronan the accuser, she was the 70s fantastic 4 cartoon and the 94 if no one mention it
If I were a billionaire I'd host a street fighter 6 tournament, offer millions in prize money,then switch it out to this.
Mena RD vs Nuckledu playing this raw and really trying would be sensational
Oh god I remember seeing ads for this one I was curious now I know.
that pool shot is familiar 4:51
The avengers were in the toilet in this Era and marvel was near dead and would accept money for anything
They're lucky Capcom came through cause before that they too also had to get to the curse that was LJN.
They were also willing to do anything. Fucking teen Tony, man
Wow... I didn't even know this existed.. I wonder how the "beat'em up" mode is...
Its not really a beat em up mode, it's just a fighting game, with some quick text screens in between fights, and I think you can only control the good guy side.
This game is like if They took a page from Dragon Ball Taiketsuden from the GBA
I'm getting flashbacks to DBZ Taiketsu with those awful 3D sprites
Best roster ever. Full of deep cuts.
It’s funny that this game is technically the most comic accurate superhero fighting game of all time and possibly even all superhero games.
All for an extremely forgettable issue focusing on Cap within an extremely forgettable Avengers event.
How was it forgettable? Plenty of people liked the galatic storm event. It was also another one of those instances that furthered the wedge between cap and ironman at the time.
Honestly i love the campy voice acting & i reallllly love the work that went into the supers , despite this game being DOG dodo lol
THAT POOL THO
Is it wrong that I love this? This is the one Marvel arcade game that's intrigued me the most, and I need to play it.
May I put forth Xmen on Hyperscan as most cursed Marvel fighting game?
It seems there are many Marvel fighting games that some gamers don't know.
Thank you, Matt McMuscles.
Also if u told me this game was based off the 60s or 70s cartoons/comics id believe u
I saw a playthrough of this more than a decade ago on World of Longplays. It certainly is...a game that exists.
It's one of those "I see what they were going for, but" games. It''s not just the weird super shiny mid 90s 3D character graphics, but the roster, too. Kudos for the roster, I guess. A lot of choices that people wouldn't know of unless they read the comic this game was based on. The final boss though. I thought it was Supremor from looking at the initial roster because of his design and what role he appeared to have but no, it's this Galen Kor guy that even less people would know of. It doesn't help that he's the very first guy you fight in the game's Story Mode, making a very unremarkable first impression. I guess it doesn't help how unimpressive he is because unlike every other character, he doesn't have a stylized name.
He did indeed instigate the events of Galactic Storm, but when you see the guy, he's not some unknownable being, leader of a shadow orgnization, an ultimate mastermind or the like. No, he's just some guy with a gun leading a lone unit of troops. That's it. What's even worse is that in the original story, Galen got hold of a Universal Weapon, the same weapon Ronan the Accusor wields, but he doesn't even have it here.
The action figure-ass art style of this glorious dumpster fire makes me want either a Smash clone or an arena fighter (or maybe even a beat-'em-up?!) with a Marvel Legends aesthetic. I want to earn new characters in a video game build-a-figure style.
I knew we were in for a treat when, on the character select screen, the characters and the platform they were on rotated in opposite directions. What kind of sense does that make?
Black Knight himself isn’t that strong but the blade he has is basically “Excalibur but evil and it might turn you into an undead sorcerer-thing”
What is this, Marvel vs. Shinoken?
Damn
That's a deep cut
GIANT MAN!
Main memory of Thunder Strike was him gaping in the middle of NY while Sue Richards was containing a nuclear explosion. She got annoyed and told him to get rid of it already.
I'm sorry, he was doing what?
@@Sdoots Looking up with a slack jaw...
Pretty sure the voice over for Iron Man is the same as the one used in Cap and the Avengers game.
Is that fucking Lilandra in Dr.Minerva's stage?
Am I the only person that like X-Men next dimension growing up? 😂
It wasn't as bad as folx like to joke. It suffers because it makes no effort to explain itself.
Still looks more fun than MvC Infinite Combos
I can't remember if you've ever played the side scroller beat em up Captain America and the Avengers? It's pretty terrible, could be a fun video. 😆
Having almost completely static backgrounds for a fighting game in '95 sure is a choice.
They're not that bad looking and have some nice parallax going on. They would be legitimately good if they had some more life to them.
*Dangerous Streets on the AMiGA.*