Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes

Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes (マーヴル VS. カプコンクラッシュオブスーパーヒーローズ, Māvuru vs. Kapukon Kurasshu Obu Sūpā Hīrōzu^?) is a crossover fighting game produced by Capcom. It is the fifth Marvel Comics-licensed fighting game made by Capcom and the third game in the Marvel vs. Capcom series but the first game to have the series' title. It was released in arcades in 1998, and on home consoles in 1999.

In contrast to X-Men vs. Street Fighter and Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter, the game features characters from numerous Capcom franchises such as Mega Man and Strider, rather than just Street Fighter characters.

Marvel_vs_Capcom_Clash_of_Super_Heroes_Intro — Marvel vs Capcom Clash of Super Heroes Intro

Arcade Intro and Demo

Characters

Captain America	Captain Commando
MARVEL	CAPCOM
Gambit	Chun-Li
Hulk	Jin Saotome
Spider-Man	Mega Man
Venom	Morrigan
War Machine	Ryu
Wolverine	Strider Hiryu
Onslaught	Zangief

Secret Playable Characters (Capcom)	Info
Roll	She is one of the few secret characters to have her own unique sprites (although they appear in Mega Man's victory poses). She is short enough to be able to duck from most attacks. However she tends to hover in the air due to her dress and runs slowly due to her short legs. Her attacks mimic that of Mega Man, but are weaker and come out slower because of added animation of equipping a Buster weapon.
Shadow Lady	A cyborg palette swap of Chun-Li, similar in style to Shadow from Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter but with a different variety of cyborg-based moves. Her speed also increases, similar to Shadow.
Lilith	A Morrigan with Lilith's palette and attacks, they seem to have mind-swaped. Usually refered to by fans as Morrilith.

Secret Playable Characters (Marvel)
Orange Hulk
Red Venom
Gold War Machine

Non-playable Characters

Assist Characters (Capcom)
Anita
Arthur
Devilotte
Lou
Michelle Heart
Saki
Shadow (Secret character)
Tong Pooh
Unknown Soldier
Pure & Fur

Assist Characters (Marvel)
Colossus
Cyclops
Iceman
Jubilee
Juggernaut
Magneto
Psylocke
Rogue
Sentinel (Secret character)
Storm
Thor
U.S. Agent

Cameos	Info
Beat	In one special attack involving either Mega Man or Roll, Beat appears, taking the form of a small plane.
Mettall Potton	A big gumball machine that dispenses Mettaurs that was featured in Mega Man 6, appears in the background of one of the stages.
Dr. Wily	There is a Mettaur-centered stage which features Mad Grinder and the evil Dr. Wily giving orders in the background.
Lord Raptor	Lord Raptor makes a cameo appearance playing music in one of the stages.
Sakura	Sakura and her best friend Kei make a cameo into the girls bathroom at Honda`s Bath House stage.
Sean	Sean appears along with Ken Masters in Ryu's pre-fight introduction, as well as his ending.

Gameplay

While the gameplay was typical of the Marvel vs. Capcom series, Marvel vs. Capcom was distinguishable by two features: the ability to summon assist characters, and the Duo Team Attack.

Unlike the previous game in the series, the point character of a Marvel vs. Capcom team could not summon the off screen partner for an assist attack; instead, an assist character was randomly selected before the match began. This character could be summoned a limited number of times in battle to attack the opponent in parallel. Codes could be used to force the system to select a certain assist character.

The Duo Team Attack allowed a player to control both characters on his or her team simultaneously for a brief period of time; the characters had unlimited use of their super moves during this time. Since some characters had hard-to-avoid super moves that did substantial damage if blocked, the Duo Team Attack led to tactics that were oriented around activating it before your opponent could. Since the PlayStation port only allowed one character to play a point, a Duo Team Attack would call the assist character repeatedly without cost during its duration.

PlayStation port

The PlayStation version of the game (titled as EX Edition in Japan), differs from the arcade version in that players are unable to switch characters on-the-fly, reducing the secondary character to an assist role only. Significantly, this removes the tag-team aspect of the game, which is considered by some to be one of its defining characteristics. The PlayStation version instead offers a "Cross over" mode where each player chooses one character, and the second character for each team is a mirror of the opponent's pick. In this mode, the players may switch characters at will, but the teams must always be identical. This compromise is necessitated by the console's small memory size -- the use of identical teams alleviates the memory requirements.

Trivia

The final boss Onslaught (Professor X's psyche manifested) can be selected once the player completes the game once with any team of characters in the Playstation version. Unlocked on Dreamcast version after unlocking all secret characters. Onslaught is located below Wolverine in the Playstation version. In the Dreamcast version the player must select "Onslaught Mode", which allows the player to use only Onslaught, and all fights take place in Onslaught's stage.

One "Secret File" image from the arcade flyer depicts an imaginary action figure box set featuring Venom and Captain Commando. Another imagines the game as a "fictitious" Rockman V. There did exist a Rockman World 5, known outside of Japan as Mega Man V. This game existed four years before the release of Marvel vs. Capcom. Capcom characters appear as robots in a super deformed style (barring Mega Man) and Marvel characters only slightly resemble their original versions.

Credits

Arcade Version [Staff Credit]

Planner: Atsushi Tomita, SGR Matumoto, Nakano Tau! Masahiro
Original Art Work: Akiman, Shoei, Sakomizu
Object Designer: Hiroaki Minobe, Akemi・Kurihira, Fuji=Kazu, Sagata, G・Kamina, Miwa♥Sakaguchi, Kohichi Kikutani, Masanori・Kondo, Hiroshi Yoshioka, Shinya Miyamoto, Takep, Toshihiro Suzuki, Jon Narancha, Yamancha, Naony, Yuugen, Kanako♥Takami, Ino, Eripyon, Kimo Kimo
Scroll Designer: Konomi, Iwai, Sawatch, M.Nakagawa, M.Kitamura, Nissui, Kanno, Himago, Kazu.T, Oonishi, Takapon, Kenichi Yamahashi, Stamp Rally
Music Composed & Arranged: Yuko K. Takehara, Masato Kohda
Sound Director: Ryoji Yamamoto
Recording Director: Susan Hart
Recording Engineer: Paul Shubat, David Stinson
Second Engineer: Dave Hatt, Rick Pacholko
Programmer: Motsu, Eternal Sailor, Kaw, You!, Silver Kadontz, Bakunetsu Hirokado
Voice Actor - Capcom Heroes: Tomomi Fube, Kaoru Fujino, Yayoi Jinguji, Yuko Miyamura, Toshiyuki Morikawa, Takashi Nagasako, Wataru Takagi, Yuji Ueda (Arts Vision)
Voice Actor - Marvel Heroes: Alyson Court, Andrew Jackson, Cal Dodd, Maurice Wint, Patrick Chilvers, Rod Wilson, Tony Daniels, Wayne Ward
Narrator: Sally Cahill
Producer: Kenji Kataoka
General Producer: Noritaka Funamizu
Executive Producer: Yoshiki Okamoto
Special Thanks to: Mr. Dana Moreshead, Ms. Lisa Leatherman, Adviser Akimoto, Takuya Shiraiwa, Erik Suzuki, Miki Takano, Yoshinori Ono, Yoshino Aoki, Kinu Nishimura, Shogakukan Production Co., Ltd., All Capcom Staff, and You
Presented by: Capcom

Dreamcast Version [Consumer Staff]

Director & Main Programmer: Sennin–K
Programmer: Hiropyon, TM2O, Ragi, Tenk☼
Sound: Michanya♥
Special Thanks to: Mika, Tadashi, →↓↘♥Dai♥Lv99, Rie, Initial.T, ↑Yoshiaki↓, Naoaki
Sound Adviser: tkjn
Additional Screen Design: Katagy
Project Manager: S–Hama
Producer: Hyper Mickey
Presented by: Capcom

PlayStation Version [Staff Credit]

Planner: Atsushi Tomita, SGR Matumoto, Nakano Tau! Masahiro
Original Art Work: Akiman, Shoei, Sakomizu
Object Designer: Hiroaki Minobe, Akemi・Kurihira, Fuji=Kazu, Sagata, G・Kamina, Miwa♥Sakaguchi, Kohichi Kikutani, Masanori・Kondo, Hiroshi Yoshioka, Shinya Miyamoto, Takep, Toshihiro Suzuki, Jon Narancha, Yamancha, Naony, Yuugen, Kanako♥Takami, Ino, Eripyon, Kimo Kimo
Scroll Designer: Konomi, Iwai, Sawatch, M.Nakagawa, M.Kitamura, Nissui, Kanno, Himago, Kazu.T, Oonishi, Takapon, Kenichi Yamahashi, Stamp Rally
Music Composed & Arranged: Yuko K. Takehara, Masato Kohda
Sound Director: Ryoji Yamamoto
Recording Director: Susan Hart
Recording Engineer: Paul Shubat, David Stinson
Second Engineer: Dave Hatt, Rick Pacholko
Programmer: Motsu, Eternal Sailor, Kaw, You!, Silver Kadontz, Bakunetsu Hirokado
Voice Actor - Capcom Heroes: Tomomi Fube, Kaoru Fujino, Yayoi Jinguji, Yuko Miyamura, Toshiyuki Morikawa, Takashi Nagasako, Wataru Takagi, Yuji Ueda (Arts Vision)
Voice Actor - Marvel Heroes: Alyson Court, Andrew Jackson, Cal Dodd, Maurice Wint, Patrick Chilvers, Rod Wilson, Tony Daniels, Wayne Ward
Narrator: Sally Cahill
Producer: Kenji Kataoka
General Producer: Noritaka Funamizu

Consumer Staff

Object Designer: Hideaki Katagiri
Scroll Designer: Ryutaro's Mama, Hase, Uchimura
Planner: Kimihito Yoshino
Programmer: Etekichi Saruyama, Hideki Yatomi, Kengo・T, Soutarou Arakawa, Tahei Nakagawa, Takashi Nishii, Yoshinobu Yasuhara
Producer: Hyper Mickey
Special Thanks to: S–Hama, Akio Watanabe

Executive Producer: Yoshiki Okamoto
Special Thanks to: Mr. Dana Moreshead, Ms. Lisa Leatherman, Adviser Akimoto, Takuya Shiraiwa, Erik Suzuki, Miki Takano, Yoshinori Ono, Yoshino Aoki, Kinu Nishimura, Shogakukan Production Co., Ltd., All Capcom Staff, and You
Presented by: Capcom