Retailing for $49.99, the collection includes X-Men: Children of the Atom, Marvel Super Heroes, X-Men vs. Street Fighter, Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter, Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, and Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes. You can also play arcade beat ’em up The Punisher, which includes a High Score Challenge.

In addition to a Museum with art, a music player, and options for one-button special moves, there’s rollback netcode, Ranked Play, Custom Matches, and spectating options. There are also new display features and training settings for each title.

Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics will also be coming to Xbox One in 2025. A release window is still unknown, but stay tuned for updates.

Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics is out on September 12th. It includes six games – X-Men: Children of the Atom, Marvel Super Heroes, X-Men vs. Street Fighter, Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter, Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes, and The Punisher – with features like a Museum for concept art, rollback netcode, and more.

Capcom Fighting Collection 2 includes classic fighters like Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000 Pro, Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001, Capcom Fighting Evolution, Project Justice, Street Fighter Alpha 3 UPPER, Power Stone 1 and 2, and Plasma Sword: Nightmare of Bilstein, round out the collection. It’s out in 2025, so there’s a possibility of the Xbox One version launching alongside other platforms. Stay tuned for updates in the meantime.

We’re happy to announce that after technical discussions with our partners at Microsoft, MARVEL vs. CAPCOM Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics and Capcom Fighting Collection 2 will release on Xbox One! 🎉

Both Xbox versions arrive in 2025, so stay tuned for more information! pic.twitter.com/Omdfe6IgYH

— Capcom USA (@CapcomUSA_) September 3, 2024

First available in 2000 for arcades and Sega Dreamcast before coming to PS2 and Xbox in 2002, Marvel vs. Capcom 2 features a roster of 56 playable characters. Matches feature teams of three, who players can tag in at will. The Hyper Gauge returns, but you can now perform Delayed Hyper Combos and a team-up where every team member unleashes their Hyper Combo simultaneously.

Much like other titles in the compilation, players can enter Training Mode to refine their skills or visit the Museum to check out concept art or listen to the soundtrack. Head here for more details on other features like Ranked Play, rollback netcode, and more.

Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics launches on September 12th digitally for PS4, PC, and Nintendo Switch, with a physical release coming on November 22nd.

In MARVEL vs. CAPCOM 2 New Age of Heroes, 56 characters have assembled to fight it out in a 3-on-3 format.

Strategize and seize your chance to win with Delayed Hyper Combos, to perform up to three consecutive Hyper Combos against your opponent!#MvCFightingCollection pic.twitter.com/wSmxw7DVt7

— Marvel vs. Capcom (@marvelvscapcom) September 3, 2024

The compilation features a whopping six titles in the series, starting with X-Men: Children of the Atom and progressing through Marvel Super Heroes, X-Men vs. Street Fighter, Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter, Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes and Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes. You can also experience The Punisher, an arcade beat ’em up featuring good ol’ Frank Castle (and a new High Score Challenge).

Multiplayer is available for all titles with rollback netcode. Players can also set Custom Matches and spectate, try Ranked Play, experience new Training Mode features, and use new one-button special moves. You can also venture into the Museum to check out art or listen to the soundtracks of each game. Stay tuned for more details ahead of its launch.

Available for arcades in 1995 before coming to Sega Saturn and PlayStation One in 1997, Marvel Super Heroes features fighters from multiple Marvel franchises. Select X-Men characters like Wolverine and Psylocke return, but you can also choose Captain America, Iron Man, Blackheart, and Spider-Man. Former boss character Magneto is also playable for the first time.

To that end, it’s the first real crossover in the franchise, though Capcom characters wouldn’t arrive until X-Men vs. Street Fighter. Marvel Super Heroes is noteworthy for Aerial Raves and the Infinity Stones, the latter providing different benefits to characters. For better or worse, this could explain why the mechanic returned in Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite.

Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics doesn’t have a release date yet, but it’s coming to PS4, PC, and Nintendo Switch. Stay tuned for details on the other titles in the coming weeks.

Let’s be very clear, just because they are unfairly stacked against you- and they would be, don’t forget that these games come from the arcade era, designed to keep sucking away your quarters- doesn’t mean they aren’t fun. On the contrary, the sheer demanding nature of this game should have you returning to at least the single player portion again and again, as you make it a matter of pride and ego, unable to accept that an ancient game from the 90s could have defeated you.

Of course, the character balance isn’t perfect, and Wolverine is still as overpowered now as he was back then. No, they didn’t address the balance issues. They didn’t even touch up the graphics at all, outside of adding some filters (which you can optionally select), and the games are pretty much here in their original forms, unaltered, exactly as they were in arcades back in the day.

So yes, the same hand drawn graphics from before are back. The beautiful pixel art holds up wonderfully well, and you’d be hard pressed to tell the age of these games visually at all. Mechanically, of course, the game demands precision and technique, as it pits you against one of the harder single player modes in a fighting game in recent memory. All the old cries and taunts, grunts, flashy attacks, the game breaking elements like Red Venom and regenerating health, the Infinity Gems and the secret characters, everything is back here, exactly as you remembered it. It’s all untouched, outside of a few visual options to make sure that the game looks how you remember it looking, not how it actually looked.

That isn’t to say that there are no changes, of course. No, a fighting game released in today’s day and age without an online mode would be crippled and useless, so, as with many re-releases, this one has been altered to include an online versus mode. Of course, as with the rest of the game, and possibly out of reverence for the source material, the changes are minimal: it’s a basic online matchmaking mode, allowing for 1v1 fights only, and battling online disables the option to choose between Turbo and Normal, relegating fight speed instead to the internet connection. The netcode seems to work fine, and there was rarely much lag.

So outside of some cautious additions to visual options and the multiplayer side of the game, nothing has changed much. Everything is exactly as you remember it, of course.

But what if you don’t remember it? That’s the killer question, see. What if you never had a chance to play these games when they first released?

Well, then it all depends on one factor: did you ever get a chance to play the other 90s era fighters, and just happened to miss out on these two by some unlucky circumstance? Because if that’s the case, then go for it. You’re in for an incredible treat, a blast from the past, the kind of game that you so lovingly remember from your childhood, even as you realize that they just don’t make them like that anymore. However, if you never played any 90s era fighters- and Super Smash Bros. does not count- then stay away from this game. Run away in the opposite direction. This game will reduce you to a heap of sobbing flesh. It’s insane, unbalanced, broken, unfair, hard, stacked against you, too demanding and technical. And you will never be able to appreciate that that is exactly what makes it so wonderful in the first place.

Over time, fighting games got easy. Easier even than these two, which were among the easiest fighting games at the time of their release. But veterans of a bygone era who fondly look back upon a time when games didn’t coddle you, and threw you into the deep end to fend for yourself, those people will find something incredible worth having here. People who remember the golden age of fighters, those people will go starry eyed for Marvel vs Capcom: Origins. People who don’t, because the fighters of that era turned them off, or because they were just too young for games back then, should stay the heck away. The games included in this package are incredible; they are also brutal, and they will hurt if you’ve been too softened by modern games.

This game was reviewed on the Xbox 360.