YMMV / X-Men (1992)

• Adaptation Displacement: The video game is much better known than the one-episode pilot Pryde of the X-Men, which it was spun off from. Dazzler is also much better known for appearing in the game than any of her comic appearances.
• Awesome Music: The intro and Stage 1 music, which both served to hype players up into playing the game to hear more.
• Game-Breaker: Mutant Powers. Instantly kills every enemy aside from sub-bosses and bosses and can hit multiple enemies at once. Players can either instant-die and churn credits for arcades or simply continue without penalty on the PSN and XBL due to infinite continues.
• Ham and Cheese: While the dialogue is cheesy, the actors seem to be hamming it up, especially since the remake required all voices to be re-recorded, so the new actors had to be made aware of what they were doing and be told that the cheesy dialog was kept on purpose.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Among the game's stable of Mooks, there are recolored Sentinels that sport a blue-and-orange paint job, first appearing in the second stage. Fast forward to the early 2000s and the fan-modded custom colors for MvC2 and... "OH HE GOT DA MANGO SENTINEL!"
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "Welcome to DIE!" and the myriad other dialogue voiced by our favorite "Master of Magnet." The former was so notable, it was ascended (by none other than Deadpool) in Marvel vs. Capcom 3.
  • Then there's the sound Colossus makes when using his Mutant Power. The "WHOAAAAAARGH!" has become the unofficial rallying cry for MAGFest, after that sound reverberated through the arcade room one too many times. Shouting it at nearly any time will usually be answered with others shouting "WHOAAAAAARGH!" themselves. ^note In subsequent years, signage was put up at the boundaries of the convention space kindly asking con attendees not to do that in the hotel beyond, presumably after non-convention-attending guests complained. They even got Nobuo Uematsu to do it on stage!
  • "NOTHING moves the Blob!"
    • (is moved)
  • "The White Queen welcomes you to die!"
  • "Pyro will turn you to toast!"
  • "Go and save the city!"
  • "Go and rescue Kitty from the cave!"
  • "Juggernaut will flatten you!"
  • Many of the aforementioned quotes became Ascended Memes in the Xbox Live and PSN ports as achievements/trophies.
• Narm Charm: Mainly due to the hilariously broken dialogue.
• No Problem with Licensed Games: The arcade game is still popular and well-liked to this day. What helped is that Konami used the same formula that made the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Simpsons arcade games successful in the first place.
• So Bad, It Was Better: It was announced that the dialogue would be re-recorded and the cheesy lines would be removed and replaced with more natural dialogue. As it was, the dialogue had to be re-recorded anyway due to legal issues with the original voices, but upon hearing the fans' complaints, the company making the port decided to keep all the cheese on purpose so the game would avert this.
• So Bad, It's Good: The cutscenes and dialogue, and possibly the simple gameplay. According to IGN's video review: "Sometimes something is so terrible that it's fantastic, and that's more or less the case here."
• Unexpected Character: Most of the bosses are who you'd expect (Blob, Pyro, and Mystique all being founding members of Magneto's Brotherhood of Mutants), but Wendigo (usually more a Hulk villain) is the boss of Stage 3, and extremely minor character Living Monolith is the boss of Stage 6.
• Watch It for the Meme: Play it so that Magneto can welcome you TO DIE!!