Marvel Maximum Collection Revives Six Classic Superhero Titles On Switch

Oh I remember playing the first Spiderman level in Arcades Revenge, unfortunately I didnt like the other parts of the game one bit.
I've played all but Captain America and man are these some hard games

Day. One. Buy.

Silver Surfer still sucks though

Eh-eh-eh-eh-X-men!

Definitely going to pick this up!

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I’m tempted to buy both PS5 (For the trophies) and Switch (For portability) versions. Does anyone else do the same? I really should just buy one version but don’t know which version to get.

Does all new music mean there is zero original music here? Or new stuff in addition? Can't have Maximum Carnage without the Green Jelly intro, wtf.

Some true classics. Cant wait for this one of the price is right. I’m wondering what the difference is with some of the genesis vs snes versions.

Silver Surfer yet no Wolverine or X-Men for the NES?

It finally happened!

If we collected all the non-Direct Switch announcements, we could make a pretty decent Direct!

Awesome but where's The Amazing Spider-Man, Avengers in Galactic Storm, Spider-Man: Return of the Sinister Six, The Uncanny X-Men, X-Men for Sega Genesis, X-Men 2: Clone Wars, X-Men: Gamemaster's Legacy, Punisher, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man / X-O Manowar in Heavy Metal, X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse, X-Men: Mojo World, and Marvel Super Heroes in War of the Gems?

Also all new music? Please don't be like Rayman 30th Anniversary, give us option like how Ultra Street Fighter II and Trials of Mana did.

@NTELLIGENTMAN oh my goodness I completely forgot about Wolverine NES had to rent that twice to beat it. Knocking sabretooth off the cliff

This should be amazing! I’m a little nervous about “new music” though. There’s a lot of great tunes in these games I’d hate to hear replaced.

Arcade’s Revenge is not exactly what I wanted back on modern consoles, but I’ll take it. 😂

The only one of these games I've seen before is Silver Surfer, because I watch Angry Video Game Nerd lol.

....after the Rayman collection, I'm not at all pleased to see the words "All new music" though. ... ... especially because Silver Surfer has especially amazing music for NES, it absolutely shouldn't be touched.

Spiderman: Separation Anxiety was always one of my favorite Sega Genesis games as a kid. My brother and I played it constantly. I don't know if I would want to revisit the game though. I feel like I would rather look back on those moments with rose tinted glasses of nostalgia rather than taint more of my precious memories. I haven't played any of the other games. At least, not that I remember!

Hopefully, there will be a sequel collection featuring Avengers: Galactic Storm (Arcade), Spider-Man (Arcade), Punisher (Arcade, Genesis), Iron Man/XO-Man O' War (GameBoy), Wolverine: Adamantium's Revenge, The Incredible Hulk (SNES), X-Men (Genesis), & X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse followed by a 3rd collection featuring Wolverine (NES), The Uncanny X-Men (NES), Spider-Man (NES, Genesis, Sega CD, Game Gear), Spider-Man 1-3 (GameBoy), Marvel Super Heroes (SNES), & X-Men 2: Clone Wars. Maybe the Game Gear X-Men games could be included.

I only recognize one game from this collection and it's all thanks to the master of magnet.

This hit me right in the nostalgia. Will definitely be adding to my collection and look forward to getting some co-op with my kids.

I would buy this just for Maximum Carnage alone, I never got a chance to beat it when I had it on the SNES. I also didn't know there was a sequel but that just adds onto the appeal.

It will take them years to release it, like with other games, eh.

I still have anxiety over the level where Juggernaut is chasing Wolverine in Arcade’s Revenge. I never could get past that part.

X-Men and Maximum Carnage are the big draws here but I am curious to see just how bad Silver Surfer really is, this is a definite get.

@Serpenterror Punisher is on the Marvel vs Capcom Collection. The rest would be pretty good for a sequel.

Weird to not include as many Sega and Konami Marvel games as possible after going through the licensing BS for all of them. Hoping they reveal or add more later, as I'd really love Spider-Man: The Game for arcades specifically.

OH! I've been itching to replay Cap Am and the Avengers for a long time. If my memory is accurate, it was only an average beat 'em up title even back in the day. But, it had a good IP and a few characters you'd want to play. I don't remember anything of the soundtrack unlike X-Men which I still fire up the OST every once in a while. I still have my 360 connected mostly for X-Men arcade. LOL Those two titles would be enough for me. They rest are gravy.

I assume the new music is like menu music for the collection, not music inside the game being replaced. That would be more work than it's worth unless there was some licensed song in there they had to gut. I don't remember there being any licensed music, but I didn't play all the console versions.

@Don I do it too - PS5 for Trophies & Online and Switch for Portability & Local Co-op - but I'll only buy one version full price, and wait for a hefty sale for the other. If it helps, maybe wait to see the Trophy List before it comes out whenever that is.

Interesting choice for a game lineup here because the only major highlight here for me at least is The X-Men arcade game from Konami cause that's just a good flipping beat em up from the 90's and everything else is just kinda meh to terrible.The spider man and venom games from multiple different reviews of those games that is seen is that their mediocre at best with decent soundtracks. I personally never played them so I don't have much of a say about it but that seems to be the general consensus regarding those games. And lastly you got the god awful ones looking at you Sliver surfer and Arcade's revenge.

@shoeses
Thank you for the advice. I guess I will buy one of the versions physically and get the other version digital during a sale. I will probably get the digital version on the PS5 due to Sony has a more consumer friendly policy with digital downloads (Allowing digital copy on more than one console whereas Nintendo having the virtual gamecard and Wii to Wii U upgrade fee on their virtual console games) and Switch games take up slightly less physical space than PS5 games.

@Don Nintendo just needs to give us trophies/achievements already. They are already there on every other platform including PC. There is no reason for them not to activate a trophy system other than stubborn pride.

The LJN collection

Another fine game collection add to my collection....(puts it in my cloak)

No love for the GameBoy version of Captain America and the Avengers? This is an awesome compilation. It’s o. My wishlist now

Now I'm gonna have that Maximum Carnage song stuck in my head for the rest of the day:

https://youtu.be/8XJG8ywk7eQ?si=azm3jMpOW8a-ZpAD&t=37

What a random collection. Why couldn't LRG license Sega's Spiderman arcade beat em up instead?

Good thing it's coming to Xbox at least. It was really annoying when LRG cancelled the Nickelodeon collection without warning.

Yeah, this looked cool. But am I understanding correctly that only X-Men: The Aracade Game has online multiplayer? That seems like an odd decision.

I was just thinking the other day that I regretted not having played Maximum Carnage or Separation Anxiety on the SNES (although I have a hazy recollection of maybe having rented Carnage in college). I about fell out of my chair when this email hit my box.

So. Ready.

@Dang_69 yes

Excellent! Like a Marvel version of the Cowabunga Collection! I’m surprised to see Cap & The Avengers (Data East) collected with X-Men Arcade (Konami). Does Konami own Data East IP now?
Either way, I loved some of these games (even Silver Surfer had its charm back then) and I’ll preorder this physical without hesitation.

@HammerGalladeBro
You beat me to it!
JUGGERNAUT WILL FLATTEN YOU!! 😆

Arcade's Revenge is one of my most favorite games!

Also, we need Spider-Man '93/'94

And Spider-Man / Spider-Man 2 Enter Electro!

Also, I'd love to play Spider-Man (Atari) again!

@MarioMachoMan
I just wan't it for X-Men Arcade. Fond memories of playing it at Chuck E Cheese back in the early whirly 90s. I had Maximum Carnage on the Genesis too. I remember the red cartridge and the game itself being ruthlessly cheap in the difficulty department.

Now give me The Simpsons Arcade dangit, and with a splash of Cadillacs & Dinosaurs, and Alien Vs Predator. 😁

Nice, these are all the games my parents said were too violent for me to own when I was a kid.

Quality of the games seem a bit scattershot. That said, while X-Men is the obvious highlight and headliner, Captain America and the Avengers is also a fun time imo, and the two Spider-Man games are better than expected despite being LJN games

Kinda wish they got the Capcom and Sega games in there too though

Wolverine (NES) was another Software Creations-developed title, so of all the console titles that are missing, that's the one I'm surprised with, but maybe they're holding that for a part 2 with other assorted LJN/Acclaim titles? I do hope we get the Sega / Marvel titles in a collection, at some point.

X-Men Arcade Collection!! Also featuring…other stuff. I have most of these Genesis and SNES carts but I’m in for the two arcade games if the price is fair and the emulation is good or better.

Anyone here play these Carbon Engine games by LRG? How’s input latency? Sound? Are the CRT scanline options any good?

So excited for this but aren’t most of these games ljn? Konami only did the arcade game I think and it is definitely the star of the show here. Maximum carnage I loved as a kid especially the genesis soundtrack. The avengers is ok and I have nostalgia for xmen and Spider-Man on genesis but it’s really not going to see the world on fire or anything. I really wish we could’ve got capcom in on this for mutant apocalypse and war of the gems, those are really great and the two genesis games were pretty fun to. I am suprised we didn’t get the nes game tho. It’s made by LJN I’m pretty sure like many of the others but it’d take the cake for worst game on here by far.

It'd be awesome if we got ultimate alliance 1&2 at some point on the Switch

Some stinkers in there though. Arcade's Revenge, OMG, pure LJN trash

This is awesome news will definitely wait for a sale. A shame we will most likely never see The Simpsons arcade game on console

Wow this is great. Maximum Carnage had great songs so I doubt those will come back but as long as the game play is present I'll buy it on steam.

Amazing news! It's a shame SEGA's Spider-man Arcade gme isn't on and my OCD isn't playing nice about it lol, but loved X-men (and even Captain America and the Avengers!)

Is the X-Men Arcade going to have a dual screen mode?

I hate you, Konami and Limited Run Games. I have retro game addiction issues. This is not fair.

Played Maximum Carnage once when I was very little, quite fun, managed to get to the part where you can become venom, but the game was tough.

I’d have been interested if it had Capcom’s Super Nintendo Marvel games; X-Men Mutant Apocalypse and Marvel Super Heroes: War of the Gems.

I’ll never understand how someone could come up with the worst videogame name ever.
SEPARATION ANXIETY!!?
How do you even come up with that? 🤣

@hcfwesker It got a 360 release back in the day so it's at least within the realm of possibility.

My. Damn. Will be getting unless something stupid becomes of this.

Seeing that Silver Surfer footage gave me a PTSD attack. Damn that game was impossible to complete. 😆

Love articles like this, thanks Nintendo Life! I've got quite a few games from Limited Run thanks to these little reveals you do

Is this physical only?

@Don I mean Trophies mean nothing but if you really want easy ones get the PS5 version.

The Spider Man game is giving me Bionic Commando vibes. It looks really interesting!

I can't say I know much about any of these games, which is odd because my primary gaming addiction period was the 8 and 16 bit era. I'll likely wait for the reviews and wait for a 50% off sale.

Maximum Carnage’s soundtrack was written and produced by the band Green Jellÿ, most well known for the 1993 Three Little Pigs metal song with the claymation music video. Always thought it was really cool that they got tapped to do this.

https://youtu.be/Gtffv9bpB-U

“Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin!”

Also, that red SNES cart was a stunner, always jumped out at you when looking across a collection of games.

Silver Surfer’s gameplay is brutally hard and not particularly fun to me, but that Follin brothers soundtrack is amazing stuff.

@Dang_69 Might be licence problems.

Sweet. Maybe I can finally beat Maximum Carnage.

Another collection of games where 90% can easily be played on an emulator.

The only stand out is the X-Men arcade game.

Maximum Carnage has a surprisingly faithful cover of The Mob Rules by Black Sabbath though

ahh without Mutant Apocalypse

No Green Jelly = No Buys.
The soundtrack alone makes Maximum Carnage.

You had me at X-Men: The Arcade Game.

Definitely a buy, but I wish they had the spider-man Arcade game as well.

I still have a physical copy of most of the games, but for me being able to own the x-man arcade game is something I've wanted for a long time. Glad it's happening.

@Yoshi3 It was lifted straight from a comic mini-series of the same name.

@Mommar likely not. There was a smaller cabinet version of the game that used only one screen and is the path of least resistance (plus makes the most sense for consoles), so I expect them to use that version.

“All new music” is a pretty huge red flag. I hope the can elaborate on that.

@Andee9001 When I mention the Punisher I mostly refer to the ones that were not the beat em up such as the NES and Game Boy versions which are more shooter based. Yes like Aladdin, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Batman Returns, Shadowrun, Home Alone, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turles: Tournament Fighters, Punisher is one of those games that had the same name on multiple systems but all are actually different games.

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Looking at the copyrights at the end of the trailer, I don't see why they particularly show the Konami logo at the beginning. Makes it look like this will be a Konami-published collection when it only has 1 game by them.

Also, I'm guessing it is Throwback Entertainment the one that owns the rights to LJN games. So really Throwback Entertainment is the real new LJN.

Depending on the outcome, I may get this digitally only for X-Men: The Arcade Game. I don't need to go through the same suffering of AVGN in SIlver Surfer and almost all of my Marvel needs are covered by Marvel Vs. Capcom Fighting Collection.

I’m looking forward to replaying Arcades Revenge. My cousins had the SNES version and I played it whenever I visited. Several years back I picked up the Genesis one. The snes ost is far superior. Either way this was my introduction to most of marvel comics at the time. Still a fan of the character Arcade to this day. Love a great fun villain.

@Yoshi3 The Spider-Man/Venom: Separation Anxiety title is based on the original comic book series/storyline, it's not a random title that Acclaim/Ljn made up just for the game.

@NTELLIGENTMAN Wolverine and X-Men on the NES were published and developed by LJN. Not Konami.

The same goes the other games on your list, so who knows where those games are living right now. Those span multiple different publishers. Even though Acclaim is back, do they still have rights to their back catalogue? Including the licensed titles, like Marvel, that they made.

These are only titles that Konami developed and published.

Who knows? A set could come out with these games, but it would be several different ones due to the different publishers.

@RudyC3

Boo this man!

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@breach187 It's the lazy option given every screen is now wide screen and there's netcode there is only a lazy reason to not do it.

Now all we need is a complete NES, SNES, Genesis, GB, Game Gear Power Rangers collection!

That’s pretty cool! Some of these look like a fun time.

So excited for X-Men: The Arcade Game! With that and the ones in TMNT: Cowabunga Collection, all that's left is The Simpsons

@DoorToMundane Yeah, any version of Maximum Carnage without the original soundtrack is an abomination. You can say the same about any of the games in this collection (Arcade's Revenge and Silver Surfer are dumpster fires but I still listen to the OST from time to time), but MC's OST was next-level for its time.

Nice! I still have my red Maximum Carnage snes cart. Never actually beat it though, I remember it being ridiculously hard.

Have been wishing for something like this for quite awhile. The only games really missing are the 90s SEGA titles. Would love to see a CAPCOM X MARVEL Collection as well with their SNES games. A Konami/SUNSOFT DC collection would be aces, too.

Enough with limited run! 😡 Zero excuse for this to be a FOMO release, when the Disney collection Turok or Jurassic Park are all standard retail.

Spider-Man/venom max carnage is one of my fav games of my childhood, and I sadly don’t have a copy for my modded snes and will be buying this day 1. I would have already today after seeing trailer. I’d love to get a cabinet of these with the to go with my other ones too

I can understand why it doesn't have the Capcom or Sega games ( since they are bigger and likely have their own plans and interests ), but that doesn't change how this is a really weird medley. Konami, Data East, Acclaim, and LJN- these certainly aren't all from under one roof.

Its probably worth the money, mind. At least if you like beat em ups.

Kinda lame how only two of the games are arcade games, the rest are just mediocre 16-bit console games and a bad NES game. That said those two are classics.

Nostalgia is so strong here, i may not be able to resist.

@rvcolem1 I owned the game, but I was never able to beat it without the use of a Game Genie, so you were a far better gamer-kid than I.
(And I think the code for unlimited energy was GXNAESON, and why that is still kicking around in my brain is beyond me)

@Desrever yet I could never get to the 3rd level of Rush'n Attack. And dont get me started on snake rattle and roll, marble madness, and rock and roll racing those games are just impossible to me.

@Dee123 yeah...but for all the games? Green Jelly was a 90s band so I can understand why that may not be available. Super curious about this. A lot of these game aren't really that great lol, like I'd be legit surprised if Konami actually developed these games in house back in the day...actually maybe just the arcade versions were theirs.

At least it has the arcade games?

Limited Run, hard pass. I'd rather watch paint dry

Couldn't they have packaged this with Spider-Man : The Video Game, one of the greatest arcade games and definetely one of the best Marvel games. Going to a retro arcade so I can play it again for first time in 30 years

Wow, so excited for the X-men Arcade game being released on Switch. The idea of Marvel and presence of super heroes in games and movies is very popular these days. And they should continue with this trend. He Man, the arcade style game also coming for Switch seems like a fun retro experience that brings good memories. Do wonder if a collection of something similar can be done with the Mighty Morphin Power Ranger games, especially the SNES versions. They had some great music in them. Plus the gameplay seemed fun, and very arcade like as well.

I'm highly doubtful they can't license the Maximum Carnage OST from Green Jelly, considering Troggo Records licensed it for a vinyl release a few years ago (yes, it even included "The Mob Rules"). If the music in that game is replaced, that's downright criminal.

It's a neat collection for sure, but I'd loved to have seen the remainder of the NES games as well - Return of the Sinster Six, Wolverine and Punisher (X-Men I can do without )