Retronauts Episode 135: Spider-Man Games

Retronauts

Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2018

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Spider-Man has been starring in video games for 35 years, but outside of a few rare instances, his digital adventures didn't receive much praise before Neversoft brought him into the world of polygons. On this episode of Retronauts, join Bob Mackey, Jeremy Parish, Gary Butterfield, and Spider-Man superfan Henry Gilbert as the crew pores over the many, many Spidey games released from 1982 to 2000. Anybody call for a web-slinger?

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0:00.0	This week on RetroNots, my spidey sense is tingling.
0:03.2	Hello everybody, welcome once again to another episode of RetroNots.
0:29.7	I'm your host for this one Bob Mackie and today's episode is all about Spider-Man games,
0:34.3	just the history of Spider-Man games.
0:37.2	Before I go on any further, let's see what else is in the room we need today.
0:40.0	As always, we have Jeremy Doc-Ock Parish.
0:43.8	Yes, he has eight arms and they're flailing wildly.
0:46.0	I'm also an old scientist and love with Aunt May.
0:49.0	And he's also secretly the president and I'll let you figure that out at home.
0:52.2	That's good.
0:53.2	And who else is here today?
0:54.2	Gary Butterfield-Hamm.
0:55.2	Butterfield-Hamm?
0:56.2	Oh, okay.
0:57.2	Take a version of me that shows up every once in a while.
0:59.2	I'm getting these references, by the way.
1:01.1	And who else is here?
1:02.1	Straight out of amazing fantasy, 15, Thwippity Thwip, and the Hilbert.
1:06.1	Hello.
1:07.1	So before I go any further, I want to say this is all Henry's doing and by that I mean
1:10.0	thank you, Henry, for doing this.
1:11.9	I know nothing about Spider-Man and that's not to say I dislike Spider-Man.
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