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It didn’t go well. At all.

The PS4 never worked for me, so I swore off of it.

Until, being stuck in bed warranted something to alleviate boredom. Went to GameStop on a day didn’t feel like shit and purchased myself a PlayStation 4.

While I was there in the background as I was checking out was Spider-Man Miles Morales. I watched the video, knowing literally nothing about the game.

The kind clerk checking me out, said it was a great game. I asked if they had it. He said no and asked if I played the first one. Saying I knew nothing about the game at all and was recently getting back into video games, he explained Miles Morales was a sequel to Spider-Man.

Thus, my addiction to my favorite video game ever.

Seriously, it is so much fun to play.

Subsequently, I have played through several times and purchased the remastered edition and went to the midnight launch for my preorder copy of Spider-Man 2.

Well, I didn’t go, I was laid up from a motorcycle accident. My father kindly went in my place and brought the game back for me. I stayed up playing it that night.

This Spider-Man game reminded me of why I love the character so much.

He’s forced to choose between doing a good thing and having something awful happen. Whether it’s to him, the people he cares about, or the city he protects. Ultimately, even when Spider-Man wins, he loses.

It’s the ultimate struggle. And a representation of how a lot of people feel as well. I think it’s one of the reasons the character endures and is so appealing to people.

From there, I went in search of other games that would satisfy quite as well as Spider-Man did.

Which not only made me love the game, but the PS4 system as well.

So much so, I purchased a PS5 as well.

Mostly just to play the second one.

Okay, entirely to play the second one.

With this game’s excellence in mind, I searched for other games just as excited and compelling. Another game that could quite literally make me cry but keep me playing it again and again because I’m never bored.

Never.

Damn pigeons.

It led me down several rabbit holes, including a Batman rabbit hole, but that’s another Superhero Sunday.

Then a YouTube rabbit hole as well and I realized something – there are tons of Spider-Man video games.

Good or not, I have no idea. I have not managed to play them all yet.

Nor have I collected them all, as you can probably tell, there are several missing from a complete Spider-Man collection.

But here’s the thing, I’m not sure they need to be great. They don’t need to be the Spider-Man 2018 game or Miles’ game from 2020.

Spider-Man will be interesting no matter what.

And from what I’ve seen on YouTube, he’s kind of a perfect video game character.

Nothing ever needs to go perfectly right to be a Spidey game. Nothing in Peter’s life goes right. And also, the sheer silliness of the games works too. While Spider-Man can no doubt be a serious tale, with serious consequences. It’s also a story about a comic book superhero who can crawl on walls and that’s just ridiculous to say.

So, when I put a Nintendo game into one of my old Gameboys and found myself searching for someone’s lost keys, it was fun.

He’s the ‘friendly neighborhood Spider-Man’ and Peter Parker is a good average guy trying to help people.

Find their keys, stop a mugger, or beat the supervillain, he does it all.

He eats with his mask pulled up. Forgets about his curfew. And is a dork in the biggest way. Meaning his games can take many vibes and make different angles to be interesting and fun in different ways.

So far, none of them seemed exactly the same to me.

Swinging is different. Peter’s voices are different. And the games vary.

Just like Peter’s stories.

And I think that no matter what, I’m going to have a good time playing these.

I’m also super curious to know, aside from the perfection that is Marvel’s Spider-Man 2018, what’s the best Spidey game you’ve ever played?

Let me know in the comments!

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