They even uniformly shared Peter Parker's super-adhesion abilities and could inexplicably climb up walls (which is particularly odd for the powerless-Hawkeye). Not that it made a lick of difference who you picked anyway, as each of the fighters controlled exactly the same, had re-skinned versions of identical powers, and ambled around at a snail's pace. It's easy to imagine that there must have been squabbles aplenty over who got to play as Spider-Man in this scenario, and who had to settle for one of the other rejects. You had the wall-crawler himself, street-brawler Hawkeye, jewel thief Black Cat and the prince of Atlantis himself, Namor the Sub-Mariner. That's why we got this slapped together line-up of heroes that aren't really compatible in any meaningful way. Sega was forced to cobble together a cooperative experience using whatever leftover IP Acclaim wasn't bothering with. The problem, however, was that a rival company (named Acclaim Entertainment) already owned the exclusive legal rights to use the more popular characters from the roster, which is why Spider-Man: The Video game ended up relying on such a motley B-team. Keen to get a slice of this action, Sega partnered up with Marvel to bang out a quick cash-in that utilized some of the comic-book publisher's most recognizable heroes. In the early '90s, side-scrolling beat 'em ups like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Streets of Rage were guzzling quarters by the bucketload across the nation. "Spider-Man: The Video Game" was a 2D brawler that didn't really channel the spirit of its titular character, or any of the other playable superheroes.
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