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From The Archives: A Normal Game Review.

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Originally posted on October 4th, 2024. 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 ...