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Spiderman Maximum Carnage
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Complete in box: the cartridge, the manual and the box, all original; anything beyond that is included only if you can see it in the photos. The cartridge is the game's original red cartridge. Look over the photos for condition, packaging and details. Every cartridge's shell, label and board are checked for authenticity when it comes into the store, and it's tested before it's listed. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.
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Maximum Carnage was loud before you even switched it on. The Genesis release came on a blood-red cartridge, the only official Genesis game produced in a non-black shell, and that attitude carries straight into the game: comic-panel cutscenes, a Green Jellÿ soundtrack and a parade of Marvel villains spilling into the streets of New York. Developed by Software Creations and published by Acclaim under its LJN label in 1994, it adapts the 1993 Maximum Carnage crossover from the Spider-Man comics, and it was among the first games built directly on a specific comic storyline rather than an original plot.
This is a side-scrolling beat 'em up in the Double Dragon and Final Fight mold: crowded streets and rooftops full of thugs, with Spider-Man and Venom sharing the spotlight. Carnage has assembled his own twisted family in Shriek, Doppelganger, Demogoblin and Carrion, and they turn up as bosses as the rampage spreads across the city. Hidden items let you call in Marvel allies such as Captain America, Black Cat and Firestar for a timely assist, and some heroes are more help to one of the two leads than the other, which adds a little strategy to who you save them for.
The soundtrack is part of the legend. Green Jellÿ wrote and produced it, and the title theme turned up on the band's 1994 album 333 as “Carnage Rules.” Squeezed onto a cartridge, it comes through as a synthesized rendition rather than recorded music, and the boss fights borrow an uncredited version of Black Sabbath's “The Mob Rules.” The Genesis version carried an MA-13 rating, and Maximum Carnage was the first Spider-Man game aimed at teenagers, a sign of how hard it leaned into the darker, symbiote-soaked comics of the time.
Reviews were mixed in 1994, with critics knocking the controls, but the game's reputation has grown steadily since. Later writers praised its faithful adaptation, its stiff challenge and the fun of switching between Spider-Man and Venom. It captures the early-'90s symbiote craze at full volume, and few Genesis games announce themselves the way that red cartridge does.
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