Retro Corner: Captain America and the Avengers (Super NES) Review · 3:37am Apr 14th, 2018
A new edition of Retro Corner is up as we come back to classic gaming with Captain America. In this edition, I'm checking out Captain America and The Avengers based on the arcade game for the Super NES. Cap's title was original developed by Data East in 1991 for the arcades. The theme is about the Red Skull mind controlling a list of the Avengers' enemies so he could try to conquer the world. Now I know what you are all thinking as the theme diffidently comes off extremely generic. That's also considering this was at a time when Marvel started releasing darker content. Data East known for developing the Double Dragon series used the Marvel license to produce an original title. The game is not related to any previous comic or cartoon nor is it based off the 1990 film. Similar to the Hulk, Cap also had his own solo movie before his 2010 MCU film. Trust me; the 1990 film was a creative disaster on so many merits. It was so horrid that it makes Batman's bat nipples (from Batman & Robin) look refreshing.
The Super NES version got ported by Mindscape in 1993, a year later after its release on the Sega Genesis. Mindscape is mostly known for porting PC education games to the Super NES such as Mario is Missing. That's not a good thing if a crappy studio known for sending over PC Shovelware titles has handled the port. Perhaps Data East should have brought the rights to bring over the game to both the Genesis and Super NES. I mean they already have experience with development on the Super NES with games like Super Double Dragon. Cap's Genesis version had effort put into it which isn't surprising since the same studio that made this brought it over to that console. However, by 1993, I'm pretty sure Mindscape had some experience with the Super NES. How hard could it be for them to produce a quality port?
