The Amazing Spider-Man
The Amazing Spider-Man is a side-scrolling action game. Spider-Man can use his web making abilities to either hang from the ceiling or shoot webs out like bullets, but most of his attacks are punches or kicks…
The Amazing Spider-Man is an arcade developed by Rare, released 31 December 1990 on Game Boy.
What The Amazing Spider-Man is
The Amazing Spider-Man is an arcade game developed by Rare and released in 1990. It was published by LJN. It is available on Game Boy only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Amazing Spider-Man is a side-scrolling action game. Spider-Man can use his web making abilities to either hang from the ceiling or shoot webs out like bullets, but most of his attacks are punches or kicks. Also included are two vertical-scrolling building climbing segments in which Spider-Man has to avoid enemies and falling objects which try to knock him down. His spider sense rings a few moments earlier so you have enough time to react.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Spider-Man series
The Amazing Spider-Man is the fifth of 183 entries we hold in the Spider-Man series. It arrived 2 years after The Amazing Spider-Man and Captain America in Dr. Doom's Revenge!. The next entry was The Amazing Spider-Man in 1990.
What it launched against
The Amazing Spider-Man launched on 31 December 1990, within three weeks of Sengoku, A-Train and The Amazing Spider-Man.
Released around the same time: Sengoku, A-Train, The Amazing Spider-Man.
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