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X-MEN

Description

Select your favorite X-Men character and fight various foes. You can punch, kick, throw, and back-attack the enemies plus jump to avoid or jump-attack the enemies. Each character also has a unique mutant power.

X-MEN was produced by Konami in 1992.

Konami released 434 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978. Konami was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Konami during the time period X-MEN was produced include: Tsurikko Penta, Slime Kun, Mario Roulette, Xexex, Vendetta, Asterix, Bucky O'Hare, Escape Kids, G.I. Joe, and Hexion

Specs

Name	X-MEN
Developer	Konami (Japan)
Year	1992
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	10496
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Scrolling Fighter
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	JAMMA+
# Simultaneous Players	6
# Maximum Players	6
Game Play	Team
Control Panel Layout	Multiple Player
Controls	Joystick: 8-way Buttons: 3 - Attack\|Jump\|Mutant Power
Sound	Amplified Stereo (two channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard - Tiala Luster Upright/Standard - Ben Oberlander Upright/Standard - Andreya Boehm Upright/Standard Environmental/Cockpit - Back 510 lbs / Front 139 lbs
Side Art	X-MEN Side Art Image

Video Clips

Arcade Classics X-Men

Konami X-Men Arcade Game Cabinet Review - Six-Player Version - 1992 - John's Arc

Game Introduction

Each player can choose to be one of six characters: Cyclops, Colossus, Wolverine, Storm, Nightcrawler, and Dazzler.

The bad guys are Pyro, The Blob, The Wendigo, The White Queen, The Juggernaut, Master Mold, three Egyptian statues, Mystique, and Magneto.

This game features digitized sounds and voices from one of the Fox Kids show.

Game Play

The game play is similar to Double Dragon, The Simpsons, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Each character has different attacks and Mutant Powers consume three units of your energy meter. You receive an extra unit when a level has been completed.

X-MEN KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.69 (7 votes)

Fun Factor: 3.77

Overall Like	4.00
Fun (Social)	4.29
Fun (Solo)	3.00
Collector Desire	3.57

Technical Rating: 3.61

Gameplay	4.14
Graphics	3.71
Originality	3.00
Sound/Music	3.57

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

Images

Trivia

The game is based upon the comic book series of the same name.

Miscellaneous

This game does not use DIP swiches. Its test mode allows the operator to make changes which are saved to EEPROM.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op X-MEN Census

There are 15,264 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,669 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,973 machines (7,000 unique titles).

Very Common - There are 308 known instances of this machine owned by X-MEN collectors who are active members. Of these, 157 of them are original dedicated machines. 22 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 124 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 13 active VAPS members with a X-MEN machines for sale. There are 8 active VAPS members with a X-MEN circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - Very Popular - There are 27 active VAPS members currently looking for X-MEN. There are 4 active VAPS members looking for X-MEN boards sets.

This game ranks a 63 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 47 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Flyers

Technical

The board has monoural sound through the JAMMA connector and stereo sound through the four-prong sub-connector on the PCB.

Manuals

4 player Instruction Manual - X-MEN Manual — **4 player Instruction Manual**
(17 pages, 914 kB File)

X-men 2 Player Japanese Manual - X-MEN Manual — **X-men 2 Player Japanese Manual**
(2 pages, 11.1 MB File)

6 Player Manual - X-MEN Manual — **6 Player Manual**
(24 pages, 7.05 MB File)

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

3D Model (External): Upright (f84f6c14852ddad1d06e6be4f8954ac)
3D Model (External): Deluxe (bb702aaadf3da448993295cd37eb627b)

Arcade Map - Play This Game

Our members have reported that X-MEN is playable at 4 locations:

Name	Location	State	Country	Details	Check-ins
8-Bit Beans	100 Brock St South, Whitby	Ontario	Canada	Unknown	0
Bartari	101 Adams Ave, Scranton	Pennsylvania	United States	Bar	0
Level One Bar + Arcade	130 Hutchinson Ave, Columbus	Ohio	United States	Unknown	0
Starcade Amusements	400 Ernest W Barrett Pkwy NW, Kennesaw	Georgia	United States	Arcade	1

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