This is gonna be a normal review for a normal game, none of that weird stuff. The game i'm gonna be reviewing is Spider-Man for the Atari 2600.
This is a fairly normal box art that depicts what we can expect from the game in question, Spider-man plummeting towards his doom after getting his web cut off by the Green Goblin.
This game was developed by Parker Brothers in 1982, one year before the Great Video Game Crash. This was the first ever Spider-Man video game and the first ever video game to be inspired by a Marvel Comics character.
Believe it or not, the main character of this game is none other than Spider-Man himself, what a shock. The player controls ol' Spidey, who is trying to defuse a bomb that has been put up by the Green Goblin, you get to the top of a building by shooting your webs, because you can't just crawl on the walls, where's the fun in that?
There needs to be more challenge in this game, and that is exactly what we get, you see, there is a web fluid meter on the bottom of the screen, and it is slowly running out. How do you get more web fluid? By collecting criminals and bombs that show up on the windows, not sure how that gives you more web fluid but hey, this is an Atari game, this is more about beating the level and less about the logic. By the way, just a little warning, the web fluid runs out FASTER on every level.
Shooting your webs is more complex than it seems, because you can NOT touch the blue sky, or even the windows, or else you'll instantly fall, if you miss by a single pixel, you're done for.
Since this is an Atari game, there is no true ending, there's only like 4 levels and the only real goal is to keep beating those 4 levels until you get a high score and an ego boost.
Getting to the end of a level is tricky, if you touch a criminal or a bomb with your web, you'll start falling to your death, you can only touch them with those 5 pixels of a body. Of course, the big obstacle of the game is the Green Goblin, a still sprite that just moves from left to right, if you or your web touches him, you'll start falling, and good luck trying to save yourself from dying.
Once you're above the Goblin, you can finally try to defuse the SUPER BOMB, but you cannot touch it with your web, so you gotta like try and use more than 10% of your brain for this part, once Spider-Man finally touches the bomb, it is defused, it's pretty easy.
Well, this game is pretty short, fun, it has challenge, good gameplay... Okay graphics, and it is an interesting part of Marvel history, that's pretty nice. I'd say it gets a 7/10 in the Awesome meter. Could've been better.
That's it. There's no more review. It's over.
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