The Mutant Madness of X Men Video Games | A Lengthy Retrospective

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How can a superhero franchise that has had so much success in the world of cinema and comics - struggle so hard when it steps into video game form? Why have the exploits of Wolverine, Deadpool, Cyclops, Magneto and Storm been absent from our screens for over eleven years?

These are the questions we're going to answer today as we journey through the history of the X-Men in video game form - the most chaotic family of licensed adaptations ever produced

It'll take us from cult classics to genre masterpieces to licensed abominations - it'll leap between Street Fighter, Spiderman, Call of Duty, Hulk Hogan and the Avengers - it'll take us across seven decades, nine console generations and well over forty games.

It's part critique, part retrospective, part review and part history lesson - obviously full of spoilers and obviously full of my opinions.

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Bibliography will be provided shortly

=== Chapters === 00:00:00 – "To me my X Men!" 00:07:16 – The Uncanny X-Men 00:20:37 – X-Men Madness in Murderworld 00:29:45 – X-Men 2 Fall of Mutants 00:37:24 – Wolverine 00:47:57 – X-Men Arcade 01:02:19 – Spiderman & X-Men in Arcade's Revenge 01:10:49 – X-Men (Sega Genesis) 01:22:50 – X-Men (Sega Game Gear) 01:29:03 – Wolverine Adamantium Rage 01:38:51 – X-Men Mutant Apocalypse 01:52:56 – X-Men Children of the Atom 02:05:10 – X-Men vs Street Fighter (+ Marvel vs Capcom) 02:23:48 – X-Men 2 Clone Wars 02:32:51 – X-Men 2 + 3 (Sega Game Gear) 02:39:14 – X-Men The Ravages of Apocalypse 02:49:37 – X-Men Mutant Academy 03:03:54 – X-Men Mutant Wars 03:11:51 – X-Men Mutant Academy 2 03:21:02 – X-Men Wolverine's Rage 03:27:44 – X-Men Reign of Apocalypse 03:37:53 – X-Men Next Dimension 03:49:09 – X2 Wolverine's Revenge 04:07:00 – X-Men Legends 04:30:24 – X-Men Legends 2 04:51:28 – X-Men The Official Game 05:07:11 – X-Men Origins Wolverine 05:27:33 – X-Men Destiny 05:45:16 – Deadpool 06:01:23 – "I can't feel you..."

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