Spider-Man Game Ads

As a comic-reading, video-game-playing kid in the early 1980s, the prospect of a Spider-Man game that I could play in my very own living room was beyond exciting. Even though I wasn't a huge Spider-Man fan, he was a superhero and he had his own cartoon show that I watched every Saturday morning. So when the ads about this new game started appearing, I was eager (to put it mildly) to get a copy.

Here's what a 10-year-old Sean responded to back then... And this sequence... And then there was this TV spot...The game ultimately turned out to be one of the dullest, most repetitive video games ever. Seriously, the only appreciable difference between levels was that they changed the color of the building! Given how bland the actual game was, the ad agencies who worked on these must have REALLY had their work cut out for them!

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