the_game_database - #1352: X-Men: Children of the Atom - PS1 - Fighting

paleface [sys=PS1; cat=Fighting; reg=NA]

The humble beginning of what would become Capcom's highly successful "Vs." series of cross-universe fighting games--but Children of the Atom has just X-Men hero and villain characters. The action is slow-moving by the standards of the later games in the series, and plays pretty much line an ordinary 1-on-1 fighter, with some special moves and a single-charge super meter.

I seem to recall I had trouble getting this game to run on my PSOne, but I could be wrong about that. No problems with it on a PS2, with or without the fast Disc Speed setting.

paleface 17:31:11 08/24/18

Forgot to add (important to note for myself : P): the game does not have Vs. CPU; the only modes are player vs player and regular Arcade mode. There is also no memory card support.

paleface 22:19:05 10/03/20

Well I was totally wrong about COTA having "just X-Men hero and villain characters," because Super Street Fighter II Turbo's Akuma is present as a hidden character--a conditional mid-boss, apparently, but also playable via a button code. GameFAQs says the code is

"For Player 1- at the character select, quickly go to Spiral and leave the cursor on her picture for 3 seconds, then press Left, Left, Left, Left, Right, Up, Right, Right, Down. Count another 3 seconds and then press L1+R1+X. Silver Samurai's picture should disappear and Akuma will drop from the top of the screen."

but those buttons are only accurate if you haven't remapped your controls; properly speaking, the buttons to hit are LK+HP+HK.

downloads:
· 01_wolvie_red.jpg
· 02_auto_block.jpg
· cota_akuma_cheat.jpg
· cota_akuma_st_fireball.jpg
· cota_akuma_super_uppercut_ko.jpg
· cota_colossus_vs_iceman.jpg
· cota_samurai_elec_sentinel.jpg
· cota_samurai_slash_sentinel.jpg
· cota_sentinel_pre_win.jpg
· cota_sentinel_win_omega.jpg
· cota_sentinel_win_storm.jpg
· cota_spiral_noodles_sentinel.jpg
· cota_storm_win_wolvie.jpg
· cota_wolvie_jump_cyke.jpg
· cota_wolvie_slash_samurai.jpg
· cota_wolvie_win_cyke.jpg

references:
· Capcom vs. SNK 2: Millionaire Fighting 2001 (DC)
· Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000 (DC)
· Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000 Pro (PS1)
· Marvel Super Heroes (PS1)
· Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter (PS1)
· Marvel vs. Capcom (DC)
· Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (DC)
· Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes (PS3)
· MARVEL vs. CAPCOM Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics (PC)
· Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite (PS4)
· Marvel vs. Capcom Origins (PS3)
· SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters 2 Expand Edition (NGPC)
· SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighter's Clash (NGPC)
· SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos (PS2)
· SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the Millennium (NGPC)
· Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (PS4)
· X-Men vs. Street Fighter (PS1)