It might be “lazy” but it’s still one of my favorite games in the series. The music was excellent, it’s not as broken as X Men vs SF, and the announcer and Intro were the hypest thing ever. And come on man, Cyber Akuma. CYBER AKUMA

It's hilarious how people use Marvel as an example of how huge fighting game rosters used to be, when they completely ignore that they're almost all recycled content accumulated from 5+ years of different games.

here's a mind blowing fact for y'all - Venom (MVC) is a recycled sprites of Sabretooth (XMVSF) with renovations on his symbiote's head, hands/claws, legs/feets etc. They hinted it at similar air throw that both had. Try to compare it sprite by sprite, then you'll see it

Capcom Fighting Evolution: “Am I a joke to you?”

I think the main reason Omega Red was picked is because they finally had the Voice actor from the show being able to actually voice him in game, in COTA he was the only VA missing i believe

You know what this game really DID bring to the table, for the first time ever? A Color 2 for Akuma that doesn't suck.

I like how MvC2 gets away with being lazy while this game gets reviewed harshly. This game actually has more production values than MvC2.

Blackheart is still one of the coolest looking sprites in a fighting game

Yeah, it’s a little lazy, re-using the sprites. But at the same time, IT WORKED!! And it set up for the inevitable craziness of MARVEL VS CAPCOM!!

Love this game, no matter how lazy it was. It was my first hyper fighting game.

i don't think it deserves that title. Hell a huge portion of mvc2 is just a giant asset dump from previous games and some of the cheapest ui and menu design in a fighting game.

I will never get sick of the announcer yelling out the specific supers of the characters in this game. It always has been an extra incentive to win a match with a super for me. I was so disappointed when they didn't bring that back for MvC.

For me is much better than XvsSF and MvC1. The Ost, The Announcer, The presentation... the roster is the only weak thing. Is the superior version of X-Men Vs. Street Fighter.

The roster doesn't suck...when else are you going to play as Sakura or Dan in a pre-MvC2 VS game? Plus Shuma-Gorath and Blackheart! A crazy roster with some picks that should have been carried on into MvC1.

"You can spam MP in the air so fast?" This was basically the meta of my arcade. You pick Wolverine + some other guy, super jump, MP spam, fill up your meter, then you start playing.

Two things I'll never forget specifically with this specific game, in the series. 1. The Announcer goes absolutely nuts in this game. -- It's like he has to say everything. Any special move or super you finish with, he has to announce it before saying "K.O." To the point it's even hilarious hearing him say the Japanese moves with such excited gusto. In fact, back in the arcade, my college buddies used to poke fun at the idea of other things he could say. Like the dramatic way it looks if the final winning move was Hulk's Fierce. Whoever is playing Hulk would say, "That's My Bike Punk!" referencing Friday. And one of us would imitate the announcer saying, "Yeah!! That's His Bike Punk! K. O.!" 2. The Combination Team Supers. -- It's all about mix and matching, and finding those awesome team ones. Sometimes with surprising hidden team ups. Though, I think the Zangief/Hulk one is still my favorite. I played the heck out of this game as I was buying all these fighters on my Sega Saturn complete with Capcom's nice 4 MB Memory Expansion cartridge. Those were the days, when Saturn was really flexing its 2D muscle and we were seeing these incredible Large Sprite Arcade games finally get good representation on a home console. A turning point.

I do not think this game is lazy in terms of assets. The last game reused sprites and characters like this game but new characters like Dan, Sakura, and more are given new animations and mechanics. The new ui and background effects on all screens is the best in the franchise in my opinion, we have the new tag team mechanic, completely new soundtracks, plus recolored levels.

What haunts my dreams: this game's announcer yelling ARE YOU READY FOR A NEW CHALLENGER?!?!?!?

This glorious game ate sooooo many of my quarters in college.

MVSF is a lazy Marvel game, but I really love the fact that every single Street Fighter character got a new theme and they all match, Ryu's is has a determend theme, Ken's care free attitude fits in his theme, Zangief's is my favorite for how hype it is, Bison has a very Super Villiain vibe, Sakura has the best theme overall. Not only that they introduced the hidden recolor characters that have references to Marvel. BlackHeart is Mephisto, Spider-Man becomes Armored Spider-Man from the 90's cartoon I think. Captain America's black suit sprite is U.S. Agent, an actual character I thought Capcom made up but it's a real Marvel character. Capcom got a weird recolor reference but I love that 2 out of the 3 become transform supers in MvC2. And best of all, This is the only game that gives Wolverine a red color in his Jim Lee design. Can't believe MvC2 had 12 colors for Wolverine and none of them have red. Beat that, Capcom Fighting Evolution.

Funny thing about this game, this is where I got introduced to Sakura as I had no arcades around me that had Alpha 2 cabinets, lol.

Lazy, but we didn't know how crazy the vs games were going to become at the time. We were just pumped to have Captain America fight Ryu

i still remember when i defeated Cyber Akuma for the 1st time in this game (playing as Hulk), back in 2000. i was jumping for all over my house lol

This game has the best music in the series, bar none.

Even though this game is 'lazy' in a lot of regards, it's still part of the main, core "vs" history. I really hope we get a collection.

I miss the arcade in my neighborhood where they had all of the vs games. Bring that back

I too remember thinking Omega Red was an unusual choice for this game, but hey, we got a remix of that awesome theme music he had in CoTA, so it's all good!

I believe also another reason why Omega Red is in this game is due to Dr. Doom and Iron Man not being able to be added due to some licensing issues (another reason why its War Machine instead of Iron Man on the first Marvel vs Capcom).

Thought the presentation on this game was better than all of the others in the VS series. Music, colors, background, and the announcer were awesome. The only Capcom fighter back then with this level of presentational polish was SF3 and CVS1

I don't care if it's "lazy" it's my fave game in the VS series. I'll take this game over any other in the series. Except for MvC1

No new sprites? Fatal Claw Shin Shouryuu Ken Otoko Michi (Shinkuu) Tengyou Hadou Ken These are all newly drawn sprites for the aforementioned moves. Ken and Ryu's backdashes were also redone as well as Ryu's forward dash.

I love to load this game on MAME, and use cheats to play as Norimaro. He's so fun to play as. Also supposedly Iron-Man and Dr. Doom were supposed to be in the game but Sega had the game rights to Iron-Man and The Fantastic Four, which might explain why Cyclops and Omega Red were added.

The funny thing is that in 1997, because of how massively popular the X-Men were in the comics, and because of the cartoon, Omega Red is probably one of the most well know and liked characters on the Marvel side when that game came out. Back then is was bigger than Captain America and Hulk, and Blackheart and Shuma-Gorath were so unknown before their appearances in Capcom’s games that lots of comic fans didn’t even know who they were.

This is the only marvel vs capcom game I had as a kid. Since we were.... less fortunate, to put it lightly. I loved it!

I remember having a GamePro magazine that had showed how to use the secret characters when I was a kid and I showed my uncle when we tried it out, we both was shocked. I was twds Shadow because of Charlie ending in XvsSF and he was with Mecha Zangief. He been a fan of the transformation ever since he did the super armoring through attacks and the grab still connected afterwards. 😂

Love the 2 button loops in this game 😂😂😂

that intro never gets old

There wasnt a rumor that Capcom tried to put both iron man and dr doom in this game and the plans feel through so they put cyclops and omega red instead? It happened again with tony stark on mvc1 but then they got creative with war machine...

I know Omega Red was pretty big in the X Men cartoon. Maybe that's why he was uncluded

So is Zangief/Mecha Zangief, Blackheart/Mephisto, Spiderman/Armored Spiderman and Sakura/Dark Sakura but hey, they have different properties!

did people actually care that it didn't have new sprites? because I don't remember anyone complaining about it when I used to hang out in several arcades almost every weekend back in the day with mvsf being one of the most played arcade cabinets.

May be lazy, but it’s one of my favorites

Its not lazy. Its awesome. Even kof used the same sprites for a long time. I love all capcom marvel games.

Can we appreciate just how awesome MVC music was until Infinite and it's generic movie orchestra themes are now. Same with Mortal Kombat unless Dan Forden is involved, he made some great tracks in MK11. That's cuz he's the OG of MK music.

MSH vs SF was the first MvC game i played, but the time when i tried the rest of the series i never played this one again lol. The only thing i really like about this game is the announcer

I have a cabinet with this game and Wolverine is OP as hell. Super jump and spam medium punch and you can build bar so fast.

It was great to see Ryu with Ken do a double Shinku Hadoukeeennnnn!!!!!

Still the best intro of all time

Have you noticed: both the Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter intro & the Street Fighter 3 3rd Strike intro actually showed who the final bosses were: MARVEL SUPER HEROES VS STREET FIGHTER: showed Apocalypse & Cyber Akuma STREET FIGHTER 3 3RD STRIKE: showed Gill

I love the announcer. SHINKU-HADOU-KEEEEEEEEENNNNN

I didn't know MSHvSF said "Amazing Fantasy", that is so cool.

I didn't care about reused sprites in this game. Lol I just played the hell out of it.

I have the fondest memories with MVC 1. I grew up with it for the PlayStation, and I really played it a lot, by myself :( I loved everything, the cool characters, the music, the arcade endings, the huge art gallery, and everything else about the presentation.

This game tends to be overlooked, when it comes to the Marvel vs Capcom series. Personally, I really enjoy this game. The music and announcer are awesome! I'm glad I still have my PS1 copy of this game around. I'd totally love for this game to be re-released on modern consoles, someday.

This shit changed the game dudes. Used to play this with my cousin for hours.

Back in the day I owned this on the Saturn. X-men vs Street Fighter also. Both arcade perfect or BETTER than arcade which is unheard of. This is favorite of the vs series. Raging Demon and other supers of that ilk are level 3s (LIKE THEY SHOULD ALWAYS BE) and assists and everything are just great. I found combos a lil easier than xmvsf. This is also the only game in the series to use different music for ALLOT of the characters. I think most of the roster has a unique theme especially the Street Fighter characters. All around in my opinion a great game. Plus Cyber-Akuma is Capcom giving in and saying SNK-style bosses are fun!

this game is quite literally memorable by the announcer and a few more music tracks.

The background in this game were so cool

In my opinion, the best game of marvel in the 90's, is a fast and dinamic game, the rooster is poor but the game is magic

hold on at 6:33 ryu's super OTGs. they never let him have that in the same way. in mvc3 he could OTG with super in the air

My favorite versus game, so many hour at the laundry mat.

That Mega Man mascot in the background makes me uncomfortable

Actually, fuck the sprites. Can we talk about how hard the drummers went for the soundtrack?! Each song they were putting their souls in the sticks!

No roster in the series is worse than Marvel vs Capcom Infinite's roster, at least this game has Wolverine, Cyclops, Akuma and Ken, not to mention, zany picks like Shuma-Gorath, Dhalsim, Omega Red, Sakura, Blackheart and Dan, Marvel Infinite's roster is anemic as FWUACK.

The last 10 seconds "time's running out! Hurry up!" theme and Omega Red's theme are my favs.

They need to make Omega Red a villain in MCU

Ragging on this when it literally does the same asset reusing process as mvci which you hype (and I love them both) is just a bit much.. this and CvS1 was the hypest announcer capcom ever made. I wish mvci gem system was done the old style, and for this game I would just improve some of the character picks even though blackheart is my fave ♡ then they ripped him apart and made dormammu.. sigh

I have the Japanese version with that special character. On my modded Vita. And for some reason I like this vs,better than marvel vs capcom 1🤷🏿‍♂️.

Armored Spiderman was mad fun man, i miss him in every other Vs series games, this is my favorite Vs game, i played this a lot on PSX.

Yeah this was the Super Street Fighter II (vanilla) of the Vs. series ... thankfully it only happened once

Laziest? No, Max. That would be Fighting Jam.

SNK used the same sprites from KOF '94 to KOF 2003, but I don't see you complaining about that.

Maximilian has great editing techniques for his videos , and that kind of mic looks like some studio mic I've never had or seen

Cyber Akuma is a fucking nightmare!

I can't call this roster weak, but odd.

The characters/content may be recycled, but most returning characters have a new super.

So... US Agent is an Echo Fighter

People act like this isnt the same company that put out 90 billion different versions of Street Fighter 2

Been replaying this one for a few days, still great.

I only preferred this over mvc1(as a kid) because Ken was in it. My favorite street fighter character.

For all the Bullshit people have Capcom for using the same Sprites.... In the future that decision made everything look like it was part of the same Art Style, or Universe. If anything it was very future and forward thinking considering many games today generally look the same or even use the same engines, even among different whole Franchises.

The thumping of the controller is some ASMR shit, no joke

My FAVORITE things about this game is the announcer yelling out the name of the super combo if you finish the enemy with it. I wish that had continued into the following games.

Lazy? Perhaps, but the turnaround between this and XvSF was like, SIX MONTHS What do you expect from that timeframe?!

For the longest I always had this and xvssf mixed up, this is a basically what an update would be today. They are the same game

I had a vs series compilation for ps2 don't know if it was even legal

Nothing will be as lazy to me as Bone Claw Wolverine in MvC2, especially when they could have been equally as lazy but instead done it with Venom or Blackheart to give us Carnage or Mephisto. Or just brought in one of the MvC1 secret characters like Orange Hulk.

Thumbnail cracked me up

I thought this was the mvc2 video from that title

I hope there are more month of marvel videos on the way

My local pizza joint still has this game up since it was released some really awesome memories I remember keeping tabs on a certain player cause he was the only one that knew how to unlock shadow folks outside playing with pogs and reading Marvel/DC comics the good ole days (old man voice).

I hope max organize a tournament for the old but gold marvel games at least 1 time

Spider-Man’s theme alone makes this game alone GREAT!!

Wolverine's theme in this game is soo good

Omega red was popular in the comics when the game came out

Why is Pam in the picture lol🤣

Street Fighter characters and some Marvel characters had unique tracks and Capcom never used them again. I'd argue this game had the best OST in the series and it's wild how the songs were never brought back in any capacity. All the effort went into making infinites harder and the soundtrack a banger. Omega Red definitely had one of the best character themes.

Why would they do new sprites for any of the characters when the sprite for Marvel super Heroes and Street Fighter alpha's are similar in style and colors? Don't fix what isn't broken.

I really like this game . I was introduced to Dan and Ken through this game . I really like most of the themes in this game characters ( my favorite is probably between chun li and spiderman theme ) . But I do think some of themes were better in the other marvel vs games the characters appeared in ( i never played mvc 2 , 3 and infinite so I don't know there themes there )

It might be lazy but I honestly prefer it over X-Men V.S Street Fighter. It’s just a brighter, more colorful game. I hate playing it on Fightcade though. Bastards will kick your ass 10 times in a row and press start to juggle your dead, lifeless body every time you lose. Toxic shit sucks but when you’re new to a game (like me since it’s only been 2 weeks since I got into Fightcade 2 and playing the arcade version of MvSF for the first time), it just becomes demoralizing and unbearable.