Play Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge Online

Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge came out for the Game Boy in 1992, developed by Software Creations and published by LJN. It was a time when licensed games were everywhere, and this one tried to cram two major Marvel properties into a single, portable cartridge. You got to play as Spider-Man, Wolverine, Storm, and Gambit, each with their own set of levels inside Arcade's deadly Murderworld.

You control each hero one at a time, moving through side-scrolling stages filled with enemies and environmental hazards. The main goal is simply to survive each themed area and eventually confront Arcade. Signature mechanics include switching between characters with different abilities, like Spider-Man's wall-crawling or Storm's limited flight, and navigating screen-by-screen challenges that often demand precise jumps. The pacing is relentless, and the difficulty is notoriously unforgiving, with cheap deaths waiting around many corners. Playing it feels like a constant battle against the game's own clunky physics and level design.