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Character in Fighting Games - Part II: More Than Functions

August 06, 2024 by Lucas Kelleher in opinion

The draw to play a fighting game with Magneto isn’t to do eight-way dashes, it’s to play as Magneto. You can’t just replace him with a knockoff character, even if that knockoff has all the same functions.

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August 06, 2024 /Lucas Kelleher
Fighting Games, X-Men, Marvel, Marvel Vs Capcom 2, Magneto, X-Men vs. Street Fighter
opinion
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X-Men ‘97 review

May 15, 2024 by Lucas Kelleher in Movies & TV

Reviving a beloved Saturday morning cartoon 30 years later really should not work at all. And yet, this show rules!

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May 15, 2024 /Lucas Kelleher
X-Men, X-Men 97, anime, Gambit
Movies & TV
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Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge review

May 09, 2023 by Lucas Kelleher in game reviews, retrospective

Spider-Man, the X-Men, and the Super Nintendo—what could possibly go wrong? Well, here comes LJN with the answer.

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May 09, 2023 /Lucas Kelleher
Spider-Man, X-Men, SNES, LJN, Gambit
game reviews, retrospective
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Arcade1up cabinet review | X-Men vs. Street Fighter

November 22, 2021 by Lucas Kelleher in device reviews

Having X-Men vs. Street Fighter playable at home, in all its arcade glory, is a 90’s kid’s dream come true.

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November 22, 2021 /Lucas Kelleher
X-Men vs. Street Fighter, X-Men, Street Fighter, Arcade1Up, Capcom, X-Men: Children of the Atom, X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse, MvC, Arcade, Marvel
device reviews
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X-Men vs. Street Fighter review

August 04, 2020 by Lucas Kelleher in game reviews, retrospective

X-Men Vs. Street Fighter. ‘Nuff said.

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August 04, 2020 /Lucas Kelleher
X-Men, Street Fighter, X-Men vs. Street Fighter, Capcom, Arcade, crossover, Marvel, Arcade1Up, Fighting Games, Gambit
game reviews, retrospective
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X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills review

September 07, 2016 by Lucas Kelleher in book reviews

The true fear of mutation is not what mutants might do to you, but what their existence means to your place in world.

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September 07, 2016 /Lucas Kelleher
X-Men, Comic Books, Marvel
book reviews
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X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse review

November 20, 2014 by Lucas Kelleher in game reviews, retrospective

In November 1994, Capcom released their first X-Men game on the Super Nintendo, a side-scrolling platformer/brawler titled X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse. And damn was it good.

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November 20, 2014 /Lucas Kelleher
X-Men, X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse, X-Men: Children of the Atom, SNES, Capcom, Marvel, Gambit
game reviews, retrospective
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X-Men (Genesis) review

November 14, 2014 by Lucas Kelleher in game reviews, retrospective

Capitalizing on the popularity of the Saturday morning cartoon, Sega released the first decent X-Men game on Genesis in 1993. But just how good was it?

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November 14, 2014 /Lucas Kelleher
Sega Genesis, X-Men, LJN, X-Men arcade, Marvel, Gambit
game reviews, retrospective
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