The Marvel Video Games blog starts a series on Iron Man games from the past:
If you know your 20th Century Iron Man games, you know they fall into one of three categories: 1) As part of a team of Super Heroes beating the crap out of evil, 2) as a fighting-game character or 3) sharing the spotlight with some dude from Valiant Comics you probably wouldn’t have otherwise heard of.
Apparently, those games? Not so great:
The NES version of “Captain America and the Avengers” had nothing to do with the arcade semi-classic of the same name. Rather, it was a 2D action-platformer akin to “Castlevania” and “Ninja Gaiden,” but with Cap and Hawkeye. Not a bad game, necessarily, but certainly Iron Man’s personal low point in video game history.
Why? Well, he and Vision were essentially the unplayable Princess Peaches to the other two’s Mario brothers, held captive by the Bowser known as the Mandarin. I’m surprised we’re never told, “But our Iron Man is in another castle!”
April 11th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Iron Man could fly. Edge: Iron Man.
April 11th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Poor Iron Man. I can’t wait for the new movie game though, it looks pretty badass.
April 11th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
The SNES Avengers game was okay. It was actually how I learned about the non-mutant Marvel Universe.
April 12th, 2008 at 1:54 am
^^
I had that on Sega Genesis. It was a port of the arcade game.
Iron Man/X-O Manowar: Heavy Metal seemed like such a cool idea when I was in jr high. Sweet, Glorious 90′s