Hey folks, I’ve lurked on this community for a while now but haven’t really posted anything until today. Sorry if this isn’t really the right place to ask questions like this, but since this is a place for old games, I felt it’d be the most appropriate one…
I’ve been wanting to re-live some of the games I used to play as a child, and I remember how, back in 2004-2006, there was this Spider-Man game I used to play as a kid but could never beat. Lately I’ve been curious if I could finally do it now.
All I remember about it were three missions:
- The first mission was some sort of “tutorial”, where you’d have to use the web ability to swing across buildings and pass through a certain amount of these glowing green spider icons to clear the level.
- The second(?) mission was about some robbers/thieves stealing a bank’s armoured car and you had to capture all of them.
- The third(?) mission was some sort of boss fight against a powerful guy who was apparently helping the thieves. I never got past this fight, he would always grab me - when he grabbed Spider-Man, I couldn’t really do anything, he’s just keep holding him and grunting occasionally; there might’ve been a key combination to break free from his grasp, but I didn’t know at the time and always assumed it was game over and that I had to restart.
I understand this is really vague, but my memories of this game are incredibly vague and I barely recall much more. I remember I played it on a computer at least. I couldn’t find anything like it on Wikipedia’s pages on Spider-Man games, so I’m wondering if it might’ve been an unofficial game or something like that?
I mean, there haven’t been THAT many Spider-Man games.
When I was a kid…
List of games here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_featuring_Spider-Man
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Spider-man 2: the game
That’s the one, thank you!
Spiderman 64 starts off exactly how you describe the game you remember. There is a tutorial, you stop a bank robbery, and then you have to save J Jonah Jameson by fighting Scorpion. Looked up some videos of the Scorpion fight, but it doesn’t look like he has a grab attack.
It was released on the Nintendo 64 in 2000. Not sure how different the ports are, but the game was ported to the PC in 2001, and to Mac in 2002.
Playstation Version was better because of cutscenes.
From that time period, it was probably one of the Spider-Man games that tied in with the Raimi movies. It would have had Bruce Campbell narrating the tutorial levels, if that helps jog your memory.
The first one had a tutorial level in a wrestling match, but the second one sounds more similar to what you described. Unfortunately, if you were playing Spider-Man 2 on a Windows PC, it means you were playing the worst possible version of a great game. The Playstation version was far superior in performance, controls, graphics, and well just about every other way. The Windows version (you can’t even call it a port, because it was an entirely different game) was developed by Fizz Factor. If you tried to play the game today, I would strongly recommend the Treyarch version on an emulator, but it might not have the nostalgia factor.
Took me completely by surprise that Campbell narrated the game and honestly, that kept me going.
Oh, it is indeed the second one, thank you!!
Yeah, I’m watching a video on the PS2 version and it seems completely different 😅 I might try that one, actually… But yeah, it might not have the nostalgia factor.
God I remember the hell out of Spiderman 2. I only had it on like a demo disk, so the game ended shortly after your battle against Rhino, so I just spent ages swinging around the city.
Retro. :| I was excited to showcase what little knowledge I remember from Maximum Carnage. And it was Spiderman 2. I guess I’ll just die now.
