The Top 5 Features of Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics

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If you grew up as an arcade lover in the ’90s, chances are you logged countless hours playing Capcom’s Marvel games. They were a staple of arcades around the world and helped define the fighting game genre. And now, a selection of those classic games have been brought back as part of one package, Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics.

It brings these games to modern consoles (which is particularly notable for one of the games) and adds lots of new features, some of which make them more accessible to new players than ever before. Here are what we think are the top 5 features of this collection:

The collection consists of seven games from throughout the ’90s and early 2000s: The Punisher (1993), X-Men: Children of the Atom (1994), Marvel Super Heroes (1995), X-Men vs. Street Fighter (1996), Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter (1997), Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes (1998), and Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes (2000).

Six of these are classic fighting games that show the evolution of gameplay over time, from the classic 1v1 battles of Children of the Atom to the 3v3 tag-team matches of New Age of Heroes. Plus, with each installment, you get access to a different roster of characters. There are dozens of characters in all — superheroes like Captain America and Wolverine, Street Fighter mainstays like Ryu and Chun-Li, and iconic characters from other Capcom franchises like Jill Valentine and Mega Man.

You might have noticed that we said there are seven games in the compilation and six of them are fighting games. The seventh is The Punisher, a side-scrolling beat ’em up that is particularly notable because it was the first game in the partnership between Capcom and Marvel and this is the first time in 30 years that it’s been made available on home consoles.

It puts you in the shoes of the titular Punisher, with Nick Fury as the second character if you play co-op. Your goal is to take down Kingpin and his organization, and in classic beat ’em