Finally a reason to buy an Xbox (Truth be told, I have been playing Gears of War at my friend's house lately). Konami's 1992 X-Men Arcade game is coming to Xbox Live Arcade and Playstation Network. I once spent 42 tokens to beat this game at Chuck E. Cheese. Despite my undying devotion to Wolverine (especially this costume), Colossus is my first pick in this lineup (also including Cyclops, Storm, Nightcrawler and Dazzler?!) because of his unstoppable and completely made-up special move (rrruaaAAHH!). I only wish I owned the six player arcade cabinet:
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| Oh, would that you were mine. |
This also reminds me of X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men, an 80s cartoon pilot that the arcade game seems to tie in with. The opening theme song is astoundingly even catchier than the 90s one. The animation is classic 80s outsourced to Japan (ie Transformers, G.I. Joe, Thundercats, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Real Ghostbusters, etc.), and Wolverine inexplicably has an Australian accent.
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