X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse (Super Nintendo) James & Mike Mondays

[@AcidGlow]

*This game is really good. The sprites were well drawn and the controls were like Street Fighter so special moves were easy to do. ✅😃*

[@davidatkins7444]

Favorite game

[@Nobunaga1983]

But why not just have a designated button for mutant powers instead of doing street fighter movements lol. Snes controller had enough buttons

[@landonletterman831]

Um, excuse me, Magneto, best mutant, because he has "neat-o" in the name!

[@aodmaxime4310]

Why did you say that? It's a bad pun

[@kevlarvest7375]

@Landon Letterman " You're telling me people like that 'neato' is in your name?" "You look like a teenage girl's tube of lip balm."

[@landonletterman831]

@@kevlarvest7375 "Huh, most people say I look like a giant walking purple dil- _I MEAN-_ Yes, *lip balm,* that's _exactly_ what I look like!"

[@bobzilla9p0]

So Mike "who is your favorite X-men character?" Mike "T n A".

[@cheesebufer]

Game is so underated, an X-Men beatem up by Capcom, what else could you want?

[@DSan-kl2yc]

cheesebufer two player

[@Azuris190]

I would be hyped as a kid, having such a game. But playing it now on the Mega Drive, those games are not such as good, as they could have been

[@Protoman85]

More than one life. (not having to start over from the beginning with every death)

[@QuackersCo]

@@Protoman85 If only every game had the replay feature of Switch Online.

[@ScaredStraightProductions]

Anyone miss the videos being in the basement

[@bitwize]

Wolverine doesn't just have the healing factor and adamantium skeleton/claws. He has superhuman strength, speed, agility, and stamina, AND vastly heightened senses (particularly his sense of smell; he can even smell certain forms of EM radiation) as well as "animal instincts" which help him survive in the wild or in combat.

[@MagnaRyuuDesigns]

Wolverine's abilities include healing factor, mutant immune system, hyper keen senses, increased agility. The Adamantium claws are not an ability, the bone claws that the adamantium bonded to are technically an ability.

[@Roboshi2007]

robin joined batman super early on, he wasn't a 50-60s addition. most sidekicks were added to superheros during WW2 because then the sidekicks would be the readers proxy and the heroes could be their proxy dad.

[@user-ng5pg4im5g]

James misses the opportunity to say, "Aaaaaaaaass!"

[@ChristopherM1701]

Great choice, James and Mike. One of my favorite X-men games ever. The controls take some getting used to but its not bad. Love the music in this one too. Another great video

[@Fluoride_Jones]

+Christopher Martin It's not like you have a lot of options for good X-Men games, though. What, the arcade game and this one?

[@theswapmeetflea]

Xmen Legends Xmen Legends 2 Xmen - Genesis X2 - Clone wars Xmen children of the atom Xmen arcade Take your pick There's plenty more.

[@PacisJusticia]

Clone Wars and Legends 2 were both awesome for their times.

[@Beunibster]

I don't like it when the character you play is so huge.

[@timf7413]

The controls aren't really that odd compared to Capcom's other fighters and beat-em-ups from the era. The control scheme here was more or less a hybrid of those two styles.

[@ClaytonBloom]

This was my jam! My dad and I picked it up from a pawn shop when I was young. Best pawn shop grab

[@SHspesh]

I loved this game as a kid, it's probably my favorite beat em up of all time

[@khululyp]

Talking about the Origins movies, The Wolverines Origins tie in game was suprisingly fun and brutal to play. You guys should try that sometimes on this show if you have an xbox 360 or ps3 or pc.

[@kadosho02]

khululy p if I recall correctly, Mark Hamill played Logan 😎

[@kadosho02]

nobodyinterestingyou aha your are right. I never played those, but saw some advert in a magazine awhile back.

[@ShootNameJohnny]

Yep, that game is fantastic. Violent as hell.

[@jat4651]

Robert Turner That was the game on ps2, GC, and Xbox. Wolverine's revenge.

[@retroroy1983]

Howard_the_Duck A very loose tie in at that lol

[@davestandarowski5082]

Jim Lee's character designs are still iconic.

[@UnFrSaKn]

“Is the adamantium the name of the blades?” 😳

[@KTF0]

Sounds like my aunt.

[@retroraider5313]

The material it's made from

[@THGhost1337]

They're both huge nerds, but they also know fuck all at the same time xD

[@wallrunningtitan5649]

Hah, everyone knows that's the name of Logan's healing factor.

[@DerekEvans1013]

These guys....I swear

[@SirRavix]

I love X-Men. Especially 90's X-Men.

[@josejuanandrade4439]

This is actualy a very good game. My personal favorite of the Xmen in the old consoles. I always though that the Nerd didn't mention it in his review because it wasn't a bad game... but i guess he just didn't know about it? Now i want James to do a RE-VISIT of the xmen games and add also some of the new generation ones, that'd be a mega episode!

[@retroroy1983]

jose juan andrade I want to see him do X2: Wolverine's Revenge as the Nerd. I have never raged so much before or after playing that game. It was fun but damn I thank God I don't have claws because of that game.

[@SurfintheHighway]

X-Men 2 for the Sega was fantastic, so he didn't just review bad games in that video

[@josejuanandrade4439]

SurfintheHighway, agreed, that is not a bad game, but it had that stupid flaw where you need to reset your genesis, which i think is why he included it.

[@YamanoRyuu]

Wolverine is 5 ft 3 (1.60) and 194 lbs (88kg), They always change the characters...

[@nOT_sURE08]

"Is Adamantium the name of the blades?" - James Rolfe, 2018

[@Sum1BetrThanU1]

It took mike so damn long to figure out to hit the sentinel lol

[@mudjmc]

Love how Mike looked at the camera after he was listing all the female mutants as his "Favorite" ;)

[@kevlarvest7375]

2:54 😏

[@Hisnameisroyperez]

This game was actually great once you learn the moves. Since it’s developed by capcom interestingly the moves are done by performing street fighter like button combos. Try a hadoken or a shoryuken.

[@Flayne009]

James: "Yeah".

[@Bat-Twenty-Two]

One of the best aspects of the game was unlimited mutant power use. No build-up meter or health loss for using Cyclops's optic blast or Gambit's cards.

[@JoeVincentPresents]

used to beat this without getting hit. One of those rare games, like Jurassic park 2 on snes co-op.

[@markfurlong9542]

I owned this game as a kid. definitely worth playing the whole thing. just make sure that you look-up how to do each character's moves beforehand.

[@Thrasher1984]

"...but it's a pretty long game." Not really Mike. You can get through the whole game in less than half an hour if you know what you're doing. Also, sadly there are no additional playable characters.

[@ladynikkie]

I honestly wish they did that unlock an additional X-man after you beat the game it would have been nice

[@loganmcleod3593]

I could never get through it as a kid. I was shocked when I played it last week to find out it only took me three hours to beat it, and that’s with quite a few deaths.

[@theboringmoments2809]

that cyclops part with hover bike, smh

[@cm_carlito]

Capcom later made a SNES Marvel Super Heroes game in which the characters had the exact same move sets as this one. Both great games that once you get the controlls down, you can beat in one seating.

[@DGBomber]

I had this game and it's one of my favourite Super NES games still today, good memories :)

[@steven7936]

"i'm familiar enough " "is that the metal that they put on his blades"

[@DerekEvans1013]

They aren't familiar enough in my opinion

[@ethanainsworth]

Every X-man has had at least 1 solo book. Most have had several series.

[@BlazePiffington]

Technically the gambit thing could be possible considering that the ninja turtles were mutated by the same chemicals that Matt Murdock got blinded by, him being the daredevil and gambit being in the X-Men means that they're in the same universe, ergo gambit could beat up the ninja turtles and pillage their plunder.

[@brunch1572]

Clone wars is really good but very hard. It has really good feeling movement and jumping. Probably favors wolverine a bit too much because of his health regeneration, but night crawler is super enjoyable to play too.

[@Ruesterification]

Ever play the original? From what I remember, Clone Wars was a cake walk in comparison. Or maybe because the Clone Wars had bigger sprites, more fluid animation, and was a hell of a lot more fun to play.

[@DSan-kl2yc]

Brunch it's a good game until that level with all the gold techno versions. That gauntlet is too hard

[@DSan-kl2yc]

Justin B I did. It had some unique aspects but like you said, X-Men 2 was so much better all around. But I liked some of the levels and their aesthetic. Until that goddamn reset part

[@Gideon_Judges6]

You can tell it's Capcom by the reused Megaman X sound effects. The robots walking especially sound like the mech suits.

[@MisterInevitable]

Game is called Apocalypse, but I could of sworn the ending boss was Magneto lol. Loved this game as a kid though.

[@-nuclearwaste3593]

Man. My dad got me this game when I was a child. It was really hard for me to progress through the game. I was never able to finish it.

[@gayle-annrumsby1243]

Wolverines music was one of my most favourite tracks in any video games.

[@HellScream107]

Cyclops' military transport team was also great. Loved the music in this game!

[@retroexaminer]

I completely agree😀

[@graciegj63]

Gayle-Ann Rumsby You can tell that the makers of this game liked wolverine.

[@thenostalgiafactor5023]

You like the Jim Lee era of the X-Men looks.

[@christopherkane4971]

Great, that the SNES gets some more love from ya

[@knightshifter2201]

Compared to the SNES the Genesis was shit.

[@knightshifter2201]

Snes has better games graphics and sound but yes some games have slowdown but some Genesis games also do.

[@mistersinister2043]

Remember when Cinemassacre used to "try" when making gaming videos. Pepperridge farm remembers.

[@Consolous]

Such a great game! This one is ideal for the Angry Video Game Nerd as it is so hard, especially with characters like Beast who get overwhelmed and surrounded easily. Cyclops is good against that with the laser. Can't blame you guys, Psylocke looks smokin' lol. I recently just covered the main theme song because it is just so epic. Reminds me of the Mega Man X OST.

[@winsbeyond8295]

One of my favorite SNES games Period. This was like a precursor to my other Favorite series, The Capcom Versus Series.

[@Ol_Ben_Kenobi]

Nice seeing you at Too Many Games, James!

[@TheShakermaker0]

I was worried you guys forgot it was Monday

[@josephducatman5944]

You can climb straight up the walls without jumping back and forth, and attack upward. It would have made it much easier to do that instead of jumping back and forth.

[@DeathmetalSe7en]

The X-Men cartoon series had extremely complex plots. I was watching it a few years ago on Netflix and every now and again I had to remind myself what had happened in each episode trying keep track of it and it overlapped so much it got crazy. So much going on.

[@BoozyBeggar]

Okay, come on, guys, this game is NOT hard. It's one of the few SNES side scrollers I can actually beat. I takes just a little dedication and knowing EVERY move that EVERY character can do, and knowing when to use them. Also, there are five endings, and the final boss' health stays at whatever health you got him down to the last time, so you can use an easy character to take him most of the way down, then switch to whichever character whose ending you want to see. This is NOT Castlevania difficult.

[@joshbatty3597]

All you need to know about the cartoon is, cyclops doesn't smell like a morlock. JEAN!!!!!! LELANRA!!!!! MY MIND!!!!! Rogue is a babe.

[@dwaynefrierson991]

You guys should play Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks soon that's my dream gameplay on James & Mike Monday's!

[@kadosho02]

Remember when.. a Marvel game utilized the X-Men. Been awhile since an action platformer like this was made. Challenging, but worth it.

[@Maxxroad]

Deadpool isn't an Xman

[@THROWED13OFF]

Forward forward atack up up atack down forward attack are the super powers they don't know about them

[@animanga87]

forward down forward attack is another one for Psyloche and Wolverine. Also, forward down attack let's Cyclops shoot his optic blast while ducking.

[@marklee1194]

I LOVE THIS GAME!!! It was a childhood favourite on the SNES.

[@WhatsUpYoutubeItsYoBoi]

Why is White Queen your favorite X-Man? That is a genuine question I would like to be answered.

[@leetheleo9602]

Thanks for playing this. Brings back a lot of good memories.

[@jakkak9371]

Everyone's head is tiny in this game, like the goombas in the Mario Bros film

[@Seiko180]

especially Wolverine lol

[@The_Cold_Slither]

This was a great game that I forgot all about. Except for Rogue, this is the 90’s blue team which was the more popular of the two X-Men titles.

[@StoneysWorkshop]

this was my favorite xmen game because wolverime didnt take damage with his claws out

[@Tommyboy907]

James and Mike Mondays AND X-Men - My two favorite things, and the game was good. Mon ami.

[@strangerofthe2067]

"Is adamantium the name of the blades?" 😬

[@NuclearAtomic]

One of the best X-Men games, the gameplay is pretty good, there's special moves which are performed like in a fighting game, back when Capcom used to make great games and used that Marvel license to good use, a shame they don't make great games like these anymore.

[@richardmyers5732]

Definitely a hidden gem with this game for sure. I loved it. You gotta look up how to do all their moves and get some practice in but after that it's a fun challenging game

[@jamesragsdale3069]

Of course they didn't figure out there were special moves.

[@SoftwareAgentsTV]

James, I have that Led Zepplin shirt and goddamn this game is brutal.

[@SoftwareAgentsTV]

I could actually beat Super Ghouls n Ghosts as a kid but not this.

[@DSan-kl2yc]

Software Agents TV it's actually not that hard

[@animanga87]

The problem is they didn't know the button combos to use the X-men powers. That's like playing Ghouls without being able to jump. The game is a mild challenge when you know how to spam Wolverine's dash and Cyclops' optic blasts.

[@SoftwareAgentsTV]

Yes, but that was about 13 years ago. I'm pretty bad at Super Gn'G these days. The game requires A LOT of memorization and split second reactions.

[@codyxvasco592]

Gambit does M.Bison scissor kicks.

[@jeffrey5165]

This was a great step up from the LJN shitty X-Men games like Uncanny X-Men and Arcades Revenge. I’m surprised the AVGN didn’t do a review on Arcade’s Revenge being that that game had was too many flaws for a 16 bit game and unforgivingly difficult. My only complaint with Mutant Apocalypse was that it should’ve been a two player game in the Double Dragon or TMNT style.

[@preamstrikbiz0]

I wish. You guys did, marvel super heroes war of the gems. Let alone a killer soundtrack for that snes gem

[@riggel8804]

One of my favorite games. Playef through it last weekend. You play through the later stages with different characters. Gives it some replay value

[@TheShepherd82]

MORPH should be in a X-Men Game

[@SkitterTheSauceMan]

How doesn't Nerd know what metal is in Wolverines body!!!!???

[@PeterParker-ff7ub]

The X Men deserve a great game.

[@corvus_8521]

It's called X-Men Legends 1 & 2

[@PeterParker-ff7ub]

Blaze72 new game and this is called stupid.

[@an3582]

Im guessing they're gonna not the mutant abilities because theyre command inputs unless in easy mode. Surprised they found em lol.

[@SQUID-um5gs]

War of the gems next

[@ArturoVault]

War of the Gems is horrible.

[@GoOKuSj33]

for fuck sake no that shit sucks ass.

[@DeaDlyCorpsE528]

why do ppl hate on wars so much, practically the same damn thing

[@rubiss7947]

Yes please. Rented that so often at blockbusters

[@pedroTorres-lr1ss]

Well, that game is actually harder (not so bad though) James would get his ass kicked, if he played War of gems.

[@rodhernandez3364]

Here's the characters move: Wolverine: front,front + y Front,down, front + y Down + y (on air) Gambit: Front ,front + y (can also does it up,up) Down,front + y Up+ y Psylocke: Up +y Down,front + y Front,down, front +y Cyclops: Down, front +y Front ,front +y Front, down +y Beast: Front front +y Wall walk b+ up. So basically the inputs are street fighter alike

[@TelesplashGaming]

I rented this game so many times. I remember it being really hard to get through a few levels as a kid.

[@yoshmaik]

This game was my childhood, damn, is nice to see this again.

[@MegaSpideyman]

Poor Mike, forgetting Deadpool.

[@darkashtar]

Gambit looks like he knows his way around a pole - Archer

[@SnipeMD]

I remember this game being super hard as a kid, with Psylocke's stage being hardest of the bunch _(admit it, we've all paused the game when doing Psylocke's leg sweep)._ I could never throw Gambit's cards or use Cyclops' laser on command, so I'd just mash buttons and barely get through the stages that required them. The presentation though, especially the music, made this game worth playing alone. Whenever a Sentinel would appear as a boss, it would always be a badass moment as a kid.

[@DSan-kl2yc]

Snipe M.D it's really not hard. You kinda made it much harder. Don't know why but I figured out the button presses fast. Maybe cause I like SF

[@Mr619jose619]

I remember playing this game i had it . Memories

[@goatgod2009]

Omg... nostalgia bomb. I'm getting all tingly inside remembering this game.

[@bluespaceman7937]

This was a classic game for me. It was the only X-men title in the SNES that really impressed me.

[@NeighborhoodOppa]

YESSS MY FAV X MEN GAME! Got this game as a 4 year old, such great memories!

[@MarkyShaw]

James and Mike, you guys kick ass. Thanks for all you do!

[@katkloxproductions6339]

Omgorsh, take me back to when I was young. I loved this game. Total replayability

[@magicrainbowkitties1023]

You can play as Gambit!? HELL YEAH

[@tomasflores7175]

I have this one. Never flipped it...the punch sounds, and most sounds on this 🎮 are very satisfying to here...

[@DerekMoore82]

This game has special moves like forward, down, down forward punch (dragon punch motion) but knowing how awful these guys are at fighting games, they would never be able to figure that out, they're button mashers.

[@jdb2002]

Can you blame them? It looks like a beat em up, which are usually simple to control.

[@HollowaysIdea]

They really should do some pregaming (pun intended) before playing these games. No one comes to see dry ass moves for an X-Men game. Learn the damn moves

[@gozinta82]

If you actually watch the video (or actually pay attention when you did), they figure the moves out and start using them quite naturally.

[@Inaluogh]

James and Mike Mondays has never been about practicing at games so you can look good in the video. It's about the genuine experience from when you were a kid and you pick the game up, without any knowledge aside from word of mouth.

[@timf7413]

It is fairly simple if you just want to do normal beat em up moves. The complicated fighter style moves are reserved for Mutant powers. (which I honestly prefer to the more normal tactic of making them a metered power)

[@8ByteBrian]

I played this games so much as teenager, psylocke is my favorite character, so much fun.

[@1UpJohn]

I owned this game as a kid and loved it. I still play it sometimes.

[@TonyLikeGames2]

This game is a lot easier if you know how to do the special moves.

[@foodank_atr817]

One of my all time favorites on SNES... I ... Am... Here... Edit: This is killing me... Down forward punch! Use Capcom moves! Toward toward punch! Ahhhh!!!! It hurts to see such experienced and tenured gamers be so ignorant about such a great game... Edit edit: good you found the optic beam...

[@RavenHouseMystery]

James and Mike are two of the coolest guys on KZbin.

[@jond5830]

This was my main X-men game when in the 90's. To answer your questions regarding characters and personal series: Wolverine has an ongoing series (and also a few alternate mini series), Gambit also had his own series for awhile. Rogue, Storm, Cyclops & Jean Grey had their own mini series too. Cable, X-man, had their own ongoing series for several years. And even villains such as Sabretooth and Magneto have had their time to shine. I know there's a lot more than that, but that's not too shabby.

[@mattmorgan881]

That Magneto Point Blank and the Sabertooth series blew the good-guys' mini series out of the water. They were doing great anti-hero stuff back then. My favorite mini-series of the time were the Venoms - Funeral Pyre and Lethal Protector.

[@jond5830]

Matt Morgan, you speak truth, my friend. I would have loved more Sabretooth mini series, myself. But from back then, never from today.

[@starlightwitch12]

This game is a companion game to the X-Men Children of the Atom arcade fighting game.

[@animanga87]

You mean the beat'em up arcade game? "X-Chicken" game? Yeah, it is pretty great. This one is great too but it's apples to oranges. This one requires you to spam the special moves and be tactical in the boss fights and the other is a button masher with limited access to special moves as a lifeline.

[@animanga87]

What I mean is the SNES game wasn't really a port or counterpart to CoTA in context of the SNES being too weak to have a console version of the fighting game like you said. Capcom managed to port a good version of Street Fighter Alpha 2 on the SNES, which also made it to the Saturn along with Children of the Atom. I think MA and CoTA are just two different games completely and not a result of lack of porting options on the SNES.

[@joezink881]

This is probably my favorite X-men console game. It’s not that hard once you dial it in. I’ve definitely walked away from it a few times as a kid tho.

[@ajsalem2005]

We need a better modern representation of Gambit.

[@OfficialVantaBlack]

Guess, who am i: "ahmhm, yeaaaa, hmmhmm"

[@dvsdvsdvs329]

One of my favorite game from my childhood

[@zackthompson3731]

So glad you guys finally played this game! You should play marvel war of the gems for snes next, this game is more or less a spiritual successor to that game.