Spider-Man & Venom: Maximum Carnage [Special Limited Edition Red Cartridge]

Best and Worst Games I own: 1994 Best: Spider-Man & Venom: Maximum Carnage (SNES) Worst: Rise of the Robots (SNES) 1994 was a stacked year for games. Quality title after quality title came out that year. Super Street Fighter II, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Mortal Kombat II, Earthworm Jim and Final Fantasy III all came out in 1994. My mom rented Maximum Carnage from Blockbuster for me in 1994. I loved it. I also couldn't beat it, and it stayed that way until I played the Marvel MaXimum Collection on Xbox recently and finally got through it. It sits at No. 5 on my top 10 beat em ups and No. 6 on my top 10 superhero games. Rise of the Robots had one of the biggest marketing campaigns of the 90s only for it to be a dud of a game. I bought this game recently and it's really not a good game at all. The controls are terrible and the game is just flat out boring. The only bright spot of this game is Brian May from Queen did the music. What are your best and worst picks for 1994?

3. Spider-Man & Venom: Maximum Carnage (SNES) A red cartridge. That is the whole pitch and it worked. 1994 comics were a marketing machine running at full tilt. Fourteen part crossover, chromium covers, Venom on every rack, and Acclaim shipped it in a cart color nobody else was using. Thirty years later people who never finished it still remember holding it. Ask a guy who sold his collection in 2003 what color Maximum Carnage was. He knows.

5. Spiderman Venom: Maximum Carnage Sixteen straight levels of getting swarmed, and it never once lets up. You switch between Spiderman and Venom, the difficulty is genuinely mean, and it moves faster and hits harder than any comic book brawler had a right to. Most licensed games from this era were forgettable. This one is the exception.