Home cabinet manufacturer Arcade1up has perhaps done more to preserve classic comic book games than any other company in the past few years. In 2019, they not only brought back the likes of X-Men: Children of the Atom, Marvel Super Heroes and The Punisher, the latter of which was never rereleased outside of a Sega…
Ultron has been one of the Marvel universe’s most deadly villains since his debut all the way back in 1968 and this week the world will get to see how deadly he can be on the big screen in the sequel to 2012’s The Avengers, The Avengers: Age of Ultron. Those following Marvel’s various video game projects…
Yesterday marked the 25th anniversary of the release of the Sega Genesis, also known as the Mega Drive in other parts of the world, in North America. To celebrate the life of the little black box that gave the “Big N” a run for their money in the 90’s, I’m going to look at ways…
I’ve spent a lot of this week looking at nearly all the games with the words “Captain America” in the title, so now that I’ve looked at each game individually, let’s rank the games starring the Star Spangled Avenger from worst to best. 8) CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE AVENGERS (GAME BOY) The first handheld outing…
When it came to bringing arcade games to the under-powered NES, developers normally chose to go one of two routes: Craft a graphically inferior or somewhat downgraded port of the coin-op experience (i.e Capcom’s Ghosts N’ Goblins, Konami’s TMNT II: The Arcade game,) or just take the name of the game and make something completely…
In the 90’s, comic book games and the beat-em-up genre went together like peanut butter and jelly: X-Men, Spider-Man, The Punisher, Superman, and Batman all got their turn and of course there’s Data East’s Captain America and the Avengers. Though originally a coin-op game, it would make its way to the SNES and Sega Genesis…
Given the mainstream success that Marvel has obtained as a brand from their cinematic universe, many (including myself) have been asking the question: When is the Avengers videogame coming? The answer, as given by heard of Marvel Games TQ Jefferson in an interview with IGN, is that the game “will come when we have the…
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