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X-Men: Children of the Atom (1994)

Capcom

Arcade · DOS · PlayStation · Sega Saturn

3.52 from 110 ratings

248 members have it in their collection · 2 playing now · 40 backlogged · 44 wish listed

How long? Main story 1h (from 1 logged playthrough)

X-Men: Children of the Atom is an arcade game featuring characters licensed from Marvel Comics. Timed with the popularity of the mid-1990s X-Men animated series, the game incorporates voice actors from the show reprising their respective roles. The gameplay involves one-on-one fighting matches, where players face off against different characters in the game. The ultimate challenge comes in the form of battles against Juggernaut and Magneto.
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Developers
Capcom
Publishers
Acclaim Entertainment, Capcom
Genres
Arcade, Fighting
Themes
Action
Franchises
Marvel, X-Men
Series
Marvel vs. Capcom, X-Men

Release dates

  • Dec 08, 1994 (Japan) Arcade
  • Jan 05, 1995 (North_America) Arcade
  • Nov 22, 1995 (Japan) Sega Saturn
  • 1996 (Europe) Sega Saturn
  • 1996 (North_America) Sega Saturn
  • 1997 (North_America) DOS
  • 1997 (Europe) DOS
  • Mar 03, 1998 (North_America) PlayStation
  • 1998 (Europe) PlayStation

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5 stars
11
4 stars
46
3 stars
43
2 stars
7
1 star
2
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Review scoopings 3/5 · Nov 30, 2025

Beautiful-Looking And Brought Back Memories of Marvel Vs Capcom

Ahhh bringing back memories of Marvel vs Capcom. I'm very confused by these settings but I love all the nostalgia coming back from later in the related line of Capcom games with the number of combo hits popping up etc. And teh difficult was actually approachable unlike most its contemporary fighting games. I will play this with my husband or …

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Ahhh bringing back memories of Marvel vs Capcom. I'm very confused by these settings but I love all the nostalgia coming back from later in the related line of Capcom games with the number of combo hits popping up etc. And teh difficult was actually approachable unlike most its contemporary fighting games. I will play this with my husband or brother some time.

Look: 8/10 Beautiful

Sound: 8/10 Usual arcade fare but good stuff

Play: 7.5/10 I'll never be in love love with a fighting game but this one stands out amid the many so far.

Feel: 7.5/10

Attachment: 7.5/10

Overall: 7.7/10

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RossBonaime

Review RossBonaime 3/5 · May 31, 2025

Much like the original Darkstalkers, X-Men: Children of the Atom stands out to me in the ways that Capcom makes a new series near the heights of Street Fighter II's success, while also trying to do something unique within the fighting game sphere that isn't mimicking SFII too much.

As a massive fan of the Marvel vs. Capcom series, X-Men: …

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Much like the original Darkstalkers, X-Men: Children of the Atom stands out to me in the ways that Capcom makes a new series near the heights of Street Fighter II's success, while also trying to do something unique within the fighting game sphere that isn't mimicking SFII too much.

As a massive fan of the Marvel vs. Capcom series, X-Men: Children of the Atom certainly feels like the first step in that franchise. Capcom does a fantastic job of fleshing out these X-Men characters, and making them all feel unique not only from one another, but from the other fighting games Capcom was making at the time. One of the best things about Capcom's fighting games at this time is how they make the big, bulky characters just as fun to play as the smaller, faster characters, which I usually tend to lean towards. There are also a lot of details here and there that feel integral to Capcom fighting games in the future, like how the special bar works, as well as the multiple screen levels, making it so you can jump up another screen, but also, break the ground and fall into another part of the level. It's an ambitious fighting game, and it's surprising they did as well as they did with this first fighting game collaboration with Marvel as they did. Thankfully, it would only get better from here, but this is still a pretty good place to start.

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nicolaus.miller.1

Review nicolaus.miller.1 3/5 · Jun 11, 2016

X-Men: Children of the Atom is basically a piece of history to me. It’s one of the first fighting games on the PS1 and definitely the first superhero fighting game of its consoles generation. It’s age REALLY shows, trust me. There’s no opening, the menu screen is basically blank, there’s no extras—it’s a very bare game, but again, it’s the …

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X-Men: Children of the Atom is basically a piece of history to me. It’s one of the first fighting games on the PS1 and definitely the first superhero fighting game of its consoles generation. It’s age REALLY shows, trust me. There’s no opening, the menu screen is basically blank, there’s no extras—it’s a very bare game, but again, it’s the first of its kind so I can definitely forgive that. The gameplay especially is what makes me wanna put it on a history shelf: the controls are painfully stiff, the move lists are extremely confusing—particularly when and how to perform certain super specials, there’s no in-game command list at all, the game in general just feels very slow, like a weight has been attached to each of the characters, and my God is the CPU unfair as hell. This is a fun, neat piece of history to be enjoyed with friends, or alone—if you have patience—and I recommend seeing where superhero fighters in the Sony generation started, but only pick it up if it’s cheap, I’m talking $20 max and it better come with an instruction manual.

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