X-Men vs. Street Fighter

X-Men vs. Street Fighter
X-men vs. Street Fighter title screen
Developer(s)	Capcom
Publisher(s)	Capcom
Platform(s)	Arcade, PlayStation, Sega Saturn
Release	September 9 1996 (JP) September 10 1996 (EU) October 4 1996 (NA)
Genre(s)	Versus fighting
Mode(s)	Up to 2 players simultaneously
Arcade system	CPS-2

X-Men vs. Street Fighter (known as XSF to Street Fighter fans) is an arcade game released by Capcom in 1996 and is the first game in the Marvel vs. Capcom series of fighting games. It features characters from the X-Men franchise and characters from the Street Fighter game series.

It was the first game to blend a tag team style of combat with the well-known Street Fighter gameplay, as well as incorporating elements from Capcom's previous fighting games in the Marvel Comics franchise, X-Men: Children of the Atom and Marvel Super Heroes. It was also ported to the Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation home consoles, however, the tag team system was omitted from the Playstation ports due to memory limitations.

Due to insufficient beta testing, every character in this game has at least one infinite combo; ironically, it is nevertheless praised by some Street Fighter fans as being the most "fun" entry of the four Marvel vs. Capcom games for precisely this reason.

Characters

X-Men side

• Cyclops
• Wolverine
• Storm
• Rogue
• Gambit
• Magneto
• Juggernaut
• Sabretooth
• Apocalypse is the final boss of the game. After defeating him, the character that defeated Apocalypse is forced to fight his or her teammate. (The game will not accept new challengers at this time, even in the arcade version). If you can defeat your CPU-controlled teammate, you will get an ending, usually a character-oriented joke.

Street Fighter side

• Ryu
• Ken
• Chun-Li
• Charlie (Nash in the Japanese version)
• Dhalsim
• Zangief
• M. Bison (Vega in the Japanese version)
• Cammy
• Akuma (Gouki in the Japanese version)

Home versions

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X-Men vs. Street Fighter cover

X-Men vs. Street Fighter was ported to the Sega Saturn and the Sony PlayStation in 1996. For the Saturn version, the game required a 4 MB RAM cart (which was packed with the game). This version is a 100% perfect arcade translation and retains all of the arcade's animation. It was released in Japan only.

For the PlayStation version, because of the PS1's poor sprite capabilities, as well as low system RAM, this version had to make sacrifices for the game to work on the PS1. Notable absences include several frames of animation being cut, slow gameplay, and the game's key feature, no "true" tag-team gameplay (though a limited version of this appears via a code).

Trivia

• In addition to her regular costume, Chun-Li has an alternate outfit, from her appearance in the Street Fighter Alpha games.
• This game marks the first appearance of the Shadoloo version of Cammy.

External links

• X-Men vs. Street Fighter at The Killer List of Video Games

• Shoryuken.com (the online center of competitive Street Fighter)
• Evolution Fighting Game Championships (largest annual fighting game tournament in the Western Hemisphere)

• X-Men video games on Marvel.com