{"id":31742,"date":"2026-02-26T06:53:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=31742"},"modified":"2026-02-26T06:53:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:53:42","slug":"retro-marvel-collection-announced-with-x-men-arcade-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=31742","title":{"rendered":"Retro Marvel collection announced with X-Men arcade game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/12.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Konami&#8217;s classic X-Men beat-&#8217;em-up arcade game is coming home (again) with a new release that brings together an eclectic mix of 8-bit and 16-bit Marvel video games, Konami, Marvel Games, and Limited Run Games announced Wednesday. In addition to undeniable classic <em>X-Men: The Arcade Game<\/em>, the <em>Marvel MaXimum Collection<\/em> will also include titles like <em>Captain America and The Avengers <\/em>and the infamous <em>Silver Surfer<\/em> game for NES.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- No AdsNinja v10 Client! --><!-- No AdsNinja v10 Client! --><\/p>\n<p><em>Marvel MaXimum Collection<\/em> includes six old-school Marvel titles across 13 versions of those games, which were originally released for the arcade, Game Boy, Game Gear, NES, Sega Genesis, and\/or Super NES. While the big draw may be Konami&#8217;s influential X-Men arcade game released in 1992 \u2014 which was digitally rereleased on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 back in 2010 \u2014 there&#8217;s a lot here for Spider-Man fans too. <em>Spider-Man\/Venom: Maximum Carnage<\/em>, <em>Venom\/Spider-Man: Separation Anxiety<\/em>, and <em>Spider-Man\/X-Men: Arcade\u2019s Revenge<\/em> are also included as part of the collection.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a rundown of everything included in the <em>Marvel MaXimum Collection<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n                                        <em>X-Men: The Arcade Game<\/em> (Arcade)\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        <em>Captain America and The Avengers<\/em> (Arcade, Sega Genesis\/Mega Drive, NES)\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        <em>Spider-Man\/Venom: Maximum Carnage<\/em> (Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis\/Mega Drive)\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        <em>Venom\/Spider-Man: Separation Anxiety<\/em> (Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis\/Mega Drive)\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        <em>Spider-Man\/X-Men: Arcade\u2019s Revenge<\/em> (Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis\/Mega Drive, Game Boy, Game Gear)\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        <em>Silver Surfer<\/em> (NES)\n                        <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <em>Marvel MaXimum Collection<\/em> version of <em>X-Men: The Arcade Game<\/em> features six-player online multiplayer with rollback netcode, which should remotely replicate the feeling of standing around a big arcade cabinet with five of your friends. And thanks to a rewind option and save states, you might actually be able to beat the notoriously difficult <em>Silver Surfer<\/em> for the NES three decades later.<\/p>\n<p><em>Marvel MaXimum Collection<\/em> also includes supplementary features like an Archive section that promises &#8220;high-resolution scans of original box art, instruction manuals, and vintage advertisements&#8221; to pore over, as well as a music player and display options that make the collected Marvel games look crisp and clean or heavily filtered with CRT and scanline effects.<\/p>\n<p>A release date for <em>Marvel MaXimum Collection<\/em> was not announced, but it will be available for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Windows PC (via Steam), and Xbox Series X &#8220;soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2026 will be a big one for Marvel Games, with <em>Marvel&#8217;s Wolverine<\/em>, <em>Marvel T\u014dkon: Fighting Souls<\/em>, and <em>Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra<\/em> also pegged for release this year.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/marvel-maximum-collection-retro-games-x-men-spider-man-avengers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Konami&#8217;s classic X-Men beat-&#8217;em-up arcade game is coming home (again) with a new release that brings together an eclectic mix of 8-bit and 16-bit Marvel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6570,5178,5718,258,2933,7233,2937],"class_list":["post-31742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-announced","tag-arcade","tag-collection","tag-game","tag-marvel","tag-retro","tag-xmen","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}