Spiderman X-Men Arcade's Revenge
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(Super Nintendo - US, Action & Adventure)
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Developed by:
Software Creations
Published by:
LJN Ltd.
Released On:
01 Nov 1992
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In a world where supervillains threaten the city, one hero must join forces with another to stop them. The evil Doctor Octopus, Magneto, and Loki have formed an alliance, seeking to take over New York City. Spider-Man and X-Men must put aside their differences and team up to save the day.
Players control both Spider-Man and Wolverine as they navigate through 6 levels set in different parts of New York City. The gameplay involves platforming, fighting, and using special abilities such as web-slinging and healing. With a variety of enemies to battle and power-ups to collect, players must use strategy and quick reflexes to overcome obstacles.
Spider-Man X-Men Arcade's Revenge is an action-packed game that combines the iconic characters of two beloved comic book series. With its fast-paced gameplay and exciting levels, this game is a must-play for fans of retro gaming and superhero enthusiasts alike.
UPC-A:
023582087016 (USA)
Part #:
SNS-MN (USA)
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Manual
Game Guide
Extracted from the original game manual
This action-adventure platformer follows Spider-Man and the X-Men as they are trapped inside "Murderworld," a deadly, high-tech amusement park run by the villainous Arcade. Players control Spider-Man, Wolverine, Gambit, and other heroes, utilizing their unique mutant abilities and web-slinging powers to survive lethal traps, robotic enemies, and iconic super-villains. To escape, players must navigate hazardous themed stages and ultimately defeat Arcade and his mechanical duplicates.
Story
The Story
From web to web, skyscraper to skyscraper, Spider-Man races through the towering canyons of the city! The X-Men, Wolverine, Cyclops, and Storm, have all disappeared...and unless Spidey can find Gambit, the Cajun's fate will certainly be the same!
Spidey sees Gambit's familiar silhouette below. But, in the second he swings down, a giant tube shoots out from the roof of a garbage truck, and "GNNRRR-SFLANNG!", it swallows the unsuspecting Arcadian!
Spidey flashes back through countless life and death perils and flesh-hungry Super-Villains...back to an absurd assassin called Arcade and his deadly amusement park! The wall crawler slings a Spider-tracer onto the truck and pursues his prey into the night...unaware the hunter is about to become the hunted!
Arcade originally created his fun fair to make his million dollar "hits" more entertaining! But, now he's rebuilt it—with all-new, bigger games, inescapable traps, and deadly rides—purely for his own enjoyment! And tonight's very limited run, one-time only showing...is the thrilling final destruction of the X-Men and their would-be rescuer, Spider-Man!
Spidey to the Rescue!
Spidey's tracer leads him to the perimeter of Arcade's bizarre complex. The way in is wide open...but the webslinger's Spider-Sense buzzing to beat the band warns of a less than hospitable welcome!
A security system guards every inch of the entrance and the only way around it is to touch each of the Security Eyes in the order they flash. Use your Spider-Sense to guide you and bagging them will be a snap. Make it all the way inside and a Super-Hero surprise party is waiting just for you!
Controls
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B BUTTON: Scroll through the introductions.
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START BUTTON: Skip to the Character Selection screens.
Gambit: "Checkmate!"
Gambit's made to measure ordeals place him in his own worst nightmare. First, he runs up against—or, more likely, will get run over by—an unstoppable, super-sized, steel-spiked doomball. Outpacing it will be no easy task even for a Super-Hero with Gambit's renowned agility. Add cunningly created chess pieces, from grenade throwing knights to rocket powered queens, and the Cajun charmer's in danger of becoming southern fried!
Reach round two...and things really start cookin'! Is the roof coming down or is the floor coming up? Get caught in the wrong place at the wrong time and you won't even have time to whistle Dixie.
Make it to the top and you'll come face to face with the worst of bad sports, the Black Queen. She can press 1500 lbs., has absolute control over inorganic matter, and has lived over two millennia by sucking the life force out of humans like a psychic vampire!
However, mes amis, you don't survive the streets of the Big Easy without an ace up your sleeve. Gambit may not always have dealt from the top, but so long as he has the mutant ability to charge everyday objects with kinetic energy, he's an X-Man you can bet on to win. Armed with his explosive playing cards—including two jokers that are definitely "wild"—the Louisian's luck is sure to save him in a game with the highest stakes...his life!
Wolverine: "Laugh 'Til You Drop!"
Happy-go-lucky circus clowns and the wild, adamantium clawed Wolverine form the most unlikely of combinations. But, make the clowns robot replicas of the slapstick Super-Villain, Obnoxio, complete with acid filled custard pies, and Wolverine's back on familiar turf: a battle to stay alive!
Add bayonet carrying toy soldiers, machine gun firing Jack-in-the-Boxes, and exploding building blocks...and you've got a fun house guaranteed to be side-splitting!
Spider-Man: "High Rise Hijinx!"
Sticking his webs into other people's business has never failed to get Spidey into trouble... and today is no exception. Arcade has prepared a special treat for the web-slinger: a "de"-construction site.
"Spider-Slayers" are hurling bags of exploding cement from the girders. Welding droids shoot concentrated laser blasts. The steel reinforcement bars are charged with high voltage electricity!
Spider-sense tingling yet? Up in the girders, it's a Super-Villain pajama party! Armed with his pressure-blast emitting vibro-shock units, Shocker is waiting to shake your hand...and every living cell in your body! Defeat him.
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NOTE: In both the "de"-construction site events, Spidey and his webs can only grip onto girder surfaces free of reinforcement bars or concrete.
Hunt the Hit-Man
It ain't over 'till the hit man's in Sing Sing and it's up to Spidey—with some help on the sidelines—to put him there. Unfortunately, finding Arcade demands defeating not only a massive mechanical duplicate, but also a horde of successive duplicates that pop, Russian doll-like, one out of the other.
Eliminate all of them, and it's just you, Arcade, a few holograms, and a 9mm pistol equipped with silencer and titanium tipped shells. Did you put on your bullet proof spandex today?
How to Play
Loading Instructions
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Make sure the power switch is OFF.
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Insert the ARCADE'S REVENGE game pak as described in your SUPER NINTENDO ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM® MANUAL.
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Turn the power switch ON.
Navigating the Screens
You will then see the ARCADE'S REVENGE title screens, and the High Scores screen. To reach the story screen, press the START BUTTON or the B BUTTON.
To scroll through the story, press the B BUTTON again. To jump to the action, press the START BUTTON again.
Note: ARCADE'S REVENGE is a 1 player game only.
Character Selection
Arcade challenges each of his unwilling guests with two events tailor made to test their particular strengths and weaknesses. However, to even have a hope of escape, all five Super-Heroes must survive both his or her two events.
You may select any character in any order, but, each character can only progress to his or her second event once they have successfully completed their first.
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To scroll through the Character Selection screens, press the SELECT BUTTON.
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To select a character, press the START BUTTON.
Spider-Man
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Real Name: Peter Parker
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Occupation: Freelance Photographer
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Group Affiliation: None
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Superhuman Abilities: Super strength, balance and reflexes, and the ability to cause parts of his body to stick to most surfaces. Has premonitional "Spider-Sense." Also uses his trademark "Web-Shooters."
Cyclops
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Real Name: Scott "Slim" Summers
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Occupation: Adventurer
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Group Affiliation: X-Men
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Superhuman Abilities: Projects a powerful beam of ruby-colored concussive force from his eyes. He is unable to control this beam without the aid of a visor made from ruby quartz.
Storm
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Real Name: Ororo Munroe
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Occupation: Adventurer
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Group Affiliation: X-Men
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Superhuman Abilities: She has control over weather phenomena, manifesting winds, lightning, rain, or extreme heat or cold. Her ability to fly is linked to her control of the wind.
Gambit
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Real Name: Remy LeBeau
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Occupation: Adventurer
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Group Affiliation: X-Men
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Superhuman Abilities: Possesses the power to charge any object with kinetic energy, which explodes on impact after being thrown. He prefers to use cards from a pack of playing cards for ammunition.
Wolverine
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Real Name: Logan
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Occupation: Adventurer
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Group Affiliation: X-Men
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Superhuman Abilities: Possesses an amazing self-healing factor which repairs damaged tissue at great speed. Armed with six retractable claws and internal skeletal support which makes him incredibly tough.
Tracking Progress
A crossed progress circle on any character selection screen indicates that one event has been successfully completed. Once both events are completed for any one character, his or her screen no longer appears.
Shared Lives Pool
Your Super-Heroes begin with four lives between all of them. Thus, for example, if you lose three lives as Spidey—and fail to obtain any bonus lives—you only have one life left to get the rest of the X-Men through the game.
The number of lives remaining appears on each of the Super-Heroes game play screens as indicated in the appropriate "ON THE SCREEN" sections.
The Challenge
From giant size buzz saws and steel-spiked pinballs to laser-firing Super-Villains and bomb dropping droids, Arcade has turned all the fun of the fair into the ultimate house of horrors!
Storm's Event: Dunk the Mutant!
Storm has the power to fly on winds created by her own weather controlling mutant abilities. Unfortunately, though, Arcade—always one step ahead of the game—has trapped Storm in a underwater maze where negative air effects make flying impossible.
The only way out is to raise the level of the water so she can find the ceiling exit. To do this, Storm must fire lightning bolts at the underwater hatches that block her way and the water release valves that lie throughout the tank.
However, while exploding the locks and valves, Storm must also maintain her air supply, either by surfacing or by swimming through the bubbles randomly released underwater.
Storm's Enemies and Defense
Arcade's metallic squids, sea mines, piranha, and harpoon firing scuba divers will try to knock more than the wind out of you. Defeat single enemies with your Lightning Bolts, crowds with—if you have them—Lightning Storms.
These devastating pick-ups fire streaks of energy simultaneously in every direction, destroying everything within close range. For defense, blast open the oysters. A pearl is in each of them that, once touched, gives you a whirlwind able to protect you as you fire away at the deadliest of maritime terrors.
Note: As the water rises to the ceiling what used to be air pockets are now... dead ends!
Escape the first maze and "The Mistress of the Storm" is still in deep water. But, find and smash the glass spheres of Arcade's hydro electric power plant...and you can finally breathe easy!
Entering High Scores
Wipe out after wasting Spider-Slayers, destroying bomb throwing chess pieces, or blasting an army of Genoshan Magistrates and the game may be over, but you're a Super-Hero with a high score!
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To enter any combination of up to three letters or numbers, use the LEFT and RIGHT CONTROL PAD ARROWS to move left or right between the three letters or numbers.
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Use the UP and DOWN CONTROL
Controls
LEFT CONTROL PAD ARROW
MOVE LEFT (Spidey/Cyclops) or GRIP ONTO A WALL to Spidey's left (while in the air)
RIGHT CONTROL PAD ARROW
MOVE RIGHT (Spidey/Cyclops) or GRIP ONTO A WALL to Spidey's right (while in the air)
Start
PAUSE
UP CONTROL PAD ARROW
TO CLIMB UP A WALL (or ANY SCALEABLE OBJECT)
DOWN CONTROL PAD ARROW
TO CLIMB DOWN A WALL (or ANY SCALEABLE OBJECT) or CROUCH
B BUTTON plus LEFT CONTROL PAD ARROW
TO JUMP LEFT OFF A WALL (if the wall is to Spidey's right)
B BUTTON plus RIGHT CONTROL PAD ARROW
TO JUMP RIGHT OFF A WALL (if the wall is to Spidey's left)
B BUTTON plus DOWN CONTROL PAD ARROW
TO JUMP DOWN OFF A WALL (or ANY SCALEABLE OBJECT)
UP CONTROL PAD ARROW and Y BUTTON (simultaneously)
TO FIRE OPTIC BLAST UPWARDS (Cyclops)
DOWN CONTROL PAD ARROW and Y BUTTON (simultaneously, while crouching)
TO FIRE OPTIC BLAST DOWNWARDS (Cyclops)
CONTROL PAD ARROW
SWIM UP, DOWN, LEFT or RIGHT (Storm) / MOVE RIGHT or LEFT (Gambit/Wolverine) / CROUCH DOWN (Gambit) / CROUCH (Wolverine)
Y BUTTON and the UP CONTROL PAD ARROW
TO THROW PLAYING CARDS UPWARDS
UP, LEFT, or RIGHT CONTROL PAD ARROWS
TO STAND UP (Gambit)
X BUTTON
To slice through walls (with claws unsheathed)
Enemies & Characters
droid orbs
These enemies fire pinpoint accurate bombs at their targets.
Genoshan Magistrates
Unscrupulous law enforcers from Genosha who ensure mutant obedience and blast targets with stun guns.
Sentinel
A robot that pulverizes its targets with waves of pure radiation.
Subterranean
An underground dweller that must be fought with good old-fashioned fists and feet.
N'Astirh
A plasma-ball firing, techno-organic demon ruler from Limbo who specializes in black magic and flight.
Carnage
A sociopathic symbiote with phenomenal strength and the ability to turn his skin into solid darts.
Rhino
A colossal Super-Villain with superhuman abilities from mutagenic treatments and a damage-absorbing polymer costume.
Apocalypse
An evil visionary with genius intelligence, incalculable strength, superhuman reflexes, and metahuman agility.
Arcade
A professional assassin who uses his wealth to create a deranged fun fair filled with deadly traps.
Black Queen
An ancient mutant with superhuman physical attributes, psionic control over inanimate objects, and a taste for mind control.
Juggernaut
Charles Xavier's massive, nine hundred pound stepbrother who seeks revenge on Professor X and his students.
Master Mold
A monstrously sized being driven by a desire to destroy Cyclops and all of mutantkind.
SENTINELS
These Omega Series Hunters are almost indestructible destroyers with armaments that automatically adjust for optimum antagonist life termination.
SHOCKER
Herman Schultz wears a foam-lined synthetic costume and uses vibro shock-units triggered by compressed air to create high-pressure blasts that cause extensive damage.
SPIDER-MAN
Bitten by an irradiated spider, Peter Parker gained arachnid-like strength, agility, wall-sticking abilities, and a danger-detecting spider-sense.
STORM
Ororo Munroe is the leader of the X-Men's Gold Strike Force who possesses the ability to control the weather and generate bolts of lightning.
WOLVERINE
A dangerous man with beast-like ferocity and secret agent skills, his skeleton is laced with unbreakable adamantium and he has claws installed in his forearms.
Items & Weapons
BONUS LIFE
Adds 1 life.
EXTRA ENERGY
Increases your energy level.
ENERGY BONUS
Completely replenishes your energy. To get the energy bonus blast the mine cart.
POWER BLAST
Allows you to defeat any enemy with a single optic blast. Power blast lasts for as long as your Energy Bar remains orange.
AIR SUPPLY
Increase your supply of air bubbles.
LIGHTNING STORM
Gives you the power to release streaks of lightning simultaneously in every direction, devastating everything within close range.
WHIRLWIND
Defends you from any attack. To find the pearls containing the WHIRLWIND pick-ups, blast the Oysters.
LUCKY STAR
Each STAR gives you 50 points. Every 100 STARS add 1 bonus life.
BALL BONUS
Rolls the doomball backwards and gives you 250 points.
FULL DECK
Completely replenishes your stock of playing cards, including 2 Jokers, and gives you 500 points.
PLAYING CARD
Increases your stock of playing cards by 7. Each defeated enemy reveals 1 PLAYING CARD pick-up.
BONUS "B"
Gives you 26 cards and half of your original energy, plus 5000 points.
DIAMOND
Gives 500 points or 100 points depending on the character.
SILVER SPIDER
50 points.
GOLD SPIDER
100 points.
RED SPIDER
500 points.
Tips & Maps
Regenerative Healing Powers
Retracting your claws allows you to tap into mutant regenerative healing powers when energy is running low, which can save you from disaster.
Apocalypse
Located at the very top, this accurate double of Apocalypse features a psionically controlled costume with pure power and a super-extending punch.
Juggernaut
A tin-topped giant who cannot be dented by adamantium; you must slash ropes to drop overhead anvils and weights to slow him down or crush his helmet before attacking.
Ball Pits
These hazards act like quicksand with no way out.
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