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Spider-Man
Web-slinging since 1982
Marvel's wall-crawler has starred in games since Parker Brothers put him on the Atari 2600 in 1982, from 16-bit brawlers and film tie-ins to Insomniac's open-world New York.
- 1982
- First game
- 3
- Series
- Stan Lee and Steve Ditko
- Creator
One world. Many eras.
Choose your chapter
Early runs. Parker Brothers had the hero scaling a tower to defuse the Green Goblin's bombs. Side-scrollers, arcade brawlers and a text adventure filled the years that followed.
Start with The Amazing Spider-Man vs. The KingpinYour next late night
The essentials
Chapters
Series (3)
Marvel's Spider-ManInsomniac Games' open-world Spider-Man series, begun with Marvel's Spider-Man (2018) and continued by Miles Morales (2020).Spider-ManActivision's early-2000s Spider-Man games, starting with Neversoft's Spider-Man in 2000. Console and handheld tie-ins that follow the web-slinger across Marvel's rogues gallery.
A legacy worth revisiting
The swing is the whole game.
Treyarch's Spider-Man 2 tied swinging to the city itself in 2004, and every game since has been measured against that feeling. Beenox spent years on Shattered Dimensions and the Amazing films, then Insomniac's 2018 game put the hero back at the front of the queue.
- 1982 to 1999
- Early runs
- 2000 to 2014
- Into 3D
- 2018 to present
- Insomniac's run
Scenes that stay with you
Inside the world
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