Friday, October 07, 2022

BatrocTober, Day 7: "BATROC HAS BEEN EATEN BY A GRUE"


from the side-scroller fighting video game (inhale) The Amazing Spider-Man and Captain America in Dr. Doom's Revenge! (exhale), (1989, Paragon Software, designed by Mark E. Seremet)

"You see BATROC."
PUNCH BATROC
"That thing isn't here."
HIT BATROC
"That thing isn't here."
KICK BATROC
"'Alors!' Batroc declares, as he twirls his waxed mustache. 'A challainge!'"


In 1996, Computer Gaming World declared Spiderman/Captain America the 27th-worst computer game ever released. But hey, there was a manual with OHOTMU-type stats inside. Looking up these stats served as your copy-protection. Oh, I hate that.


Also included: a comic book setting up the plot of the game, featuring TWO whole panels of Batroc!



from Doctor Doom's Revenge one-shot (Marvel, 1989), script by Danny Fingeroth, pencils by Rich Buckler, inks by Tony DeZuniga, colors by Paul Becton, letters by Rick Parker

All this is just to say I want a real Batroc fighting game.

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