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{{Short description|1989 video game}}
{{Infobox video game
|title = X Multiply
|image = X Multiply game flyer.jpg
|caption = Arcade flyer
|developer = [[Irem]]
|publisher = Irem
|release = {{collapsible list|title=September 1989|'''Arcade'''{{vgrelease|JP|September 1989|WW|1989}}'''PlayStation'''{{vgrelease|JP|March 19, 1998}}'''Saturn'''{{vgrelease|JP|March 19, 1998}}'''PS4'''{{vgrelease|JP|August 8, 2019|PAL|August 8, 2019|NA|August 9, 2019}}'''Switch'''{{vgrelease|WW|August 8, 2019}}}}
|genre = [[Scrolling shooter]]
|modes = [[Single-player]], [[Multiplayer video game|multiplayer]]
|platforms = [[Arcade video game|Arcade]], [[Sega Saturn|Saturn]], [[PlayStation (console)|PlayStation]], [[PlayStation 4]], [[Nintendo Switch|Switch]]
|alt = 
}}
{{nihongo|'''''X Multiply'''''|エックスマルチプライ|EkkusuMaruchipurai}}{{efn|The arcade flyer uses "エックス・マルチプライ" (therefore "X MULTIPLY"), while home console releases use "Xマルチプライ".}} is a horizontally [[scrolling shooter]] published by [[Irem]], and similar in style to their earlier ''[[R-Type]]''. In 1998, the game was released with ''[[Image Fight]]'' as a one-disc doublebill on [[PlayStation (console)|PlayStation]] and [[Sega Saturn]]. In 2019, the game was released on the [[PlayStation 4]] and [[Nintendo Switch]] as part of [[Hamster Corporation]]'s [[Arcade Archives]] series.

==Gameplay==
The game itself is a side-scroller like ''[[R-Type]]'', albeit with a short vertical-scrolling area towards the end of the sixth level. Instead of the Force pod, however, the main power-up apparatus takes the form of two flexible tentacles. The tentacles are invulnerable to all enemy attacks, and can be positioned with careful maneuvering of the X-002. [[Konami]]'s ''[[Xexex]]'' is based on a fusion of this weaponry with the Force system of ''R-Type''. In the PlayStation 2 game ''[[R-Type Final]]'', the ship "RX-12 Cross The Rubicon" uses the "Flexible Force", a Force based on ''XMultiply'' with roughly the same attacks.

==Plot==
The game centers around an unusual alien invasion against a colony planet in the year 2249—the aliens themselves are microscopic creatures that invade, infect, and kill the colonists. Scientists have deployed the microscopic fighter X-002 into the body of a person who has been invaded by the alien queen.

== Reception ==
In Japan, ''Game Machine'' listed ''X Multiply'' on their November 1, 1989 issue as being the eighth most-successful table arcade game of the year.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - テーブル型TVゲーム機 (Table Videos)|magazine=Game Machine|issue=367|publisher=Amusement Press|date=1 November 1989|page=29|lang=ja}}</ref>

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==References==
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==External links==
* {{MobyGames|id=/x-multiply}}
* {{KLOV game|id=10495|name=X Multiply}}
* [http://www.hamster.co.jp/american_hamster/arcadearchives/x_multiply.htm ''X Multiply''] at [[Arcade Archives]]

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