2026/08: Spider-Man: The Videogame (Arcade) - George s

[JonLeung]

Spider-Man: The Videogame

For this month's "Maps Of The Month" featurette, I wish to draw your attention to George s's Spider-Man: The Videogame (Arcade) maps.

Spider-Man, Namor the Sub-Mariner, Hawkeye and Black Cat are the heroes you can play as in Spider-Man: The Videogame, where you take on a bunch of classic Marvel Comics villains.  Venom, Green Goblin, Kingpin, and others stand in your way, until you confront Doctor Doom in the final chapter, "Doom's Day".

What's neat about this game is that it has both beat-'em-up and platforming sequences, with zooming-out and zooming-in transitions between them at least a couple of times each chapter.  How many multi-genre arcade games do you know of, especially with such quick and seamless genre switches?

George s is a major contributor to VGMaps.com, and has been awarded the Maps Of The Month honour multiple times before, but until now, not for an arcade game.  This is an oversight, since arcade games are clearly George s's specialty, with over 1,700 maps of arcade games to his name!  The arcade atlas would be one-quarter its size if not for George s!

So to recognize the effort put into mapping this arcade beat-'em-up/platformer hybrid, George s's Spider-Man: The Videogame (Arcade) maps will be known as VGMaps.com's Maps Of The Month for August 2026.