2/18/2023 0 Comments Time pilot cabinetThe cabinet features artwork directly from the comic books of the time with the characters on both sides. While Tastemakers has received some flack about the recent pricing on new cabinets, the X-Men feels like the best option to justifying the $749.99 price tag. This was the only beat ’em up that featured six player configuration in actual arcades inside this giant cabinet with a plexiglass cover. Combat and movement is rather slow in comparison to the TMNT games, but the heaviness perfectly fits the game. There are also varying jump attacks from each of the six X-Men that offer small advantages over one or the other. Mutant Powers are granted that basically wipe everything off the screen. Ground hits were important as well as throws and back attacks. X-Men came after the original TMNT Arcade and right before Turtles in Time, and there are additions to combat here that were seen in the latter. The strange soundtrack and overall audio experience is fantastic. The art was the closest thing outside of the comic books at the time and destroys the pilot show. Colors are rich and the machine can handle tons of enemies on the screen. The emulation on the Arcade1Up cabinet is flawless. When looking at X-Men as a pure arcade game and throwing anything canon out the door, it’s one of the best. The absolute killer was the poor dialogue translation featuring Magneto’s famous “Welcome to Die” line. The White Queen (Emma Frost), never being affiliated with Magneto, is an enemy in the game and on the pilot show. There’s one giant Sentinel in the game that unleashes some punk rock human mech tanks (best description), but Sentinels were never human-sized. Small Sentinels, much like the Foot Soldiers from TMNT, were the major amount of enemies you would take on. While Magneto was the leader of the Brotherhood of Mutants and other known antagonists such as the Blob, Pyro and the Juggernaut were featured as bosses, the majority of it didn’t feel canon. There are a lot of tropes about the X-Men Arcade game itself that bothered a lot of X-Men fans. The Animated Series that was wildly popular already started hitting television screens on Saturday Mornings. Strangely, this pilot aired in 1989 and Konami didn’t release the arcade game until 1992. Marvel entered bankruptcy before it could take off, and while the animation of the series was great for the time, the series never took off. This starred Kitty Pryde, Charles Xavier, Colossus, Storm, Nightcrawler, Cyclops and an Australian Wolverine. Marvel had produced an extremely campy one-off pilot that never took off called Pryde of the X-Men. If you’re unfamiliar with this origin of the X-Men Arcade title, this wasn’t based on the 1990s X-Men Animated Series. This cabinet offers a taste of what Marvel Comics was in the 1990s, but the shining star is X-Men. The X-Men 4-Player Arcade Machine offers this cult classic with two other games: Captain America and the Avengers and The Avengers in Galactic Storm. One title that was noticeably missing from the Arcade1Up lineup was the classic X-Men Arcade and thankfully this has been rectified with one of their best cabinets to date. After offering the top fighting games of the 1990s in its home arcade cabinets, Arcade1Up has begun to branch off into popular beat ’em ups as well, including introducing a four-player cabinet option. Tastemakers, LLC and Arcade1Up have done an excellent job of creating cabinets to bring these into homes at a much more affordable price. There’s a hierarchy of arcade titles that sit atop the throne of vintage gaming.
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