With the 1982 release of Spider-Man for the Atari 2600, Marvel has now had a presence in the video game industry for 40 years. From the humble beginnings of the beloved wall-crawler traversing a skyscraper to stop the Green Goblin’s bombs from going off, the heroes and villains spawned from the House of Ideas have…
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, exploded in popularity in the late 80’s/early 90’s after the property became a multimedia juggernaut. Near overnight the Heroes in a Half Shell went from indie comic book darlings to dominating the television airwaves, toy aisles, and of course, video games. In 1989,…
A co-worker and I at a former job I once held mutually agreed that we wouldn’t want to be born at any other time. This came from sharing stories about being a kid when the NES came out and growing up with classics like The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario Bros. and countless other games…
In Canada we have a holiday called Victoria Day, also referred to as the May 24th weekend or affectionately May 2-4, even though it often happens a week or so before the twenty-fourth of the month. In any case, it marks the start of the camping season, and people will tow their campers to RV…
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…
NOTE: Not played on the original NES, but on the PS4 version from the Disney Afternoon Collection. Capcom is no stranger to sequels: Mega Man had six entries alone on the NES and your head would probably start spinning trying to recall all the sequels, spin-offs, remasters and adjective themed updates for the Street Fighter franchise. One side of…
In 1952, writer/artist Carl Barks introduced the world to Uncle Scrooge, an obscenely wealthy adventurer from the city of Duckburg. The character debuted in a Donald Duck story, but became so popular that he became the star of his own book for many decades and those exploits were eventually adapted into the beloved animated series, DuckTales. Like…
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…
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