Looking back at.....Spiderman and the X-Men: Arcade´s revenge!
Have you ever played the game Spiderman and the X-Men: Arcade´s revenge? It´s a game on the SNES so I wouldn´t be suprised if you hadn´t, but this was one of my first super hero games and I really enjoyed playing it. It´s one of those games where you have to do your best to actually make it, because you only have a limited amount of lives and if you mess up you have to start over. That seems pretty harsh these days but that´s how it was in the good old days!
In this game you play as Spiderman, Wolverine, Storm, Cyclops and Gambit. For me this was the first encounter I had with Gambit and he became my favourite X-Man pretty quickly, I mean what´s not to like about a cool looking guy that uses charged playing cards as his weapon? Every character is put in a deadly arena where they have to make it to the exit, of course there is a lot that can go wrong. With Spiderman you have to go through a city like area and you have your typical Spiderman villains to fight at the end of those levels, of course these are robotic duplicates but they´re still capable of doing the same shit as the original villain! With Cyclops you´re in a minecart and you have to blast explosives in time before they hit you. Gambit has to go through a gambler like area as quickly as possible as he´s being chased by a deadly Indiana Jones type of wreckingball! Storm has to swim through an underwater maze, the key is to fight the right path and the air pockets to make it through before you run out of air. Wolverine has the Juggernaut chasing him which means he has to rush through the level, seems easy but it´s more difficult than you think!
All of this is of course 2D action and it might look ridiculous now but back then it was a lot of fun to play. I was also quite happy to play as a hero, because I only knew heroes from comics or cartoons and those weren´t always on tv here. So back then it was a nice escape from reality and play the hero. Who´s Arcade? Well Arcade is a character from the Marvel universe that creates these horrible arenas where people have to make it through, but not everyone always does. You can compare him to a type of Jigsaw guy, except this one does it for fun and not to teach people to appreciate their life! This is one of those platform games that will test your skills and make a decent platform gamer out of you, for as far that´s possible of course!
These days you have a lot of super hero games and maybe not all of them are great but I think the Batman Arkham games have proved that you can have nice 3D super hero games, let´s hope they´ll make another Spiderman and the X-Men game which is even more fun than the first!
In this game you play as Spiderman, Wolverine, Storm, Cyclops and Gambit. For me this was the first encounter I had with Gambit and he became my favourite X-Man pretty quickly, I mean what´s not to like about a cool looking guy that uses charged playing cards as his weapon? Every character is put in a deadly arena where they have to make it to the exit, of course there is a lot that can go wrong. With Spiderman you have to go through a city like area and you have your typical Spiderman villains to fight at the end of those levels, of course these are robotic duplicates but they´re still capable of doing the same shit as the original villain! With Cyclops you´re in a minecart and you have to blast explosives in time before they hit you. Gambit has to go through a gambler like area as quickly as possible as he´s being chased by a deadly Indiana Jones type of wreckingball! Storm has to swim through an underwater maze, the key is to fight the right path and the air pockets to make it through before you run out of air. Wolverine has the Juggernaut chasing him which means he has to rush through the level, seems easy but it´s more difficult than you think!
All of this is of course 2D action and it might look ridiculous now but back then it was a lot of fun to play. I was also quite happy to play as a hero, because I only knew heroes from comics or cartoons and those weren´t always on tv here. So back then it was a nice escape from reality and play the hero. Who´s Arcade? Well Arcade is a character from the Marvel universe that creates these horrible arenas where people have to make it through, but not everyone always does. You can compare him to a type of Jigsaw guy, except this one does it for fun and not to teach people to appreciate their life! This is one of those platform games that will test your skills and make a decent platform gamer out of you, for as far that´s possible of course!
These days you have a lot of super hero games and maybe not all of them are great but I think the Batman Arkham games have proved that you can have nice 3D super hero games, let´s hope they´ll make another Spiderman and the X-Men game which is even more fun than the first!
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