Just a plain and simple sidescroll shoot 'em up. Shoot, and shoot, and shoot, and shoot....

This is not one of the Genesis' finest moments, it' little more than a poor scramble clone with sound and graphics that would have seemed bad on a Master System!

Strange overhead shooter game

Featuring music by Psykosonik, a funky pop-metal-rap band, X-Kaliber 2097 puts players in the role of Slash, who must thrust, parry, slice, and swipe his way through a dark future world of mutants, morphs, and other bad guys. The sword can also release a bolt of super-powerful energy, which leaves the player vulnerable as it slowly moves across the screen. Eventually, Slash will face his twin brother, who wields a sword as powerful as the X-Kaliber. In addition to the standard side-scrolling slash-'em-up game, the cartridge contains a two-player, one-on-one fighting game in which gamers select from a variety of interesting fighters with a pleasingly offbeat assortment of attacks and weapons. For example, Tattoo uses his rose tattoo for special attacks while Kane fights using a top hat and cane. Neither game is a standout in its respective genre, but solid gameplay, realistic graphics, and a killer soundtrack make the package worthwhile.

WARNING THIS IS AN ADULT ORIENTED GAME

Most of the X-Men have been captured by Magneto; only Wolverine and Cyclops survived the initial assault on X-Men headquarters.
Basic concepts in the game include punching, kicking, and jumping. Mutant abilities can be activated and de-activated completely at will. However, these mutant abilities drain energy from the player's character. There are several foes from the X-Men universe to defeat (including the Brood Queen) and various diverse settings to fight in. These levels are often labyrinths of either technological wonders, biological wonders, or a mixture of both. As more X-Men are rescued, these allies can be called upon to take over as the player's character.

"Fearing the rising tide of anti-mutant hysteria, Professor Charles Xavier, a mutant telepath, formed the X-Men to confront the fear that mutants will enslave humanity.... The X-Men stand as humanity's only defense against other powerful mutants, such as Magneto, who do not share their dream and insist that the only way mutants can survive the persecution is by forcefully taking their rightful place as humanity's masters." Based on the popular serial by Marvel Comics.

In X-Men you can play as any four pre-chosen X-Men and see cameos from the others, a rather plain and mediocre side-scroller with frustrating gameplay.

In X-Men Arcade, Cyclops, Colossus, Dazzler, Nightcrawler, Storm and Wolverine unite to use their special powers to save mankind from the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and other terrible threats. Players are charged with fighting off hundreds of Sentinels - along with Super Villains such as Pyro, the Blob, Wendigo, Nimrod, the White Queen, Juggernaut and Mystique - as they battle their way to Island M to take down the Master of Magnetism, Magneto, and save Kitty Pryde and Professor Xavier.

"Fearing the rising tide of anti-mutant hysteria, Professor Charles Xavier, a mutant telepath, formed the X-Men to confront the fear that mutants will enslave humanity.... The X-Men stand as humanity's only defense against other powerful mutants, such as Magneto, who do not share their dream and insist that the only way mutants can survive the persecution is by forcefully taking their rightful place as humanity's masters." Based on the popular serial by Marvel Comics.

In X-Men 2 - Clone Wars Magneto decides to temporarily switch sides under the threat of an evil techno-bio cloning machine known as the Phalanx -you can even play as Magneto in this one. Has noticeably improved gameplay and graphics over X-Men and offers a better choice of player characters as well.

X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse is full of the characters from Marvel's X-Men comic books. To start, there is Wolverine, Cyclops, Psylocke, Gambit, and the blue man himself, Beast. From the onset, you can choose which of these characters you want to control. Professor X gives the basic plot, and from there each character has to complete their own level until all can move on. You have two lives for each character. You can kick, punch, jump, or use a super move. Super moves differ for each character, and you can only use them when they are available to you. Wolverine's super move is a hurricane punch with his claws. Cyclops gives a burst of optical energy. Gambit throws one of his ever-present playing cards at the enemy. Beast rushes towards the enemy with a shoulder-block. Psylocke uses her mental abilities while running towards the enemy to defeat them.

In addition to the mission mode, which gives you the full story, there is also a training mode, in which you have unlimited use of the character's super move, as well as three lives per X-Man.

The Legacy Virus is annihilating mutantkind and the Gamesmaster is holding the key. He offers the X-Men a chance to play his game and win the secret, but he also offers the same to their arch-enemies with the added satisfaction of destroying the X-Men. The X-Men must split up to find the cure or perish forever.

The game starts off with Cyclops and Storm as playable X-Men, although Wolverine, Gambit, Rogue, Bishop, Jean Grey, and Cable can be unlocked later on. The game is loosely based on the X-Cutioner

Spiral, a beautiful, 6-armed television producer and denizen of Mojo World, pits the X-Men against their all-time toughest foes in the ultimate televised slugfest, "The Greatest Battles of the X-Men"! If her scheme works, the citizens of Mojo World will tune-in and she will become their new ruler.

The game starts off with Wolverine and Rogue as playable X-Men; Gambit, Cyclops, Havok, and Shard can be unlocked later on. The game shares the same engine as its predecessor, X-Men 2: Game Master's Legacy.

In a dark future, Mojo has his own TV show where the participants fight to death. He has imprisoned some X-Men from the past to recreate their greatest battles. Wolverine and Rogue have to enter the game and rescue their friends, then defeating Mojo to return back home.

In this platform game, the player starts by choosing either Wolverine or Rogue. At each new level beaten, a new X-Men will be available: first Gambit, then Cyclops, Havoc and finally Shard. If one of the X-Men dies, the player has to start the level again, choosing among the remaining X-Men to play. After all the X-Men have died, the game is over.

Each character can activate his/her power at will by pressing Button 1 & 2 at the same time. Wolverine can use his claws, Rogue can fly, Gambit can throw explosive cards, Cyclops will fire optic blasts, Havoc fires plasma blasts and Shard fires energy blasts. The characters have an energy meter and a power meter, which will wear out as they are hit or use their powers, respectively. They can find items to restore their energy and power.

You must find the way out of each of the six levels. Once finding it, you will face a boss, usually known characters from the comics like Magneto, Fitzroy, a Sentinel, etc. The last boss is Mojo himself.

X Men: Mutant Academy is a 2D fighting game. Fight as one of 11 X-Men against powerful villains. Train in the Danger Room before going into battle. Use each character's special abilities including Wolverine's claws.

X-Men: Mutant Wars is a side-scrolling beat 'em up game.

A band of cyborgs is terrorizing the planet. Believing that Magneto is controlling the cyborgs, the X-Men try to defeat him. The player can take control of Wolverine, Storm, Cyclops, Iceman, and Gambit as they prepare for the battle to save the planet.

Characters can be changed at any time during the game, which is important as their power level decreases through the game. When the player changes character, those are not being controlled wil gradually recover their power level. Also, some areas can only be completed by using the unique abilities of certain characters.

An alternate game mode has the player facing all the boss characters from the main game, and if the current character runs out of power, they cannot be used again.

X-Men: Wolverine's Rage is a side-scrolling video game.

Story:
Lady Deathstrike discovers schematics allowing her to build a weapon that will melt Wolverine's adamantium skeleton. Lady Deathstrike decides to go ahead with the machine and Wolverine has to do whatever it takes to track her down and stop her.

Gameplay:
Wolverine's Rage is relatively simple and repetitive. There are twenty levels in the game, grouped into chapters of five with a boss battle at the end of each one. If Wolverine is hurt he can regenrate his health back. The objective on most of the levels is to run through them before time runs out, battling enemies on the way. There is no save system in Wolverine's Rage, instead after completing a level you are given a password.

X Multiply is an Action game, developed and published by Irem, which was released in Japan in 1989.

Terrorists have taken control of a top-secret undersea weapons facility! Unless the U.N. meets their demands, the terrorists will detonate a deep-sea thermonuclear device that will tear the earth apart. Facing global panic, the U.N. calls the X-PERTS, a 3-person ultra-secret counter-terrorist team. If the X-PERTS fail, the world pays! Play all three X-Perts at the same time and switch X-Perts during the game. Each X-Pert has unique attack weapons, technical skills, kill moves, and torture moves to extract information from human enemies. Use the X-Perts technical skills to hack computers and program robots. Real-world game play, where the game automatically saves the impact of your action and evolves as you play!

Standard platform game

Point and click puzzle game

An otherwise ordinary shooting game (in terms of graphics, sounds and gameplay), X-Zone makes good use of the Super Scope gun by allowing players to hold down the cursor button for use in activating an on-screen cursor for precision aiming. If players take advantage of this feature, it is not necessary to look through the scope, and the gun can be held in any fashion that feels comfortable. Sporting seven levels and three difficulty settings, the game outfits players in an exo-armor combat suit that is equipped with shields for taking hits, anti-gravity boots for hovering through the desert and into the compound, and a plasma energy launcher for blasting tanks, heavily armed robots, and other enemies.

Solar Warrior is an Action game, developed by Taito Corporation and published by Memetron, which was released in 1986.