TITLE
The story of the first Spider-Man game
AUTHOR
Colin Campbell
PUBLICATION
Polygon
YEAR
2018
ARTICLE TYPE
Article
FROM THE ARTICLE
Insomniac’s Spider-Man came out last week, the latest game to feature Marvel’s crime-fighting superhero. It took hundreds of developers multiple years to create the game, which likely costed anything up to $100 million to create.Those numbers are a long way from the first Spider-Man, which was created by one woman, working alone, over a period of six months. Laura Nikolich worked at toy company Parker Brothers in the early 1980s, and as part of a small team that created licensed games for the Atari 2600. Her colleagues worked on Star Wars games, while she was given Spider-Man.
GAMES MENTIONED
Spider-Man (1982)
PEOPLE MENTIONED
Laura Nikolich