The Official Angry Video Game Nerd Discussion Thread

[Gameguy]

New video is up now:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/48906.html
X-men

I liked it, it was way better than the last one.

[CelticJobber]

X-Men was probably the best one he's done in the past year or so, IMO.

[boatofcar]

I really wish they were all like that.

[Arcade_Ness]

I'm intrigued about X-Men 2: Clone Wars now. Great video.

[Gentlegamer]

at the Spinal Tap joke at the beginning!

[kainemaxwell]

Great mention of having to reset the Genesis at the end of the Mojo stage of Sega's X-Men.

[elvis8atari]

Welcome To Die!!!!!!!!

[7th lutz]

The Nes version of Xmen is terrible to put it mildly. AVG is correct about that game.

I think it might have been the worst Nes game I ever rented outside Who framed Rodger Rabbit.

[Kitsune Sniper]

I'm surprised he didn't touch Wolverine: Adamantium Rage or Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge.

[Trumpman]

I really liked this episode - had no idea about the terrible NES X-Men games. I liked his bit on the "evolution of Wolverine" because it was so true.

[elvis8atari]

I'm surprised he didn't touch Wolverine: Adamantium Rage or Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge.

He can't do every x-men themed game all at once. there must be a million of them. i'd rather he just focus on a few anyway

[kainemaxwell]

I'm surprised he didn't touch Wolverine: Adamantium Rage or Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge.

He'd be flat out wasted after trying to play Arcade's Revenge.

I know I wanted to be.

[Kitsune Sniper]

He'd be flat out wasted after trying to play Arcade's Revenge.

I know I wanted to be.

Oh COME ON it's not THAT BAD. I liked it!

[Greg2600]

LJN such garbage. Glad he mentioned the Konami arcade X-Men, which I adored at the time. Sadly Acclaim/LJN had the console license for both X-Men and Simpsons back then. Thankfully, Capcom and SEGA got them back for X-Men for the 16-bits.

[The Old School Gamer]

Like most of his movies this one brings back some bad memories. I saw the X-Men NES game for $9.99 used at the local Phar-Mar's video rental store. I had just gotten into comic books and my favorite one was of course the X-Men. I was so excited, I didn't even know they had their own game! I bought it, got home, ran upstairs and poped it into my NES. Never in my life was I so let down by a game. I've gotten bad games before but this was the worst thing I'd ever played. It was every bit as bad as the Nerd said, if not worse. How this thing got Nintendo's seal of approval is beyond me.

Great review by the Nerd!

[Jorpho]

"There's no gold at the end of that rainbow, because this, my friends, is the unholy stamp of DEATH!"

I'd heard of the infamous reset thing before, of course, but it was always my understanding that there was some message from Xavier or something that at least hinted about what you should do.

(Say, there's never been a game where you could control Xavier, has there? Or would such wheelchair-oriented gameplay be in bad taste?)

[Kitsune Sniper]

(Say, there's never been a game where you could control Xavier, has there? Or would such wheelchair-oriented gameplay be in bad taste?)

I can see it now: Xavier versus his worst enemy:

[Rob2600]

After seeing the X-Men and Wolverine NES games, I still believe my theory:

1. LJN developed a handful of generic games ahead of time and put them on the shelf

2. LJN acquired movie and cartoon licenses

3. LJN took one of its generic games off the shelf, added some sprites that were supposed to resemble the licensed characters, and released it to the unsuspecting public


Seriously, most of LJN's NES games had absolutely nothing to do with the licenses they're based on. My theory is the only logical explanation.

[IceDrake]

(Say, there's never been a game where you could control Xavier, has there? Or would such wheelchair-oriented gameplay be in bad taste?)

Xavier was playable in X-Men Legends I and II.

[Jorpho]

1. LJN developed a handful of generic games ahead of time and put them on the shelf

But why even do that much, when they could probably just buy the relevant engines from some guys in Hong Kong (not unlike what Color Dreams did) ? As per Wikipedia:

...[T]here is no known video game that has been developed by LJN themselves even though many of their games, especially the pre-Acclaim ones, did not disclose the developer. Majority of the licensed titles published by LJN were developed by the then-unknown Rare Ltd...