X-Men Children Of The Atom: THE HIDDEN 1ST MARVEL VS CAPCOM !

In this video, we discuss X-Men Children of the Atom. This is one of Capcom's most important fighting games ever and a title that served as a building block in creating the entire Marvel vs Capcom series.
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[@TopHatGamingManChannel]

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[@TeddyBelcher4kultrawide]

Capcom or crapcom

[@TexasHollowEarth]

... always love that Danger Room stage. It's SICK! Love these Capcom/Marvel games. Thanks for keeping em up, THGM 👍😎👍

[@uxm4life94]

No videogame developer before or since has come close to bringing the classic Marvel comics accurately to games as 90s Capcom did.

[@brittislove]

Even the current Marvel people can't bring themselves to make accurate characters, which is now why we have trans crippled spider-woman (yes I'm serious, look it up)

[@austinreed7343]

@@brittislove Technically some of those ARE accurate, but they are much more minor in the comics.

[@uxm4life94]

@@brittislove don't need to look anything up- I've collected almost all of Marvel since 1961-2015. I'm all too familiar with their abrupt and sad decline. Absolutely nothing wrong with "diverse" characters or political stories in themselves (which Marvel has always had). But modern Marvel is an absolute cringefest and continuity trainwreck because they're staffed entirely by incompetent twitter sociopaths. These clowns have clearly never read any Marvel in their collective lives before the MCU. They are narcissists who are only around Marvel to pander and play their pathetic culture war.

[@rjmeeks4152]

Missed a golden opportunity. A Konami style successor to the 90's arcade game could have been made with these characters and it would have been chef's kiss.

[@kidrobot.]

not accurate though

[@songoku9348]

Capcom and Marvel were a match made in heaven back in the day.

[@brittislove]

Bro, I went to my local bowling alley down the street for another weekend of some arcade games and saw X-MEN vs SF and I had heard *NOTHING* about this despite subscribing to multiple gaming magazines. My dumb child mind was BLOWN

[@Chadius]

@@brittislove Ryu and Cyclops shaking hands blew my mind away.

[@VinDieselXXX]

I can't believe "back in the day" is 30 WHOLE YEARS. I hope those game developers pump out one more versus game. I know most them are in their 50s, 60s and even 70s now. They did an excellent job with MvC3& UMvC3. But its been 10+ YEARS since those were released too. Just need one more game at least.

[@songoku9348]

@@VinDieselXXX Unfortunately Disney being who they are, they’re real picky bastards. They will ultimately decide and dictate who on the marvel side will get in the roster.

[@austinreed7343]

@@songoku9348 Worse; from what I’ve heard Capcom are in agreement about that; they want to have Kilmonger most of all.

[@VinDieselXXX]

Super jumps, air combos, floor breaks, hyper combos, real voice actors. Capcom started all that. That little "cling" before you do a super move. Thats in EVERY FIGHTING GAME now that has a "super/rage art/overdrive/etc". Even the normals in COTA like wolverine's Fierce were mind blowing at the time. I remember playing this as kid it was VERY EPIC especially if you watched animated series on FOX.

[@BrandonJXN2]

Sentinel had missiles, beams, his Sentinel Force could be controlled and dropped bombs, and his Plasma Storm was one of the most powerful supermoves in the game. And Magneto was broken. He was nigh impossible.

[@krono5el]

This game was everything at the time, especially if you had a Saturn.

[@Psybuster71]

I had forgotten how much the character select music in this game slaps!

[@edaniels240]

Having some of voice actors from X-Men The Animated Series reprise the voices of the characters was sweet & awesome

[@MSGSlayer1]

Capcom needs to release a Marvel fighter bundle.

[@jahdorose8659]

Agree but they probably need permission from Disney reason why it's never happened

[@tylerrumfelt3353]

@@jahdorose8659Disney and capcom have a history together so it actually has a good chance. They made a lot of games for Disney in the day.

[@Lord_Deimos]

Man, Psylocke's sprite still does it for me after all these years

[@geardog24]

To think it was Akuma who got the ball rolling for Marvel vs Capcom.

[@uxm4life94]

As a X-men comic collector since the beginning and a Street Fighter junkie- this game was literally a dream come true for me.

[@LowellLucasJr.]

Same here bro! ❤ This was amazing!

[@yellaboi6257]

I still own my copy for the Sega Saturn, still in the original case along with Marvel Super Heroes as well.

[@MoCa1979Jr]

It's kinda of a good thing Marvel wasn't doing that well, back then, otherwise we probably would've never gotten any Marvel vs Capcom games. The X-Men & Capcom were two of my favs growing up, so I was really hyped when they crossed over.

[@Chadius]

Yup, Marvel did briefly go bankrupt in the 90s. They sold license to almost anyone who wanted to make a game. Why not make a Street Fighter II clone? And for Capcom it was time to make a wackier fighting game with flying, super powers, screen filling blasts... stuff that wouldn't fit in Street Fighter (but eventually SF Alpha)

[@MoCa1979Jr]

@@ChadiusYea. Cuz all the comic companies because greedy & started selling all those variant covers, making their product ultimately drop in value. I think the X-Men games only became "SF2 clones" because Capcom made those games. But they were extremely success & I loved SF & X-Men as a kid back then. But they did change up some stuff to make it stand out from a standard SF game. I just hate how the movie rights made them fall back on the X-Men & focused more on The Avengers as a line-up for Marvel v Capcom. Hopefully whenever the X-Men hit the MCu they'll be a huge success & we'll get more games. I'd love an "X-Men Legends 3" & "Children of the Atom 2" game, & a new "FF" like I played as a kid (just longer w/ more moves & characters--i.e. villains, FF "replacements", & Fantastic Force ).

[@billcook4768]

99% of licensed games take an existing genre and slap character skins on top. Children of the Atom is one of the few that started with the characters and designed the game around what made them different.

[@LowellLucasJr.]

I cannot express how amazing and wonderful this game was and what it led to with Capcom and Marvel! Being a kid who would watch the X-Men show religiously, it was pure magic go to the arcades...just to see one of my favorite companies doing a fighting game of them?! It spoke volumes! I can't even begin to tell you how overwhelming the excitement was, from the Beautiful artwork, the sexy sexy animation on psylocke and spiral, to getting the voice actors from the very show on here! This is more than a dream come true it's a friggin experience! Also I still have my Sega Saturn copy to this day and never looked back!❤❤

[@t_wilson01]

I still own the Saturn game as well, but the Japanese version. The cover art is absolutely fantastic.

[@DCMCOSPLAYdotCOM]

X-Men the cartoon had me interested in the franchise, this game made me get into the comics as well. It cannot be understated how revolutionary this game was. You have SFII, VF, Soulcalibur, and X-Men. If only Disney would grow a brain and let Capcom try to make a pure Marvel sequel to Marvel Super Heroes, we could be in for a real treat. Then we can talk about an MvC4.

[@terranceoliver8935]

This was the first game I ever purchased for the Saturn back in 95. Played it to death. Loved everything about it. Didn't know the PS1 version came out so late.

[@apollolux]

Decades later, I still have memories of "X!" blaring loudly through the arcade (both the local pizza place and the old neighborhood smoke shop in this case) whenever someone pulled off a super move.

[@sidearmsalpha]

Psylocke's design in this game up to MVC2 is the best version of her in video games. I'm still hoping for an action figure of her from the actual game sprites.

[@planetdee3587]

What I loved about this game so much is the little subtle things they did to distinguish each character as far as power scale. So Cyclops blast was stronger and pieced Icemans blast. Iceman did not take chipping damage from attacks. Colossus had invincibility (when charging or if he used his power bar), while Juggernaut had a constant invincibility (even though it was less than Colossus' when he used his power meter). Also Colossus was so strong, his regular punches did chipping damage. Wolverine was super fast as he was naturally the fast guy by the comics standard. Storm could fly. Omega Red could drain your life bar or power meter. It was just very detailed. Great game.

[@Kakeen]

This is why I always wanted Capcom to be in charge of a Marvel vs. DC back in the day. I mean maybe today it can still be done but I always imagined Capcom's slick animation being used for the game.

[@brittislove]

It was always a crime that I never got to play this outside of the arcade. It was so amazing

[@eapleitez]

All you needed was a Sega Saturn or Sony Playstation

[@FrankTurnerJr81]

Try MAME

[@eduardob6981]

​@@eapleitezOr a PC (there was a DOS port of the game)

[@mashk]

Can't believe it came out almost 30 years ago. Was my 1st year in uni and I spent most of my time in the arcades playing this, i even dowloaded the faq from the newsgroups. time flies, looking at it now it still stands up and looks miles better than the latest Marvel fighting game. the art style is timeless

[@kadosho02]

I remember playing this game in arcades. Loved what was possible. The animation, music, and gameplay was amazing. Sadly I never owned a Saturn. But I recall reading in magazines at the time, about system limitations. Felt unreal that consoles were not capable of displaying a game like this fluidly.

[@draslovkaclarion5517]

Xmen CoTA was a phenomenal hit in arcades!!! I remember being blown away when I first saw it. Capcom did the mutants proper justice!!!

[@hitmanmonaghan6633]

I still remember my first time seeing this game. Mama Jackson’s corner store in the Central District in Seattle. 14 year old me was blown away by it.

[@Pazuzu-]

Absolute masterpiece. SO MUCH BETTER then all the crossovers that came afterwards.

[@kidrobot.]

lolno

[@animal1nstinct394]

MvC2 was definitely better. and UMVC3

[@Pazuzu-]

@@animal1nstinct394 Mvc2 is a broken mess with awful animation and TERRIBLE sprites. Mvc3 is good, but not as much as COTA.

[@terranceoliver8935]

Na X-Men vs street fighter or marvel super heros vs street fighter was better. Mvc 2 was a mess

[@parrishharris3008]

When X-Men Children Of The Atom hit the arcades i couldn't stop playing this game and when i brought my Sega Saturn and this game i thought i was a video game god lol.

[@MysteryAGMLegend]

One of the best fighters of the 90’s in Arcades, I remember when a nearby comic shop got this arcade machine in the shop.

[@constantinelheman]

I love the X-Men artwork by Capcon in this game. The front cover of the manual in the Japanese version is amazing to look at.

[@rokucam1958]

This is still my favorite 2D fighting game

[@RotaryPoweredRX]

I love X-Men COTA so god damned much, cherished memories

[@sneakyking]

Its my favourite 2d fighter. The fact your punches and kicks connect compated to most hames that have significant ammount of invincibility frames really changes the way you play.

[@Ticr00]

I'm in love with that Psylocke thumbnail.

[@KEN-1991]

Capcom should've made Wolverine a hidden boss and unlockable fighter in that game alongside Akuma. He has a healing factor, his claws are unblockable in real life, and his moves are crazy.

[@PPHDocumentaries]

I`m glad to see X-Men COTA get the credit it deserves. X-men and Virtua Fighter 2 are the main reason i bought the Saturn back in the day.

[@VegitoBlackk]

I love that Psylocke Xmen COTA ost theme 🎶

[@mranchovy6003]

Its honestly so cool how much capcom collaborated with marvel so much and other companies in that time, right know i dont know that much crossover FGs that are actievly played competitievly

[@adamdesanti6713]

Absolute pioneer. The art and animation on some of the characters was tremendous. I mean look at Wolverine and Juggernaut. It was like one of the 90's stylized artistic titans like Joe Madueira come to life on the screen. You really got the sense that these were superheroes scrapping it out. The 90's were glorious. Watch X-Men. Read comics with tremendous art. Collect and play the OverPower card game. Marvel Capcom fighting games. The movies that did the characters justice would come later.

[@TheCodeAlwaysWins]

It was actually Mutant Apocalypse -- lot of similarities on the characters and even the variant of them specifically in COTA and then XVS (yeahhh)

[@marccaselle8108]

The first home version of X-Men cota that I had was the MS DOS version and I had the PC Fighter 6 6 button gamepad. I got in 1997 from electronics boutique for 50 dollars.

[@defblinders9585]

I used to play this a lot back in 1994-1995. I actually used the Sentinel quite a bit.

[@teckzilla108]

I remember this game back then, it was an absolute beauty and then it was also on the PS1.

[@nweditor875]

I amor this game would play this at the arcade and i recalled when it first came out machine was packed. So glad i supported Mutant Apoclpayse on SNES the first x-men capcom game to get this amazing game created.

[@michaelmyers1170]

One of the best character select screens I’ve ever seen just beautiful

[@ZxSpectrumplus]

I agreed. This was the most important 2D fighter since SF2. I love it in the arcades. When it came out for the consoles, i bought a Sega Saturn for this game alone. (Obviously, i want the best version and Saturn was the 2D King). Subsequent MSH, MS vs SF etc were all evolution from this game.

[@edaniels240]

Eventhough the PS1 version gets alot of slack, I still have it and play it whenever I have free time

[@d12kiem7]

I love how Psylocke is a damn giant next to Akuma!

[@darkphoenix8921]

There are few games if any at all that capture the spirit of an IP like XCOTA did. I'd go as far to say that this game even defines some of these characters make up till this day. From "Drill Claw!" to "Psyblade" to "Omega Destroyer" all the way down to how sentinels now look.

[@equusquaggaquagga536]

COTS makes every xmen vs game look tame in comparison

[@explosivehotdogs]

Played the bajeezus out of CotM back in the day... they happened to have one or two arcade cabinets at my local corner store (well, in the suburbs us kids had to walk a couple km to get there) and of all games they had Alien vs Predator and Children of the Atom for quite a while. My friend called out Brokaw ! whenever Wolverine would Drill Claw. Now you'll always think it too 😄 Only once did I manage to pull off my favorite move of all time - 3 back to back supers with Psylocke in an inverted triangle shape. Anyway thanks for spotlighting this masterpiece of a classic and taking me on a trip down memory lane !

[@alanblanks]

Ahoy and thanks for the videos! The Konami X-Men and Punisher absolutely ate my quarters and was were just a blast. In a world of MK, Street Fighter and Killer Instinct Children of the Atom was just a perfect bridge to take my money. I remember being able to beat it with Wolverine and the Sentinel. You could overwhelm most folks with Wolverine or really make them hate you with Sentinel with some of its cheaper moves. Eventually the game vanished and Marvel Superheros showed up. Then X-Men vs Street Fighter. I think Wolverine was in most of those but I always wrecked folks with Iron man. I just tried to explain a little bit about captain Britian and Psylock but its "complicated". Currently a version of Psylock is Captain Britain. Excalibur comics do alot of king Arthur sword and sorcery stuff and are wild and weird.

[@LEEMAN-X]

I feel like most people didn't even know this game existed when it was out. I remember playing it at a video store for the 1st time and I was blown away that it even exited. I hope it becomes available on steam one day.

[@mikeg2491]

It seemed that way for a lot of arcade games, they didn’t seem to get as much write ups or hype in the game mags as consoles. My jaw dropped seeing X-men vs Street Fighter in a small town pizza parlor, had no clue it existed. I only got 5 minutes of playtime until my parents dragged me away lol

[@LEEMAN-X]

@mikeg2491 💯 yeah you're right, to bad no one figured out a better way to promote arcade games back then

[@robertprince2651]

Had this on Sega Saturn, and it cemented my love for 2D Capcom fighters!!!! The cd soundtrack rocked too.

[@kevinchavis2755]

Wish we got a X-men: Children of the Atom 2 with Mr Sinister and Apocalypse as the bosses, I know Apocalypse was the final boss in Xmen vs Street Fighter but he could’ve been used in Marvel Vs Capcom and have had Onslaught as the boss in Marvel Vs Capcom 2 instead of Abyss, even tho Abyss was a cool boss mainly cause of the effects

[@kratos_pt1121]

When I was a kid, I remember playing this with my older brother on a crap PC using only the keyboard for both of us. Good times indeed.

[@goldenage]

Not sure if he covered this but most of the voice actors for the game were the same actors from the X-Men cartoon. I think Capcom continued to use the animation voice actors for Marvel Super heroes.

[@l0stndamned]

Nice video. I remember finding this in the arcades while on holiday when I was just starting to pay attention to Marvel stuff. It was a very fun game.

[@garytucker3563]

Dude, I've NEVER seen that F.Fight style Punisher game before!!!! Yes, XMEN:COA was.....was...beautiful😢! My favorite thing is the final stage music w/ Magneto❤❤!!! I told folks that the Japanese creatives bring out things that capitalists simply can't! I GUARANTEE that the majority did not see any value in Iron Man until MARVEL SUPERHEROES came out! Cheers mate, great video!

[@ToseRoyal]

Such impressive sprite work for 1994! Remember this is just 3 years after Street Fighter II!

[@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

[@Demoncradle]

Samurai does have a kick, jumping light kick. Cota is the only marvel game where you can cancel anything into anything else whether on hit block or whiff. Whiff a hk from full screen? Super jump and block. want to annoy people as Omega Red? Cancel the horrible recovery of standing hp with crouching light kick then dash and repeat. The game is complete freedom of how to approach your opponent. Admittedly this game is very broken. That is part of its charm. Cota is great, everyone should play it a bit and mess with it free form combo system and have loads of fun.

[@aggressiveattitudeera887]

"You dare rise *against* me? The human era is over, the mutant era has come!" When Magneto said that and his hands started to move like SSF2T combos, I knew I was screwed.

[@StevenCusic]

it's too bad they skipped on the animations for the vs games due too the alpha sprites being cps1 oriented, the cps2 could do much more, just look at the darkstalkers series or cyberbots,

[@Darknight0681]

The Alpha sprites weren’t the problem. The vs. games essentially tapped out CPS2 max ROM size. XvSF wasn’t as bad with it, but MsHvSF was the first one to end up slicing animations up in order to put more into the presentation elsewhere. I know why they didn’t do it, but it makes me wish they moved at least MvC1 to CPS3. CD would’ve benefitted it greatly.

[@StevenCusic]

@ralphpollard4304 ahh..... yes your right, well thought, having 4 characters in memory at the same time did tap it out, games like dakstalkers had only 2 characters at the same time, mvsc on the cps3 would have been insane but, it would have cost low and mid level arcade operators some $$$ though for a new base kit just for one game, I saw street fighter 3 cabs in the big ones in baltimore County malls but never and warzard (europe and Japan only obviously) or any jo jo games, they even had MVSC and 2 on the jumbotron 🤣

[@StevenCusic]

@brianbabin6333 absolutely 💯

[@gogutier1]

This game is amazing. I can't believe how much work the putted on background details, animations, moves, etc....

[@DemiRonin]

This game’s visuals still look amazing!!

[@tonypratt1023]

Silver samurai was a favorite of mine

[@78Bigtank]

They need to make a collaboration

[@gstqcomics2017]

I've been saying for a while that a sequel to this is far overdue... there are so many X-men heroes and villains.. that you don't even need any street fighters or Capcom characters involved.. its too damn bad the greedy executives can't get their heads out of their asses to do something so simple

[@Eheth1958]

I used to play it a lot just for Psylocke

[@thebaggeek]

This is better than the new fighting games that are out now they should just make a children of the atom 2 with like 50+ characters with the same animation style.

[@MrGenophyte]

arcade rage memories unlocked of spiral and silver samurai players just waiting for people to put a quarter in so they could join in and cheese them to death in 40 seconds then say "scrub"

[@Demoncradle]

Anyone winning a lot of matches with spiral and Sam deserves some respect. They’re the 2 bottom characters in game. Sam has no low attacks at all in cota

[@MrGenophyte]

@@Demoncradle this is what made it so rage inducing due to the arcade having chunky movement that those two take advantage of its up there with mvc2 cable ,sentinel , blackheart spammers .

[@0errab0]

I got really good with Sliver Samurai because I kept messing up the Akuma Code. Samurai's X special attack obliterated the Juggernaut if you hit him with it while he was jumping forward at you.

[@amnesiac85]

Don’t forget that X-Men Mutant Appcalypse gave Capcom the opportunity to work on those sprites and use them as the blueprint of what the Vs series would become

[@turnpiketyrone3465]

My favorite game I ever had on Saturn.

[@michaelhodges452]

not only the game was nice but the music sound system really put their best foot forward

[@typedeaf]

The only one I ever played. It was there at my arcade in 1994-1996 next to SF2, MK and Darkstalkers. Plays like SF2 which is comfortable for me. MvC is completely weird gameplay for me.

[@oa4144]

This game had wolverines drill claw and tornado claw. Also Ken's and Ryu double super hadouken. Gambits royal flush paired with the super hadouken or iron man special beam cannon gets the highest hit points.

[@scaryhours2220]

My favorite fighting game of all time finally given some love 😎👍

[@patricklacey4946]

Had this game on Saturn, it was absolutely legit!

[@FoNgThOnG]

Maaaaaan this brings back memories. I live in a small town that had nothing but a Circle K and it had a few arcade machines in it. I had to deal with the sketch ass gas station just to get a few rounds of CotA in lol Thank God I never got kidnapped.

[@robphoenix1182]

Definitely a king in the history of all fighters.

[@tonyryan1982]

We'll never have a time like this again!im so glad that I was able to enjoy this &the other hand in the series

[@ReverendPONT]

Was playing this yesterday. Finally got a Japanese Saturn specifically to play these Fighting games.

[@vasilas432]

Great video! I sold my minty CPS2 board a few hours ago and thus removed Children of the Atom from my collection. What a pity

[@darianflewellen2449]

This game was incredible. It brought the X-Men to life in a way back in the day. I'd play this all the time at the arcade.

[@KawaiiMiri]

And till this day I haven't been able to update my Saturn version to own on the Nintendo Switch. I needs me the whole MvC collection starting with X-Men:cota.

[@Unflushablepiss]

29 years old...damn

[@Darkkefka]

I have this game. Can I just say that Magneto is FREAKING HARD in this game.

[@dnangel4277]

Nice thumbnail pic of Psylocke...artist name?

[@theunfazed7109]

My uncle had this game on Sega Saturn when I was young. I played the heck out of this game!!

[@KaijuLover85]

i love this game i own it for saturn and its a prefect port imo! i also have the arcade 1 up marvel vs capcom 2 cab and i play it still to this day!

[@fabolous2006]

I would like a Marvel only fighting game again

[@FraserA1987]

Thank you keeping our childhoods alive in 2023!

[@BabaNamKevalamGames]

That game simply is amazing.

[@lawrencefitzgerald4744]

Children of the Atom is honestly still my favorite of the Marvel fighting games.

[@Twin2Jr]

Who did the art on that thumbnail? Gorgeous!

[@raykahn455]

I want to know also

[@krono5el]

the Day i got this game my poor Saturn didnt stop running for days, still absolutely love this game for those unbelievable gaming memories and the god tier art and gameplay.

[@collectorartist1341]

Always respected! one of my favorite Saturn games ever!

[@powerofxmen]

oh oh I am so excited listening to this!!!

[@BrandonJXN2]

Real ones remember that Storm's Hailstorm was ⬇️↘️➡️+Start

[@marccaselle8108]

And you had to not get hit out of it.