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| Topic | Leonhart Ranks 100 Games with Writeups! |
| LeonhartFour 01/26/20 4:10:09 PM #39: | #98. X-Men: The Arcade Game/The Simpsons Arcade Game Yeah, yeah, Im cheating here and combining two games that I could easily talk about separately just for the sake of padding out the list! This is the first time it happens, but it wont be the last! This is mostly an excuse just for me to talk about arcade experiences I had as a kid. Every now and then Ill go to a mall with an arcade in it, and Ill just do a quick walk through it just for old times sake. It usually makes me sad because theyre basically populated with racing simulators and shooters from 20+ years ago and not much else. I mean, those are fine and all, but what I really miss from arcades are the beat-em-ups and the fighting games. Arcades were the only way I was able to experience stuff like Super Street Fighter II Turbo (remember how this was a 3DO exclusive?) or Street Fighter III for a long time until Capcom started porting collections to Playstation consoles. I remember the first time I saw that huge Virtua Fighter arcade setup. It was mind-blowing as a little kid. Anyway, as far as arcade beat-em-ups go, X-Men and The Simpsons are the ones I remember the most fondly (Well, Turtles in Time, too, but I mostly played that one on SNES). I was always kind of surprised that these two never got home console releases until they were put on digital download stores. I never tried to play them again because I figured they probably wouldnt be as good as I remembered them being, so I chose to preserve my nostalgia! The main thing I remember about X-Men is that it was one of the only video games my dad ever played with me. Hed pick Colossus, and Id pick Nightcrawler (since they had the best special powers), and wed just try to get as far as we could. I dont think we ever beat it, but I just remember bringing it up with my dad from time to time and hed do an impression of the Colossus roar from the game. Now that my dads been gone for a few years, those kinds of memories are precious to me. As for The Simpsons arcade game, I was a huge fan of the show as a kid in the 90s. Ive barely watched the show at all in the last twenty years, but this game was when the show was in its heyday for me. There were some rough console Simpsons games during the SNES era (Barts Nightmare, anyone?), so it felt refreshing to get to play a good old-fashioned beat-em-up. Unfortunately, it feels like that genre has gone the way of the dinosaur (unless theres something out there Im missing), but it was cool to see a franchise I was a big fan of get a game in that genre. I always played as Bart because he was my favorite Simpsons character. I dont know that I ever got to the end of this one either, but if I had quarters to spare, Id always go at least one round in either The Simpsons or X-Men whenever I had the chance. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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