Tag Archives: Capcom

Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, Arcade

Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes is a ‘crossover’ arcade fighting game developed and published by Capcom in 1998. It is the third instalment in the Marvel vs. Capcom series, which features characters from Capcom‘s video game franchises combined with characters from the Marvel Comics universe.

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Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter, Arcade

Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter is the sequel to X-Men vs. Street Fighter and the second instalment in the Marvel vs. Capcom series. The game was first released as an arcade game by Capcom in 1997. It then received ports to the Sega Saturn in 1998 and the PlayStation in 1999.

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X-Men vs. Street Fighter, Arcade

X-Men vs. Street Fighter is Capcom‘s third fighting game to feature Marvel Comics characters, following X-Men: Children of the Atom and Marvel Super Heroes, and is the first instalment in the Marvel vs. Capcom series. It was originally released as an arcade game in 1996, and was ported to the Sega Saturn in 1997, the Sony PlayStation in 1998, and Windows PCs in 2001.

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Marvel Super Heroes, Arcade

Marvel Super Heroes is a one-on-one fighting game developed by Capcom and distributed into arcades in 1995. It is the second Capcom beat ’em up based on characters from the Marvel Comics line and is loosely based on “The Infinity Gauntlet” storyline from the Marvel Universe. The gameplay follows the Street Fighter II template for fighting games and uses six buttons and a joystick for each player. The game can be played in either normal or ‘turbo’ mode.

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X-Men: Children of the Atom, Arcade

X-Men: Children of the Atom is the first in a series of fighting games from Capcom, based on characters from Marvel Comics. It follows the same conventions, and uses the same controls, as the Street Fighter II series and first came out in arcades in 1994 (1995 in North America and Europe).

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Tiger Road, Arcade

Tiger Road is a single-player hack-and-slash platform/action game, released into arcades by Capcom in 1987. It pre-dates Sega‘s Golden Axe by two years, but is very similar in terms of gameplay.

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Commando, NES/Famicom

The 1986 NES version of Commando is a flickery mess to be honest, although that didn’t stop the game becoming a smash hit – selling over one million cartridges worldwide.

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The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Four Swords, Game Boy Advance

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Four Swords is a two-game package developed by Nintendo EAD and Capcom and first released for the Game Boy Advance in 2002 in North America and 2003 in Japan and Europe. It features a slightly modified port of the 1991 SNES classic, A Link to the Past, plus an all-new, multiplayer-only adventure called Four Swords.

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Ghouls ‘N Ghosts, Sega Master System

The Sega Master System version of Capcom‘s classic arcade game, Ghouls ‘N Ghosts, was developed and published by Sega in 1989, and it is a cut-down version of the original and is also easier to play.

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Forgotten Worlds, Arcade

Forgotten Worlds is a classic Capcom arcade shooter from 1988, with simultaneous two-player coop, a rotational aiming system, and intense bullet hell action set across a landscape of the desolate Earth in the 29th Century.

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