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X-Men vs. Street Fighter © 1996 Capcom Company, Limited.
X-Men vs. Street Fighter is a one-on-one beat-em-up for one or two players and is Capcom's third fighting game to feature Marvel Comics characters, with characters from Marvel's X-Men franchise being pitted against the cast from Capcom's own Street Fighter series.
The game uses a system similar to the style developed in Marvel Super Heroes and adds the tag team gameplay feature. Instead of the usual best-two-out-of-three round format, the game's matches consist of two-on-two battles between tag teams. The player controls one character at a time, while the other waits off-screen. The starting character can tag the waiting one in at any time by hitting the Hard Punch and Hard Kick buttons, which activates the 'Variable Attack'; the tag partner will jump in with an attack and taunt briefly.
During their taunt, they are vulnerable to counter-attack. The dormant character will be able to recover a portion of their vitality, while the current character is fighting. If one character loses all of their vitality, then the tag partner will automatically come to play. A match is over when both members of a team are defeated or if the timer on the match clock reaches zero.
There are other ways to bring the character's partner in; the "Variable Counter", which replaces the Infinity Counter of Marvel Super Heroes, breaks the player's guard to bring the teammate in with a counterattack at the cost of a level of super meter. Also, the "Variable Combination" is a two-character Hyper Combo (the super moves featured in the game) which costs two levels, and will switch the player's current character as long as neither character gets hit during their Hyper Combos.
The X-Men characters come largely unchanged from "X-Men: Children of the Atom" and Marvel Super Heroes, while three characters new to the series are introduced in the form of Rogue, Gambit and Sabretooth. The Street Fighter characters use their Street Fighter Alpha 2 forms, although their special moves were given upgrades to match the larger-than-life atmosphere of the Marvel games (for example, Ryu's Hadouken is much larger than it is in other games).
This game marks the first appearance of 'Shadaloo' depiction of Cammy, who would reappear in the console versions of "Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold", as well as in Street Fighter Alpha 3.
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Runs on the "CP System II" hardware.
Green Board [Japan]
Players: Up to 2.
Control: 8-way joystick per player.
Buttons: 6 per player.
= > [1] LP, [2] MP, [3] HP
= > [4] LK, [5] MK, [6] HK
In August 1996, a prototype of the game was being tested at several arcades across the countries. One difference in this prototype is that Gambit has a different coat color, and his hair is much lighter. The left sleeve of Gambit's coat is white. This was possibly a graphics problem and was fixed in the final version.
X-Men vs. Street Fighter was released in September 1996 in Japan. It was known there as the 20th video game released for the CPS2 hardware.
Known export releases:
X-Men vs. Street Fighter [Blue Board]
X-Men vs. Street Fighter [Grey Board]
X-Men vs. Street Fighter [Orange Board]
X-Men vs. Street Fighter [Pink Board]
9 characters are coming from Marvel comic books, followed by their first appearance :
Apocalypse (aka En Sabah Nur) - X-Factor #5
Cyclops (aka Scott Summers) - X-Men #1
Gambit (aka Jean-Luc 'Remy' LeBeau) - Uncanny X-Men #266
Juggernaut (aka Cain Marko) - X-Men #12
Magneto (aka Erik 'Magnus' Lehnsherr) - X-Men #1
Rogue - Avengers Annual #10
Sabretooth (aka Victor Creed) - Iron Fist #14
Storm (aka Ororo Munroe) - Giant Size X-Men #1
Wolverine (aka James 'Logan' Howlett) - Incredible Hulk #180
9 other characters come from several Street Fighter games :
Akuma ('Gouki' in Japan) - "Super Street Fighter II X - Grand Master Challege" in Japan; Super Street Fighter II Turbo in all other regions.
Cammy - Super Street Fighter II - The New Challengers
Charlie ('Nash' in Japan) - Street Fighter Alpha - Warriors' Dreams in the United States, Canada, and Europe; Street Fighter Zero in Japan, Southeast Asia, Brazil, and Hispanic regions
Chun-Li - Street Fighter II - The World Warrior
Dhalsim - Street Fighter II - The World Warrior
Ken Masters - Street Fighter
Major Bison ('Vega' in Japan) - Street Fighter II - The World Warrior
Ryu - Street Fighter
Zangief - Street Fighter II - The World Warrior
In the game, teams are preselected and the player never encounter random teams. Here are the different teams the player will fight against :
* Cyclops and Ryu
* Zangief and Juggernaut
* Storm and Charlie
* Dhalsim and Sabretooth
* Rogue and Chun-Li
* Bison and Magneto
* Gambit and Ken
* Wolverine and Cammy
Akuma is outside the teams as he is an hidden character (see 'Tips and Tricks' section). After defeating six of these teams, the player's team fights Apocalypse himself! In the end, the character who defeated Apocalypse remains under player control and the other one is the ultimate opponent for the one-on-one final battle.
Blanka (of Street Fighter II - The World Warrior fame) can be seen hanging out within the background in the 'Death Valley' stage.
Clarence E. Leung holds the official record for this game, on level 5-expert setting, with 2098100 points on March 16, 1999.
Soundtrack releases :
X-Men vs. Street Fighter [Victor Entertainment - VICL-2176 - November 21, 1996]
Sega Saturn (nov.27, 1997) X-Men vs. Street Fighter [Model T-1226G] Sony PlayStation (feb.26, 1998) X-Men vs. Street Fighter EX Edition [Model SLPS-01284] Sega Saturn (apr.16, 1998) X-Men vs. Street Fighter [Model T-1227G]