

The team’s colorful costumes, impressive powers, and unique enemies translated well to the world of games. Heroes like Wolverine, Storm, and Cyclops were big hits in their first games for NES, PC, and Genesis. As the ’90s began, the X-Men comics were so big that they got their own toys, cartoons, and (yes) video games. It wasn’t until the mid-’80s that X-Men books became a top seller for Marvel, thanks mainly to writer Chris Claremont and a group of superstar artists, including John Byrne, Jim Lee, and Marc Silvestri. The band of social outcasts battling for equality spent years with lower sales than hits like Spider-Man and Fantastic Four. The X-Men first appeared in comics back in 1963, and the Stan Lee/Jack Kirby creations weren’t a huge hit at first. What happened to all the X-Men video games? And will we ever see a new one? X-Men Origins A healthy industry of X-Men titles has now become a wasteland just as X-fans have noticed fewer X-Men toys or animated series out in the wild. Capcom franchise beginning with an X-Men video game, the merry mutants have slowly fallen into the background.
