WRONG! Retro Games You Messed Up Our Comic Book Heroes! eBook Chris Baker Matthew Waite
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THE MOST MESSED-UP MOMENTS FROM 14 YEARS OF SUPERHERO VIDEO GAMES – AWESOMELY NERDY NITPICKS!
If you're a superhero fan who loves video games, you've experienced firsthand how pretty much every title out there – good or bad, remembered or forgotten – does something that's absolutely, unapologetically WRONG! with its source material. This ebook documents the most egregious – and most hilarious – offenders from the moment Superman flew onto the Atari 2600 in 1978 all the way through 1992, when Konami's classic X-Men sucked in quarter after quarter in arcades.
NEARLY 80 SUPERHERO GAMES
Some you've played. Some you haven't. And quite a few you never even knew existed in the first place. Some high-/lowlights
- Purple Dark Knight vs. Green Joker in Batman The Video Game (NES)
- Proven instances of "slapping a license" on an already-developed game
- Games that stripped Wolverine and He-Man of their most iconic weaponry
- A questionable transportation method for the Man of Steel in Superman (NES)
- A Transformers game from the creator of Pitfall!
- The strangest comic book license ever to hit the Sega Genesis
- The most unnecessary tie-in to a superhero animated series of all time
- The Danger Mouse Trilogy
- That one lonely Thundercats game
ANSWERS TO BURNING QUESTIONS YOU DIDN'T EVEN KNOW TO ASK
- Who is "the Princess Peach of superhero games"?
- Who was the first Marvel character to be featured in three games? And what's the single gaming appearance he's had since 1985?
- Which super-character is most consistently misrepresented in games?
- What common superhero gaming feature was pioneered by LJN's otherwise absolutely horrible X-Men NES game?
- Which hero's primary gaming nemesis is someone he still has yet to even meet in the comics?
- What do an NES game and a major restaurant chain agree is Wolverine's favorite food?
- Why is Carnage getting naked on my SNES?!
GAMING PLATFORMS YOU LOVED...OR DIDN'T KNOW EXISTED
Atari 2600 | Intellivision | Commodore 64 | Nintendo Entertainment System | Game Boy | Super NES | Sega Master System | Genesis | Game Gear | Lynx | ZX Spectrum | MSX | PC-DOS | MORE!
YOUR FAVORITE HEROES (AND SOME YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF)
- From Marvel! Spider-Man | Wolverine and the X-Men | Hulk | Captain America, Iron Man, Hawkeye, Vision, and a bunch of other Avengers | Punisher | Human Torch and the Thing from the Fantastic Four | Silver Surfer | Howard the Duck
- From DC! Superman | Batman | Flash | Swamp Thing
- From Other Comic Publishers! Conan | Flash Gordon | Judge Dredd | Ex-Mutants
- From Toy Lines and Cartoons! Transformers | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | He-Man and the Masters of the Universe | Bartman and Radioactive Man from The Simpsons | G.I. Joe | Danger Mouse | Gobots | Thundercats
- From Commercials! Domino's Pizza's Noid | Kool-Aid Man
- From Copyright Infringement! The Amazing Spider-Bat | Baseball Batman
ABOUT THE DUDE WHO WROTE THIS STUFF
With years-long stints at Marvel and LucasArts (you know...home to Star Wars games), Chris Baker has played a role in the release of more than 40 game releases since 2005. To name a few Marvel vs. Capcom 3, LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions, Marvel Pinball, Star Wars Battlefront II, LEGO Star Wars II...plus quite a few he'd rather not mention while trying to make himself sound awesome. He also worked in the games press from 1998-2005, most notably as an editor at Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine, where he wrote about hundreds of games.
WRONG! Retro Games You Messed Up Our Comic Book Heroes! eBook Chris Baker Matthew Waite
Do you retro games? Or comic books?If your answer to either of those is "yes," prepare for a fun and informative read. And if your answer to BOTH questions was "yes"? This is the book you never knew you always wanted.
Mr. Baker brings his own childhood, his time working at Marvel, and his time dealing with video game developers together in a hilarious guide to all of the things games have messed up about the very characters they've licensed. He even journeys beyond characters from comic books and tears into misconceptions promoted by games based on toys and marketing mascots.
The information is well-sourced, the expertise is evident, and the humor still makes me laugh aloud as I re-read it all.
Here's hoping or a second volume!
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WRONG! Retro Games You Messed Up Our Comic Book Heroes! eBook Chris Baker Matthew Waite Reviews
This book is incredible. I can't wait for a followup. Everything is presented in quick bites so it's great to pick up and put down on a busy day. The trivia and insiders look at some of these games is invaluable. The tone of the book is incredibly light-hearted and fun. As stated earlier I am excited and eagerly awaiting a followup. I will get and read as many of these as he is willing to write.
Very good stuff. I played some of these games back in the SNES and Genesis days of yore. Haven't played a single LJN game since, but I remember them being a blast. I guess that's because the concept of quality gaming was an occasional incentive. Back then, kids, game lasted for months and the chances of actually beating them would lead one to believe that there was a better chance of the Loch Ness monster busting down your door saying he just won Powerball and is gonna treat you to a night out on the town and you wake up the next day with a massive hangover and find that the pics you took on your phone are proof that this whole night happened and you sell your story to the tabloids. You get rich and you're praised as a hero for opening up the door to the possibility of the existence of cryptids. Point being, I never beat Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge. Love this book!
I loved reading this book. It is fun and full of lots of interesting facts and pictures about some of my favorite gaming classics. Started with the kindle version but had to have a hardcopy of the book too!
It was a very entertaining book, also a fun walk down memory lane as I had played many of these games in the past. That said, it was over and done with all too quickly. Still, for the price I paid for it (I received a free copy), it was well worth it, and I may check out future installments.
There is plenty of humor and geek information for the classic nerd to appreciate.
Could have used a little more text in places, but still a good book.
Really enjoyable read that brought back quite a few memories for me in the form of some forgotten C64 and PC "classics" such as G.I. Joe and Spider-Man and Captain America in Doom's Revenge. I can't wait to see what comes next from the author.
I did find one hilarious typo, there is a section where he discusses the portrayal of Juggernaut in games and mentions the "Gym" of Cyttorak. I like to think that instead of magic, he just had to work out really hard to become unstoppable under the tutelage of this Cyttorak fellow.
If you didn't spend your childhood reading comics and playing comic-based video games, this niche-appeal book will likely make about as much sense to you as a Swahili cookbook. However, if you DID spend your childhood reading comics and battling evil on your TV screen, I can't recommend it highly enough.
Meticulously accurate, WRONG! is filled with love for both comics and games, but pulls no punches about just how ridiculously off-source most of those games were. It's also well-researched and exhaustive. If the game existed, there's a very strong chance it's in here (even if it never made it past the prototype stage). It's a great trip down memory lane, complete with scads of screenshots, and you may even find yourself yelling "Finally! That's what I've been saying since 1991!" at some of the entries. For those of us with years of suppressed nerd-rage, this is utter catharsis. If you're less raging, it's still funny.
One final note the author's tone is spot-on. Snarky, but never cruel, he leans more toward the "Come on dev guys, what were you thinking?" side of humor than the more hateful and vindictive, "you should all die in a fire for this disrespect" kind of tone. It's a nice approach, and makes the book imminently readable.
To sum up Like comics? Buy this book. Like video games, especially old ones about comics? Buy this book.
Do you retro games? Or comic books?
If your answer to either of those is "yes," prepare for a fun and informative read. And if your answer to BOTH questions was "yes"? This is the book you never knew you always wanted.
Mr. Baker brings his own childhood, his time working at Marvel, and his time dealing with video game developers together in a hilarious guide to all of the things games have messed up about the very characters they've licensed. He even journeys beyond characters from comic books and tears into misconceptions promoted by games based on toys and marketing mascots.
The information is well-sourced, the expertise is evident, and the humor still makes me laugh aloud as I re-read it all.
Here's hoping or a second volume!
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