Captain Commando deserves to be in every Capcom versus game…i mean he literally has “Capcom” in his name

Marvel Vs Capcom holds a special place for me too, MVC 1 looks more polished than 2 imo.

X-Men vs. Street Fighter was my first arcade addiction.

We need a Marvel vs Capcom collection.

I spent lots of time playing X-Men vs Street Fighter and Marvel vs Street Fighter. Knowing I was a huge fan of Mega Man, one of my friends told me "Capcom made a new one with Mega Man as a playable character." and I was blown away. Then I got to play this as Mega Man, and I was hooked for life!

2:34 "so here was my trick" *Slams coins machine with hammer*

Not being able to just go out and read the X-Men comics when I was a kid, I learned of Onslaught from my little brother and him narrating what he had. Still remember getting the PS1 version of MVC and him flipping out when Onslaught showed up as the final boss. "It's Onslaught, and he's the final boss, and he's kicking your ass, and I'm sorry, but he looks really cool!," the Onslaught fanatic said. Liked seeing what the big bad could do in versus mode after I unlocked him though. Arcade version was fun at the Mall too back in the day.

I Started my path with fighting games with Capcom vs SNK 2, man now I'm so happy that there is a new KOF game out there and a new Street Fighter game coming!! Fighting games are amazing..

What I love about this game is the fact that thanks to mvc 1 I started to watch Max's videos (the online warrior ones) and found an amazing person and community so thanks mavhel!

its funny you post this right now Max. as I type this, my 9 year old daughter is playing MvC2 on my old PS2 for the first time and is getting good with rose, spider-man, and venom and she loves it. This is a game thats making her as shes been practicing combos for over an hour now.

6 minutes of talking about how special this game is to Max and it felt like there was a lot more to talk about

MvC!! This is a masterpiece of a fighting game! Gosh darn it, Capcom has to bloody make a VS series Collection set!!! TOO MANY of these games need to be brought back!!

Such a great game. I actually prefer it to mvc2 since it wasnt as bombarded with screen chaos. This game was insanely easy in arcades up to onslaught. Wish the later installments had that classic music and background art.

Man the 2d art on older games just hit that spot that never goes away🔥

My own MvC story. I had experience playing Marvel Superheroes in the neighbourhood bar, so when MvC made it to the larger arcade in town, everyone played it like Street Fighter because that's all they knew up til then. So there's this 15 year old kid playing Wolverine and Spiderman and just dominating with flashy looking combos and everyone was impressed. Took a break to prepare for exams and by the time I got back everyone was that much better than me

I really miss arcades in my city (Aguascalientes, Mexico). There was always people playing KoF or Metal Slug and it was awesome. Nowadays, there's only 3 arcade centers in the state and they are EMPTY. Not even flies drop by, lol.

The one thing that I love MVC is EVERYTHING. The presentation, the iconic fighters in a small roster, the supporting cast, the BGMs, and that Duo Team Attack that is so iconic you see 2 half-faces linked up as one, you get hyped up. Since that game was released on January '98, it holds up pretty well for more than 2 years until MVC2 shows up in the arcades. Even if I'm a late bloomer back then, it was so fun playing it.

This game was my intro to fighting games. I would use my bus money to play this game. Once I was done I would have to run up a hill and explain to my parent why I was late, it was always the bus fault.

I remember seeing the MvC1 cabinet as kid on an arcade and thinking that the game was the coolest ever. The really high jumps, the characters, colorful stages, etc.

Thumbnail artwork is straight up 🔥🔥

This game for me is the most iconic Capcom game ever. I loved everything about it as a kid and played the shet out of it. Its music is also so iconic and the stages. The character roaster was perfect even if it was small. I will never understand why they've not remastered this game and released it. Also MVC2.

I remember seeing this for the first time at a laundromat I went to as a kid. As a comic book fan and a fan of street fighter this blew me away. My mains were Spider-Man and Wolverine and my other main was venom and Wolverine.

Mvc is one of my favorite all time series of games and has been since day 1, mvc2 still remains to be my favorite fighting game to this day. The series was revolutionary and has had a huge impact on my childhood. Thank you Capcom.

I remember when i first saw MvC, MvC2 and CvS, it was during the dreamcast era, there was this public access channel back then called "MNN" it was named "the youtube before youtube." A channel where you rent broadcasting time for whatever content you made for people to watch. There were a few guys whose content was based around anime and games- one had footage of jin fighting spiderman and i was so hyped up man- i was mad loud with excitement. When they eventually came out, me and my bros bought them for the dreamcast and played the hell out all of them. Very good times and golden moments made for me around that era. 😊

I can’t wait for the Triple KO podcast about MvC 😩 always love your MvC videos dood

My team of of Strider/Cap. Commando was always seen as weird in the arcade days. I also discovered Morrigan through this game and it ignited my love of Dark stalkers

MvC1 among other fighting games were the rite of passage in my school. All the older students would be playing against the new ones, and bodying them left and right. It was one of the biggest hurdles we had to get over, and it was probably one of the best memories i've ever had as a kid.

Beautiful story 🥲 so awesome that you also went to an arcade at the mall that brought me way back to mine the popular games there capcom vs snk and marvel vs capcom 2

This was my first arcade game and I've been a vs fan since then. Even if future games don't live up to how well this game was.

12:37 _Holy synchronization, dude!!_ That double victory pose, yo! 🤩 As for my fighting game history... When I was a kid in the San Diego County area, there was a convenience store with a _Street Fighter II_ arcade near the apartments I lived in. Seeing the bloodied forms of the losing characters actually *scared me off of videogames for a good few years...* I would eventually recover by playing puzzle and sports games like _Tetris Attack_ and _Mario Golf/Tennis._ Then as a pre-teen, _X-Men: Children of the Atom_ caught my interest. Later, _X-Men vs. Street Fighter_ had my attention. And when _Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Superheroes_ landed, *it had my complete affection!* I became a full-fledged fighting game fan ever since. 😁

I know this is Max’s history in the fighting games that made him, but damn, the title for this video should’ve been the “Fighting That Made US”. MvC1 is a classic for most of us, and it deserves its place in the upper echelon of fighting games, period.

I love how I was just watching old MvC 1 videos and some of Max old stuff about MvC and Max comes out with his new MvC video.

Mvc1 also holds a special place in my heart because, as a kid, I always wanted to play mvc2 but that machine was always crowded with people and I couldn’t get in but mvc1 was always available so I just went for that instead. Megaman and venom was my og team

When X-Men Vs Street Fighter came out, I was so hyped and couldn’t believe Capcom couldn’t top it, and MSHvSF seemed to confirm that since it simply traded the roster, keeping the backgrounds, and felt like an expected half-step. Marvel Vs Capcom, however, was mind-blowing. Seeing characters other than Street Fighter really opened up my world. Mega Man…a fighter? (Never knew of Power Battles before then) Strider?? CAPTAIN COMMANDO IS ACTUALLY REAL?!?! Having Roll as a secret character was really fun. However, most important: this game was the first time I played a Darkstalkers character and the experience was so fun, it made me finally try out Darkstalkers on its own (before I only ever watched the machine). This was the first time I was playing a Capcom fighter that wasn’t Street Fighter or Marvel and it blew up my fighting game output (perfect timing as I went to college soon after MVC released). And this is why it’s important to allow more fighting games to be out and playable, to encourage players to seek out the games that the fighters originate, not merely be asset dumps! Cameos are fine but if you don’t have access to the games then the reference is lost. Really, I owe MVC a lot to branching out my fighting game purview and I wouldn’t care about Capcom fighters as much as I do without it!

I always love it when the name of super moves appears on the screen

I have pretty much the same story as Max, this is the game that made me. I was that plucky 14 year old kid, playing either Strider-Jin or double Chun-Li, that kept going at it and getting my ass kicked, until this one older guy (maybe 21 or 22) took me under his wing and taught me more complex combos and basic strategy. By the time MvC2 came around, I was one of the best at my arcade and had moved up to getting my ass kicked by guys with an actual reputation like Viscant and Dasrik. And honestly, THIS is why the FGC has always been the most social and most diverse gaming scene- playing Marvel at home wasn't really an option, so the only way to get better was by diving into the scene and making friends.

DEAR GOD. That thumbnail art. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 This was one of the first out of many fighting games, aside from the Street Fighter series and Pocket Fighter, Power Stone, Rival Schools, as well as various titles from other companies, that I'd watch my brother play through as a young lad... and yet I've only learned how to fireball. I just love seeing sprites at work, especially the backgrounds IF they're destructible. I had never been to a videogame arcade at that time but had seen single arcade cabinets here and there visiting my dad in the US and funny enough saw an Alpha 2 cabinet at a pizza place I frequented in the 2010s. There were so many good games out there to see but MAHVEL 1 always stood out to me.

Holy shit that jungle jive story hit me in my soul. I did the same thing. I couldn't tell you want games I played with those tokens but I loved getting them tokens. If you hung around that machine enough, the odd token would fall down and cause a cascade and you could get a free dollar from just right place right time.

Man…I first played this game at a launders mat, in Brooklyn New York. Soon as I found it on PlayStation it was a wrap for my other games😂😂 Still have that ps1 disk and it will always get replays at my crib. Love it

When i was a teenager there was a food place in my neighborhood that had several arcade machines .this was my portal to marvel vs capcom and the king of fighters games.when i entered the local and saw rockman fighting againts spiderman (two of my favourite characers in the world) whit anime style sprites i lost my shit .i was amazed and quickly began to spent entire days there .in my home everyone knew where i been all day cause i always came home smeling like fried potatoes or chicken . It definetly is the best vs game of the whole saga .also bengus did his best work ilustrating this game art Also here in Argentina kof 98 and 2002 were the shit .those arcades were allways full of people waiting to play

I totally get what he means when he say being the “gambit” player, at my smash locals I’m the Mewtwo Meta Knight guy and it’s really rewarding hearing that and being known as someone you have to look out for purely because of character choice and skill

MvC1 surely holds a special place in my heart, because it was one of my personal favourite picks to play when I went to the arcade, and mainly because spiderman and megaman were in the game. It's funny, because that was around 2005/6 when I was 5-6 years old, and even though arcades were pretty much dead, this only arcade had a floor dedicated to shooters, racing games and prize machines, and a floor dedicated to old arcade games (I remember there were like 4 different kof machines as well as a couple of mortal kombats). But so far the coolest thing was that all the machines were the Sega Astrocity (I believe thats the name) machines, and they actually felt good to play, not like the cheap machines that you could find somewhere else. Fucking love this game even though I really suck at it lol

I love this game Reminds me of the Laundromats and Swap Meets here in LA lol

I love this series to pieces, half tempted to make my own once I get my own place and recording setup XD

Somewhere around 1999, the MvC1 cabinet was standing up at the front of the Tilt by the food court at the mall here, and I got my best-ever fighting game win streak there, taking Chun-Li and Jin to 34 wins in a row. Something like an hour's worth of gameplay on 50 cents. And then sixteen years later the mall gets new owners and they drive the Tilt out by insisting on placing their own arcade games all around the mall.

X-Men v Street Fighter did the same for me! It really sucked to watch Sabretooth get nerfed throughout the years but I still used him!

My pediatrician growing up had Alpha 3, MVC1, and Mortal Kombat 3 arcade machines in the waiting room separated by a soundproof glass. I loved going to the doctor growing up just to play these games lol. To this day my teams have to always have one Capcom and one Marvel character.

Dude these HDMI mods you've had done to the original hardware completely transforms the experience! I've never seen this game look this good! And I bet it plays like a dream

Yep I love this game. I actually share some similar experiences, but the BIG thing for me about this game is that I got to know a lot of these cool characters (like, venom, strider, gambit, etc) even tho I wasn't good playing this back then. Also Captain America's theme for me is the OFICIAL main theme of MVC 1

Ayo. Can we get a Marvel retrospective? I’d be all for you playing through the whole series!

That thumbnail artwork is too cool I need it

In my local arcade, we used to jokingly call strider's bomb the wolverine defense. Because it would shut down a solo wolverine so hard. It forced him to play patient because wolvie couldn't do any damage worth face tanking the bomb in the time it two it took to summon it.

Marvel Vs.Capcom 1 was my absolute favorite fighter in the arcade and the Dreamcast era. It was so polished and the sprites were on fucking point! The music lord help me I still whistle Captain America's theme from time to time. The announcer is so fucking iconic!

I worked at a movie theater in my early 20s as a manager and we had this game in the arcade. I played on my breaks. When I got off and closed and stayed a few hours to play. When I saw a movie. It ran on tokens. Which we provided. I wasn't good at all. But as a huge fan of these characters growing up and how awesome it was, I just loved playing. I got another job and heard through old coworker friends that the general manager was selling it. I made a deal and a week later I went to get it and it was gone. He sold it to another business for more. Whatever.

This game and kof 2001 were my first fighting games. Both arcade cabinets right next to each other in my laundromat 😂 I was ass at kof but Marvel vs Capcom was my most favorite arcade game for literally almost 2 decades !

My fondest memories of MVC1 are playing it at a little market next to my high school that we called Dirty Mike's. They also had Puzzle Fighter and MVC2 so the place was always packed

Every December I’d go to Mexico and my aunt had a arcade with this game. Best 2 weeks of the year every year

Bussin days in NYC at pizzerias and laundromats, my formative years, my favorite years, when times were simpler and quality was paramount

The character selection screen is so good too

Captain Commando & Morrigan that’s my team. Big John’s pizza shop Queens village back in 1999 :)

Haha, exactly the same for me including the Gambit/Strider part, except I did start doing this with X-men vs SF (so Gambit/Wolverine). We also had a token-pushing machine and I used that any chance I got lol. My goals were simple: hit someone with Royal Flush and hit them with Ragnarok. I remember being a kid and someone behind me saying "he's got timing!!" when I hit my older brother with a random Berserker Barrage X super and I never let him forget it lol.

@8:46 "Be your true self!" Man, Strider giving me life advice.

Love the character select music...epicness!

MvC inspired the strikers system in KOF 99 - 2K1... This game has the SNK spirit, as in: THIS IS A LOVE LETTER TO MARVEL COMICS AND CAPCOM GAMES... So much passion was put in this I can almost smell it... Same as in KOF 98, 2K2, XIII XIV and XV...

I love MVC 1 especially when I first played it on my uncle's Dreamcast. Only time I played it on a arcade machine was once at a local movie theater. I still remember it like yesterday, This 1 guy was whooping people still on the same quarters with his team of Wolverine & Strider. I was next to play so I popped my quarters in dude looked & took me as a chump since I was 8 at the time point is I ended that man's whole career with Ryu/MegaMan untill I had to go & watch some movie. Man I wish I had my own Dreamcast back in those days that was a fighting game I literally wanted to get good at.

Onslaught’s character concept was a great idea: Professor X corrupted by Magneto’s mind after wiping it due to the events of Fatal Attractions (sending a global EM pulse to shut down all machines, ripping out Wolverine’s Adamantium) and looking to attack the world for mutant persecution. However, what took him down to Ultra-lame was his story arc being used to shuffle the Avengers off into the whole Heroes Reborn debacle, a huge mistake that really harmed Marvel’s reputation (along with the bankruptcy and other factors).

MSH vs Capcom was my jam. I had a arcade mini golf place that had it on a huge projector tv.

Anita chasing Roll is the cutest thing ever.

This game is truly one of a kind. An all-time great. On a related note, I actually genuinely loved Roll in MvC1. It is utterly baffling to me that they decided she of all characters needed to be so heavily nerfed in MvC2. If 2 had 1's version of Roll, I would legitimately use her in it.

Good God, the quarters I dumped into my MVC1 cabinet at the beachside New Jersey arcade....

it's beautiful to see how everyone is having certain memories with their first loved fighting game .. for me it was waku waku 7 , not too popular but it's pretty good tho .. i've spend a lot of time and quarters haha getting beaten up trying to get better at the game . i really loved the characters in it back in the days especially rai and slash . sweet memories

I know the "Jungle Jive" machine you're talking about, we had a few machines like that when our local arcade, Dream Machine, still existed at the Maine Mall. Never went for it though, I was more into raking in tickets at the arcade (Unless I had an urge to play HotD or Area 51), but I remember those machines.

Now see that's a classic tight there lol. And I love that ending

GOD DAMMMNN KAINONAUT POPPED OFF ON THAT PIECE

May I say that MvC 1 Morrigan's theme is amazing.

I played this game for hours , back in my village in Jamaica. Sweet times

I saw the Marvel vs. Capcom cabinet in Peter Piper Pizza around 6 or 7 years old. My team was Spider-Man and Mega Man because I love the Sam Raimi movies and I enjoy watching the Mega Man NT Warrior anime. Seeing them join forces blew my mind and I love the game so much, I begged strangers for tokens like a hobo when I ran out of tokens my mom gave me.

I remember renting MvC for Playstation from my local Hollywood Video when I was a kid. Absolutely loved this game and maining Mega Man.

Very cool game indeed. Back then when I was playing arcade machines, I was mainly playing Metal Slug machines and a few times SF. Years later I finally played MvC and boy so good! I was mainly a Spider-Man/Wolverine guy and was trying to play better with Megaman, but failing. Hopefully they release all the MvCs in a collection (at least 1, 2, 3 and maybe a few other like Marvel Heroes and etc.). I would buy that shit so much, even if I am more of a offline player.

never get tired of watching max play this game and beat it cause in the arcades I never got good enough to beat onslaught

we NEED a vs collection; marvel, snk, tastunoko, the whole schbang. i REALLY wanna play mvc1 and cvs chaos on modern platforms

Love the Strider life advice

For me this game was special because it was my first Arcade game. Living in a small town we never have Arcades previous to this, this was one of the few machines that this first Arcade local have. Marvel catch everyone attention there probably because the superheroes. I don't even like MvC2 but this one was part of my history.

nice shirt max looking good

I used to shoot pool at the local Boys and Girls Club for quarters to play more games at arcades. For me, at the time, it was Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Street Fighter EX Plus Alpha and eventually this one.

the music for this game is the best. love it

Max and I have very similar stories here. Mom gives you $1 in quarters, you turn that into $5 with the gambling machine, and then you play your game. Only difference is with me it was UMK3. Lol. Good times

The amount of satisfaction when I defeated onslaught for the first time when I was a kid...such a beautiful game...at the beginning my team was war machine with Jin but after I knew about the secrets and the mechanics (like transforming Ryu) I just played with anyone but Hulk...XD...this game, RE2 and FF7 are my top 3 games of all time...n_n

This was the game I always wanted to play at the arcade when I was a kid. It's the game that I learned how to throw a fireball in

Didn't the Dreamcast version let each person control a character when they were all on screen? The credits are charming, though I'd tie it with Puzzle Fighter.

I bartend at a gamer bar in Vegas called Player 1 where all staff are in cosplay. Max can I bribe you with our MVC cab to come visit?

So at my middle we were allowed to go outside and eat near at the pizza shop. The bodega at the corner had mvc 1. me and a group of kids wouldn’t lunch all week just so that we could meet up after school on fridays to play it. And before anyone ask why we didn’t just eat the lunch room food it’s because we would play football for longer than the kids that ate in the lunch room.

i miss the arcade days dang born in 1991 cannot say i never played arcades sf2 was my first game and marvel 1 was my first marvel game growing up

I’ve always wanted to learn to play this game and I got the Arcade1up and I love it! Also X-men vs street fighter kicks ass too

I never got to play an arcade version of this, but as a kid I spent a lot of hours playing the ps1 version of this game, I love it

I'm glad that Max prefers MVC1 over 2. I feel the same way! The general gameplay with its use of all 6 buttons and the limit of assist characters meant that the gameplay put more emphasis on the actual player characters Don't get me wrong MVC2 is still great but 1 felt more balanced and polish, but what it has over 2 is personality; the general art direction and music feels like a celebration of both Capcom and Marvel properties, as opposed to the more uniform, slightly generic look and sound MVC2 went with.

Best Character Select Theme (said it before, will say it again)!!

Local roast beef place had an official MvC cabinet in store, first time I'd ever played it back in like 2015. Funny enough I played Gambit and Strider as well, got second on the leaderboard.

I remember burning my sixth grade grad trip at a bowling alley playing MVC. Got to Onslaught, SOMEHOW. Ran Venom and Captain Commando. I'm trash at this game but I have fond memories of it.

Gambit looks so cool in the thumbnail with that art style definitely one of my favorite X-MEN characters I'm sad Channing Tatums Gambit movie didn't get made he seems so passionate about the Gambit character id love to see Channing Tatum play Gambit someday everything I've heard about the Gambit movie script sounds really cool a Rated R mutant Goodfellas movie set in New Orleans in the Deadpool side of the Fox X-Men movies universe is so unique and cool sounding to me man