X-Men

The X-Men arcade game is the loudest thing Konami ever shipped. Six players at once, a screen-wide 'Welcome to die!' from Magneto, and a four-cabinet setup that arcade operators loved because it printed quarters.

The six playable X-Men - Cyclops, Colossus, Dazzler, Nightcrawler, Storm and Wolverine - each have a screen-clearing mutant power with a cooldown, and managing that cooldown is the game's real system. Stages follow a loose Sentinel-and-Magneto plot through a city, an island, a future timeline and the moon, with a genuinely large number of enemies on screen at once. What makes it remembered, though, is the writing: the entire script was translated by someone who did not speak English, and lines like 'X-Men! Welcome to die!' became memes decades before memes were a thing. Konami's four-player board was the standard version, with a six-player cabinet requiring two linked machines.

• ▸Up to six players simultaneously on linked cabinets
• ▸Six X-Men, each with a screen-clearing mutant power on a cooldown
• ▸Stages spanning the city, an island, the future and the moon
• ▸Famously garbled English script, including 'Welcome to die!'