Home to The Avengers, X-Men, The Fantastic Four, and many others, the Marvel franchise has a wealth of superheroes and comic lore to bring to life in video game format. The first Marvel video game would arrive on the Atari 2600 in 1982 with Spider-Man. After that, it would take some time before Marvel’s comic book iconography could be rendered sufficiently in video game format. Spider-Man's entries across the 2000s and late 2010s would prove smash hits, and numerous side-scrollers in previous decades would prove memorable.