X-Men: The Arcade Game (Konami) (1992) Full Playthrough 

Kids today will NEVER know what it was like to go to an arcade on a Friday night or Saturday morning to play these games.. im forever grateful to grow up in the 90s..

This game, the Simpsons, and teenage mutant ninja turtles arcade games... RIP quarters

I can't believe after all these years I'm still not tired of Colossus yell lmao

I’m here because of the New Episode of X-Men ‘97

At 42 years old I finally saw the ending 😂

Hands down the greatest arcade game of all time

COLOSSUS YELL: WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAGH!!

A lotta damn quarters spent on that shit TMNT & The simpsons back in the day. GREAT MEMORIES

I want to relive this era.😫 This needs a remastered version! 😫

32:33 "Your Magneto is in another castle!"

Loved this game! Played as Nightcrawler almost every time!

That damn Colossus. "WHOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!"

Imagine this game based on the 1992 X-Men animated series: Cyclops, Storm and Wolverine would wear their costumes from the show. Colossus, Nightcrawler and Dazzler would be replaced by Beast, Gambit and Rogue. Kitty Pryde would be replaced by Jubilee. Nimrod would be replaced by Omega Red. Sabretooth would be one of the bosses.

This was one of the top games during that period of time. Man, the graphics and realism of the game was just mind blowing!! When I was 12 years old, I dreamed of owning a console playing games with these graphics without having to pay quarters. And what do you know - 20 years into the future, the console games today have better graphics than arcade games.

Used to play this game all of the time as a kid. Beat it countless times. Everybody loved to play as Nightcrawler or Wolverine.

Xmen, ninja turtles, sunset riders, captain commando, Cadillacs & dinosaurs, such an amazing time growing up in the 90s

This was always in the lobby of K-Mart. Used to always beg my mom to let me play it way back in the day

Ah, my favorite sport: Synchronized Ass Kicking!

Classic, old school arcade games. Today's kids sure missed out.

I remember how much this game blew my mind as a kid, when I played it for the first time after having spent months playing the NES x-men game

I have great memories of playing this game as a little kid with my cousin and my sister. We spent many hours working that machine.

19:40 Their reaction to kitty stating the obvious is Priceless!!! (and MEGA..!!.. HILARIOUS) xD

Damn, blew so many quarters at our pizza place in town on this game. was so good

I just noticed, only one person was playing this game. This was done on an emulator and all 4 characters were told to react to the same controls. Clever. In the comics, has Wolverine ever had the Adamantium Laser? While I'm at it, has Colossus ever had the um... Steel Explosion?"

25:21 Cyclops Epic Fail

The music and sound fx make this game a 90's classic!

21:00 "The White Queen welcomes you to OOOOOUAAAARGH!!!"

Thumbs up if NightCrawler was your favorite character in this game

It was this, Simpsons, and ninja turtles the games that kept the u.s mint making a ton of quarters in the 90's

This game, along with the TMNT arcade game were mainstays at the arcades I went to as a kid. Great memories, and fun times!

8:51 Blob: "Nothing moves the...." slash, slash, cut, cut, swipe, swipe... falls down.

This game is still fun to play after all of these years. I wish that they would make a remastered version of it and add in a few more characters and maybe one more type of special move for each character.

So the villains in the game are Magneto, Mystique, Juggernaut, Pyro, Emma Frost, Blob, Nimrod, and Wendigo And the heroes are Professor X, Cyclops, Wolverine, Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Dazzler, and Shadowcat It also be cool if we could play as Jean Grey, Beast, Iceman, Angel, Rouge, Gambit, and Psylocke in the game.

Many a quarters were spent feeding this Machine whenever I to Vegas with my parents. X-Men, TMNT, and The Simpsons were two games we wasted a bunch of quarters on. My favorite two was Nightcrawler or Wolverine.

ahhh memories, this made my childhood even though it was a little before my time. im happy i had the opportunity to play it

This game was so hard, I recall playing it several times at Boardwalk Blvd. arcade in Hazleton, PA....I miss those days!

31:36 "I AM MAGNETO AND YOU ARE NOTHING!!!" Hahaha, best line ever!

16-bit may not be much today, but back then the fun factor in playing video games like this at the arcades was off the scale. I miss those arcade rooms at the malls.

Thanks for posting this. I loved this game when I was young. So cool.

I grew up with this game. One of my childhood games. I love it.

I still remember my childhood, how much money i spent to play this game. Bring back happy + sad memories 😅

Thank you for team synergy and sync. Thank you for humor. This has been very inspiring to cease the day and lift spirits.

Remember running to the comic book store to play this on the arcade they had. Awesome memories! Kids these days truly missed out on the arcade games.

These were on of those games I spend major quarters with my friends back in the 90s,but it was worth every one of em!this game like the Simpson's and tmnt bring back so many childhood memories.

I can definitely recall playing this on an arcade. And from what I remember these games are hard to beat, the only thing able to defeat this game is a big amount of coins. The more you have the more powerful you are.

(All the X-men walk in) Wolverine: Hey what’s going on? Xavier: Go!! And save the city!! Wolverine: Wait, what? 😐

I was trying to tape two dimes and a nickel together to play this game at the skating rink. Good ol' days man...

For me, the best X-Men games from this era are as follows; Spiderman/X-Men: Arcade's Revenge (1992) X-Men (Konami arcade) (1992) X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse (1994) X-Men: Children of the Atom (1994) X-Men 2: Clone Wars (1995)

I like how the transitions are so fast paced in old video games and this one is a champ. I never expected big story lines or animations, but you are like between two stages and you barely have time to read the text (but then, everyone at the arcade is on crack, right?). And all you are told is "HURRY AND GO SAVE X", action begin straight back, put your quarters! Straight to the point! No wonder where I learnt the direct style now. Oh, and this probably forced us to develop a fertile imagination to fill the gaps!

This was back when I didn't know much about Dazzler and Colossus. I thought his power was merely yelling really loud

I remember when this game was introduced as a wide screen cabinet with six players. It was revolutionary at the time

This, Turtles in time and The Simpsons games by Konami will forever be in my memories till the day I die.

Gawd it's so hilarious watching them in sync...:D

This was my favorite game ever

Reminds me of my childhood. Played this game with my mate quite a few times, and usually finish it one or two lives

Played this the first time in 1993 when me and the family headed down south from Scotland and had to stop for gas and a bite to eat at some random station and I must say it was the best stop of life..lol

NOTHING MOVES THE- *gets moved* .

¡Mi juego favorito! Muchas gracias por los gratos recuerdos.

I used spend my quarters on this arcade. In the 90s one of the best arcade.

I played the 6 player version of this at Fantasy World arcade in Abilene Texas as a kid, still love this game.

Ahh the childhood memories! I used to play this all the time at the arcade back in the day! I miss these days.

And the gold medal for Synchronized Brawling goes to Team X-Men!

21:00 "White Queen welcomes you t-" "WHOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAGHHHHHH!!!!!"

The dramatic pause after Prof. X says "Go and save the city..." "........while you just sit there?"

Between this, ninja turtles and the simpsons my mother could’ve paid for grad school with the amount of quarters I begged her for and then summarily sunk into those cabinets!

Now that's alot of Tokens! Thanks for going through the whole thing and showing us how it ends...I got too pissed at the waste of quarters lol

The good Ole up and down followed by button mashing punching the good Ole days

25:32 Hands down, the hardest level. Especially that cliff you have to walk across. The boss is also pretty nasty

3:31 hahahahahaha

Compared to Capcom, Konami’s thirst for licensing ‘toons seemed to have no end and they feasted in 1992 with no less than four arcade adaptations. Granted, not all of them were as well known as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or The Simpsons, two properties that they already had under their belt, but that didn’t stop them. Wild West C.O.W. Boys of Moo Mesa and Bucky O’Hare entered the fray along with the French born comic hero, Asterix. But the biggest name in this lineup would turn out to be a clever adaptation of one of Marvel’s biggest power groups - the X-Men. X-Men ran on what arcade hardware museum, System 16, calls “Konami X-Men Based Hardware” which was an arcade board sharing similarities to the ones used by The Simpsons and Vendetta in 1991. Konami, like many other arcade houses back in the day, custom built hardware for their games creating a potpourri of various boards and cabinet configurations. Efforts were made by some, such as Capcom and SNK, in the late 80s and early 90s to build a standard set of hardware like the CPS or Neo Geo MVS, respectively, to power their games and cut down on costs, but Konami was one of those that seemed to pull whatever they had in stock at the time and cobble together the hardware they needed for any particular project. The board did share similar characteristics to Capcom’s and SNK’s hardware in using Motorola’s 16-bit 68000 processor for the CPU, Zilog’s Z80 as the sound CPU, and Yamaha sound chips - standard stuff back in the day. It’s just that Konami loved their custom boards. A lot. As a cartoon adaptation, X-Men very loosely followed concepts borne out in 1989’s animated pilot, X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men. Though the pilot didn’t kick off a hoped-for X-Men cartoon series (and pretty much marked the end of Marvel’s foray into animation which had started with Fantastic Four in ’78), game developers were still eager to license its characters such as when Sega brought Spider Man to the arcade in 1991 with a lavishly animated beat ’em up. Three years later, X-Men would finally get their own cartoon series in 1992, which was also the same year that their arcade game would arrive. It’s hard to believe, but the powerhouse that is Marvel today would find itself struggling to stay afloat in 1996 a few years later after seemingly doing well. Their arcade debut had a number of different configurations but its largest one allowed six players (some were 2-player cabinets, many were 4-player cabinets) to co-0p through the adventure together on a giant cabinet equipped with a double monitor setup. One monitor was hidden below inside the cabinet and reflected up to create a widescreen effect allowing all six players to see what was going on. It was similar to the same technique used by Taito in ’87, and '92 respectively using a three monitor setup for their Darius, Sagaia (Darius II), The Ninja Warriors, and Warrior Blade: Rastan Saga Episode 3, and Tecmo's '87 Tecmo Bowl to create a triple widescreen (but which only the later two had 2-player co-op). Each player had an eight-way joystick for 3D movement and three buttons (one for jumping, attacking, and launching a special mutant attack) to wreak havoc amongst Magneto’s forces. Each mutant had similar limitations when it came to basic attacks (because X-Men had its own special button, hitting attack and jumping did a jump attack instead). Their specials, though, really helped to set them apart at the cost of three bars of health (tokens could buy more lives, or health gauges). Cyclops had his optic blasts, Wolverine launched slashing damage, Colossus’ armor exploded in a bubble of energy, Storm fired tornadoes, Nightcrawler launched a zig zagging energy teleport attack, and Dazzler fired off a bolt of energy exploding in a huge dome of death. These attacks could often annihilate lesser foes with one strike and dish severe damage against the bosses. The great animation work also helped to make all six characters stand out with dramatic moves and combos. Players could also pick and choose who they wanted to be as opposed to being locked in by which position they chose on the cabinet. If there was one thing Konami excelled at doing with their adaptations, it was in respecting the art of the cartoons in bringing them to life in the arcade as well as leveraging their game design know-how into transforming star villains into creative bosses much like what Sega had done with Spider Man in 1991. Konami’s artists copied the cartoon and comic style of the X-Men with the same kind of attention to detail that they paid to The Simpsons, TMNT, Asterix and others, a trait that console adaptations would also share like 1994’s The Adventures of Batman & Robin on the SNES. Story-wise, X-Men excelled with a dramatic intro, voiced cutscenes, and speaking parts for all of the bosses eschewing as much text as possible until the very end. It was certainly a step up from the text-heavy cuts that Capcom often favored in their beat ’em ups. On the other hand, the gameplay wasn’t quite as bombastic. Much of the action revolved around our heroes fighting through seven stages ranging from a wrecked city to Magneto’s stronghold in orbit, Asteroid M, from where he plots to take over the world while bellowing infamous lines such as “Come, X-Chicken!” and “Come to die!”. Most enemies consisted of palette swapped Sentinel-minis and big, armored guys with huge cannons. Bosses had a lot of personality, but didn’t last very long against concerted special attack blasts. There also wasn’t a whole lot of variety later outside of a few alligator-headed mutants and critters that popped in from time to time. As far as breakables, there wasn’t a lot to interactively demolish in the environment, either. It was basic, beat ’em up action with great production values and a famous license. That by itself isn’t too much of a bad thing, but the action was something of a far cry from what Capcom’s beat ’em up direction celebrated in trying to introduce as much variety as possible with every iteration. Like Konami’s other titles, the scoring system was based more on how many enemies you took out than raw points such as in Capcom’s beat ’em up system. Continues preserved your score by default and dropped players right back into the game with a chance to pick someone new. Finishing the game also didn’t simply end it after the credits rolled - it picked up again from the start allowing players to exhaust what was left of all of those tokens they may have dumped into the game to buff up the lives they had. X-Men didn’t die in the arcades like so many of its peers. Years later, it would show up on the Playstation Network and Xbox Live Arcade as a downloadable title. Players could pick between either the US or Japanese version, adjust difficulty, and up to six players could join in locally or online (though the XBLA version could only support four local). A few other changes included tweaks to Cyclops’ optic beam range and re-recording a few lines. In 2011, Konami released it on iTunes and Android as a copy that remained closer to the arcade version. Playing the game solo wasn’t bad but X-Men is one of those games that seemed made for jumping into a group to trash some of Marvel’s menagerie in all of their spandex-wearing best. It was a standout example of Konami’s cartoony lineup and probably its best foot forward in 1992. It’s not the most involved beat down, nor does it mutate the essentials into anything too dramatic, but for X-fans, it was still an opportunity to punch Magneto in the face to shut him up.

Listening to this with my subwoofer on is how I play games these days.

This should be on the Nintendo Switch! I'd buy it today if Nintendo had it!

Magneto "Ha hahaha! X-Men, Welcome, to die!!" I guess that one slipped by them🙄😁

cyclops Wolverine storm colossus dazzler Nightcrawler .. .. this game is in early my childhood. love it and feel get back to that time. thanks for upload this

I was the weirdo who always played Dazzler. Her sonic light grenades were surprisingly effective.

God I forgot how awesome the soundtrack was in this, god we need some hipster to remake a spirit sequel to this

Thanks. i remember the Scarlet witch.Couldnt beat her. The game is pretty hard in my opnion.

Finally had the chance to play this game on an emulator. And this time I was able to enjoy it in its entirety. Because back when this game came out, I didn't get to enjoy it since my parents only gave me so many quarters. But playing it again gave me the chance to experience it the way it was meant to be. Thank goodness for modern technology.

Used to play this at Funworks all the time in the 90's!

Do you have one joystick controlling all four characters?

The X-Men dominated the 90s. Why the new X-Men games dont release anymore?

This brings back memories the golden age of the arcade...i remember being in 5th grade back in the 90s spending quarters on this game... Before all the tilts went out of business ...r.i.p. Tilt

My go to game at National Sports Pickering Ontario. Arcade, batting cages, early VR boxing. I miss that place!

You were controlling the four players by yourself, right? Very curious.

I loved this arcade game, wonder if it's a way to buy it on E Bay or Amazon?

Last time i played this game which I lost very quickly was at the arcade is this game a download or is it available on game systems.

i loved playing this game. i remember playing it at a place called major magic's along with tmnt arcade game, spider man the arcade game and captain America and the avengers arcade game those were the best

Got plenty of my mom's quarters growing up...

Such a great game and it makes me sad thinking of what could have been after pryde of the xmen..

Colossus, Nightcrawler, and Storm. My 3 go tos in this game...By far one of the all time best 90s arcade games...logged many a quarter on this one

This was the very first game I went crazy at, me and my brother used to play this at showtime (movie rental store) for hours

Fuck, this was fun to play! XD

Storm was doin all the work in the beginning

man this game was a big part of my childhood from ages 8-12 i would go to the arcade and hit up this machine at least once a week and try to beat this game with 2 bucks in quarters. It took me a good 3 years to beat this game because i was not that good at it but when i did the sense of accomplishment stayed with me for a very long time. Years later towards the back end of highschool i went to a local pizza place that had this machine and boy you better believe i put in some money to relive my kid years, Glad i was born in the 90s so i got to do this and visit proper arcades

Man oh man, thank you for giving me some closure on a game from when I tossed pizzas but they didn't give us free play on the cabinets in the store.

This is why 3D games should not be a replacement to 2D games. They ought to be more of a supplement/compliment to them. 2D games tend to have upbeat music.

I thought this game was made by Capcom until it was actually KONAMI! xD

our childhoods were epic. the great trio: the simpsons, TMNT, and XMEN at the arcade. and Mortal Kombat for fighting...

I used to play this when I was a kid.

Looks like this guy went on the emulator synced all the buttons and is playing all 4 characters simultaneously. I'm going to do the same thing now. lol