I spent hours in arcades growing up. My favorite games to play were side scrollers, like Simpsons and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games. A common couple that I would play are the X-Men arcade game, which was an ultra wide machine because it could handle 6 players and not the standard 4 that a lot of them could. I haven’t been able to play the X-Men game since playing it on a big arcade cabinet. That will soon change, as it is included with Marvel MaXimum Collection this week. The game is 15 previously released Marvel games. The games included are:
- X-Men: The Arcade Game
- Captain America and The Avengers
- Spider-Man/Venom: Maximum Carnage
- Venom/Spider-Man: Separation Anxiety
- Spider-Man/X-Men: Arcade’s Revenge
- Silver Surfer
A lot of these include multiple variants, including arcade and console versions of the game. I have played most of these, so getting to replay them again years later has me extra excited. I have played most of the Marvel games, so anytime a rerelease or remaster is announced I am usually excited. Now if only they would remaster the Sega X-Men games and the Activision Spider-Man games, that would have me really excited.
Marvel MaXimum Collection isn’t just going to be including the games, but some great features as well. It will have built in rewind and save states for the games. X-Men: The Arcade Game will include online multiplayer for up to 5 other players. The game will also have cheats, a music player, and display options so you can choose to play it in a modern visual mode, or a CRT mode. The game will probably be a day 1 buy and it’s set to be released this year, so hopefully I will be playing it sooner rather than later. I will more than likely be playing on Xbox, unless it’s on Xbox PC at the same time, otherwise I will be playing there. So far it’s been announced for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, XBox Series X/S, and Windows.
Unfortunately I missed out on the remasters of Marvel Ultimate Alliance, so getting them available again and X-Men Legends would be nice as well. I was hoping they would have been added to backwards compatibility, but since they never were, my only hope would be to get a hold of an Xbox 360.
