X-Men Arcade Remake

X-Men Arcade Remake is ZVitor's free OpenBOR tribute to Konami's early-90s X-Men arcade beat 'em up. You pick mutants, smash through stages that still want to be unfair, and fill the screen with specials the way a crowded cab would. Sprites pull from several eras of X-Men games — arcade uniforms mixed with SNES, Genesis, and GBA looks — then sanded into one readable OpenBOR cast.

Co-op is the point. Up to four players share one machine. When you cannot fill every seat, CPU partners tag along so a lone Wolverine is not stuck walking the campaign alone. Controllers are first-class; this is an arcade remake, not a mouse-aimed action game.

It is also a fangame. Marvel and Konami did not publish it. PlayBound lists it as freeware fan work distributed by ZVitor (Game Jolt XMKO), not as an official product. We host a PlayBound Windows package for one-click install after you upload the zip — we do not claim Marvel licensing.

Online is honest: OpenBOR here has no native netcode. Friends who are not in the room use PlayBound Couch / phone-as-controller so remote pads appear as local players on the host PC. That is the same path as other local-only remakes in the catalog. If you want separate processes talking over UDP, this is not OpenTyrian.

We carry it because free OpenBOR arcade co-op still scratches an itch Steam's licensed beat 'em ups often price or lock behind accounts — and because couch mode finally gives that Parsec complaint a PlayBound-shaped answer without lying about netplay.