Spider-Man: The Video Game

Spider-Man: The Video Game, also known as Spider-Man, is a 1991 arcade video game developed by Sega based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man.

Spider-Man and his allies must retrieve a mystical artifact first from the Kingpin, then Doctor Doom.

The game was released as a coin-operated arcade title based on the Sega System 32 hardware. The game can be played as a single player game or up to four players cooperatively. Each character can perform a special move related to their super power which draws from their health.

Throughout its levels, the gameplay changes from a side-scrolling beat 'em up into a platform game in which the camera zooms to a far-away view of the characters before it zooms back in for the much larger and more detailed characters to continue brawling.

The game was divided into four acts, encountering various villains, including Kingpin, Venom and his symbiote clones, Doctor Octopus, Electro, Lizard, Scorpion, Sandman, Green Goblin, Hobgoblin, and finally Doctor Doom. High scores are separated by character; so a high score on Spider-Man may not be a high score on Hawkeye or Black Cat.

Spider-Man: The Video Game's soundtrack is also composed partially of songs from Sega's 1986 arcade game Quartet, notably the tunes "Oki Rap" and "FM Funk" (for instance, "FM Funk" appears in the second stage in Spider-Man, while it is featured in the third stage of Quartet).

The game allows the user to play as one of four heroes: Spider-Man, Black Cat, Sub-Mariner, or Hawkeye. Unlike many games of this type which assigned a certain character to a certain joystick, any player can choose any character (as long as another player isn't already controlling them).

Each hero has a unique set of moves and attacks/abilities, which could be used to beat up the bad guys, that suited their powers and characteristics, as well as basic attacks and jumps (assigned to each of the two buttons).