WRONG! Retro Games, You Messed Up Our Comic Book Heroes!

WRONG! Retro Games, You Messed Up Our Comic Book Heroes!
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THE GREATEST WTF MOMENTS FROM 14 YEARS OF SUPERHERO VIDEO GAMES

If you’re a superhero fan who loves video games, you’ve experienced firsthand how pretty much every title out there – good or bad, remembered or forgotten – does something that’s absolutely, unapologetically WRONG! with its source material. This ebook documents the most egregious – and most hilarious – offenders from the moment Superman flew onto the Atari 2600 in 1978 all the way through 1992, when Konami’s classic X-Men sucked in quarter after quarter in arcades.

NEARLY 80 SUPERHERO GAMES

Some you’ve played. Some you haven’t. And quite a few you never even knew existed in the first place. Some high-/lowlights:

Purple Dark Knight vs. Green Joker in Batman: The Video Game (NES)
Proven instances of “slapping a license” on an already-developed game
Games that stripped Wolverine and He-Man of their most iconic weaponry
A questionable transportation method for the Man of Steel in Superman (NES)
A Transformers game from the creator of Pitfall!
That one lonely Thundercats game

ANSWERS TO BURNING QUESTIONS YOU DIDN’T EVEN KNOW TO ASK

Who is “the Princess Peach of superhero games”?
Who was the first Marvel character to be featured in three games? And what’s the single gaming appearance he’s had since 1985?
Which super-character is most consistently misrepresented in games?
What common modern superhero gaming feature was pioneered by LJN’s otherwise absolutely horrible NES game, The Uncanny X-Men?
Which hero’s primary gaming nemesis is someone he still has yet to even meet in the comics?
What's Wolverine’s favorite food, according to an NES game and a major chain restaurant?
Why is Carnage getting NAKED on my Super Nintendo?!

ALL YOUR FAVORITE HEROES (AND SOME YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF)

From Marvel! Spider-Man | Wolverine and the X-Men | Hulk | Captain America, Iron Man, Hawkeye, Vision, and a bunch of other Avengers | Punisher | Human Torch and the Thing of the Fantastic Four | Silver Surfer | Yes, even Howard the Duck
From DC! Superman | Batman | Flash | Swamp Thing
From Other Comic Publishers! Conan | Flash Gordon | Judge Dredd | Ex-Mutants
From Toy Lines and Cartoons! Transformers | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | He-Man and the Masters of the Universe | Bartman of the Simpsons | G.I. Joe | Danger Mouse | Gobots | Thundercats | Captain Planet (sort of)
From Commercials! Domino’s Pizza’s Noid | Kool-Aid Man
From Copyright Infringement! The Amazing Spider-Bat

GAMING PLATFORMS YOU LOVED (OR DIDN’T KNOW EXISTED)

ABOUT THE DUDE WHO WROTE THIS STUFF

With years-long stints under his belt at Marvel and LucasArts, Chris Baker has played a role in the release of more than 40 game releases since 2005 – some of which you’ve even heard of! To name a few: Marvel vs. Capcom 3, LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, Marvel Pinball, Star Wars Battlefront II, LEGO Star Wars II…plus quite a few he’d rather not mention while trying to make himself sound awesome. He also worked in the games press from 1998-2005, most notably as an editor at Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine, where he reviewed and wrote about hundreds of games.

Residing near the X-Men in Westchester County, Baker couldn’t do any of this without the continued love and support of his uncannily fantastic and amazing wife, Glenda. The two finally tied the knot in October 2014 after ten years of “will they or won’t they?”.