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I recently wrote a reader review for X-Men on NES, mainly to serve as my X review for AlphaMarathon. However, I've noticed the game also goes under other titles. On Gamefaqs and Wikipedia, it's listed as "Uncanny X-Men," and other sites list it as just "X-Men" or "Marvel's X-Men" (the title screen uses the latter).

My question: which of these counts towards Alpha, or could any of them count?

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This happens more often they you might think. I don't want to start being all draconian; I've always gone with what's on the game' packing (for example: X360's King Kong isn't K because it's actually Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie, therefore a P) So, if this is the box, I would class it as Uncanny X-Men, making it a U.

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It's "X" for "X-Men." "The Uncanny" isn't properly part of the title. If you have the box sitting sideways on a shelf, as I do, it is just "X-Men," which is why it is listed that way on numerous sites around the internet.

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Someone make a compelling argument for Marvel's X-Men!

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