Yeah, there’s the art style, plus those types of games in general, I remember playing a lot of them in the Arcades back in the 80s. I played them because if I was in the arcade for an hour, it was one of the cheaper options. I could put in a quarter and play that style of game for a decent amount of time. But finally one day I decided, you know what? I never enjoy these types of games, so why should I play them just because they’re cheap? Better to spend way more money on racing games and sit down behind that steering wheel and actually have some fun. Or spend a quarter on Spy Hunter, which came out in 1983, so it was ancient by the time people were playing Streets of Rage style games. But man, Spy Hunter was so much more fun for me compared to those other games.
Arcades in general were interesting that way. I hadn’t really thought about them in years. I guess the Streets of Rage style game was the equivalent of an MMO to me in modern times. An economical way to spend the time, but just not fun.
Ah, I understand now. That about sums up every brawler ever for me. People rave about the X-Men, TMNT, and Simpsons arcade games but they always left me cold.
I didn’t even like that one part with Gat in Saints Row 4.
Anyone raving about X-Men or The Simpsons in 2018 hasn’t played either since they were a kid pumping quarters into the machine with their friends. Those games are dumpster fires, as made incredibly obvious when you try to play any of them now.
However, they aren’t fair representations of the genre, and certainly not of Streets of Rage, which is balanced far better and actually, y’know, intended to be finished by normal people.
I loved the X-men arcade game. So much so that it got me to start collecting comics again (combined with the 90s cartoon). It was the last in a long line of arcade games that I invested a lot of time in, but it was also the only one in that line that wasn’t really beatable, at least with every character. Is there a way to play the game now?
Here’s an interesting article about Xbox teaming up with Discord to allow chat across Xbox and PC shared games. I thought of a bunch of us trying to join up a Sea of Thieves session when I came across the article.
Nice, I almost bought Laser League when it came out on PC but eventually held off. It looks like a fun distraction and being on the Games Pass should help with the concurrent player levels.
MAME is your best bet for X-Men as an arcade experience. Alternately…
If you decide to get it, I’ll fly to St. Louis and drive back to Canada with you so we can play it before I head back to PA. :D
If you’d rather get the X-Men: Children of the Atom fighting game instead…
It apparently is in stock at TNT after they did the restoration work. I post that video because Tuckey talks about the origin of the RCA jack in that segment which I had zero idea about and is super interesting!
I’m thinking Overcooked looks like a fun couch co-op game for my kids, kind of like Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime. And man, everything I’ve seen about Homefront looks so uninteresting, but maybe I’ll give it a try since it isn’t costing me anything.
I don’t know but I assume so, since that was kind of one of the calling cards of the first game. I’m playing that through now and I actually kind of like that aspect, really keeps you driving forward, you never really get comfortable, which is at least thematically appropriate.
Yeah, I liked the idea of it. But my characters always ended up dying soon after that. So good in theory, but I guess the game was just too hard for me.
That has been a factor for me too. Not my own crew, at least not so far, but all the random folk out in the world who seem to be unable to look after themselves but also unwilling to just shack up with me. Always ends badly for them.
