Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge
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System(s): Sega Mega Drive, Sega Game Gear | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: Flying Edge | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developer: Software Creations, The Black Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Distributor: Hent Gruppen (SE rental) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensor: Marvel Entertainment Group | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sound driver: Sound Images v1.4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre: Action | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of players: 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge is an action game starring both the Spider-Man and X-Men comic book franchises. It was released for both the Sega Mega Drive and Sega Game Gear.
Contents
Story
While swinging his web throughout the city, Spider-Man notices the disappearances of X-Men Cyclops, Storm, and Wolverine. He then notices a tube from a garbage truck sucking up Gambit and recognizes the truck as belonging to supervillain Arcade. He tracks Arcade down to an abandoned building. Inside, he, along with Cyclops, Storm, Wolverine and Gambit, are placed in the deadly games of Murderworld, a simulated program designed by Arcade to torture and kill his victims.
Gameplay
Mega Drive version
The game is an action platformer in which the player must complete each Marvel hero's stages to play a final battle with Arcade and escape. Each character has a different gameplay style and unique special abilities. Characters move with and , kneel with , and jump with .
Characters have energy bars that go down as they take damage from enemies and hazards. They lose a life if they run out of energy. Lives are shared between the characters. The game ends if the player runs out of lives.
Characters
Items
Extra Life | |
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Gives the player an extra life. | |
Extra Energy | |
Restores a partial amount of energy. |
Spider-Man
Silver Spider | |
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Awards 50 bonus points. | |
Gold Spider | |
Awards 100 bonus points. | |
Red Spider | |
Awards 500 bonus points. | |
Diamond | |
Awards 100 bonus points. |
Cyclops
Extra Energy | |
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Restores a partial amount of energy. | |
Power Blast | |
Temporarily empowers the optic blast so it can defeat any enemy in a single blast. The energy bar flashes while this effect is active. |
Storm
Whirlwind | |
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Gives Storm another use of her whirlwind ability. These pearls are released from oysters when they are attacked. | |
Lightning Storm | |
Gives Storm another use of her lightning storm ability. |
Gambit
Lucky Star | |
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Awards 50 bonus points. Every 100 stars collected awards an extra life. | |
Playing Card | |
Restores 7 playing cards. These are dropped by defeated enemies. | |
Full Deck | |
Completely restores Gambit's playing cards, including 2 Jokers, and awards 500 bonus points. | |
Bonus "B" | |
Restores 26 playing cards and half of Gambit's energy and awards 5,000 bonus points. | |
Ball Bonus | |
Rolls the doomball backwards and awards 250 bonus points. | |
Diamond | |
Awards 500 bonus points. |
Stages
The opening stage is played as Spider-Man at the start of the game.
After it is completed, the player can choose to play the stages of any character in any order. The player can switch characters after completing a stage. Each character's second stage can only be played after completing the first.
Once they have all been completed, the player plays an additional short stage for every character. The final stage is played as Spider-Man.
Opening | |
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Spider-Man must de-activate the "Security Eyes" in a set order (as indicated by the Spider-Sense) to enter the building. | |
Wolverine 1 | |
A funhouse with enemies resembling the clown villain Obnoxio the Clown. The boss is Apocalypse. | |
Wolverine 2 | |
A rampaging Juggernaut chases Wolverine. | |
Cyclops 1 | |
Set in the Genosha underground Sentinel mines. The boss is Master Mold. | |
Cyclops 2 | |
The boss is Master Mold. | |
Storm 1 | |
Underwater maze level with Storm having a limited air supply. She must destroy the capsules to raise the water level. | |
Storm 2 | |
Gambit 1 | |
A cave where Gambit is chased by the doomball, a giant spiked ball. | |
Gambit 2 | |
The screen scrolls up automatically and can crush Gambit between objects. The boss is the Black Queen (Selene). | |
Spider-Man 1 | |
The bosses are Shocker and N'astirh. | |
Spider-Man 2 | |
The bosses are Rhino and Carnage. | |
Final | |
The boss is Arcade. |
History
Development
The Mega Drive Arcade's Revenge was converted from the Super NES version, and did not arrive on the platform until a full year later.
UK advertising suggests a version for the Master System was also planned at one stage[8], but ultimately cancelled along with the listed[9] European Game Gear release.
Production credits
Mega Drive version
- Programming: Peter Andrew, Peter Harrison
- Artwork: Gavin Eagleton
- Music: Sound Images
- Mark Flitman, Donn Nauert, Mike Arkin, Tom Rademacher, Joe Allocco, Linda Spelman
- Special Thanks: Mike Follin, Stephen Ruddy, Kevin Edwards, Coffee
Game Gear version
- Programmed by: Mike Ager, Craig Mitchell
- Graphics by: Gavin Eagleton
- Music by: Alistair Brimble
- Mark Flitman, Mike Archer, Tyrone Miller, Joe Allocco, J.J Mazziotto, Linda Spelman
Magazine articles
Promotional material
also published in:
- GamePro (US) #51: "October 1993" (1993-xx-xx)[12]
- Game Players (US) #0612: "Vol. 6 No. 12 December 1993" (1993-1x-xx)[13]
also published in:
- Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #59: "June 1994" (1994-xx-xx)[14]
Physical scans
Mega Drive version
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70 | |
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Based on 17 reviews |
Mega Drive, SE (rental; Hent; orange) |
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Game Gear version
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72 | |
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Based on 11 reviews |
Technical information
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 GamePro, "September 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 32
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Mean Machines Sega, "November 1993" (UK; 1993-09-28), page 88
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 MegaTech, "November 1993" (UK; 1993-10-20), page 74
- ↑ Sega Pro, "December 1993" (UK; 1993-11-11), page 96
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Mega, "November 1993" (UK; 1993-10-21), page 59
- ↑ GamePro, "March 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 174
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 6 June 1994" (US; 1994-0x-xx), page 82
- ↑ Sega Magazine, "January 1994" (UK; 1993-12-10), page 3
- ↑ Computer Trade Weekly, "" (UK; 1994-08-29), page 43
- ↑ File:Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge MD credits.png
- ↑ File:Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge GG credits.pdf
- ↑ GamePro, "October 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 94
- ↑ Game Players, "Vol. 6 No. 12 December 1993" (US; 1993-1x-xx), page 164
- ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "June 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 59
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 220
- ↑ Digitiser (UK) (1994-01-07)
- ↑ Electronic Games (1992-1995), "November 1993" (US; 1993-10-21), page 102
- ↑ GamesMaster (UK) "Series 3, episode 9" (1993-11-04, 24:00) (+9:11)
- ↑ Hyper, "December 1993" (AU; 1993-xx-xx), page 41
- ↑ Joypad, "Novembre 1993" (FR; 1993-1x-xx), page 136
- ↑ Mega Action, "November 1993" (UK; 1993-10-07), page 34
- ↑ Mega Force, "Novembre 1993" (FR; 1993-11-10), page 94
- ↑ Sega Power, "November 1993" (UK; 1993-10-07), page 68
- ↑ Sega Pro, "November 1993" (UK; 1993-10-14), page 68
- ↑ Sega Force Mega, "December 1993" (UK; 1993-11-16), page 38
- ↑ Sega Force, "1/94" (SE; 1994-01-12), page 14
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 173
- ↑ Computer & Video Games, "October 1994" (UK; 1994-09-15), page 102
- ↑ Digitiser (UK) (1994-08-25)
- ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "June 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 40
- ↑ GamePro, "June 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 146
- ↑ Mega Force, "Juillet/Août 1994" (FR; 1994-07-04), page 108
- ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "September 1994" (UK; 1994-07-30), page 78
- ↑ Sega Magazine, "September 1994" (UK; 1994-08-xx), page 77
- ↑ Sega Megazone, "September 1994" (AU; 1994-0x-xx), page 29
- ↑ Todo Sega, "Agosto 1994" (ES; 1994-0x-xx), page 42
- ↑ VideoGames, "June 1994" (US; 1994-0x-xx), page 80
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