The 5 Best Marvel & DC Superhero Sega Genesis Games

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Ah, the Sega Genesis days. A simpler time when you didn’t need to purchase a season pass or coordinate time zones with your friend in Japan. No, if you wanted to play, you’d fire up your console and get to it. Back then, the superhero genre, or the superhero game genre, wasn’t as massive as it is now. Sure, people knew all about Batman, Spider-Man and all the rest of them, but it wasn’t the mania we have now. There was still a plethora of superpowered video games to play. Truth be told, most of them were okay, while only a handful stood out. So, let’s take a look at those Marvel and DC superhero games on the Sega Genesis that deserve to be revisited.

Taking the title for arguably the coolest cartridge of all time was 1994’s Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage. If you were one of the lucky few to pick up a first print of the game, you’d get a blood-red cartridge that just screamed cool. It also didn’t hurt that the game rocked.

Inspired by the comic-book storyline Maximum Carnage, you could control Spidey and Venom, who’d receive assistance from allies, as you tried to stop Carnage and his team of dastardly villains. It was a straight-up beat ’em up, but all the colourful characters and the computerised Green Jellÿ soundtrack made this one of the premium games of its time.

First released as an arcade game, The Punisher was Marvel’s answer to Final Fight. Choosing either Frank Castle or Nick Fury, players embarked on a side-scrolling beat-’em-up journey as they used their fists and all the weapons around them to put holes in Kingpin and his goons.

The Sega Genesis port of The Punisher naturally didn’t have the capabilities of the arcade version and had to be toned down in scope; however, it still delivered most of the thrills and spills for the home console.

While many people will tell you the original X-Men on the Sega Genesis was great, which it was, the follow-up, X-Men 2: Clone Wars, was a significant upgrade. The 1995 platformer featured seven playable characters,