What I love about this game is the fact that thanks to mvc 1 I started to watch Max's videos (the online warrior ones) and found an amazing person and community so thanks mavhel!
Not being able to just go out and read the X-Men comics when I was a kid, I learned of Onslaught from my little brother and him narrating what he had. Still remember getting the PS1 version of MVC and him flipping out when Onslaught showed up as the final boss. "It's Onslaught, and he's the final boss, and he's kicking your ass, and I'm sorry, but he looks really cool!," the Onslaught fanatic said. Liked seeing what the big bad could do in versus mode after I unlocked him though. Arcade version was fun at the Mall too back in the day.
its funny you post this right now Max. as I type this, my 9 year old daughter is playing MvC2 on my old PS2 for the first time and is getting good with rose, spider-man, and venom and she loves it. This is a game thats making her as shes been practicing combos for over an hour now.
My own MvC story. I had experience playing Marvel Superheroes in the neighbourhood bar, so when MvC made it to the larger arcade in town, everyone played it like Street Fighter because that's all they knew up til then. So there's this 15 year old kid playing Wolverine and Spiderman and just dominating with flashy looking combos and everyone was impressed. Took a break to prepare for exams and by the time I got back everyone was that much better than me
MvC!! This is a masterpiece of a fighting game! Gosh darn it, Capcom has to bloody make a VS series Collection set!!! TOO MANY of these games need to be brought back!!
@@trajanpowell8925 I KNOOOOOW!!! I went ballistic along side MAX when I saw that N DIRECT! The second the announcer said “we’re going to take you for a ride!”, NEURON ACTIVATION INITIATED!!!!
Such a great game. I actually prefer it to mvc2 since it wasnt as bombarded with screen chaos. This game was insanely easy in arcades up to onslaught. Wish the later installments had that classic music and background art.
When i was a teenager there was a food place in my neighborhood that had several arcade machines .this was my portal to marvel vs capcom and the king of fighters games.when i entered the local and saw rockman fighting againts spiderman (two of my favourite characers in the world) whit anime style sprites i lost my shit .i was amazed and quickly began to spent entire days there .in my home everyone knew where i been all day cause i always came home smeling like fried potatoes or chicken . It definetly is the best vs game of the whole saga .also bengus did his best work ilustrating this game art Also here in Argentina kof 98 and 2002 were the shit .those arcades were allways full of people waiting to play
This game was my intro to fighting games. I would use my bus money to play this game. Once I was done I would have to run up a hill and explain to my parent why I was late, it was always the bus fault.
I remember seeing this for the first time at a laundromat I went to as a kid. As a comic book fan and a fan of street fighter this blew me away. My mains were Spider-Man and Wolverine and my other main was venom and Wolverine.
I remember when i first saw MvC, MvC2 and CvS, it was during the dreamcast era, there was this public access channel back then called "MNN" it was named "the youtube before youtube." A channel where you rent broadcasting time for whatever content you made for people to watch. There were a few guys whose content was based around anime and games- one had footage of jin fighting spiderman and i was so hyped up man- i was mad loud with excitement. When they eventually came out, me and my bros bought them for the dreamcast and played the hell out all of them. Very good times and golden moments made for me around that era. 😊
Somewhere around 1999, the MvC1 cabinet was standing up at the front of the Tilt by the food court at the mall here, and I got my best-ever fighting game win streak there, taking Chun-Li and Jin to 34 wins in a row. Something like an hour's worth of gameplay on 50 cents. And then sixteen years later the mall gets new owners and they drive the Tilt out by insisting on placing their own arcade games all around the mall.
MvC1 among other fighting games were the rite of passage in my school. All the older students would be playing against the new ones, and bodying them left and right. It was one of the biggest hurdles we had to get over, and it was probably one of the best memories i've ever had as a kid.
My team of of Strider/Cap. Commando was always seen as weird in the arcade days. I also discovered Morrigan through this game and it ignited my love of Dark stalkers
I have pretty much the same story as Max, this is the game that made me. I was that plucky 14 year old kid, playing either Strider-Jin or double Chun-Li, that kept going at it and getting my ass kicked, until this one older guy (maybe 21 or 22) took me under his wing and taught me more complex combos and basic strategy. By the time MvC2 came around, I was one of the best at my arcade and had moved up to getting my ass kicked by guys with an actual reputation like Viscant and Dasrik. And honestly, THIS is why the FGC has always been the most social and most diverse gaming scene- playing Marvel at home wasn't really an option, so the only way to get better was by diving into the scene and making friends.
When X-Men Vs Street Fighter came out, I was so hyped and couldn’t believe Capcom couldn’t top it, and MSHvSF seemed to confirm that since it simply traded the roster, keeping the backgrounds, and felt like an expected half-step. Marvel Vs Capcom, however, was mind-blowing. Seeing characters other than Street Fighter really opened up my world. Mega Man…a fighter? (Never knew of Power Battles before then) Strider?? CAPTAIN COMMANDO IS ACTUALLY REAL?!?! Having Roll as a secret character was really fun. However, most important: this game was the first time I played a Darkstalkers character and the experience was so fun, it made me finally try out Darkstalkers on its own (before I only ever watched the machine). This was the first time I was playing a Capcom fighter that wasn’t Street Fighter or Marvel and it blew up my fighting game output (perfect timing as I went to college soon after MVC released). And this is why it’s important to allow more fighting games to be out and playable, to encourage players to seek out the games that the fighters originate, not merely be asset dumps! Cameos are fine but if you don’t have access to the games then the reference is lost. Really, I owe MVC a lot to branching out my fighting game purview and I wouldn’t care about Capcom fighters as much as I do without it!
12:37 _Holy synchronization, dude!!_ That double victory pose, yo! 🤩 As for my fighting game history... When I was a kid in the San Diego County area, there was a convenience store with a _Street Fighter II_ arcade near the apartments I lived in. Seeing the bloodied forms of the losing characters actually *scared me off of videogames for a good few years...* I would eventually recover by playing puzzle and sports games like _Tetris Attack_ and _Mario Golf/Tennis._ Then as a pre-teen, _X-Men: Children of the Atom_ caught my interest. Later, _X-Men vs. Street Fighter_ had my attention. And when _Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Superheroes_ landed, *it had my complete affection!* I became a full-fledged fighting game fan ever since. 😁
Beautiful story 🥲 so awesome that you also went to an arcade at the mall that brought me way back to mine the popular games there capcom vs snk and marvel vs capcom 2
Man…I first played this game at a launders mat, in Brooklyn New York. Soon as I found it on PlayStation it was a wrap for my other games😂😂 Still have that ps1 disk and it will always get replays at my crib. Love it
Holy shit that jungle jive story hit me in my soul. I did the same thing. I couldn't tell you want games I played with those tokens but I loved getting them tokens. If you hung around that machine enough, the odd token would fall down and cause a cascade and you could get a free dollar from just right place right time.
This game is truly one of a kind. An all-time great. On a related note, I actually genuinely loved Roll in MvC1. It is utterly baffling to me that they decided she of all characters needed to be so heavily nerfed in MvC2. If 2 had 1's version of Roll, I would legitimately use her in it.
MvC1 to me had the most lacking roster in the entire series. Other than Roll, even the hidden characters were unimpressive. Where was thee Ken Masters, Iron Man and U.S. Agent? I don’t want orange versions of Hulk and Venom. Also I wanted Guile to be on the roster (instead of Chun-Li), with Shadow and Shadow Lady as hidden fighters. And Guile's plot in MvC1 centering on him teaming up with Captain America and trying to unbrainwash both Nash and Chun-Li.
MvC inspired the strikers system in KOF 99 - 2K1... This game has the SNK spirit, as in: THIS IS A LOVE LETTER TO MARVEL COMICS AND CAPCOM GAMES... So much passion was put in this I can almost smell it... Same as in KOF 98, 2K2, XIII XIV and XV...
I know this is Max’s history in the fighting games that made him, but damn, the title for this video should’ve been the “Fighting That Made US”. MvC1 is a classic for most of us, and it deserves its place in the upper echelon of fighting games, period.
MvC1 surely holds a special place in my heart, because it was one of my personal favourite picks to play when I went to the arcade, and mainly because spiderman and megaman were in the game. It's funny, because that was around 2005/6 when I was 5-6 years old, and even though arcades were pretty much dead, this only arcade had a floor dedicated to shooters, racing games and prize machines, and a floor dedicated to old arcade games (I remember there were like 4 different kof machines as well as a couple of mortal kombats). But so far the coolest thing was that all the machines were the Sega Astrocity (I believe thats the name) machines, and they actually felt good to play, not like the cheap machines that you could find somewhere else. Fucking love this game even though I really suck at it lol
I worked at a movie theater in my early 20s as a manager and we had this game in the arcade. I played on my breaks. When I got off and closed and stayed a few hours to play. When I saw a movie. It ran on tokens. Which we provided. I wasn't good at all. But as a huge fan of these characters growing up and how awesome it was, I just loved playing. I got another job and heard through old coworker friends that the general manager was selling it. I made a deal and a week later I went to get it and it was gone. He sold it to another business for more. Whatever.
Onslaught’s character concept was a great idea: Professor X corrupted by Magneto’s mind after wiping it due to the events of Fatal Attractions (sending a global EM pulse to shut down all machines, ripping out Wolverine’s Adamantium) and looking to attack the world for mutant persecution. However, what took him down to Ultra-lame was his story arc being used to shuffle the Avengers off into the whole Heroes Reborn debacle, a huge mistake that really harmed Marvel’s reputation (along with the bankruptcy and other factors).
Yep I love this game. I actually share some similar experiences, but the BIG thing for me about this game is that I got to know a lot of these cool characters (like, venom, strider, gambit, etc) even tho I wasn't good playing this back then. Also Captain America's theme for me is the OFICIAL main theme of MVC 1
Dude these HDMI mods you've had done to the original hardware completely transforms the experience! I've never seen this game look this good! And I bet it plays like a dream
So at my middle we were allowed to go outside and eat near at the pizza shop. The bodega at the corner had mvc 1. me and a group of kids wouldn’t lunch all week just so that we could meet up after school on fridays to play it. And before anyone ask why we didn’t just eat the lunch room food it’s because we would play football for longer than the kids that ate in the lunch room.
I love MVC 1 especially when I first played it on my uncle's Dreamcast. Only time I played it on a arcade machine was once at a local movie theater. I still remember it like yesterday, This 1 guy was whooping people still on the same quarters with his team of Wolverine & Strider. I was next to play so I popped my quarters in dude looked & took me as a chump since I was 8 at the time point is I ended that man's whole career with Ryu/MegaMan untill I had to go & watch some movie. Man I wish I had my own Dreamcast back in those days that was a fighting game I literally wanted to get good at.
I saw the Marvel vs. Capcom cabinet in Peter Piper Pizza around 6 or 7 years old. My team was Spider-Man and Mega Man because I love the Sam Raimi movies and I enjoy watching the Mega Man NT Warrior anime. Seeing them join forces blew my mind and I love the game so much, I begged strangers for tokens like a hobo when I ran out of tokens my mom gave me.
This game and kof 2001 were my first fighting games. Both arcade cabinets right next to each other in my laundromat 😂 I was ass at kof but Marvel vs Capcom was my most favorite arcade game for literally almost 2 decades !
My brother used to work at a movie theatre and after school I would go to his work and wait for him to get off to go home. His best friend/supervisor would give me free credits to play Marvel vs Capcom while I wait for him to get off and I would be so good using Chun Li/Morrigan
I was playing MvC2 (new to fighting games and started diving to older ones since i found 3rd strike) I saw X-men vs SF and i was like "WHY MVC2 WAS LIKE THAT" and then dove into MvC 1 my god. That game is the most beautiful shit in the world. I was so sad when i realised that i can't get the arcade 1up for it anymore.
DEAR GOD. That thumbnail art. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 This was one of the first out of many fighting games, aside from the Street Fighter series and Pocket Fighter, Power Stone, Rival Schools, as well as various titles from other companies, that I'd watch my brother play through as a young lad... and yet I've only learned how to fireball. I just love seeing sprites at work, especially the backgrounds IF they're destructible. I had never been to a videogame arcade at that time but had seen single arcade cabinets here and there visiting my dad in the US and funny enough saw an Alpha 2 cabinet at a pizza place I frequented in the 2010s. There were so many good games out there to see but MAHVEL 1 always stood out to me.
Max and I have very similar stories here. Mom gives you $1 in quarters, you turn that into $5 with the gambling machine, and then you play your game. Only difference is with me it was UMK3. Lol. Good times
Didn't the Dreamcast version let each person control a character when they were all on screen? The credits are charming, though I'd tie it with Puzzle Fighter.
I remember burning my sixth grade grad trip at a bowling alley playing MVC. Got to Onslaught, SOMEHOW. Ran Venom and Captain Commando. I'm trash at this game but I have fond memories of it.
I know the "Jungle Jive" machine you're talking about, we had a few machines like that when our local arcade, Dream Machine, still existed at the Maine Mall. Never went for it though, I was more into raking in tickets at the arcade (Unless I had an urge to play HotD or Area 51), but I remember those machines.
I have so many stories about arcades from my area. Everything from the small one near the local drug store and playing the Simpsons Arcade Game and X-Men vs Street Fighter to going down to one of Maine's biggest vacation towns and playing the original Punch-Out Machine
I'm glad that Max prefers MVC1 over 2. I feel the same way! The general gameplay with its use of all 6 buttons and the limit of assist characters meant that the gameplay put more emphasis on the actual player characters Don't get me wrong MVC2 is still great but 1 felt more balanced and polish, but what it has over 2 is personality; the general art direction and music feels like a celebration of both Capcom and Marvel properties, as opposed to the more uniform, slightly generic look and sound MVC2 went with.
In my local arcade, we used to jokingly call strider's bomb the wolverine defense. Because it would shut down a solo wolverine so hard. It forced him to play patient because wolvie couldn't do any damage worth face tanking the bomb in the time it two it took to summon it.
Played it on Dreamcast....and then MvC2 released and I never played it again. A friend owned it, I never did, but once I had MvC2 I didn't even think to go back. This game is amazing though.
Very cool game indeed. Back then when I was playing arcade machines, I was mainly playing Metal Slug machines and a few times SF. Years later I finally played MvC and boy so good! I was mainly a Spider-Man/Wolverine guy and was trying to play better with Megaman, but failing. Hopefully they release all the MvCs in a collection (at least 1, 2, 3 and maybe a few other like Marvel Heroes and etc.). I would buy that shit so much, even if I am more of a offline player.
I love how they kept the Gambit theme from X-Men VS. Street Fighter. Wish they did that in MVC2 but MVC2 did the whole unique jazz ost thing. Still good, but characters no longer had unique theme songs. 🤔 but that MVC2 ost do be funky.
Gambit looks so cool in the thumbnail with that art style definitely one of my favorite X-MEN characters I'm sad Channing Tatums Gambit movie didn't get made he seems so passionate about the Gambit character id love to see Channing Tatum play Gambit someday everything I've heard about the Gambit movie script sounds really cool a Rated R mutant Goodfellas movie set in New Orleans in the Deadpool side of the Fox X-Men movies universe is so unique and cool sounding to me man
Marvel Vs.Capcom 1 was my absolute favorite fighter in the arcade and the Dreamcast era. It was so polished and the sprites were on fucking point! The music lord help me I still whistle Captain America's theme from time to time. The announcer is so fucking iconic!
Darkstalkers got me good on stick. Saw a dude playing Sasquatch once and noticed how he was flicking the stick between his middle and ring finger. Started doing it too and after that it was me and Morrigan delivering soul snatching asswhuppins for 2 and a half hours! 😂 Every Friday 4pm after school. Usually left at 7 because the old heads would show up and wreck shop. One day I got ballsy and accepted a challenge to Alpha 2. He let me win one match just to have someone keep him company 😂
I know you mentioned liking this roster in triple KO. But this game definitely lacked villains and as a villains only player I couldn’t be that into this verses game.
Never was exposed to MvC1 but played the crap outta Marvel Super heroes PlayStation and I have no idea why but with just 10 characters (11 if you knew the doctor d code) I vividly remember losing whole nights to the game. Such fun simple times.
My fondest memories of MVC1 are playing it at a little market next to my high school that we called Dirty Mike's. They also had Puzzle Fighter and MVC2 so the place was always packed
My Uncle & myself used to fight over the PS1 back in the day so much, he was more of a Tekken3/MSG - I was more on MvC/GT1..which it’s kinda funny because we would take turns to see who was better at what game when his friends would visit lol
For me this game was special because it was my first Arcade game. Living in a small town we never have Arcades previous to this, this was one of the few machines that this first Arcade local have. Marvel catch everyone attention there probably because the superheroes. I don't even like MvC2 but this one was part of my history.
The old X-Men show set up for the Onslaught saga but never actually did it. I think it's because it escalated from an X-Men problem into a big Marvel event. I heard it was ass. His concept is so cool though.
it's beautiful to see how everyone is having certain memories with their first loved fighting game .. for me it was waku waku 7 , not too popular but it's pretty good tho .. i've spend a lot of time and quarters haha getting beaten up trying to get better at the game . i really loved the characters in it back in the days especially rai and slash . sweet memories
First fighting games for me were Tekken, Marvel vs Streetfighter, Fatal Fury and Marvel vs Capcom. But it was Guilty Gear that became my main game of choice
