Name:	Spiderman series (5 titles) Spiderman vs. the Kingpin Spiderman - The Animated Series Spiderman and the X-Men - Arcade's Revenge Spiderman and Venom - Maximum Carnage Spiderman and Venom - Separation Anxiety
Author/Vendor:	various
Released:	various
Type:	Action
Language:	English
Premise:	A series of games based on the wall-crawling superhero personally created by Stan Lee for Marvel Comics.
Impressions:	You would think that with all these different programming houses involved, at least one would do justice to the franchise. They don't. The best of the series is only mediocre, and some are downright obnoxious. Spiderman fans will probably have a field day, but the rest of us will get bored fast.
Variations:	Spiderman vs. the Kingpin (1991 by Sega, Spiderman squares off against a mob boss bent on taking over the city - not bad for an early effort, and certainly not as obnoxious or pretensious as some of the latter entries in the series) Spiderman - The Animated Series (1993 by Western Technologies and marketed by Acclaim, ol' Spidey has to deal with three of his more formidable foes after they stage a daring jailbreak and begin to raise all sorts of hell - average graphics and gameplay, and has the worst sound mix of the lot) Spiderman and the X-Men - Arcade's Revenge (1993 by Software Creations, marketed by Acclaim under their Flying Edge product line, Spidey gets the unenviable task of saving his fellow superheroes the X-Men from an unknown enemy - the silliest story of the lot, and kinda frustrating in places) Spiderman and Venom - Maximum Carnage (1994 by Software creations and released by LJN, Spidey teams up with his alterego Venom to fight his second alterego Carnage - confusing plot unless you're familiar with the comic books, but at least the graphics are decent and the gameplay is bearable) Spiderman and Venom - Separation Anxiety (1995 by Software Creations and released by Acclaim, Spidey and team up once again to help Venom fight off his own clones and the people responsible for them - very much like its predecessor, where you beat people up for twenty or so levels - this is one of the hardest Spidey games to track down because it was the last one released for the platform)
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