History
As with most depictions of Arcade, his origins remain shrouded in mystery, but it is known that he killed his therapist for calling him “psychotic”. Arcade and Baron Mordo divert the heroes from their attempt to attack Dr. Doom's castle to rescue the X-Men Nightcrawler and Jean Grey. Mordo uses his magic to disrupt Dr. Strange's Orb of Teleportation and send the heroes to Murderworld instead of Castle Doom. Although the first area in Murderworld is a replica of Castle Doom, the heroes could tell something is wrong by the low playing carnival-like music and because all of Doom's portraits have a red hair toupee. Besides having the normal Murderworld traps, Arcade also has Shocker and Rhino working for him, uses mind control to force Jean Grey to attack the heroes, captures Blade and Senator Kelly, and finally attacks the heroes himself in a giant robot. After being beaten, Arcade tells the heroes that Dr. Doom has Nightcrawler, and has taken him to Mephisto's Realm. Arcade is presumably arrested by or dies in his Arcade Bot's explosion thereafter.[1]
Notes
- Arcade could be seen sitting in his robot's head on the artwork from the loading screen, but in the game a glass was hiding him. That glass was transparent only in the PSP version, but Arcade's model was still in the robot in every version of the game.
- The video game you need to play after you fight Jean Grey the second time is a reference to the Atari game called "Pitfall!".
- According to a unique conversation between Arcade and Luke Cage, his robot weighs 5 tons.