Love this game. Great rogues gallery and gameplay. Having Felicia is great. Hawkeye and Submariner seemed like strange choices, but it made it feel like a random comic team-up. My only criticism is Spidey's walking animation. He looks depressed - like Gwen Stacy just died earlier that day.
I played this at a laundry mat when I was a kid, maybe 4 or 5 at the time. I spent years looking for the title and could never figure out what it was. I kept getting the characters mixed up with be Captain America game, so I could never had the correct details to research. Fast forward at least 24 years later and I found it at a gaming bar. Needless to say I parked myself at the machine and spent me $20 to beat it.
I really need a home console version of this. I love getting my three kids together and running through the X-Men arcade game on xbox360. It would be awesome to have access to this as well.
Loved this game's art style, visual effects and gameplay. The sound effects were excellent too. A lot of characters, great use of Venom. I liked the playables too. Why Hawkeye though? He got a lot of love in Marvel titles during the 90's between the Arcade Avengers and was playable on the Nes Cap Am game too.
@@fitnessabcvideo And for some reasons Spiderman only uses kicks when jumping, on ground he fights like a boxer, not as Spiderman, but still looks great.
Found this in the wild searching for my pinball fix and now I am here. Love to figure out the game as I play and this was an unexpected surprise! How the camera zooms out and the game plays differently. The health feature plays a lot like Lunar Lander where you add in extra credits to keep playing. Great game! Great documentary!
I LOVED this game! I used to play it at my local Chuck E Cheese. Which also ironically had the TMNT and Simpsons arcade games. Just like u said, now i have it on my mame32 emulator. One of the best arcade beat em ups. 😎💯
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I still have the simpsons arcade game on my ps3 rare game on the console now. And same goes with TMNT turtles in time: re-shelled. Even tho that one is a remake. U and me both buddy, those are probably my top three, then it's Xmen as an honorable mention.
Another Fantastic video pat first game i ever had was spiderman for the 2600, after watching this video i booted up mame and played them both again. AH THE MEMORIES NEVER EVER GET OLD Cheers pat look forward to the next installment.
Great video, Pat. Never change a thing about your style, bro. I honestly never knew anything about this game. Those System 32 games sure were pretty though. God bless, my friend.
Thanks for the nice words and always being a supporter of mine for so long. I'm not sure how popular this game was but I can recall seeing it in two or three different arcades
This is crazy just when I thought I’ve seen just about every arcade game. We had arcades everywhere in NJ never ran into this game learned of its existence through you and your channel thanks dude keep up the great work you do here!!!!
Yeah I know what you mean....I never got why Hawkeye and SubMariner. In my later years, I did speculate that "yes", there must have been licensing issues. I always thought that, besides Spidey and TheBlackCat, the remaining 2 roster slots should have been filled out by characters like Daredevil and SpiderWoman, or better yet....Iceman and Firestar. Maybe even Darkhawk who had also debuted in '91 as well, and probably wasn't already taken.
The only other spider-man beat em ups I can think of are maximum carnage, a 1 player game where ur spider-man or venom & fight carnage & his symbiote army. The other one is called spider-man friend or foe, where player 1 is always spider-man & player 2 is always a specific villain depending on which level u play on
This cabinet is the stuff of legends..and that commerical really solidifies how bad commercials and tv in general has been for a long time, in comparison.. they don't make anything that imaginative or engaging anymore
Yeah as a kid I was confused to why Submariner and Hawkeye were both in this game, as neither have much of a connection to Spiderman. They both feel so random. Black Cat and Spiderman teaming up made sense. Looking back I'm surprised they didn't include Iceman and Firestar as the other 2 characters to tie in with Spiderman and his amazing friends. Being a Spiderman game, you'd think they could picked someone more connected to Spiderman instead of two random guys. I think that might helped make this game more popular than two lesser known characters, as I'd imagine most people wanted play as Spiderman over bulk of the cast. I know I did as a kid despite learning who rest were as I got older. I agree the villain side they did a great job of getting an all star line up, as the game looks pretty good and captures the personality of the characters well. I'd wish I saw more of the game as a kid, as I strongly disliked game where simply attacking burns up your health. Especially in Arcade games, as you just run thru quarters quickly. I'd get to second stage and that would be it for me. It's bad enough you're getting beat up by the bad guys, I am sure you'd still died plenty if the game didn't cost you health to attack. This just made me less willing spend my couple quarters I had to play a game with on this title.
Yes you would think they could've picked daredevil or maybe the punisher? I think the punisher was tied up by acclaim. I know the avengers for the most part were and also the X-Men. Hard to say what other licensed they purchased but never used. There are way too many games that are like you said quarter burners. Of course that's with the big companies wanted but it was frustrating for us as kids. Thanks for watching my video
Thanks! It's shocking to find out that this game exists after thinking I knew every Marvel arcade game. Never saw this in an arcade, or heard about it anywhere other than your channel.
Sony has the Spiderman videogame license I believe. It would be great if they could work out a deal with Sega and release a collection of Sega's home and arcade Spiderman games.
FYI, we have this game at work, in our classics section, along with Simpsons, Captain America and the Avengers, TMNT. When the game came out, I played it once or twice, and that was enough. Konami was the king of multiplayer beat em ups. This video reminds me, that I need to make adjustments to the color, as it currently looks faded, compared to what I see here.
For a beat 'em up: The game Spider-Man: Friend or Foe is underrated. But it had better ideas than this arcade version by playing as both of Spider-Man's heroes & villains as multiplayer options.
this was a great game. only saw it in a couple of places (UK). never reached the end level. liked both this and captain america/ avengers game as they were both quite different to each other.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries The sad thing is that there is test footage from the making of the movie where they had a more comics accurate Goblin costume that looked a lot better than what ended up in the final movie.
Great game, I never understood why it never had a console conversion, it would have been possible in the Megadrive a support chip or in the Mega CD and in the 32X they could have done a perfect conversion. How ironic that Hawkeye got selected to be part in this game and "Captain America and the Avengers" due to his lack of popularity making him available. The worst point of the game is the draining health, like Gauntlet no matter how good you were, at the end you had to add more quarters to keep playing.
I feel like marvel really should look into either remaking this or making a new Spider-Man arcade game. Feels there’s a market for arcade games again, look at Shredder's Revengethat did incredibly well so if marvel made a new spidey arcade game it could do really well.
Sega didn't think The Amazing Spiderman could be done on a Genesis?! That's interesting, I'm guessing this was before Sega dev teams began utilizing the co-processor for more than just backwards compatibility. The Zilog Z-80 co-processor was added to the Genesis at first so that one can play Master System games on it with the Powerbase converter. I don't know the first developer that began utilizing the Z-80 for 16-bit games; However, I do know it was going on in 1992. Yuzo Koshiro utilized the extra hardware for the music in SOR2. Further, I believe it was used with Road Rash 1+2+3, Thunder Force III, and I know for sure this is what made Thunder Force IV a show stopping juggernaut. I think it might have been utilized for the Strike series. Red Zone is another example of the Sega Genesis doing things on stock hardware that was simply unbelievable at the time. Not only does it do full scalling but rotation, Mode 7 type feats and polygons that are buttery smooth (for the time). This would have likely been impossible without that little 8-bit co-processor that could. I know it doesn't seem like much but it really helped with the heavy lifting when it really counted. It's a damn shame Nintendo did not go with the 10 mhz Motorola 68K when they had the chance. Had they done that Sega would have been in real trouble. Sorry for the long posts, I'm just very passionate about this stuff. Furthermore, this channel is one of the absolute best gaming historian channels I have ever witnessed. When I get paid at the end of this month (my work pays monthly), I will be signing up to your Patrion. I absolutely have to support a fellow Gen X'er that knows his stuff...we gotta stick together! ;)
I can recall red zone and being amazed at some of the stuff that was pulling off. I agree, the 10 MHz processor with everything else the console had to offer would've been fantastic. That's very nice of you to say, I'm glad you enjoy my content so much. Game on! :-)
Played Spider Man on Genesus and SNES the games difffer from one another but both are a fun time. Spider Man Maximum Carnage for SNES and Genesis is a great arcade like beat em up.
I loved this game... Never forget when I first played it here in the UK, It was one of teh first games I played that was 50p per credit... (Most games prior had been 10 or 20p) - And I was doing OK-ish! Had to add more credit to beat the first stage of level 1... As Scorpian is kind of cheap... But Venom was easy! Until he gets that Stone Tablet... ...Or thats how it should have been! I was playing with some random person, 2 Players... And when we beat the bosses, We just happened to be all teh way to the right of the screen and SOMETHING SCREWED UP! Both of our Sprites just bounced around a BLANK SCREEN for about 3 or 4 Minutes before we were both dropped into the FINAL STAGE of the level! Completely skipping the 2D Section! I went back many times to try and glitch it again but it never worked.... Just a random one in a million chance!
Always thought Namor and Hawkeye were odd choices. I like both but they don't fit teaming up with Spidey well. They could have gone with the Sandman who was a good guy at the time and maybe others that made more sense. Daredevil would have been perfect but they might not have been able to get the rights. I'm sure they could have used Rocket Racer, Silver Sable, or the Prowler.
Always wanted this game to be ported. I thought the Sega CD Spider-man game was going to be this. Sega made a bunch of Marvel games in the 90's. They should get the rights and do a compilation set.
Best game on System32 hardware! So sad it never got ported to 32x/Saturn. Given Rad Mobile (Gale Racer) came to Saturn (and was also a System32 game) you know they could have pulled off a nice port with little to no compromise.
a local gas station had this, unfortunately the punch button didn't work. the owner never bothered to tell anyone this, and let them put in quarters all the time to try to play it.
Can You Believe Back When Stan Lee was Working at Marvel & Came up With the Concept of Spider Man with Steve Ditko. The Big Wigs at Marvel Almost Turned down the Idea.
You know would have been a couple more B-listers that would have worked better, IMHO, than Hawkeye and Namor? Daredevil and Iron Fist. That way the whole team would be 'street level' heroes. Namor can juggle elephants, he should be punching guys into paste.
@@cysper479 Yah, as a kid it always bugged me that Spidey couldn't climb w/o using up web fluid and falling... Even if he moved slowly it still would have been better.
Love Spider-man on the PS1, and dont mind Robocop2 arcade game, but somehow endless monster bashing in this seemed repetitive and like a souped up Final Fight.
Arcade games that never got ported home make the biggest argument pro-emulation I can think of. If it weren’t for ROMs, games like this would slowly disappear.
PatmanQC - History of arcade game documentaries absolutely! I’m realizing I missed out on a ton of stuff back then. Whatever you had access to back then was just luck of the draw. My favorite arcade memory was playing Galaxy Force (cant remember if it was 1 or 2) at Disney World and they had the full get up that rotated all around. Sadly, that would never be replicated without the original machine.
It always confused me why Submariner was in this. Why not Daredevil? He and Spider-Man worked together alot more..I think Spidey only interacted with Sub-Mariner like..maybe a handful of times?
I honestly dont get how people can call Spidermans villains as good as Batmans, a good chunk of them are losers that nobody remembers, only 1/3 of them are fully unique, and a few of them get powers form the same source as another and wind up being an Echo Fighter of another like Carnage to Venom and Hob Goblin to Green Goblin and wind up being a Variation of a past villain.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I think a larger take away from this is.....most superheros rouges galleries are kinda shity. I did a scan with a buddy after leaving that comment and we were hard pressed to find any hero be it DC, Marvel, Dark horse, ect that has a really strong roster of villains that are iconic, unique, and dont overlap......the results were kinda depressing ^^;
Wow, the Japanese SEGA execs really missed the boat when they thought Spider man would be "too creepy" as a mascot. Classic cultural misunderstanding. I wonder if they are kicking themselves now that Spiderman is a multinational icon.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Yeah seriously. When you look at that from a modern perspective, it is pretty mind blowing. Its like a Japanese record exec in the 60s not signing the beattles because "Beetles are too creepy and will never catch on."
hsatan20 If it had work out then sonic would never happened. The same whit Nintendo wanting Popeye but when that didn't workout went whit donkey kong which would lead to mario getting his own spinoff and look how that turn out?
I always thought that this would have been the perfect launch title for the Saturn, along with a new Streets of Rage. Maybe if Sega hadn't sh*t the bed and tried to "out polygon" Sony, and instead went full on ham 2D arcade style right at the start of the Saturn's life then we might have got it.
This game is very impressive on every level except one. I hate how you have to fight every character at least twice. Especially with Green Goblin, who each time has a three phase attack. So, six times technically. It feels like a cheap way to expand the game play. As for why Hawkeye... yeah, WHY Hawkeye? I don't see why they didn't use Mr. Fantastic or The Thing, as the game's main villain is Dr. Doom. Did Acclaim hold the license on the Fantastic Four, yet somehow not Submariner or Doom?
I can't really even think of a Fantastic Four video game, actually. I'm sure there are a few. All I can remember is a cameo in one of the SNES Spider-Man games.
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Love this game. Great rogues gallery and gameplay. Having Felicia is great.
Hawkeye and Submariner seemed like strange choices, but it made it feel like a random comic team-up.
My only criticism is Spidey's walking animation. He looks depressed - like Gwen Stacy just died earlier that day.
LOL! You're right, he does look a little distraught :-)
Lord-JP Agreed. I thought as a kid it was strange having Submariner and Hawkeye. I would have went with Daredevil and Black Widow.
Linklex7 in 91 Tou wouldn’t have went with Blackwidow. Stop it. She was irrelevant until marvel movies gave her a combat upgrade
I played this at a laundry mat when I was a kid, maybe 4 or 5 at the time. I spent years looking for the title and could never figure out what it was. I kept getting the characters mixed up with be Captain America game, so I could never had the correct details to research. Fast forward at least 24 years later and I found it at a gaming bar. Needless to say I parked myself at the machine and spent me $20 to beat it.
Awesome, at least you finally found it :-)
I really need a home console version of this. I love getting my three kids together and running through the X-Men arcade game on xbox360. It would be awesome to have access to this as well.
I agree, one of those unreleased gems we never got
Jtag your xbox, or get yourself a modded og xbox. Many cool 4 playet mame arcade games available incl this game.
You can emulate it through M.A.M.E.
Loved this game's art style, visual effects and gameplay. The sound effects were excellent too. A lot of characters, great use of Venom. I liked the playables too. Why Hawkeye though? He got a lot of love in Marvel titles during the 90's between the Arcade Avengers and was playable on the Nes Cap Am game too.
Another reason is because there weren't that many a list players to choose from
I always thought they walked around like Scooby-Doo characters 😆 Great game!
LOL
Considering Japan only aired the 1967 show, I’m not surprised if Sega thought about Scooby-Doo 🤣🤣
Spider-man seems to be a bit "slouchy" as he walks around.
This is my favorite Slouch-Em-Up
Lol so true, I always wondered what they were aiming for
@@fitnessabcvideo And for some reasons Spiderman only uses kicks when jumping, on ground he fights like a boxer, not as Spiderman, but still looks great.
Namor got it worst, he looks like an Alzheimer grand-papa that left the house in nothing but his adult diaper
I believe the intent is that he's crouching so the instant his Spidey-Sense goes off, he's primed to jump.
Ahhh my mouth salivates when I watch this game....used to play this game while waiting for my hamburgers at GRIFFS BURGERS
LOL, it's a classic
Started out weird but you saved it at the end
@@ILoooooveCamels How did the video start out weird?
PatmanQC sorry, I meant JBalderas1990's comment
Man I was really starting to think maybe this game never existed and I was dreaming i played this arcade game.
Found this in the wild searching for my pinball fix and now I am here.
Love to figure out the game as I play and this was an unexpected surprise! How the camera zooms out and the game plays differently. The health feature plays a lot like Lunar Lander where you add in extra credits to keep playing. Great game! Great documentary!
Thank you very much, a lot of health leaders were like that as far as inserting credits back in the day.
I LOVED this game! I used to play it at my local Chuck E Cheese. Which also ironically had the TMNT and Simpsons arcade games. Just like u said, now i have it on my mame32 emulator. One of the best arcade beat em ups. 😎💯
Those three games mentioned are probably my most favorite beat them ups of all time.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I still have the simpsons arcade game on my ps3 rare game on the console now. And same goes with TMNT turtles in time: re-shelled. Even tho that one is a remake. U and me both buddy, those are probably my top three, then it's Xmen as an honorable mention.
Spider-Man, Captain America and the Avengers, & Punisher were all great beat em ups
Absolutely, I especially liked the punisher
Another Fantastic video pat first game i ever had was spiderman for the 2600, after watching this video i booted up mame and played them both again. AH THE MEMORIES NEVER EVER GET OLD Cheers pat look forward to the next installment.
Thank you so much, I had Spider-Man on the Atari as well and it was one of my favorite video games. Glad you enjoy my channel
Nice job as always - love your reviews of retro games and their accompanying media.
Thank you so much, glad you're enjoying my content
Love going back and watching these older vids
Very cool that you are enjoying them a second time around. Thanks
Great video, Pat. Never change a thing about your style, bro.
I honestly never knew anything about this game. Those System 32 games sure were pretty though. God bless, my friend.
Thanks for the nice words and always being a supporter of mine for so long. I'm not sure how popular this game was but I can recall seeing it in two or three different arcades
Great video as always - love the retro commercials!
EDIT: Oh man, the Showcase Cinemas - QC memories :)
Thanks, another local boy. Glad to have you :-)
This is crazy just when I thought I’ve seen just about every arcade game. We had arcades everywhere in NJ never ran into this game learned of its existence through you and your channel thanks dude keep up the great work you do here!!!!
That's great, glad to be of service. Nice to know people are enjoying my channel :-)
We had it at Menlo Park Mall arcade in the 90’s
Circus Circus at Vegas still has this to this day
I bet they have a huge arcade
The conversions part is my favorite too. Hate it when that happens
Thanks me to
I worked at the Showcase Cinemas in Milan. You might be speaking of the Davenport Showcase. So nice to see a content provider from the Quad Cities.
You know, it may have been. It also may have been happy Joe's next to the theater in Milan. Thanks for watching fellow Quad Citizen
Yeah I know what you mean....I never got why Hawkeye and SubMariner.
In my later years, I did speculate that "yes", there must have been licensing issues.
I always thought that, besides Spidey and TheBlackCat, the remaining 2 roster slots should have been
filled out by characters like Daredevil and SpiderWoman, or better yet....Iceman and Firestar.
Maybe even Darkhawk who had also debuted in '91 as well, and probably wasn't already taken.
Great video as usual!
Thanks, glad you liked it
One the best beat em ups ever. Played this as a kid with my sister at a pizza hut back in the days.
That was the only place I saw it was at a pizza joint
President Digong is a legend imagine he was there during the history of arcade and spideman games ... amazing thanks for this
Dope video dude. Keep up the great videos.
Thanks, glad you enjoy my channel
I love the scale .... different sizes and also the big sizes that cramp up
I always thought that was a neat effect as well
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries i just subscribed and watch most of videos thanks for this and more power to your channel
@@pauloj.1428 Thank you very much, welcome aboard and hope you continue to enjoy my content
Loved this one.
Thank you
The only other spider-man beat em ups I can think of are maximum carnage, a 1 player game where ur spider-man or venom & fight carnage & his symbiote army. The other one is called spider-man friend or foe, where player 1 is always spider-man & player 2 is always a specific villain depending on which level u play on
Keep 'em coming Patman
Will do, thanks
I loved this game so much
That old Spider-Man parker brothers commercial creeps me out lol
This cabinet is the stuff of legends..and that commerical really solidifies how bad commercials and tv in general has been for a long time, in comparison.. they don't make anything that imaginative or engaging anymore
I agree 100%
My older brother has this game in his Arcade basement. So much fun. 😁
That sounds really cool
Played this a bunch at a movie theatre near us. Very random cast and it made me happy.
Always sad it wasn't the Avenger coin-op though.
I always wondered why the cast was so random
Yeah as a kid I was confused to why Submariner and Hawkeye were both in this game, as neither have much of a connection to Spiderman. They both feel so random. Black Cat and Spiderman teaming up made sense. Looking back I'm surprised they didn't include Iceman and Firestar as the other 2 characters to tie in with Spiderman and his amazing friends. Being a Spiderman game, you'd think they could picked someone more connected to Spiderman instead of two random guys. I think that might helped make this game more popular than two lesser known characters, as I'd imagine most people wanted play as Spiderman over bulk of the cast. I know I did as a kid despite learning who rest were as I got older.
I agree the villain side they did a great job of getting an all star line up, as the game looks pretty good and captures the personality of the characters well. I'd wish I saw more of the game as a kid, as I strongly disliked game where simply attacking burns up your health. Especially in Arcade games, as you just run thru quarters quickly. I'd get to second stage and that would be it for me. It's bad enough you're getting beat up by the bad guys, I am sure you'd still died plenty if the game didn't cost you health to attack. This just made me less willing spend my couple quarters I had to play a game with on this title.
Yes you would think they could've picked daredevil or maybe the punisher? I think the punisher was tied up by acclaim. I know the avengers for the most part were and also the X-Men. Hard to say what other licensed they purchased but never used.
There are way too many games that are like you said quarter burners. Of course that's with the big companies wanted but it was frustrating for us as kids.
Thanks for watching my video
Great video
Thanks!
Thanks! It's shocking to find out that this game exists after thinking I knew every Marvel arcade game. Never saw this in an arcade, or heard about it anywhere other than your channel.
Glad I could help, the game is a lot of fun to play especially in multiplayer
The 7/11 across from my elementary had Spiderman and Super SF2. Spent a lot of allowance there back in the mid 90's.
Sony has the Spiderman videogame license I believe. It would be great if they could work out a deal with Sega and release a collection of Sega's home and arcade Spiderman games.
That would be fantastic
FYI, we have this game at work, in our classics section, along with Simpsons, Captain America and the Avengers, TMNT. When the game came out, I played it once or twice, and that was enough. Konami was the king of multiplayer beat em ups. This video reminds me, that I need to make adjustments to the color, as it currently looks faded, compared to what I see here.
Sounds like a great place to work :-)
For a beat 'em up:
The game Spider-Man: Friend or Foe is underrated. But it had better ideas than this arcade version by playing as both of Spider-Man's heroes & villains as multiplayer options.
Amazing!
this was a great game. only saw it in a couple of places (UK). never reached the end level. liked both this and captain america/ avengers game as they were both quite different to each other.
They were very different, I like them both though
I want a movie with the Goblin and Spidey costumes from that commercial
Debating they can get that green Goblin costume right on a low-budget TV commercial and we end up with a Power Ranger in the movie
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries The sad thing is that there is test footage from the making of the movie where they had a more comics accurate Goblin costume that looked a lot better than what ended up in the final movie.
@@KasumiKenshirou I've seen it in it looks fantastic. It's very unfortunate
Great game, I never understood why it never had a console conversion, it would have been possible in the Megadrive a support chip or in the Mega CD and in the 32X they could have done a perfect conversion.
How ironic that Hawkeye got selected to be part in this game and "Captain America and the Avengers" due to his lack of popularity making him available.
The worst point of the game is the draining health, like Gauntlet no matter how good you were, at the end you had to add more quarters to keep playing.
They absolutely could have done it At least on the 32X. The health is just ridiculous, that there is ever again that would be your quarters this is it
I saw this game for the first time in over twenty years at a comic book store in Philadelphia, PA this past summer. IIRC it was out of order, lol.
I feel like marvel really should look into either remaking this or making a new Spider-Man arcade game.
Feels there’s a market for arcade games again, look at Shredder's Revengethat did incredibly well so if marvel made a new spidey arcade game it could do really well.
Ground Kontrol in Portland has it. I put in around 20 dollars in quarters to beat it.
Sega didn't think The Amazing Spiderman could be done on a Genesis?! That's interesting, I'm guessing this was before Sega dev teams began utilizing the co-processor for more than just backwards compatibility.
The Zilog Z-80 co-processor was added to the Genesis at first so that one can play Master System games on it with the Powerbase converter. I don't know the first developer that began utilizing the Z-80 for 16-bit games; However, I do know it was going on in 1992. Yuzo Koshiro utilized the extra hardware for the music in SOR2. Further, I believe it was used with Road Rash 1+2+3, Thunder Force III, and I know for sure this is what made Thunder Force IV a show stopping juggernaut.
I think it might have been utilized for the Strike series. Red Zone is another example of the Sega Genesis doing things on stock hardware that was simply unbelievable at the time. Not only does it do full scalling but rotation, Mode 7 type feats and polygons that are buttery smooth (for the time). This would have likely been impossible without that little 8-bit co-processor that could. I know it doesn't seem like much but it really helped with the heavy lifting when it really counted. It's a damn shame Nintendo did not go with the 10 mhz Motorola 68K when they had the chance. Had they done that Sega would have been in real trouble.
Sorry for the long posts, I'm just very passionate about this stuff. Furthermore, this channel is one of the absolute best gaming historian channels I have ever witnessed. When I get paid at the end of this month (my work pays monthly), I will be signing up to your Patrion. I absolutely have to support a fellow Gen X'er that knows his stuff...we gotta stick together! ;)
I can recall red zone and being amazed at some of the stuff that was pulling off. I agree, the 10 MHz processor with everything else the console had to offer would've been fantastic.
That's very nice of you to say, I'm glad you enjoy my content so much.
Game on! :-)
This game has superscaling effects. It would’ve been a hassle for sega
everyone always lists who spider-man's villains in the games are but who are the common shy guy enemies who wail??
Good question
The game was OK. I thought it was comical but also annoying to hear Mr. Bill ever second. Also, I loved the way Spiderman walked. Lol
Played Spider Man on Genesus and SNES the games difffer from one another but both are a fun time. Spider Man Maximum Carnage for SNES and Genesis is a great arcade like beat em up.
Yes I played them all. They were fun little games
The dude playing the Goblin really threw himself into the role,
He sure did, talk about a memorable videogame commercial
Never knew why Namor and Hawkeye were in the game. Now I know. Good video
It's kind of amazing that they would put these third string superheroes in. Thanks for the nice words
I wish you mentioned the price of sell once on market. Thanks for your videos
Thanks for watching
I really like this arcade version of spiderman. I tried playing this game on a mame emulator once but it was very choppy and barely unplayable.🎮😦
The arcade version is really well done. Go back now and give it a try
I loved this game... Never forget when I first played it here in the UK, It was one of teh first games I played that was 50p per credit... (Most games prior had been 10 or 20p) - And I was doing OK-ish! Had to add more credit to beat the first stage of level 1... As Scorpian is kind of cheap... But Venom was easy! Until he gets that Stone Tablet...
...Or thats how it should have been! I was playing with some random person, 2 Players... And when we beat the bosses, We just happened to be all teh way to the right of the screen and SOMETHING SCREWED UP!
Both of our Sprites just bounced around a BLANK SCREEN for about 3 or 4 Minutes before we were both dropped into the FINAL STAGE of the level! Completely skipping the 2D Section!
I went back many times to try and glitch it again but it never worked.... Just a random one in a million chance!
Awesome, very cool. I thought the game was a lot of fun as well especially the bosses
I really missed your classic line at the end. "Check this game out, you'll be glad you did"
LOL, sorry about that
Dropped loads of quarters into this one.
You and me both
I never understood the logic behind leaving this game gather dust in time. This is one of Spider-Man's greatest videogames of any era
I agree, unbelievable it's never been released on any other system
Always thought Namor and Hawkeye were odd choices. I like both but they don't fit teaming up with Spidey well. They could have gone with the Sandman who was a good guy at the time and maybe others that made more sense. Daredevil would have been perfect but they might not have been able to get the rights. I'm sure they could have used Rocket Racer, Silver Sable, or the Prowler.
Dave John Sometimes you can only get what you can take. Hawk eye was fine but fish head was a poor choice.
I have the arcade pcb to this
I read the Black Cat.
I've been on the Spider-Man binge myself lately
Always wanted this game to be ported. I thought the Sega CD Spider-man game was going to be this. Sega made a bunch of Marvel games in the 90's. They should get the rights and do a compilation set.
It the O.A.P Spiderman..
I loved this game, always hated that your health would slowly degrade though.
So do I, there are other crap games that do that as well it's just so irritating
Best game on System32 hardware! So sad it never got ported to 32x/Saturn. Given Rad Mobile (Gale Racer) came to Saturn (and was also a System32 game) you know they could have pulled off a nice port with little to no compromise.
Yeah it's unfortunate it never came to any home system
Spiderman on 2600 was actually pretty good considering the hardware at the time.
It was one of my favorite 2600 games And very good for the system
a local gas station had this, unfortunately the punch button didn't work. the owner never bothered to tell anyone this, and let them put in quarters all the time to try to play it.
That's ridiculous!
The thugs you fight in this with the white masks appear to be from the Hellfire Club which were X-Men villains.
Interesting, thank you for the info
Can You Believe Back When Stan Lee was Working at Marvel & Came up With the Concept of Spider Man with Steve Ditko. The Big Wigs at Marvel Almost Turned down the Idea.
It's unbelievable that we would have missed out on all those Marvel characters
What does venom say in the first level when he gets out of the capsule
"Where's the nearest bathroom?"
Who was the exec at Sega of Japan who said spiders were too creepy?
I ADORED this game but wanted Spider-Woman, Speedball and Iceman rather than Namor and Hawkeye
That would have been a much better roster
You know would have been a couple more B-listers that would have worked better, IMHO, than Hawkeye and Namor? Daredevil and Iron Fist. That way the whole team would be 'street level' heroes. Namor can juggle elephants, he should be punching guys into paste.
I agree, daredevil would have been great
2:54 You can play Game Gear games on the Master System?
Yes, of course. Ever heard of the word adapter?
What was with the weird howl from the bad guys? Such a terrible sound effects
If I have four friends to play this game, what will I be doing as the four of them play?
Watching them have fun without you
That “ooo”! Cut through all the other noises at the arcade. I used to find it so annoying. Why did they make such a wimpy noise when they died
LOL, that's a good question
You left out Doctor Octopus!
Thanks for the correction
Peter tingle lmao
LOL :-)
WTF Green Goblin sounds like The Joker in the commercial😂LOL
:) Even Spidey somedays just can't get rid of a bomb!
@@AceD500 haha yah and even he can't finish the game and also many kids couldn't even beat the game back then😂lol
@@cysper479 Yah, as a kid it always bugged me that Spidey couldn't climb w/o using up web fluid and falling... Even if he moved slowly it still would have been better.
LOL, he does you're right. Good call
Love Spider-man on the PS1, and dont mind Robocop2 arcade game, but somehow endless monster bashing in this seemed repetitive and like a souped up Final Fight.
It is like a souped up final fight but is more of a living and breathing comic book
I still don't understand why this has never been ported.
Neither do I
1:48 Why did they not hire this guy to portray the Green Goblin in Spider-Man 1?
LOL, he was awesome in this Commercial. In a comic accurate costume to boot
He’s a great actor seems like he would do his own stunts and the way he wobbles his legs masterful.
Arcade games that never got ported home make the biggest argument pro-emulation I can think of. If it weren’t for ROMs, games like this would slowly disappear.
I agree, and Spider-Man was widespread. Just think about all the games You never got to see in the arcades. They would be lost forever
PatmanQC - History of arcade game documentaries absolutely! I’m realizing I missed out on a ton of stuff back then. Whatever you had access to back then was just luck of the draw. My favorite arcade memory was playing Galaxy Force (cant remember if it was 1 or 2) at Disney World and they had the full get up that rotated all around. Sadly, that would never be replicated without the original machine.
Gee, wouldn't it be nice if Arcade1up was to put this on their upcoming 4 player sega cabinet...
That would be fantastic
Id buy it!!! And the Xmen arcade game!
@@robd1329 The X-Men arcade game is coming!
arcade1up.com/products/x-men-4-player-arcade-cabinet
@@robd1329 Are you excited?
@@Batman43221 nah...women excite me! ...not a video game console
It always confused me why Submariner was in this. Why not Daredevil? He and Spider-Man worked together alot more..I think Spidey only interacted with Sub-Mariner like..maybe a handful of times?
It doesn't make any sense to me either
I honestly dont get how people can call Spidermans villains as good as Batmans, a good chunk of them are losers that nobody remembers, only 1/3 of them are fully unique, and a few of them get powers form the same source as another and wind up being an Echo Fighter of another like Carnage to Venom and Hob Goblin to Green Goblin and wind up being a Variation of a past villain.
As a longtime fan of Spider-Man I think his rogues gallery is pretty good although nowhere near as good as Batman's
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I think a larger take away from this is.....most superheros rouges galleries are kinda shity. I did a scan with a buddy after leaving that comment and we were hard pressed to find any hero be it DC, Marvel, Dark horse, ect that has a really strong roster of villains that are iconic, unique, and dont overlap......the results were kinda depressing ^^;
What's with Spiderman's posture? 🤣 It's the same as the SNES Spiderman beat-em-up games.
The one character they should get right in the game and it doesn't look like it should.
To be honest I'd happily take Spider-Man games like this over the PS4 game. Just seems to capture the comic better. 😊
Spider-Man was really good in my opinion on the PlayStation 4 but I would much rather have a standard beat them up like this
PS3 font... I see what you did there...
Good set of eyeballs on you :-)
Wow, the Japanese SEGA execs really missed the boat when they thought Spider man would be "too creepy" as a mascot. Classic cultural misunderstanding. I wonder if they are kicking themselves now that Spiderman is a multinational icon.
It's a bit crazy when you think about it
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Yeah seriously. When you look at that from a modern perspective, it is pretty mind blowing. Its like a Japanese record exec in the 60s not signing the beattles because "Beetles are too creepy and will never catch on."
hsatan20 If it had work out then sonic would never happened. The same whit Nintendo wanting Popeye but when that didn't workout went whit donkey kong which would lead to mario getting his own spinoff and look how that turn out?
I love the game but the quarter munching aspect I hate.
You and me both my friend
I always thought that this would have been the perfect launch title for the Saturn, along with a new Streets of Rage.
Maybe if Sega hadn't sh*t the bed and tried to "out polygon" Sony, and instead went full on ham 2D arcade style right at the start of the Saturn's life then we might have got it.
Definitely. When the shiny new 32-bit systems work first coming out the shift to 3D polygons meant fewer and fewer pixel art videogames
Hawkeye helping Spider-Man I can buy, but Namor? Unlikely.
Your documentary is incomplete does included the black and white hand handle version that ran on AA 🔋 battery
And also the multitude of other games I didn't include, don't forget those
Everybody gets 1
I hated the 2600 spiderman game... could never get to the super bomb at the time. the tiger handheld game with a similar idea was easier to play.
I thought the 2600 version was great
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries The lack of not knowing what to do hurts a lot of 2600 games. I never read the manuals as a kid.
This game is very impressive on every level except one. I hate how you have to fight every character at least twice. Especially with Green Goblin, who each time has a three phase attack. So, six times technically. It feels like a cheap way to expand the game play. As for why Hawkeye... yeah, WHY Hawkeye? I don't see why they didn't use Mr. Fantastic or The Thing, as the game's main villain is Dr. Doom. Did Acclaim hold the license on the Fantastic Four, yet somehow not Submariner or Doom?
I agree, Anybody but Hawkeye would have been a better choice
I can't really even think of a Fantastic Four video game, actually. I'm sure there are a few. All I can remember is a cameo in one of the SNES Spider-Man games.