Recordkeeping: X-Men Arcade COMPLETE

[xyzzysqrl]

Does this even count? It's a PS3 port of the X-Men arcade game. I guess it counts. I finished it, I saw credits.

This is such a weird little ARTIFACT though. An arcade game based on the never-got-a-series, ridiculous and hilariously terrible Pryde of the X-Men pilot...

-- which is itself an artifact from an alternate universe where all the writers utterly hate Kitty Pryde and Lockheed, think Nightcrawler is a no-personal-space pervert, believe Magneto would work with the Sentinals for ANY REASON, and Wolverine is completely fucking unintelligable --

...and it's responsible for things like "Sqrl being a huge fan of Dazzler" and "Sqrl having a crush on a random lizardy-man grunt from Stage 2". (Who wears a skintight leotard, walks in a weird bouncy-skippy animation and whose only attack is to leap in the air and twirl around waving his butt at you. ... Okay I am a LITTLE GAY I'm just saying.)

Oh well. So much for the game about X-CHICKENS. I AM SQRL, MASTER OF GAME. WELCOME TO DONE! AHAHAHAHA!

Comments

[silveradept]

Well done, all the same. If I recall, that game liked to chew up quarters as fast as it could.

[kjorteo]

This is one of the many many video games (seriously, I could make a top 20 list) that gave me Mysterious Funny Feelings back in the day. Those lizardman grunts, mm, yes. Also Nightcrawler, who was probably the second- or third-best character in the game "how good is their special attack"-wise anyway.

[vulpisfoxfire.livejournal.com]

Pryde of the X-Men...I swear, that opening looks a lot like GI Joe.
Edit: Annnd that's probably because it was done by the same people, I think. They shared a voice cast, at the least...I definitely recognized Shipwreck as the young soldier reporting that they were sinking in the road. And the music style sounds very like the Joe/Transformers stuff.
Edit 2: Ow. Someone might have wanted to tell them that Wolverine was a Canuck, not an Aussie...

Also, is that the X-Men game where one of the boss fights consists of hearing 'No One Moves The Blob!' over and over and over and over again, as you kick his fat ass from one end of the screen to the other?

Come to think of it, they really need to have a GI Joe/SHIELD Crossover, if only so they can d**k-battle over the tech in the Helicarrier vs. the Pit. :-)

[xyzzysqrl]

Why yes, yes it is the "NOTHING MOVES THE" *thud slap slap slap slap* game.

Actually the plan was to have Wolverine "come out" as an expatriated Australian living in Canada in the comics, but then this didn't go anywhere and they quietly threw that plot idea in the bin.

[vulpisfoxfire.livejournal.com]

Hee. IIRC, wasn't the original arcade version of it in a 4-station cabinet, similar to the TMNT one?