After playing through Justice League: Injustice for All on the Game Boy Advance, I can’t say I was looking forward to playing through a second GBA game from Midway, and one that was turned around in about a year no less. Perhaps it was a case of going with in low expectations because of how bad the…
DC’s animated TV series are attached to some of the best (The Adventures of Batman and Robin on SNES) and worst (Superman 64) video game tie-ins. Given that there was a plethora of games based off of both iterations of Batman: The Animated Series, Superman, Teen Titans and eventually Batman: The Brave and the Bold, it’s very surprising that one show…
A2M was pretty busy making Teen Titans at one point, releasing three over the course of a year starting with Teen Titans on the Game Boy Advance in October 2005, followed by a console game with the same name in May of the following year and concluding with a sequel to their first GBA game in Teen Titans 2 released in…
There were a few DC Animated Series to video game adaptations that got their start on a handheld: Titus’ Superman came out on the Game Boy years before Superman 64; Batman: The Animated Series, also for the Game Boy, from Konami arrived before either their SNES version of The Adventures of Batman and Robin or Sega’s multiple titles of the same name and there was no…
Now defunct publisher Crave was the first company to release a Men in Black game based on the animated series, doing so on Nintendo’s Game Boy Color. Although there were two other games based on the Men in Black animated series for the Game Boy Color, the third and final game released by Crave before they…
When you look at the time line of the Spider-Man movie handheld tie-in games, it’s a pretty interesting one. When Spider-Man (2002) came out, there was only the Game Boy Advance, and it was initially that way for Spider-Man 2 until later in 2004 and into early 2005 when the Nintendo DS, N-Gage and PSP launched to stores. In…
Spider-Man 2 on the sixth generation of consoles was one of the most important comic book games of all time, radically changing how we thought about how the character of Spider-Man works in a three-dimensional space by giving players the freedom to more or less swing around and do whatever they pleased in an open-world environment.…
Unlike the first Spider-Man movie game that arrived on the sixth generation of consoles, Spider-Man (2002) on the Game Boy Advance was the second game starring the character to arrive on the handheld, following 2001’s Spider-Man: Mysterio’s Menace. The two are alike in more ways other than they’re both movie tie-in games though, as they both hail from new…
For their debut effort with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise, Ubisoft tried something different that worked in one case (the console game) but not in another (the criminally bad DS game). Though it was wise for Ubisoft to differentiate their take on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise from what came before, there was still a lot of…
When Activision claimed the X-Men license at the start of the new millennium, they didn’t do anything terribly exciting with the license prior to the ground breaking X-Men Legends in 2004. The first Mutant Academy game and its sequel were fine, but they were more or less just a Street Fighter clone with a 3-D coat of paint, again not that…
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