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ZeroSignal620's 15 favorite games based on comics!
ZeroSignal620 \| 9:07 PM on 08.22.2009	7 comments

With Arkham Asylum coming out in three days, I decided to look back at some of the finer games to come out based on comics. This list is not only Marvel/DC, but also from other independent comic books/comic strips.

Honorable Mentions
Marvel vs. Capcom
Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter
X-Men: Children of the Atom
X-Men vs. Street Fighter
Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rainslick Precipice of Darkness
X-Men Legends II: Reign of Apocalypse

Haven't played yet, but want to play
Lego Batman
Spider-Man: Web of Shadows
Spider-Man 2 (film based)
Batman (NES version)

ARGH this is frustrating
Spider-Man and X-Men: Arcade's Revenge

Bad games that have no shot at this list
Superman 64
Batman Returns (Sega Genesis version)
Justice League: Task Force
Ghost Rider
Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects

I wish this were based on a real comic, so I could rank it @ #1
Comix Zone

I'd kill for a game based on this
Calvin and Hobbes

On with the list...

15. X-Men Mutant Apocalypse

14. Ultimate Spider-Man

13. Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage

12. X-Men Legends

11. Spider-Man (PS1 - 2000)

10. The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction

9. Marvel Ultimate Alliance

8. The Death and Return of Superman

7. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time (SNES version)

6. The Adventures of Batman and Robin

5. Captain America and the Avengers

4. Marvel vs. Capcom 2

3. Batman Returns (SNES)

2. Little Nemo: The Dream Master

1. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game

Comic-based games have come and gone, but I consider these to be the cream of the crop, while others either missed the list by either an inch or a mile. Here's to hoping Arkham Asylum lives up to the hype! I'll find out next week!

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7 comments | showing # 1 to 7

Scary Womanizing Pig Mask

While it's a very good list, you might want to spice it up by talking about each of the entries, why they earned the spot, what makes them memorable and so on.

ZeroSignal620

Yeah, I need to do that. A lot of it today was just getting the list on here.

skull13666

D; Where was the X-Men Arcade?

ZeroSignal620

I knew I forgot something :\

13thDragon

Great blog dude. Some awesome old school games on there. Like SWPM said, you could have said a little about each one, why you liked it, etc.

Also, you forgot The Darkness!! And X-Men Origins : Wolverine. Technically a movie base game but it a movie based on a comic. So that makes it a game based on a movie based on a comic. Yeah.

ZeroSignal620

I haven't played Origins: Wolverine yet (though I heard it was done well), and The Darkness would be on the honorable mentions as well; it's just been quite awhile since I played it.

ArrestedDeveloper

I wish I hadn't traded in ultimate spiderman, that was such a good game.

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I'm 23 and have recently graduated from Western Carolina University with a Bachelor's Degree of Science in Business Administration. At the moment, I'm just currently working a small retail job while waiting for my girlfriend to get her Masters Degree. On my free time, I enjoy gaming and music more than anything else.

Some of my Favorite Games of All Time
NES
- Super Mario Bros. 3
- Star Tropics
- Kirby's Adventure
- Mega Man 3
- Duck Tales
- Tecmo Super Bowl

SNES
- Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
- Super Mario World
- Kirby Super Star
- Final Fantasy VI
- Super Punch Out!!

Nintendo 64
- Goldeneye 007
- Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- WWF No Mercy
- Super Mario 64
- Star Fox 64
- Space Station Silicon Valley
- Mischief Makers

PlayStation
- Final Fantasy IX
- Final Fantasy VII
- Star Ocean: The Second Story
- Metal Gear Solid
- Final Fantasy Tactics
- Front Mission 3
- Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete

My favorite albums ever made (in no order)
- Ride the Lightning by Metallica
- ...And Justice for All by Metallica
- Dirt by Alice in Chains
- Scenes from a Memory by Dream Theater
- Demanufacture by Fear Factory
- Superunknown by Soundgarden
- Thirteenth Step by A Perfect Circle
- Damnation by Opeth
- Screaming for Vengeance by Judas Priest
- Lateralus by Tool

Other things I enjoy outside gaming/music
- South Park
- Arrested Development
- Conan O'Brien
- Football (huge Cowboys and Panthers fan here)
- College Basketball (I bleed Carolina blue)
- Movies, and lots of them
- Off and on viewer of pro wrestling (when Edge, Shawn Michaels, and Chris Jericho all retire, I'm done forever)
- Reading (currently reading The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)