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<h2 id="gameplay">Gameplay</h2>
<p>The game itself is a side-scroller like <i><a href="/facts/R-Type/5sT7vXSw">R-Type</a></i>, 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. <a href="/facts/Konami/pBu2rpta">Konami</a>'s <i><a href="/facts/Xexex/gP9uK1BY">Xexex</a></i> is based on a fusion of this weaponry with the Force system of <i>R-Type</i>. In the PlayStation 2 game <i><a href="/facts/R-Type_Final/RzPISDxF">R-Type Final</a></i>, the ship "RX-12 Cross The Rubicon" uses the "Flexible Force", a Force based on <i>XMultiply</i> with roughly the same attacks.
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<h2 id="plot">Plot</h2>
<p>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.
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<h2 id="reception">Reception</h2>
<p>In Japan, <i>Game Machine</i> listed <i>X Multiply</i> on their November 1, 1989 issue as being the eighth most-successful table arcade game of the year.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a>
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<h2 id="notes">Notes</h2>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://www.mobygames.com/game/x-multiply"><i>X Multiply</i></a> at <a href="/facts/MobyGames/ErGhXfX5">MobyGames</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=10495"><i>X Multiply</i></a> at the <a href="/facts/Killer_List_of_Videogames/Pq8BN7d2">Killer List of Videogames</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.hamster.co.jp/american_hamster/arcadearchives/x_multiply.htm"><i>X Multiply</i></a> at <a href="/facts/Arcade_Archives/CVdKN173">Arcade Archives</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>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". <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>"Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - テーブル型TVゲーム機 (Table Videos)". Game Machine (in Japanese). No. 367. Amusement Press. 1 November 1989. p. 29. <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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