Marvel's X-Men Deserve The TMNT: Shredder's Revenge Treatment

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Tribute Games continues to flex their pixel-punching prowess, and upon seeing the success of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, it's high time that Marvel's X-Men get the same treatment. Unfortunately, the X-Men have been dormant for far too long in the video game space as far as stand-alone entries go, but with all the rumors and recent developments surrounding the MCU, now may be the perfect time for the independent developer to prep their pitch for the next logical step in the '90s-era comic book beat-em-up genre. If Shredder's Revenge is anything to go off of, there's hardly a better developer to tackle the '90s-era X-Men in video game form.

Marvel's animated series line-up in the 90s is a significant source of nostalgia for many gamers today. Ignoring Marvel's MCU video game options, from Spider-Man to X-Men to The Incredible Hulk, there's no lack of great classics that a talented developer could pull from to capture lightning in a bottle twice. Looking back at the arcade and SNES era, many Marvel properties got their turn at being side-scrolling beat-em-ups, as most of them blended well with the coin-munching baddie-bashing formula of the time. Captain America and The Avengers stood out in the early '90s and shared the spotlight with Spider-Man: The Arcade Game at the time. But the game that ruled the arcades in the Marvel frontier was X-Men, released in 1992. X-Men was one of the biggest games of the arcade age and allowed up to six players to smash foes together. Players assumed the roles of Wolverine, Cyclops, Colossus, Storm, Nightcrawler, and Dazzler. The game used the classic comic book aesthetic, as the colorful '90s animated series wouldn't air until October of that year, nearly seven months