TGH Writes: "If you are a kid who grew up in the 90’s then you remember rushing down to the nearest arcade after school to go kick some poor noobs booty in Street Fighter 2. Then there was that other game you saw right next to Street Fighter and that’s when you realized,” WOW! Iron-Man is kicking this shit out of Megaman!” Well that game was Marvel vs. Capcom 2 and way back then it was one of the best fighting games to play back in the golden age of arcades."
Artist Chris Cayco, who we’ve featured a few times before on Kotaku, grew up playing Marvel vs. Capcom (and Marvel vs. Street Fighter) games. His tribute to this, which took him over 175 hours, was to combine every single character to ever appear in Capcom’s crossover series in the one enormous image.
Makes me despise Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite that much more
So much wasted potential
As common as it is today, it is hard to believe that there was a time where gaming franchises crossing over was just a pipe dream. Capcom broke down the wall, but they took the combination of some of the most unlikely of franchises and made it the norm.
Whether it was a colossal successful partnership with Marvel Comics or a collaboration with rivals Namco and SNK, the “Vs.” series brought unforgettable experiences to the fighting genre.
Marvel doesn't just have a bright future ahead of it in films, but in the gaming realm as well. Some exciting new titles are showing up on all hardware, so does that mean gamers are finally catching up with the MCU?
