X-MEN VS. STREET FIGHTER CHARACTERS

X-Men vs. Street Fighter is the 1996 Capcom arcade fighter that finally let the two casts share a screen, and more importantly, share a tag bar. It is the first game to fuse Street Fighter's grounded fundamentals with full superhero tag teams, with hyper combos that fill the screen, air combos chained off launchers, and Variable Combos where both characters dive in at once for a partner-assisted blowout.

The roster pairs Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, Cammy, and M. Bison against Wolverine, Cyclops, Storm, Magneto, Gambit, and Sabretooth, with Apocalypse looming as the boss. Ports landed on Saturn with a 4MB RAM cart and on PlayStation in a stripped-down form, but the arcade and Saturn versions are where the real game lives. As the prologue to the Marvel vs Capcom line, it is where the modern crossover fighter playbook got written.