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X-Men: Gamesmaster's Legacy

X-Men: Gamesmaster's Legacy is an action game released in 1995 on the Game Gear. The game starts off with Cyclops and Storm as playable X-Men, although Wolverine, Gambit, Rogue, Bishop, Jean Grey, and Cable…

16 February 1995

X-Men: Gamesmaster's Legacy is an arcade developed by Sega of America, released 16 February 1995 on Sega Game Gear.

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What X-Men: Gamesmaster's Legacy is

X-Men: Gamesmaster's Legacy is an arcade game developed by Sega of America and released in 1995. It is available on Sega Game Gear only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The mutant population is being devastated by the Legacy Virus, and the pivotal solution lies within the grasp of the Gamesmaster. Extending an opportunity to the X-Men, he proposes a game where they can claim the coveted remedy. Simultaneously, he extends the same proposition to their longstanding adversaries, with an extra incentive of obliterating the X-Men. Faced with this ultimatum, the X-Men are compelled to divide their forces in a quest to locate the cure before facing irrevocable demise.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Marvel series

X-Men: Gamesmaster's Legacy is the 44th of 404 entries we hold in the Marvel series. The next entry was The Amazing Spider-Man: Lethal Foes in 1995.

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What it launched against

X-Men: Gamesmaster's Legacy launched on 16 February 1995, within three weeks of Star Wars: Dark Forces, Descent, Front Mission and Tetris Plus.

Released around the same time: Star Wars: Dark Forces, Descent, Front Mission, Tetris Plus.

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When did X-Men: Gamesmaster's Legacy come out?
X-Men: Gamesmaster's Legacy was released on 16 February 1995 for Sega Game Gear.

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