That was my first exposure as well, but I got pretty familiar with the Marvel vs Capcom games.

Got pretty hyped when people started talking about Hawkeye being in the first Avengers movie (from that arcade game, hadn't seen him since!). Little did I know he's one of the GOATs and had been an Avenger pretty nonstop for 40 years in the comics.

CharleyKerfeld said:

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RDJ looks like he's an extra in an episode of Three's Company at the Regal Beagle in that photo.

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looks like a 90s retelling of Don Quixote.

never played that one but played the x-men equivalent with storm, nightcrawler, cyclops, and wolverine...

be honest....did anyone ever pick hawkeye in that avengers game?

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jokershady said:

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never played that one but played the x-men equivalent with storm, nightcrawler, cyclops, and wolverine...

be honest....did anyone ever pick hawkeye in that avengers game?

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Yes, there were three - X-men, Avengers, and The Simpsons which were all the same game with different graphics.

If you were the fourth one to show up at the game, you got hawkeye

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There was also a TMNT game of the same variety. I played it at the arcade at Astroworld with friends once for more than an hour on the HISD "free day at astroworld for All A's or Perfect Attendance" achievement.

My first introduction to Ironman was the Xbox/PS2 X-Men Legends games where Stark makes a cameo and finding his armor is a side quest or something. Then in about 2004 or 2005 there were some animated Avengers movies on Netflix I watched. Ironman had a side role in one of them

All these plus Street Fighter 2

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Farmer1906 said:

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Thanks for the tip. We have one in North Houston (Spring) called Game Preserve.

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There's also a Cidercade near Daikin Park that is fun. Lots of great pinball machines too.

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Cidercade in Houston is where you want to go! We had my boys birthday there once and I was shocked at how many arcade games they had and also how many were working…think only 1 or 2 were down and they had HUNDREDS!

Think there's a website you can go to where they list what they've got to.

Think it's $15 for unlimited play? Not sure but easily worth it. Watched my kids suck at Time Crisis then crushed their souls with my performance…

so............my son shared a nugget with me about doomsday that he heard and if true sounds like a good thing....but also not spoilery....

if true, sounds like they are going super serious with doomsday and even the little tidbits of humor in this are gone....

even infinity war had:

"dude, you're embarrassing me in front of the space wizards."
"i'll do you one better...WHY is gamora?"
"oh, we're doing made up names...ok i'm spiderman"

if true even things like that will be gone and this is going to have the most serious tone of any of the marvel films to date....which the trailers for this kinda hinted at already but still it's interesting to hear.

also, there are several reports that the various screenings that have taken place so far are going...very very very well....there's plenty of hyperbole i could quote on this but since it's hard (really impossible) to verify for several reasons i'll just leave it at that....

but still.....i think all of the above should be considered good news....

I can see it being more serious, but i think it will still have some humor. You have Red Guardian wearing the "AvengerZ" Nascar jumpsuit and Walker asking "We're running out of space?" Maybe that exact scene doesn't end up in the movie (like how the Nick Fury Beeper scene at the Avengers Compound from Captain Marvel wasn't in IW), but the trailers clearly show Red Guardian with the Fantastic Four wearing that jumpsuit. I think that there will be some jokes, but it is possible the number of them are toned down.

jokershady said:

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so............my son shared a nugget with me about doomsday that he heard and if true sounds like a good thing....but also not spoilery....

if true, sounds like they are going super serious with doomsday and even the little tidbits of humor in this are gone....

even infinity war had:

"dude, you're embarrassing me in front of the space wizards."
"i'll do you one better...WHY is gamora?"
"oh, we're doing made up names...ok i'm spiderman"

if true even things like that will be gone and this is going to have the most serious tone of any of the marvel films to date....which the trailers for this kinda hinted at already but still it's interesting to hear.

also, there are several reports that the various screenings that have taken place so far are going...very very very well....there's plenty of hyperbole i could quote on this but since it's hard (really impossible) to verify for several reasons i'll just leave it at that....

but still.....i think all of the above should be considered good news....

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John Campea talked about the early screenings going well and had a person reach out to him directly about it

So I've been seeing a bit more theaters open up for sale for doomsday….trying to get tickets for the 18th but there's NO WAY what we're seeing is all that'll be available for this thing right? Bound to be more that'll open up as we get closer?

Yes many more. Lots are waiting to see how Dune sales increase before pulling the trigger on more screens. Early sales are massive for Avengers so far.

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Based on the Doomsday trailers and Endgame Encore, it seems like the post-Endgame homework will be…

- Fantastic Four: First Steps
- Thunderbolts
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day?
- Loki S1 and S2
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (for characters)
- Deadpool & Wolverine?

I don't think you'll need to see Cap 4 or Thor 4 (aside from a quick "who's that" or two). Same for Shang-Chi - he's a kung fu guy with magic rings, and I'd be shocked if anything else from his world comes up at all.

Could come up but probably not: the Marvels (post-credits only), Doctor Strange 2

I'd be shocked if there are any references to: Ant-Man: Quantumania, WandaVision, Hawkeye, Ms Marvel, She-Hulk, Echo, Secret Invasion, Agatha All Along or Vision Quest, Black Widow (aside from character carryover), Eternals or Daredevil, or Spider-Man Far From Home or No Way Home.

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Here is what AI says you should watch before seeing Dooomsday

X-Men (2000)
X2: X-Men United (2003)
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
The Avengers (2012)
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Loki (Seasons 1 & 2)
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
Captain America: Brave New World (2025)
Thunderbolts* (2025)
The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)

That's not bad. I'm assuming by now everyone has seen the Fox X-Men and everything up to Endgame.

Shang-Chi is a kung fu guy, and Captain America Falcon has a new Falcon. So if you want, I just saved you four hours. But watch more if you feel like it!

Disney + has outlined in green all the marvel movies/shows that they deem as necessary

They have to know that people aren't as invested and aren't going to put in 6 years of legwork.

That, combined with the trailer breakdown I did a few pages back, is why I'm convinced that this will hit the ground pretty quickly and get all the heroes together and off on their missions. I don't think we'll see "Shang-Chi meets Sam Wilson," "Thor meets the Thunderbolts," etc. That scene where Thor is speaking seems to have the Fantastic Four, Thunderbolts and Avengers together in one room, and I'm pretty sure Doom will be theretoo. Then they go off on their missions.

To be fair the "Near Essential" that's mentioned above are all decent to pretty dang good shows and movies…