The Glorious World 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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