{"id":25288,"date":"2025-01-10T00:01:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T00:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=25288"},"modified":"2024-12-18T13:14:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T13:14:47","slug":"the-games-of-the-marvel-vs-capcom-fighting-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/10\/the-games-of-the-marvel-vs-capcom-fighting-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Games of the Marvel Vs. Capcom Fighting Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Earlier last year, Capcom released a collection of their Marvel licensed arcade games.\u00a0 It was pretty surprising that they did this, seeing how Marvel is owned by Disney now and all.\u00a0 But they made it happen!\u00a0 I got the physical release of this recently, so I thought I\u2019d \u2018take you for a ride\u2019 and check out all the games on this collection.<\/p>\n

But before we do, I wanted to point out that the physical PS4 copy I bought came with a little comic book.\u00a0 And by little I really mean it.\u00a0 It fits in my hand (see picture).\u00a0 I kind of wish it was bigger, but I guess they had to fit it in the box.\u00a0 It would be cool if they made a bigger version for conventions or maybe Free Comic Book Day.\u00a0 Not that it matters since I don\u2019t really collect comic books or go to comic book stores.\u00a0 But at least this one had Mega Man in it.<\/p>\n

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X-Men: Children of the Atom<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think this is the first one on one fighter Capcom made with Marvel characters.\u00a0 X-Men was pretty big at the time in the early 90s, what with that cartoon and all.\u00a0 I liked playing as Psylocke on this one because she wears purple and has purple hair and shoots purple stuff.\u00a0 She has purple powers!\u00a0 Honestly though, I never really paid much attention to this game in arcades, as I pretty much ignored fighters until they became more accessible in the late 90s.<\/p>\n

Marvel Super Heroes<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even though they used a lot of the X-Men characters from before, this still felt like a proper sequel rather than a version 1.5.\u00a0 Capcom hadn\u2019t entered their \u2018lazy phase\u2019 yet I guess.\u00a0 So now they\u2019ve added other characters besides the X-Men like Spider-Man\u2026uh\u2026The Hulk\u2026and I forget who else.\u00a0 Honestly my knowledge of Marvel characters really only comes from these games, the LEGO games, and the movies, and I don\u2019t really get into comic books so I really don\u2019t pay attention to Marvel stuff as a whole.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t beat Juggernaut in this game, he\u2019s just too big!<\/p>\n

X-Men vs. Street Fighter<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I first saw this game in arcades I thought to myself, \u201cMan I feel sorry for the Street Fighter cast having to fight people with super powers.\u201d\u00a0 But then I remembered that the Street Fighter characters can shoot fireballs from their fists, breathe fire, stretch out their arms and legs, teleport, generate electricity, and spin their legs around like a helicopter and fly around.\u00a0 So I guess it all evens out.<\/p>\n

Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think this is when Capcom entered their \u2018lazy phase\u2019 because this feels more like a version 1.5 than a sequel.\u00a0 Sure they added some new characters, but the stages and final boss are all the same.\u00a0 Yeah I don\u2019t really have anything else to say about it.<\/p>\n

Marvel vs. Capcom<\/strong><\/p>\n

OK this is when I really started paying attention to the Vs. series.\u00a0 Mainly because Mega Man was in it.\u00a0 But a lot of other long dormant classic Capcom characters made appearances in this one, too.\u00a0 Like Strider and Arthur.\u00a0 I love how the joke character here is Mega Man\u2019s sister Roll.\u00a0 She\u2019s so small a lot of the other characters\u2019 attacks go right over her!\u00a0 I really like a lot of the music and stage backgrounds, too.<\/p>\n

Marvel vs. Capcom 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

This game is worth the price of this collection alone.\u00a0 I think this is my number one favorite Dreamcast game and probably one of my top five fighting games overall.\u00a0 I have so many good memories playing this with my little brothers and friends.\u00a0 It\u2019s very accessible and has so many characters, too!\u00a0 Almost too many!\u00a0 I love how Tron Bonne is a character you can play as.\u00a0 And they even upped the ante on the joke character because not only can you play as Roll, but a solitary Servebot as well.\u00a0 And he\u2019s even shorter than Roll and more useless, too.\u00a0 But I love him anyway.\u00a0 My only problems with this one is the stage backgrounds and music aren\u2019t as inspired.\u00a0 And this was still Capcom\u2019s lazy phase so they re-used a lot of sprites from games with lower resolutions.\u00a0 Morrigan\u2019s DarkStalkers sprite looks especially bad.\u00a0 And I don\u2019t notice stuff like that too often.\u00a0 But otherwise, this is a GREAT game.<\/p>\n

The Punisher<\/strong><\/p>\n

All the other games on this collection are one on one fighters, this is the only side scrolling beat \u2018em up.\u00a0 It says it came out in 1993 and looks the part.\u00a0 Kind of has that similar feel to other games at the time like Captain Commando.\u00a0 I remember The Punisher being really popular at the time, seeing kids in high school reading the comics and wearing shirts with that skull insignia.\u00a0 Player two is Nick Fury, and the name sounded familiar to me so I asked my brother Jeff about it and he said that was the guy who was the leader of the Avengers in the movies.\u00a0 Seems odd he\u2019d hang out with the Punisher, but I don\u2019t know a lot about Marvel so there you go.\u00a0 The game is no Captain Commando or Final Fight, but it\u2019s all right.\u00a0 A nice surprise for this collection anyway.<\/p>\n

You know what Capcom comic book beat \u2018em up I\u2019d like to see on this collection?\u00a0 Aliens vs. Predator.\u00a0 It\u2019s not Marvel so I guess that\u2019s why it\u2019s not on here.\u00a0 But it was really good.\u00a0 It came out a few years after the Punisher game.\u00a0 It would\u2019ve been neat to see some of Capcom\u2019s SNES Marvel games on this collection, as I hear they were pretty good.\u00a0 But I guess they just wanted to focus on the arcade stuff.\u00a0 It\u2019s probably also why we don\u2019t see Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 and Marvel Vs. Capcom Ultimate.\u00a0 Mvs.C 3 was neat because it had She-Hulk in it.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know who she was at the time.\u00a0 I was like, \u201cAw, the Hulk has a girlfriend!\u201d\u00a0 But Phoenix Wright is in her ending so I decided that she would be my favorite Marvel character.\u00a0 Too bad her show on Disney+ sucked.\u00a0 Marvel Vs. Capcom Ultimate wasn\u2019t as good as the other games, but I don\u2019t think it was bad, just different.\u00a0 They tried to make it feel more like the movies, which were popular at the time.\u00a0 I liked how the Dr. Light hologram from the Mega Man X games teamed up with Iron Man\u2019s computer to help the good guys.\u00a0 I think it would be neat if they made a Marvel Vs. Capcom movie.\u00a0 At least I\u2019d know who half the cast was!\u00a0 Anyway, that\u2019s all I have to say about that.\u00a0 This is a pretty good collection overall.\u00a0 Later!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier last year, Capcom released a collection of their Marvel licensed arcade games.\u00a0 It was pretty surprising that they did this, seeing how Marvel is owned by Disney now and all.\u00a0 But they made it happen!\u00a0 I got the physical release of this recently, so I thought I\u2019d \u2018take you for a ride\u2019 and check […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25288"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25291,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25288\/revisions\/25291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}