1UpArcade announces Ms. Pac-Man, Marvel vs Capcom, X-Men vs Street Fighter, Marvel Pinball, and more
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It makes sense this is the first time these games were able to be re-released legally. Looks like 1UpArcade license costs allowed those games to return.
These games are in no collections or anything.
Still odd to have console games in the A1Up units. That's the weird part.
Just bump up the price of the cabinet by another $50 or something.
The X-Men Vs SF cabinet just comes out looking like kind of a ripoff. Yeah it comes with Children of the Atom, but they excluded Marvel vs Street Fighter. Most people are going to want the Versus games.
I get the cabinet art is a selling feature but I wish you could just add games instead of missing one or the other
Both cabs suck for people like me that bought the MSH cab they already have out.
It would be more than $50 increase. And very likely they would not agree to it in the first place.
Licensing is funny. There's only so much that companies will agree to for these types of license deals. That includes putting more even titles on one cab or even sharing cabs with other companies.
I'd be interesting to see if the modding community can mod the hunting cab to work with Time Crisis and other shooting games
Those two are already in the MVC cabinet though.
If you buy the XvSF cabinet, you miss out on both MvSF and Marvel Superheroes.
If you buy the MvC cabinet, you only miss out on X-Men: Children of the Atom.
Unless the XvSF cab is significantly cheaper, I don't see a reason to get it.
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I'm interested to see if they take the lightguns farther and start bringing in more of those games. No clue if they could get the rights to make and sell Time Crisis, Jurassic Park, or House of the Dead but that would be very tempting if they did.
I wonder if these have extra ROMs on them hidden behind dev menus and root access. I know the other cab variants had more games on them than advertised, like X-Men vs Street Fighter being on the Mortal Kombat cab and SF2 being on the Turtles In Time one.
Both the Capcom games do TBH.
I mean, compare them to Ms. Pac-Man. Very few of these Capcom games had dedicated cabs so there's not a lot for 1up to reference, and it shows.
If they did a mini Aero/Blast City or something it would make more sense. Actually that's pretty much exactly what my Dino King conversion is (probably around twice the price though).
I'm shocked they got Ms Pac-Man. Didn't AtGames swipe that from Namco? I hope that means they got it back and that Atgames lost the suit... These do look really good though, and I'm still waiting for the Golden Axe Death Adder cab to get dated.
Licensing works differently for these types of stand-alone devices.
Many of these collections or games are only possible specifically because they are not software running on a PC or game console.
Things like Alien vs Predator on that funky Capcom stand-alone arcade stick collection is a similar example. That IP has different restrictions when sold as part of a novelty device (or whatever it would be referred to as) vs software on a console platform/PC.
Even if we're talking about licensing costs, It just doesn't make that much sense that one cabinet gets an additional Versus title. They were clearly trying to make a Marvel cabinet and an X-Men cabinet, so why is XvSF on both cabinets? It should be exclusive to the X-Men cab.
From purely a marketing perspective, I think the X-Men cabinet is a much harder sell to consumers when it's "missing" a game. I don't think people really value Children of the Atom that much.
I doubt it honestly. Doesn't that run on a completely different engine?
Is it just me or are these smaller than they should
Yeah they're pretty tiny. I was excited when they were first announced, but when i saw them in person they were way too small. I ended up just investing in a real full sized cabinet instead. However the artwork on these machines look real nice. I just wish that they were full size.
Should ask A1Up.
Xmen cab makes sense. Vs cab makes sense. I bet there will be a price difference for these two as well.
As for COTA... it's got a place since it was the first. I wish that was on the MvC cab actually.
Yup. It was NAOMI arcade hardware (Dreamcast based). Not CPS. It would be way costlier for them to do. But not impossible.
Am I missing something in the OP? These are arcade games originally.
Damn I've always gone BOOH to these cabs but I gotta admit that looks pretty nice with the larger screen he's put into it. Why the hell did they put such a small screens in them :/
I'd be way more interested in the X-Men cab personally. It's not just about the number of games.
Same, I was watching the whole time waiting for a Golden Axe release date. Still ill be picking up that Ms. Pacman after seeing how nice the cab is.
That released already, sitting in my living room!
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You're not wrong. People always want to act like the grass is always greener somewhere else. Part of that mentality comes from when arcade ports to console were always inferior to the real arcade.
But now I'd rather just play games at home sitting in my recliner.
You're not wrong. People always want to act like the grass is always greener somewhere else. Part of that mentality comes from when arcade ports to console were always inferior to the real arcade.
But now I'd rather just play games at home sitting in my recliner.
Never touched an arcade stick in your life eh? Jk
If you grew up with them, you were used to doing things like that.
There are two games in the two cabs that aren't. They are SNES games made by Capcom. War of the Gems and Mutant Apocalypse.
They would need a significantly more powerful SoC to run that. They've been using the same chipset in all of their machines.
X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse and Marvel Superheroes: War of the Gems are apparently SNES games.
I'm excited for the Marvel Pinball table! I've wanted a digital pinball table for a while. So if this is somewhat in the same price bracket, I'd certainly pick one up.
Plus, I can't imagine it'd be too difficult to put my already owned tables on it as well.
Plus, I can't imagine it'd be too difficult to put my already owned tables on it as well.
Children of the Atom and X-Men vs. Street Fighter are my favorite Capcom Marvel games made before MvC2. I enjoy the other games, but not nearly as much.
The lightguns have to be using IR tracking right?
I'd be interested in hearing how that feels. Modding that to play other lightgun games might be cool. Same with getting other tables in the pinball one.
I'd be interested in hearing how that feels. Modding that to play other lightgun games might be cool. Same with getting other tables in the pinball one.
