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X-Men Trading Card Game
Released by Wizards of the Coast in 2000, the X-Men Trading Card Game was a collectible card game (CCG) designed to coincide with the popularity of the film X-Men (film), X-Men, the first of the X-Men (film series), X-Men film series. This set had featured character art similar to that of film and included characters who did not appear in the movie. It was released in July 2000. Background The X-Men Trading Card Game was a joint-release of Wizards of the Coast (WotC), Marvel Entertainment, and Twentieth Century Fox. All three companies involved with the game required that certain criteria be met in the final product. WotC was responsible for the structural design of the game; Marvel was to provide the artwork; Fox determined the overall look of the characters depicted in the cards. The game was released in the summer of 2000. Delays with the Marvel art department meant that the booster packs did not reach the retail market for months after the release of the starter decks. An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Fitzgerald (game Designer)
Mike Fitzgerald is a game designer who has worked primarily on collectible card games. Career Mike Fitzgerald started designing games shortly after ''Magic: The Gathering'' came out in 1993. His first design was the trading card game ''Wyvern (card game), Wyvern'', which was published by U.S. Games. This resulted in a contract with Wizards of the Coast to do more designs, including the ''Nitro'' (World Championship Wrestling, WCW wrestling) and ''X-Men Trading Card Game, X-Men'' trading card games. He has worked for Pokémon USA, helping to put together the pre-constructed decks that are sold with every ''Pokémon'' expansion. Fitzgerald is also the designer of the Mystery Rummy series. Fitzgerald also has a long and successful radio career as an on-air personality. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Fitzgerald, Mike American game designers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arcade (Marvel Comics)
Arcade is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He first appeared in 1978 in comics, 1978's ''Marvel Team-Up'' #65, the creation of writer Chris Claremont and writer/artist John Byrne (comics), John Byrne. The character is a combination of an villain#The evil genius villain, evil genius and a hitman who carries out his assassinations via various elaborate traps, often referred to as ''Murderworld''. Arcade's first intended victims were Spider-Man and Captain Britain but since Arcade's ''Murderworld'' games always leave the outcome up to chance, the duo defeated Arcade and escaped with their lives. Over the years Arcade has targeted a multitude of Marvel heroes, often focusing on the X-Men and associated members of X-Factor (comics), X-Factor, X-Force and Excalibur (comics), Excalibur. In what is considered the "game changer" for Arcade, ''Avengers Arena'', he managed to kidnap 16 superpowered teens and forced them to kill each other for surviv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logan (film Character)
James Howlett, known as Logan and by his codename Wolverine, is a fictional character who originated as the main protagonist and central figure of 20th Century Fox's ''X-Men'' film series, having appeared in nine films since his introduction in ''X-Men'' (2000), including both ensemble and solo films. He is portrayed by Hugh Jackman and is based on the Marvel Comics character Wolverine, created by Len Wein and John Romita Sr. Jackman later portrayed multiple alternate "variants" of Logan from the multiverse in ''Deadpool & Wolverine'' (2024), produced by Marvel Studios and set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), with Troye Sivan portraying a young Logan in '' X-Men Origins: Wolverine'' (2009), and Henry Cavill portraying a variant dubbed "Cavillrine" in the former film. Concept, creation, and characterization Development Marvel Comics writers and chief editors Gerry Conway and Roy Thomas wrote an ''X-Men'' screenplay in 1984 when Orion Pictures held an option on the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
