Spider-Man

The discovery of this prototype was first reported by the Brazilian site, Odyssey Mania (then Odyssey 2000), in December 2003. The prototype, which is on EPROMs, is currently owned by a Dutch collector, Bas Kornalijnslijper. Parker Brothers licensed the Spider-Man character from Marvel Comics Group in or around 1982 and immediately set out to create video games around him. While the company did manage to release Spider-Man for the Atari 2600, the Philips G7000 version never made it to market. Screenshots show that the G7000 prototype looks quite similar to the Atari 2600 release. In that game, Spider-Man must avoid hazards while climbing up the front of a yellow skyscraper on his way to a final confrontation with the Green Goblin. The G7000 game also contains an intermission screen.

Rumors of a G7000 Spider-Man game started back in June 2002, when collector René van den Enden found a reference to the title in an article from an 1984 issue of the German magazine Commander-ROM. This prototype proves it was for real!

Bas Kornalijnslijper debuted a reproduction cartridge version of Spider-Man at the Retro Computer Meeting in Scheidam, Netherlands, on April 9, 2006.