10 Best Video Games Based On Comic Books

10. X-Men (1992) 

Back in 1992, Konami coded one of the best side-scroller beat-em-up video games of all time with its X-Men arcade game. This wasn't just another four-player button-masher; it added two slots, making it playable by six players at a time! That was all but unheard of at the time — especially for an arcade game.

The cabinet was a huge, split-screen deluxe model, and it was awesome. Each player would feed some quarters into the cab and choose to ply as either Cyclops, Colossus, Wolverine, Storm, Nightcrawler, or Dazzler. All of the character models were based on the 1989 cartoon X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men.

Players use their character's unique skills to beat the ever-living snot out of Magneto's goons as they continue through a plethora of enemies. Sentinels are all over the place, but they're joined by mutated crocodiles, Reavers, and Magneto's Brotherhood of Mutants, including Blob, Pyro, Juggernaut, and more.

Arguably, the game can get repetitive after a while, though the difficulty does scale as play continued through the bosses. It's fun to play each of the characters to learn the different moves, which makes X-Men highly replayable, and that's precisely what an arcade should be.