The Amazing Spider-Man

Released

1990 on DOS

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Publishers

Paragon Software Corporation

Developers

Oxford Digital Enterprises Ltd.

Moby Score

7.1

#10,777 of 155K

Critics

63% (20)

Players

(60)

Ranking

#352 on Commodore 64
#774 on DOS
#1,124 on Amiga

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31 players

Genre: Action
Perspective: Side view
Gameplay: Platform
Misc: Licensed

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In The Amazing Spider-Man, Spider Man has to rescue his girlfriend Mary Jane who was been kidnapped by the super villain Mysterio. The whole game takes place on a film set studio.

This game is primarily a platforming game in which Spider-Man fights against various enemies. Those can be stunned with Spider-Man's iconic web substance, but touching them or other hazards in the game world will decrease his health. Another important part of the gameplay are puzzles, mostly with the goal to deactivate some of Mysterio's gimmicks, e.g. changed gravity, to clear the path. Spider-Man can climb walls and shoot grappling hooks.

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Credits (DOS version)

10 People

Game Design	Kevin R. Ayre John G. Wood
IBM PC Implementation	Kevin R. Ayre
Graphic Design	Kevin R. Ayre Colin Swinbourne
Sound Sequences	Steven W. Green
Additional Design	Everyone at ODE
Documentation Text	F. J. Lennon Jack Kammer
Documentation Design & Typesetting	Anthony J. Bond Jr.
Package Design	Juanita M. Bussard
Package Copy	Jack Kammer
Box Cover Illustration	Todd McFarlane

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The game can be theoretically beaten in about five minutes due to a glitch that allows the player to go through several walls.

References

The main menu art depicts Spider-Man in the same style and pose as Todd Mcfarlane's cover art for Spider-Man Vol. 1 issue #1. The box art is also in Todd Mcfarlane's style. Spider-Man (1990) was a new Spider-Man comic book series that debuted in 1990 (the same year as this game's release) running alongside the Amazing Spider-Man comic book series which debuted in 1963. So it's strange the game is titled Amazing Spider-Man when the apparent visual inspiration was Spider-Man (1990).