10 Best Spider-Man Video Games

7. The Amazing Spider-Man: Lethal Foes

Across the late 80s and early 90s (before the 3D revolution), every character was boiled down to a side-scrolling beat 'em up. No matter if your skillset was stealth and gadgets or web-slinging and ingenuity, if you had enough limbs to batter someone into submission, that's what you did.

Which is why it was so pleasing when - after a handful of early Spidey games being reliant on nothing more than aping Streets of Rage - we got Lethal Foes. Sadly resigned to a Japanese-only release, this solid-feeling, Super Famicom exclusive with artwork done by Mark Bagley, Karl Kesel and Paul Mounts was the first side-scrolling fighter to make use of Spidey's climbing and swinging in a truly satisfying way.

Yes, the 1982 Atari Spidey had him awkwardly battling Green Goblin by web-climbing a blocky-as-hell building, but Lethal Foes ushered in a combat system with refined hitboxes, a fantastic aesthetic befitting of the power of the Famicom, and more villains - Lizard, Mysterio, Doc Ock - than you could shake a web shooter at.