This game had great Jim Lee art in the ads, but I never saw it at any video rental store or department store as a kid. I've always been curious about it, and now decades later, I discover it's...a Metroid knock-off? Did LJN make any good games for the Nintendo?
At first I thought this was referring to the Tiger game (it was Wolverine and Cyclops vs. Magneto and Sabretooth for like 90 levels). But I do vaguely recall the ads for it now. Wasn't there an "homage" of that image of Cap leaping from Uncanny #268, but with Wolverine in the same pose? I guess Lee can't be accused of swiping from himself.
Anything X-Men related on NES was just the drizzling shits. This was helped to no end by the awesome Konami game that everyone loved and omnipresent at every arcade. I still wanna buy the six-player version that thing and stick it in my house. Perhaps one day, when I'm rich and eccentric enough to get away with it.
@cyke68: But I do vaguely recall the ads for it now. Wasn't there an "homage" of that image of Cap leaping from Uncanny #268, but with Wolverine in the same pose?
If you're thinking of the same image I am, wasn't that originally uses as a cover to one of the issues of Wolverine's solo series?
Not that it isn't still an homage, but at least Lee created the second image for a specific purpose.
I think someone specifically asked me NOT to review X-Men 2099 once. I think someone (not me) should review it while looking at the 2099 line as a whole. I honestly don't have a lot to say about the book, even though I do have a little bit of nostalgia for it.
At first I thought this was referring to the Tiger game (it was Wolverine and Cyclops vs. Magneto and Sabretooth for like 90 levels). But I do vaguely recall the ads for it now. Wasn't there an "homage" of that image of Cap leaping from Uncanny #268, but with Wolverine in the same pose? I guess Lee can't be accused of swiping from himself.
ReplyDeleteAnything X-Men related on NES was just the drizzling shits. This was helped to no end by the awesome Konami game that everyone loved and omnipresent at every arcade. I still wanna buy the six-player version that thing and stick it in my house. Perhaps one day, when I'm rich and eccentric enough to get away with it.
I wish they would have released that arcade game on a home console.
ReplyDeleteI had the Super Nintendo Wolverine game, and that was quite awful.
I don't remember seeing the Nintendo one at any rental stores either.
The two X-Men games for the Sega Genesis were where it was at.
ReplyDeleteGreat soundtracks too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlKpdkBzm1c
I dont think those were LJN games though.
Also the Capcom fighting games obviously.
@cyke68: But I do vaguely recall the ads for it now. Wasn't there an "homage" of that image of Cap leaping from Uncanny #268, but with Wolverine in the same pose?
ReplyDeleteIf you're thinking of the same image I am, wasn't that originally uses as a cover to one of the issues of Wolverine's solo series?
Not that it isn't still an homage, but at least Lee created the second image for a specific purpose.
G. Kendall: I apologize for changing the subject here, but I thought it would be interesting if you review X-Men 2099.
ReplyDeleteI think someone specifically asked me NOT to review X-Men 2099 once. I think someone (not me) should review it while looking at the 2099 line as a whole. I honestly don't have a lot to say about the book, even though I do have a little bit of nostalgia for it.
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