Oldschool: Captain America and The Avengers

[MANDO]

"Avengers Assemble!"

Been in a bit of an Avengers mood lately, couldn’t really say why . I’d been hankering to break out the Sega all night and a fistful of bottlecaps later I finally hooked it up to my old tv for some vintage kicks.

I'm sure there must be a handful of guys here that remember this Classic (read: typical) sidescroller featuring none other than Cap and Marvel's super team. My brother and I used to play it on the Genesis and it was also available for SNES and maybe even regular NES, iirc. Also there was of course an arcade version which I remember specifically at a Pizza Hut. Man I'd love to have one of those.

I think my favorite aspect of the game, aside from four unique playable characters, were the cameos: Wasp, Quicksilver, Wonderman, Namor, etc. Though I have to admit as a kid I always wondered why Thor wasn't a playable character.

Anyway, decided to take some pics to capture that oldschool charm.

"Thank you, Quicksilver!"

"You shall be the one escaping!"

 

[onethousandmasks]

DUDE!!!! Funny you posted this. I had my kids Wii moded, and they put a bunch of old games in it and that was one of them. I was playing it with my kids last Monday night.

 

[NosferatuBill36]

If Thor was playable, the game would've been over in about five minutes.

Even the final battle...Thor vs. Red Skull? lol.

But in all seriousness, the game was/is awesome. Not sure how much money I pumped into the arcade for this game.

 

[lerath666]

I had the snes port of that game. It was terrible.

Arcade version rocked, however.

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

I wish this would go into the marketplace

 

[cokebabies]

Definitely the little brother of the X-Men when it comes to quarter munchers, but a fun game.

I'll always have a special place for this game, since I spent about 9 hours playing it one day on a terrible vacation.

 

[Shropt]

Loved the Sega Genesis version of this game.

THANK YOU.......... WONDERMAN

 

[karamazov80]

I had the Genesis version, as well. I remember the reading of the title screen sounded like "Abblemblers Abblemble!" Hawkeye was always a favorite character of mine, so I was happy that he got so much videogame love back in the early '90s, crappy games though he might have been in (this and the Spiderman side-scroller).

Still has one of my favorite videogame exchanges of all times:

Bad guy: "You'll never escape!"
Avenger: "You'll be the one escaping!"



I also played the crap out of it at the local arcade. It took the spot that previously belonged to Moonwalker.