The closest representation of the arcade experience at home is in the official port to the Sega Genesis from Data East.

Versions on the NES, Game Boy and Game Gear were derivations of the arcade game at best, or simply shared the title in the case of the NES SKU. A majority of ports: Street Fighter II, Mortal Kombat’s 1-3 made it to both machines, however the only way to play Capcom’s The Punisher at home outside of owning a several thousand dollar arcade cabinet was to buy it for the Sega Genesis.Ĥ) THE BEST VERSION OF CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE AVENGERSĭata East’s arcade game beat-em-up Captain America and The Avengers was ported to every handheld and console available at the time. While not the first 16-bit X-Men game to be released, that would be LJN’s Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade’s Revenge, Sega’s X-Men was the first ever official 16-bit console X-Men game to feature just the mutant team, and also the only one to get a sequel in X-Men 2: Clone Wars.Īrcade ports were big business in the 16-bit era, as evidenced by the fight between Sega and Nintendo to get Capcom’s Street Fighter II on their respective machines.

Sega raced Nintendo to the 16-bit market when they released the Genesis in 1989, but they also produced some of the first 16-bit super hero games, including the above mentioned Spider-Man. According to the resume of one Randel B Reiss, who developed Marvel games for the Sega Genesis, over 2/3’s of people who owned the console purchased a Marvel game, effectively causing the comic publisher to extend a licensing agreement they planned to cancel.Ģ) FIRST TO MARKET 16-BIT COMIC BOOK GAMES The Kingpin (or simply Spider-Man,) Batman Returns, The Adventures of Batman and Robin and several X-Men games on both the Genesis and the Game Gear handheld. To celebrate the life of the little black box that gave the “Big N” a run for their money in the 90’s, I’m going to look at ways in which Sega affected comic book games with the Sega Genesis.Ĭomic book games nowadays come from third-party publishers (Activision, WB Games, Capcom, etc) but in the days of the Genesis, Sega published some themselves, including Spider-Man Vs.

Yesterday marked the 25th anniversary of the release of the Sega Genesis, also known as the Mega Drive in other parts of the world, in North America.

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