'X-Men: Apocalypse' Gets Its Atari On With Playable Video Games

X-Men: Apocalypse just stepped up its marketing game. With the comic-book sequel just over three weeks away, the folks at Fox have launched the Retro X: Arcade. Fans heading to SpacePortArcade.com will have be able to play their choice of a trio of old-school, 8-bit-style games based on characters in the upcoming film.

The X team got the little details perfect, right down to the faux video-game covers straight from an Atari catalog.

First up, there’s Mutant All-Stars Track & Field lets you go for the gold in Olympics events as either a human or one of three mutants (resembling Beast, Nightcrawler, and Jean Grey).

Revenge of Hero X resembles Robotron and features a mohawk-sporting mutant who must save the humans from waves of invaders.

The Pac-Man-like Mutant Conquest features an Indiana Jones-esque hero being pursued through a maze by Apocalypse’s Four Horsemen (War, Death, Famine, Pestilence) while collecting various Egyptian antiquities to power up.

In case you haven’t figured, X-Men: Apocalypse is set smack dab in the 1980s, and the filmmakers have embraced the decade’s zeitgeist in a big way. Aside from the games released this week, co-star Sophie Turner (Jean Grey) tweeted out a Flashback Friday photo of her and Tye Sheridan (Cyclops) hitting the record bins and unearthing a gem.

Their “favorite album,” Sounds of Light and Fury, is straight from a vintage X-Men comic featuring the mutant/pop star Dazzler.

Gnarly to the max.

X-Men: Apocalypse totally arrives in theaters May 27.