Comic Book characters are all the rage now, but they’ve been playing an impact on video games forever. Despite that, not every super hero has a game- and not every one will.
Here’s our list of five characters who deserved their own retro games.
The Maxx: Sam Keith’s series was massively influential and beautiful. It would have made an awesome retro game. In the ‘90s, this would have made total sense.
Wonder Woman: This one just doesn’t make sense. Why isn’t there a solo Wonder Woman game on a 16 or 8-Bit console?
Green Lantern: Hal Hordan or Kyle Rayner. It doesn’t matter. It shouldn’t have taken a film for Green Lantern to get his own solo game.
Fantastic Four: They are one of Marvel’s greatest teams, but have a terrible legacy in video games. They could have had a wonderful shot at changing that if they had a side-scrolling beat-em-up during the SNES/Genesis era.
Ghost Rider: Another wonderful character who deserves a better history in video games. Combine Road Rash and Streets of Rage and a Ghost Rider game could have been amazing during the 16-Bit era.
Patrick Hickey, Jr., is the founder and editor-in-chief of ReviewFix.com and a lecturer of English and journalism at Kingsborough Community College, in Brooklyn, New York. Over the past decade, his video game coverage has been featured in national ad campaigns by top publishers the likes of Nintendo, Deep Silver, Disney and EA Sports. His book series, "The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult and Classic Game Developers," from McFarland and Company, has earned praise from Forbes, Huffington Post, The New York Daily News and MSG Networks. He is also a former editor at NBC and National Video Games Writer at the late-Examiner.com
