X-Men
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| System(s): Sega Mega Drive | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Publisher: Sega | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Developer: Western Technologies Inc. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Licensor: Marvel Entertainment Group | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sound driver: GEMS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre: Action | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number of players: 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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X-Men is a sidescrolling action game for the Sega Mega Drive. It was followed by X-Men 2: Clone Wars.
Contents
Story
Series staple antagonist Magneto infects the X-Men's training facility with a virus and must be stopped.
Gameplay
is a character specific mutant power that can only be used as long as special power is available, 
is for attacking, 
is for jumping. Quickly double tapping it results in a high jump.
Stages must be cleared by reaching the exit, fighting bosses and collecting keys/solving puzzles. Characters can be switched 2-3 times during stages. If a character loses all health, he'll be gone permanently.
The game can't be completed on the lowest difficulty level as it stops after stage 3.
X-Men is one of the few video games in history which requires the use of the Mega Drive's reset button in order to progress through a certain point in the game. This means the game is impossible to beat when played on systems (or emulators) which lack a soft reset feature of some description.
This game became infamous for it's high difficulty level, which stems from the game's awkward hit detection, lack of continues and difficult to grasp boss battles and stage layouts. While plenty of shortcuts (mainly through Nightcralwer) and failsafe boss strategies (e.g. a full health Wolverine can take every hit from the lighthouse boss and still win) exist, these were made difficult to explore by the way the game was designed.
Characters
- Playable
- Cyclops
- Wolverine
- Nightcrawler
- Gambit
- Assist
- Storm: 1x full screen attack
- Rouge: 1x aimed attack
- Archangle: 3x spreadshot
- Iceman: builds a bridge that lasts for a limited amount of time
Production credits
- Developed By: Western Technologies Inc
- Producer: E. Ettore Annunziata
- Art Design: Bruce Straley, Steven Ross
- Art: Mira Ross, Eric Iwasaki
- Music and Sound Effects: Fletcher Beasley
- Programming, Design: Jeff Fort
- Programming: John Bojorquez, Ray Frericks, Alan Wise
- Marketing: Scott Steinberg
- Special Thanks: Jay Smith, JFD and EWF
- Additional Input: Sam Kjellman, RK
- Lead Tester: Vy Nong
- Testers: Steve Patterson, Joe Cain, Tony Lynch, Jason Kuo, Eric Rawlins, Jeff Todd, Siegie Stangenberg, Dermot Lyons, Bill Person, Casey Grimm, Vince Nason
- Source: In-game credits
- Producer: E. Ettore Annunziata
- Programming: Jeff Fort, Ray Fredricks, John Bojorquez, Allan Wise
- Art: Burce Stanley, Mira Ross, Steven Ross
- Sound and Music: Fletcher Beasley
- Design: Bruce Straley, Jeff Fort, Steven Ross, Mira Ross
- Marketing: Scott Steinberg
- Lead Test: Vy Nong, Steve Patterson, Joe Cain
- Test: Tony Lynch, Jason Kuo, Erik Wahlberg, Harry Chavez, Eric Rawlins, Keith Higashihara, Greg Becksted, Vince Nason, Dianna Myers, Dave Forster, Casey Grimm, Bill Person, Joe Van, Greg Fleming, Dermot Lyons, John Russell, Jill Schwartz, Chris Sinclair, Siegie Stangenberg, Ben Szymkowiak, Conan Tigard, Jeff Todd
- Manual: Carol Ann Hanshaw, Vy Nong
- Special Thanks: Sam Kjellman, Jay Smith, Steve Apour, Gloria Birulin
- Source: US manual[4]
Uncredited
- Cover artwork: Phil Winslade
Magazine articles
- Main article: X-Men/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
also published in:
- VideoGames & Computer Entertainment (US) #53: "June 1993" (199x-xx-xx)[5]
- Sega Visions (US) #15: "October/November 1993" (1993-xx-xx)[6]
Physical scans
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Technical information
ROM dump status
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 GamePro, "May 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 53
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Mega, "June 1993" (UK; 1993-05-20), page 41
- ↑ Computer & Video Games, "June 1993" (UK; 1993-05-15), page 42
- ↑ File:Xmen md us manual.pdf, page 26
- ↑ VideoGames & Computer Entertainment, "June 1993" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 24
- ↑ Sega Visions, "October/November 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 28
- ↑ Computer & Video Games, "June 1993" (UK; 1993-05-15), page 42/43 (42)
- ↑ Electric Brain, "June 1993" (UK; 1993-05-26), page 24
- ↑ GamePro, "May 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 52/53 (52)
- ↑ GamesMaster, "June 1993" (UK; 1993-05-20), page 64/65 (64)
- ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "May 1993" (UK; 1993-04-24), page 40-43 (40)
- ↑ Sega Force Mega, "August 1993" (UK; 1993-06-24), page 48-50 (48)
| X-Men games for Sega systems | |
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Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge (1993) | X-Men (1993) | Wolverine: Adamantium Rage (1994) | X-Men 2: Clone Wars (1995) | X-Women: The Sinister Virus (unreleased) |
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Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge (1994) | X-Men (1994) | X-Men: GamesMaster's Legacy (1994) | X-Men: Mojo World (1996) |
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X-Men: Children of the Atom (1995) | X-Men vs. Street Fighter (1997) |
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X-Men: Mojo World (1996) |
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X-Men: Mind Games (Unreleased) |
| X-Men related media | |
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Sega Tunes: X-Men 2: Clone Wars (1996) |