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Spider-Man
Manufacturer: Jakks Pacific
Year: 2004
About This Set: The games on this set are based on Marvel Comics' classic "Spider-Man" character. This is "real" Spider-Man, the traditional look of the character from comics and cartoons, NOT the experimental stuff.
Game 1: Streets of the City. This is the only game on the set that's a fully-functioning adventure game. It scrolls left to right, up and down. Spider-Man can shoot webs, swing on webs, punch and kick, crawl on walls, and jump up and down. Our favorite webhead must fight his craziest enemies between righting wrongs.
Game 3: Venom's Vindication. This is a strategy game. Actually, it's a clone of the much earlier video game, "Kaboom!" (1981), originally designed by Activision for the Atari 2600 console. "Venom's Vindication" looks much better. Venom drops bombs from above, thugs attack Spider-Man at ground level. Spider-Man must shoot web nets above him to keep the bombs from falling, while keeping the thugs at bay. My tip to you is to concentrate more on Venom's bombs than the thugs. Although both can take down your life meter, one bomb does a lot more damage than several hits from a thug. If you're a Spider-Man enthusiast such as I, you might realize that the character of Venom is misplaced in this game. Green Goblin or Hobgoblin might have been a better choice. Venom doesn't use bombs as he is more deadly with his living, alien symbiote costume. He also has no use for thugs and prefers to personally deal with his enemies. But hey, it's still a cool-looking game and it's fun. The backgrounds change every so often.
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MY FINAL THOUGHTS: This is just a great set of games with a Spider-Man theme. It's appropriate for all ages to play.
Manufacturer: Jakks Pacific
Year: 2004
About This Set: The games on this set are based on Marvel Comics' classic "Spider-Man" character. This is "real" Spider-Man, the traditional look of the character from comics and cartoons, NOT the experimental stuff.
Game 1: Streets of the City. This is the only game on the set that's a fully-functioning adventure game. It scrolls left to right, up and down. Spider-Man can shoot webs, swing on webs, punch and kick, crawl on walls, and jump up and down. Our favorite webhead must fight his craziest enemies between righting wrongs.
- Collect bags of stolen cash, then fight Rhino.
- Diffuse bombs, then fight Scorpion.
- Collect emps, then fight Electro.
- Collect
plutonium, then fight Green Goblin.
Game 3: Venom's Vindication. This is a strategy game. Actually, it's a clone of the much earlier video game, "Kaboom!" (1981), originally designed by Activision for the Atari 2600 console. "Venom's Vindication" looks much better. Venom drops bombs from above, thugs attack Spider-Man at ground level. Spider-Man must shoot web nets above him to keep the bombs from falling, while keeping the thugs at bay. My tip to you is to concentrate more on Venom's bombs than the thugs. Although both can take down your life meter, one bomb does a lot more damage than several hits from a thug. If you're a Spider-Man enthusiast such as I, you might realize that the character of Venom is misplaced in this game. Green Goblin or Hobgoblin might have been a better choice. Venom doesn't use bombs as he is more deadly with his living, alien symbiote costume. He also has no use for thugs and prefers to personally deal with his enemies. But hey, it's still a cool-looking game and it's fun. The backgrounds change every so often.
Game 4: .
Game 5: .
MY FINAL THOUGHTS: This is just a great set of games with a Spider-Man theme. It's appropriate for all ages to play.