WRONG! Retro Games, You Messed Up Our Comic Book Heroes!: Awesomely Nerdy Nitpicks on Nearly 80 Games

By Chris Baker

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1505723132
• ISBN13: 9781505723137
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"