Retro Treasures - Spiderman the Videogame (Arcade)

Our third treasure comes straight from Arcades, a game made by Sega with one of the most popular Marvel characters. I'm sure many here have ever seen or played it in the 90s!

Spiderman: The Videogame

Year: 1991

System: Arcade

Players: Up to 4

By: SEGA  

For many years I kept an image in mind: a  spiderman game  where  there were more 3 characters and was a street fighting. Until I figure out MAME and find the hidden game on the internets!

Spiderman is not a bizarre videogame and wonderful at the same time without reasons: first, it was made by SEGA, Sega our nostalgic past, the company, which touched turned to gold. Second, a fighting game with the spiderman, the buddy neighborhood, sharing space with 3 more colleagues to put the Kingpin, Venom and his cronies to run out of the city. Third, is a fighting game with big characters on screen and that mixes parts of side-scrolling platform too!

For these reasons, the project was a success at the time, but was soon overtaken by other arcades of success too, and unfortunately he fell into obscurity. UNTIL NOW!

We can play with 4 characters: Spider, Namor, Black Cat and Archer. Each of them .... does the same thing than the other! Yeah, there are few differences , but I noticed that the Black Cat is a bit faster for combing than the others. Are just 2 buttons: one to jump and one to beat . Using the two together , your character gives a special power , which obviously consumes energy. That this energy is counted by points , not by a bar .

The game follows the outline of the existing beat'n ups : Follow beating everyone by streets , alleys , BUILDINGS , AIRSHIPS , MOUNTAINS, PARKS .... is the variety of scenery here is truly enormous .

The enemies are varied , especially the chiefs , ranging from the obvious Venom to  Doctor Doom among others .

Graphics that resemble the comics give charm to the game , with good music and decent sound effects. It's a rare game to find, but thanks to the current emulation, at any  worth site you can find the rom . And even though it exists : if you try to play an arcade there , take a lot of money , because the game is fucking hard !

Not only talking about of fighting stages, but the steps in scroll  involve jumps and synchronized attacks to avoid the losing of precious lives.

Anyway, it's a WHORE rox arcade  with Spider that many people even know about, or if you know, just forgetting over time.