Alien vs. Predator (Arcade) James & Mike Mondays 

Thanks Mike and James for putting out so much amazing content on the two channels. The evolution is much appreciated. Oh and... more AVGN :)

James and Mike's friendship is so fucking beautiful man.

I'm kind of glad Sean Connery didn't end up being Gandalf.

Mike you need to get Alien Vs Predator 2 on PC it was made in 2002 but was AMAZING. It did the series justice.

They're playing as Arnold in a good videogame for once and they don't even realize it, lol.

I love Mike 'cause he's not only hilarious, but knows how to keep James talking. It's almost like he's interviewing him in parts of this video, which is great.

Arnie's character from the Predator flick was named Dutch Schaefer, so there's your character connection.

Sean Connery as Gandalf: "You Shall Not PASHHH!!!"

I freakin loved all the Capcom CPS-2 arcade games, so many beat 'em up gems

I used to drop so many quarters on this game!

I remember watching one guy who was an expert on Lt. Kurosawa, he basically finished the entire game alone by comboing the shit out of everything while barely touching the ground.

I don't understand all the hate for League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I actually liked that movie. Apparently, that's an unpopular opinion.

Almost "James & Mike Sundays Night"

The two humans in the game are throwbacks to some of the Alien vs Predator and Predator lore. The guy is named after Arnold's character in the original Predator (not sure if he's supposed to be the same guy in this game). The girl is based on a character in the AvP novels.

Actually, if you checked out the general background in the Aliens franchise, the Wayland-Yutani corporation actually sought to capture the xenomorphs not to kill them, but to actually produce them as their own set of bioweapons to create, breed, and control while selling them to other armies around the universe to make a huge profit as bioweapon makers. I don't know if this is accurate, but that's the impression I get, especially around the ending of Alien 3 when they wanted to bring Ripley alive with the xenomorph baby that was inside her body. And there you have the reason why you fight human soldiers in the game. A military unit was brought in by Wayland-Yutani to capture the Aliens. The xenomorphs have some impressive abilities, but mind control isn't one of them. :P

Alien Isolation is in my opinion the essential Alien game. The acting, the suspense, and the level of detail in the Alien universe is fantastic. Definitely recommend it

I love how the discussions of games like Alien vs. Predator can devolve into a discussion about the intricacies of WaWa.

The AVP film from 2004 had actually cool action scenes, but I just couldn't stand the whole "Aliens on Earth since ancient times" thing. They should make a REAL adaptation of the original comic series by Dark Horse that was set in a space colony in the far future...

A massievly heartwarming episode. Loved how AVP discussion slowly transcended into something much bigger, like a whole pop culture lecture, only condensed in awesomeness and served steaming hot. I've probably overdid a metaphor a litle bit, but this episode was great, really. And that's while I've already hooked on a show a lot and watch all the episodes with pleasure.

Wait that Pee-wee was spot on

Screaming inside my head every time you guys got the infinite ammo power up (counter appears over character) and you didn't use your guns or plasma casters

James and Mike Very Very Early Mondays

Still one of the best beat 'em ups ever made. I've been a fan of it since the 90's :)

James Rolfe and Mike Matei.... I'm going through a difficult time in my life over stupid decisions I've made in the past it seems very hard to smile and laugh. I've only discovered your videos 3 years ago let's just say I was a late bloomer on RU-vid. but you guys are simply the best. even through these difficult times I am still able to smile and laugh....thank you

Capcom's best beat-em-up arcade games long ago. It was cool.

Mike pronounces the word manure weird. "ma nor"!? Its "ma newer" oh forget it

You know what? In some classical arcade games, a unit digit of the total score represents how many times the player continued after dying. This means James spent 16 quarters to beat this game, and Mike did 14 (9+5) quarters.

when i was about 12 or so (32 now), i went with my stepdad on a bizness trip to Kansas city. i stayed in a really nice hotel while my stepdad was out doing whatever. this hotel had a little arcade area in the rec room. this Alien vs Predator game was in there, and i sat and played this game for HOURS and for DAYS. no telling how many quarters i pumped into that thing. it was fucking mind blowing gameplay for me at the time. this video brings back a lot of nostalgia. thanks AVGN.

Somebody needs to make timestamps of everytime James says "uh-huh" 😂 Just messing with you guys, thanks for the great content!

i saw predators at the cinema and i keep forgetting it exists thats how memorable it is.

awesome! just what I needed, a new episode of James & Mike Mondays!

"Predators" was underrated in my opinion. It's definitely a fun movie to watch.

You are forgetting about when they call Marty a Chicken 🐔 to taunt him, that is also a recurring joke in the three BTTF movies.

I always thought the Predators blew everything up was too prevent the Aliens from spreading.

AvP was about young Predators having to "prove their worth" so to speak by hunting the Xenomorphs. The Predators had set up a controlled hunting ground in Antartica with a captured Queen producing aliens to be hunted. HUmans found the hunting ground at the same time 3 young Predators are sent to prove themselves.

This is the greatest, most memorable beat'em up ever!

all time favorite beat em up... challenging but fair, long but not too repetetive, great graphics and control, characters play differently, A+

Best xeno designs outside the Kenner toy line, and better variety than Aliens '90 arcade. This is the video game treatment the AvP expanded universe deserved! Wish Capcom made more :(

I got this game on MAME ages ago, I set up my laptop like an arcade machine, where I could stand and play... I played the shit out of this game. Got to the point I could beat the whole thing, every boss, without getting hit once. Always played as Kurosawa, that character is so badass, would be awesome to see a live action version of her. In fact, I always thought the whole plot line they created with this game would translate really well to live action (certainly it would be better than AvP Requiem). You know what would be a great VS battle... Kurosawa vs Motoko (the major from ghost in the shell) ..I don't know a lot of strong cybernetic female characters in pop fiction, but these two have got to be at the top of that group.

Fun note: Lt. Kurosawa (the girl character) is in the background of, I think it was a marvel vs capcom game, which means that 99% of Capcom, and Nintendo properties (thanks to smash brothers) are in the Westphall Universe.

You two have a friendship that just fills me with joy as well as jealousy. I would love to have a buddy to just play games on the couch with while talking about random bullshit lol. Haven't had that since my early 20's. Stay young gentlemen!

When the bloody hell are they going to release this on home consoles? I would put down serious money to have an online co-op version of this on Switch, Steam, or anything else.

The deal with the jekyll and hyde endings, as I understand it. Once youre on the last level, I believe the whole hyde getting farther than jekyll mechanic is over and hyde has to get farther than jekyll. This is where you have to employ some strategy because you need to drop your psyche meter and not your health. Best way i know to do this is to get hit by the singing ladys notes or you have to be just inside the bomb blast radius where you take little damage. I guess essentially, When Hyde gets to the final boss and defeats him, Hyde has "conquered his demons" and Jekyll can live in peace now. and the other ending Jekyll gets to the wedding before that happens and his fiancee got sick of waiting. best sense I can make of it

Oddly enough, this was initially supposed to be based on an AvP script James Cameron worked on. When it fell through they just kept going and released this game as a standalone.

James's Nicholson impression is so well done it actually sounds creepy to imagine the Nerd was being possessed by the spirit of Jack's soul.

still better than the movie

Mike, the arcade game you were thinking of is "Alien 3: The Gun," which (IMHO) is greatly underrated but hard as hell. Also, as the years have gone on, I find that I appreciate the film "Alien 3" (especially the Assembly Cut) far more if I just view it as a completely independent movie, not as a continuation of "Alien" and "Aliens." As the latter, it still pisses me off, though as the former I can appreciate it for what it is.

I would love to have the cabinet version of this!

I think the Aliens arcade Mike was referring to was an on-rails shooter.

They should put Alien, Predator, Terminator and Robocop in one battle movie. I guess that doesn't make sense but it would be cool.

The stoppage for Wawa talk was amazing. Pity those without a Wawa.

I don't think either of them realizes that the male character is Arnold from Predator. Arnold is not only the 80s greatest action movie but also the greatest action star period. For a bunch of reasons I don't think we'll ever see that topped. Predators was a fantastic film. Literally watched it last night.

Predator concrete jungle ps2

I love James, but that was the worst Jack Nicholson impression ever haha! :) Good to see them chatting about the two best movies of all time - Alien and Aliens! Awesome! :)

The sad/crazy part is the premise of the arcade game was originally how the movie was meant to turn out. Those talks were like 10-15 years prior to AVP before was even thought of.

Definitely my all-time favorite beat-em-up arcade game. Thanks for doing this one, guys!

I don't remember a menora joke in BTTF

Mike Predators was a great movie imo. Check it out.

I played this game ONCE in the arcade, and people called me nuts when I said there was a Capcom Alien/Predator game with a girl that looked like Chun-Li. Never saw it again until now. Thank you for proving to me that I didn't make it up. I also vaguely remember that it was supposed to come onto a Sega console, maybe 32X or Saturn. The magazine said to use the girl because she was the best.

I haven't played this since spring of '95 (7th grade) at the arcade with one of my friends. I do remember we both played as Predators. I remember the cabinet having a somewhat unique look.

James and mike Monday's, the best show on youtube

About god damn time you played this.

This is the best non dungeons n dragons beatemup Capcom has ever made. The combat is waaay deeper than Mike and James were able to show because they did less than half of the move sets of all the characters.

Loved the Wawa food tangent.

Dungeons and dragons arcade next plz

James should shave his head and grow a beard, that'd look cool.

I actually grew up in Tokyo and played this game a lot in the early-mid 90s in the arcade, when I was in elementary school. This and an awesome WWF (now WWE) tag-team arcade game with the 80s stars. The end boss was the Legion of Doom. It was so good.

Loved this game as a kid. The best AvP game ever (arcade only of course)

Final Fight, AvP edition.

The chest busters.....you did not noticed them 3 levels ago? And "Predators" by the way is a love letter from by Robert Rodriguez. So much references and stuff to the original movie.

My internal arcade gamer screams as they never try to experiment with combos, don't notice the AB move costs health and waste powerups, steal each other's weapons. AvP Arcade had pretty insane combos and juggles... Atleast the stories and banter was great, though I'm bit amazed how Predators had escaped their radar. That movie is pretty gooood

Hey Make and James, your gameplay is like a crossover between Highlander and Alien Vs Predator.

This game is a 110% better movie then Ridley's prequel trilogy, and everything after Predator 2 and Aliens. One of those games that is just better then the reboot movies. Like Ghostbuster 2009 and Alien:Isolation. One of those things where the game came out and just was a better adaption. Also... SF2 and MK... possibly better then the live movies imho.

I thought it was ET versus Michael Jackson.

3:08 - 4:07 jame's summary of aliens vs predator sounds he fell asleep watching it in theater

hey guys, fun fact, the dude with the power arm in this game is Major Alan "Dutch" Schafer, the same Dutch from the original Predator movie, aka Arnold's character.

*YOU DON'T KNOW WHY YOU'RE FIGHTING HUMAN SOLDIERS ???* You guys were talking about food so much - you were not paying attention to the story. I'll give you a hint ... *WEYLAND.* You figure out the rest.

They go to WaWa. So fuckin' Jersey.

Arnold’s character in Predator is named Major Dutch Schaefer. That’s him in the game with the huge gun arm that James is controlling.

Mike's Pee Wee impression gets me every time!!

That sounded nothing like Jack Nicholson, sorry

Avp movies where definitely a disappointment but they are watchable. As far as the actual alien movies in order of best to worst I would say aliens, alien, Prometheus, covenant, resurrection, alien 3.

I had a dream last night that I was talking with Mike about an idea I had for a video involving Q-bert and you replied "no man I did not play those crappy games, but I did play , you know the one, Zelda" even in my sleep guys... Lots of Love from Greece!

Arcades where the best....AND still are!!!

Mike has beautiful teeth

please you two play ninja baseball batman

This alongside Cadillac and dinosaurs are the best beat em up of all times

Sean Connery was also offered the role of Morpheus from The Matrix around the same time Lord Of The Rings was being filmed and he didn't understand that script, either. Those two film series making tons of money and being critically praised caused him to realize he doesn't understand youth anymore.

The "baby" Alien of Alien 4 was the worst thing this franchise has ever done.

Everyone hates on Resurrection, but I believe it was at least better than Alien 3.

Aliens Infestation and AVP 2011 are both amazing games.

Love this game. One of the best CSPS games ever. Played through it a few months ago.

I prefer The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen over the Lord Of The Rings films.

While neither Alien vs Predator movie is good, neither are the worst thing ever (ESPECIALLY AVP Requiem). People really blew it out of proportion. Personally, I like AVP Requiem a little more b/c it had more of the Alien and Predator fighting than the first AVP.

You guys have a lot of energy and enthusiasm. Love it. You guys are awesome. 😀😀😀

I love the victory scream:)

The best part is when Mike is playing as the Phunter.

That Sean Connery story is the best thing I've heard this Monday.

James should implement his impression in one of his AVGN episodes

For all of our amusement, you guys should play Alien vs Predator for the SNES. That one was a real gem.