Marvel Vs Capcom : The Ignored Prequel

[@kevogamingid]

Remember seeing this for the first time in my local arcade. It was played on a 50 inch screen with thunderous sound system. There were like 40 people watching the matches. It is definitely something that you have to be there to really have a grasp on how big this game is at that time

[@extremepop324]

I miss how loud they use to have the arcades! Gah I remember UMK3 being so fn loud, and MVC1

[@tristanheron4144]

The character select screen in this game is incredible. The greatest of all fighting games.

[@SNKBossSyndrom]

Black sheep?! This game rocks! Visually it's the best, the frames of animation in this one are crazy and had to be cut for all other games. Classic roster with a couple of exotic appearances. Honestly, by now I even prefer this over the VS games since it's less hectic (TvC being an exception). The gems are a nice little gimmick too.

[@leebaker5141]

Marvel vs capcom 2 is the best visually dude cumon, i love this game too but thats the pinnicle, in all departments.

[@SNKBossSyndrom]

@@leebaker5141 Some frames had to be cut in MvC2 (and the other 2D VS titles) in the character animation. MvC2 is bloody great and tons of fun, it's also very hectic and chaotic. I just prefer regular 1 on 1 fighting games, TvC being the exception.

[@gipgap4]

Absolutely agree SNKboss. My favourite Marvel game Capcom made.

[@miqueinhamgtow2961]

nice someone mentioned this has the most incredible animation per chars of all the sprites series, and cuts had to be maded in the next entries so CPS could handle 4 chars per match

[@CAPCOMANIAC]

Bruh. You drop the ball on this one. No way you made this video just for click bait.

[@sasquanchsmoove3685]

I remember being a kid at my local arcade and seeing different mvc games and just thinking how epic and incredible the concept was. Nostalgia

[@MichaelTaylor-qp2xf]

Marvel Super Heroes is and always has been a great fighting game! The half-measure came when Capcom made Marvel vs Street Fighter between X-Men vs Street Fighter and Marvel vs Capcom.

[@JDDK28]

Have to agree with all the comments already. This game definitely wasn’t ignored. This is still one of my favorites games. Not just fighting games, but games period. Especially since the Infinity Gauntlet is my favorite comic series. I got the latest Arcade 1up cabinet ASAP since it had this and MVC2.

[@FlavourFool]

I don't even know about this cabinet, will be looking it up, thanks!

[@loganford3921]

The background and stages are amazing as some of them keep changing like Wolverine, Hulk and Spider-Man while you fight them.

[@JagwarKnight]

Black Sheep? I Thought that was reserved for MSH Vs SF. MSH is more of a hidden gem really.

[@01kdel]

MSH is one of my favorite games EVER. Still play this game regularly.

[@john-sp8jk]

On which console do you play it on ?? I still have it on my ps1! 🕹️🎮🕹️

[@Raphael_De_La_Ghetto]

When I first bought this game for PSX, it was so close to arcade perfect..I realized then that the arcades’ days were numbered.

[@gcforreal]

You sure ? The PS1 2d fighters were notorious for being inferior to the Sega Saturn counterparts

[@carl5388]

Yeeeah. The Saturn version was superior by FAR. Pretty common knowledge that Sega crushed Sony when it came to 2D. Ultimately their downfall as we all were looking to the future in 3D.

[@Raphael_De_La_Ghetto]

What i meant was that the arcade experience was now possible at home, not to nitpick which of the 2 systems had the better game🙄jeez 1 up much?

[@gcforreal]

@@Raphael_De_La_Ghetto we get it but the ps1 version is missing tons of frames of animation etc from both the arcade and Saturn port ..but yes home systems were closer to arcade versions than the previous generation of home consoles like SNES

[@briancook1724]

Marvel Super Heroes may be overshadowed somewhat by the other crossover games Capcom did, but it helped do so much for both Marvel and Capcom, and if that's not enough, its music fit each character better than any other game since Street Fighter II! One of my favorite soundtracks of any game, ever!! NOW YOU FACE DOOM!

[@REPPIN4U]

YES! Talk to em about the MUSIC! It's a big reason why future Marvel/Capcom games existed... ask Captain America and Spiderman in particular!

[@sonicx0846]

I really loved this game. I play everytime I see it at my local arcade, usually when MvsC2 has been taken.

[@johnolmos8670]

Dr Doom his stage his theme and his voice actor were the best in this game! NOW YOU FACE DOOM!!

[@tonywong8134]

No way this game is the black sheep. I've seen it played so many times. XCOTA is probably the black sheep since it lacks many of the foundational mechanics we see today. MSH had a lot of mechanics that still carried over into MVC3. It definitely felt more polished than XCOTA for sure. But XCOTA had the best animation of the first 6 games.

[@shankwashere]

I had this game on ps1... I absolutely loved it.

[@dtape]

Well done video Mr Tophat

[@tonyryan1982]

The OST,characters, gameplay! I get misty eyed reminiscing about this game

[@extremepop324]

Back in the day.. my Wal Mart had Marvel Super Heroes, and Metal Slug 1 side by side next to the soda machines. Another reason why the 90s was the prime

[@MerlinTheCommenter]

Put a leash on Hulk and have Psylocke hold it and the thumbnail has a whole new meaning 😂

[@PharaohDom]

Loved this game in my arcade growing up.

[@FlavourFool]

I will always love this game, remember being so excited the first time I discovered this in an arcade, as I was a comic fan at the time and this just seemed like such an incredible idea to my naive mind. Later buying a PlayStation with money from my first part-time job, I was again amazed that I would be able to own this game at home. One of my favourite memories of the game was discovering, pre-internet, that if Cap drops his shield, Stars and Stripes causes multiple hits, and if he activates the power stone as well, he also repeats the move twice! Although I love MVC2, I felt it lost a lot of these details, and I didn't like the 3D backgrounds or music either.

[@davidreeves4556]

I spent my lunch money everyday playing this in 6th form. I like all the capcom 2D fighters of course, but I think this is a quantum leap from COTA it's just much more smoother to play and not as clunky. XMen vs street fighter, Marvel Superheroes, Capcom vs Marvel and Marvel vs street fighter are all essential.

[@marccaselle8108]

I first played marvel super heroes at the arcade. I later bought it for my Sega Saturn and it ruled. Sometime later, my friend got it for his playstation and it was fun there too and even I noticed the animation being less smooth etc.

[@REPPIN4U]

Top Hat Gaming Man's journalism and research is top notch, but you are slipping!!! How did you not cover the game's other 'black sheep' feature - THE MUSIC!!!!!!! It screamed Marvel... and Captain America & Spiderman's theme in particular has become near legendary since! I have seen people upload the PS4/5 version of Spiderman gameplay on KZbin with the MSH Spiderman music!!!!!! EPIC

[@SharifSourour]

Similar to Marvel vs Street Fighter it’s just hard to remember every single title amongst so many similar looking and playing games even if each has its own unique traits. This is one I often want to remember for the cool infinity gem mechanic.

[@Sephiroth144]

One of my favorite achievements was soloing every character in the game, on Difficulty 8, with no continues needed; had a gentleman's agreement with the local Putt Putt clerk/owner where when I came in, he'd open the machine and ramp up the difficulty to max. Came in one Sunday morning and felt its time to beat this game- all characters, no continues., highest difficulty... Of course, it was a public mini-golf course with arcade, but he did help with one rule for the day; but only once per stage. No real challenges, but man, there was that one kid who just would not give up about halfway thru... But man, when Magneto (the final one) dropped that last Tempest and finished off Thanos, it got loud. Still one of those fond memories, nearly 30 years later.

[@agmcroom2374]

Next to X-men vs street fighter this is the best one.

[@jmarx3943]

This is my favorite marvel fighting game. It's one of the best looking games of the era, has a great cast, and the gem system is fun. I one credit cleared this game numerous times in the arcade. This was my go to arcade game for quite awhile. I hope they release it on new consoles again.

[@chozahfearless7524]

There is a one up cabinet with x men vs street fighter and punisher included for $99.99

[@thecunninlynguist]

Never considered it the black sheep. Unless we talking the snes game

[@DragonthornX]

Lol. The black sheep is literally MvCI. Dropped the ball on this one.

[@InitialDL84]

Marvel Super Heroes is still to this day one of my favorite fighting games ever. I use to fiend over this game heavy during my junior high days when it was in the arcades and then put on PS and Sega Saturn.

[@suhtangwong]

Underrated awesome game! One of my fav all time fighting games!

[@jayh4911]

I play this on my arcade1up machine every weekend with my kids!!

[@darksoulquis5643]

This one is better than 2 imo cause it had more character balance

[@RikouHogashi]

Heh the idea of this game being the black sheep makes me laugh so much I played this a ton in Arcades as a kid oddly enough I liked playing as Shuma-Gorath perhaps its due to never reading the comics at the time aaaand I was a hyperactive kid who button mashes a lot and only barely comprehending the hyper combo system as a whole

[@milestrombley1466]

Those games need a remastered collection.

[@ChristianFrates1997]

Your wish is granted.

[@VictorHernandez-nj2lo]

Please do videos on mortal kombat 3 (& UMK3), Tekken 2, DOA2, & Soul Calibur 3. As well as videos on SNK's World Heroes Series, the Godzilla fighting games, the Blazblue series, Primal Rage, Mace The Dark Age, Sonic The Fighters, & Pokken Tournament

[@devingiles6597]

Hey, Top Hat Gaming Man. Can you please do a review of Sonic the Fighters in a future video?

[@johnlund3088]

Great video but I can't agree on the black sheep title lol. I've got many fond memories of playing this game at the arcade. It was a dream to be able to play both Spider-Man and Wolverine and some of us actually preferred the marvel games as just marvel games before they fully committed to the crossover with capcom.

[@Megageoe]

(@13:53) - I believe MSH was released in Japan for the Saturn August 1997, and X-men vs. SF was November 1997. One other note, while the Saturn version of MSH's visuals were on par with the arcade version, it suffered from some serious slow down issues. The optional 1MB RAM cart might have actually made the slow down worse.

[@vasilas432]

The cps2 board never slows down and character frames of animation is limitless

[@CaptainGinyu]

actually this one is my favorite of the series

[@bunjichronologic5865]

Got my pirate hat out for this one years ago as well as MvC bundle for ps3

[@tomaszkubala6266]

This cabinet was near my place and I used to play it when I was a child wow

[@DragONheart27X]

If not for this game Shuma and Blackheart probably wouldn't have been moderately popular as they did. I grew up a 90s comics fan and holy cow i was like "huh?" seeing both as playable characters.

[@Tstumpman]

You have a picture of the wrong Takeshi Tezuka. There are two big name Takeshi Tezuka's in video games. The video shows the one who works for Nintendo and I believe recently produced Super Mario Wonder. The other one from Capcom is also pretty prolific but his face is perhaps lesser known. Edit: Nintendo guy = Takashi, Capcom guy = Takeshi.

[@MrGenophyte]

iron body zangief in 1 and 2 was the most frightening thing in the world in capable hands

[@matiasjauhojarvi9551]

Great video.

[@trainerredcharizard7982]

Still looks pretty awesome FG to me..i never have played this though

[@chriscodling7395]

Please do toshinden!!

[@ipc648]

Wrong photo of Tezuka. That's the Nintendo dude.

[@thefroyukenfiles3641]

Hate to be that guy, Top Hat but the pic used in 2:31 is TaKAshi Tezuka of Nintendo, not TaKEshi Tezuka of Capcom. An honest mistake considering the former is pretty prominent after a Google search whereas the latter's search gets a "did you mean" for the former. 😅

[@kdash20002]

They end up improving the game with Marvel Superheroes vs Street Fighter on Saturn, which makes it the closest to it's arcade counterpart.

[@CurtindoAqueleDrama]

This is the first time I read "black sheep" about this game!

[@brandonmuse5532]

I love this game

[@navigatorhat]

Black Sheep? No. Overlooked Middle-Child? Yes.

[@pshe2mg]

what you mean by ignored? is an old-time classic.

[@KenMasters.]

It's not ignored, it's just underplayed due to the roster. Who even knows Shuma-Gorath, Blackheart, and Psylocke? Also, why Anita from Darkstalkers as a hidden character?

[@j.r.6627]

😎Fightcade, does Mr. Top Hat, fam and fans use fightcade?

[@JohnDavis-po5yp]

Are you going to do a video on Marvel superheroes

[@shinsmoke]

This is the first time I ever hear Marvel Super Heroes being called the black sheep. I always thought that was Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter.

[@Twin2Jr]

Wrong title.

[@lisaroberts8556]

The entire Marvel Universe not just the X-Men. So this should have gotten more attention.

[@KenMasters.]

Capcom should’ve also given Spider-Man his own fighting game released between the X-Men one and the MSH one. Because it’s Marvel's other profitable franchises alongside X-Men and Avengers. The roster I'm thinking of: • Spider-Man/Peter Parker (Hero) • Ghost Rider/Johnny Blaze (Hero) • Silver Surfer/Norrin Radd (Hero) • Black Cat/Felicia Hardy (Hero) • Doc Ock/Otto Octavious (Sinister-Six) • Electro/Max Dillon (Sinister-Six) • Sandman/Flint Marko (Sinister-Six) • Rhino/Aleksei Sytsevich (Sinister-Six) • Scorpion/Mac Gargan (Sinister-Six) • Vulture/Adrian Tombs (Sinister-Six) • Venom/Eddie Brock (Semi-Final Boss) • Carnage/Cletus Kasady (Final Boss) • Scarlet Spider/Ben Reilly (hidden fighter, has Spider-Man animations) • Green Goblin/Harry Osborn (hidden fighter, has Electro's animations) • Silver Sable/Silvija Sablinova (hidden fighter, has Black Cat's animations) • M. Bison/Vega (hidden fighter, special guest from Street Fighter Alpha)

[@Homey104]

I really don't say how is this the black sheep of the Marvel based fighting games from Capcom! This game was well recognized back around the mid 90s enough for someone like me to notice it and play it at local pizza parlors.

[@bigcade554]

I think that's the wrong Takashi Tezuka

[@drewsamuels3732]

I luv this game... Had the arcade 9n smash but I like marvel vs street fighter better

[@garytucker3563]

I'm not sure if I agree. Black Sheep?!? Not here in America!!! In fact, it was MSH that "put respect on Iron Man & Cap. America's name" , meaning that the abilities of these characters hadn't been realized in such an exciting way, not the comics nor the American animated shows.

[@Blit-X-TVLive]

The title is wrong?

[@AdolfoAvalos]

Well now the title is misleading. I love all of your videos but the title is about an entirely different game. Also here in Mexico it was REALLY, REALLY popular. Greetings from here!

[@sarkasmdaimyo2572]

Thor of the X-Men?!🤔9:12

[@OCsigma]

I would say the black sheep is Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter

[@KenMasters.]

That game is really just an expansion pack of XMvsSF.

[@Fighting31406]

I didn't know this was considered a black sheep.

[@Jesse_Elliott_Art]

This was the only decent Marvel arcade port on PS One. Not perfect, but nowhere near "unplayable".

[@joseangelriverac7490]

I think beats Kenny with cheating from Bullets Club Gold and for vengeance Kenny and the bucks will help MJF then turn to get a shot of the ROH Tag titles and Kenny part of the heavy weight championship after the next pay per view

[@Samanosuke1138]

This had nothing to do with Marvel v Capcom. Might wanna change the title.

[@carl5388]

It's not a "prequel" if it simply came out sequentially. "Prequel" implies it can out after MvC. This game was pretty beloved, not a "black sheep".

[@luisreyes1963]

I wouldn't consider MSH to be the "black sheep" of the Marvel/Capcom crossover games, more like a sleeper hit. Marvel vs Capcom Infinite, however... that's the black sheep.

[@reboxtherapy]

The title is confusing.. Even though I haven't played the infinite version, I agree with you.

[@liublanka3925]

So sad to see what we had in the 90s. When Disney didn’t control marvel and we actually had great games, capcom has fallen down a lot also. Especially with the new Spider-Man game pushing a gay agenda

[@rafaelvieri2161]

Marvel Super Heroes was amazing. And I did not even like the X-men game.

[@opa-age]

Only reason it was "ignored" was because the amazing part 2 came out like a year after.

[@arnezcooper1873]

Hi

[@keronstewart9446]

marvel vs capcom 1 have the better boss battle

[@baskogitlog7276]

The real blacksheep is marvel superheroes vs street fighter.

[@philiphanan1493]

You barely talked about Marvel Vs Capcom and focused mainly on Marvel Superheroes. Super misleading title.

[@kingnoire9587]

Ignored? lol bruh you just wanted clicks cause you are DEFINITELY CAPPING!!! Like do you even arcade?

[@Zeitgeist997]

Plus this game influenced street fighter 3 never being released on those consoles even though the jojo game was from the same game engine. Sony didn't want to be embarrassed I reviews and worked with Capcom to give them an arcade system for the street fighter polygon game. I can almost guarantee that they had a handshake deal to keep street fighter 3 unreleased for home to protect the Playstation from bad reviews 😊

[@MuhammadAli-xw4yc]

I still prefer this game over marvel vs capcom 2. 1 on 1 all day.

[@vasilas432]

After your previous x-men cota video, I just cancelled selling my minty cps2 board. It was sold as a pack with Marvel Super Heroes. I kept both and refunded the buyer :O Greetings from Crete! If you ever visit let me know