A History of Terrible Image Comics Games

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A History of Terrible Image Comics Games
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With Spawn joining the fight in Mortal Kombat 11, Josh from Panels to Pixels takes a look at the Image Comics Video Games of yesterday. From Todd McFarlane's Spawn and Jim Lee's WildC.A.T.s on the SNES to Spawn: The Eternal on the PlayStation, plus a few surprises along the way.
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@YasukeTengu 3 жыл бұрын

Dreamcast's Spawn in the Demon's Hands was pretty fun

@userseven1436 3 жыл бұрын

Absolute blast on the original arcade cabinet.

@YaowBucketHEAD 3 жыл бұрын

It's one of my favorite Dreamcast games ever. I purchased it randomly and I'm super glad I did.

@DaRealKing303 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, this dude is tripping! The one on the dreamcast is an awesome game. Was one of my favs growing up.

@ACARDtvMusic 3 жыл бұрын

Don’t forget Spawn Armageddon for the PlayStation 2!

@ACARDtvMusic 3 жыл бұрын

@@YaowBucketHEAD I did that with PS1 Spider-Man. Classic.

@blairfarrell1706 4 жыл бұрын

We both know that if any of those Spawn games were remastered we would be refreshing our browsers during the Limited Run Games campaign.

@Vampiranhador 3 жыл бұрын

Spawn: Armageddon was pretty decent and enjoyable

@Ratchetcomand 4 жыл бұрын

Spawn: In the Demon Hand was awesome

@destronlaserwave9566 4 жыл бұрын

8:02 "Infinitely more successful in it's *X-ecution* ." I see what you did there...

@Larry 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic video Sir, really enjoyed it! Great topic to cover too! The Spawn arcade game was pretty good I will say, Capcom even rehashed it into a Heavy Metal arcade game.

@alecaquino4306 3 жыл бұрын

Ugh. This guy again...

@PanelstoPixels 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Larry! Glad you liked it.

@Larry 3 жыл бұрын

@@PanelstoPixels No worries, I've subbed to you, so lookign forward to seeing what you've got planned next! :)

@user-ok8jj3qs9y 3 жыл бұрын

@@PanelstoPixels Please make Russian subtitles! and check the original subtitles of youtube did not write them correctly, I really want to watch your video!🙌🙌🙌

@tapset 2 жыл бұрын

@@alecaquino4306 my sentiments exactly

@sethkumar3037 4 жыл бұрын

Todd's GOT to let someone ELSE direct Spawn!

@UGOISCOOLNOW 3 жыл бұрын

Cough cough spawn movie 1997 cough cough

@Joecbg100 3 жыл бұрын

He's never gonna get it done. He's been saying that shit for years now

@elmono6299 9 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, that's never going to happen because Todd McFarlane is a huge control freak.

@dachers1238 4 жыл бұрын

Man I am absolutely loving this channel. Really takes these deep dives into places other channels just can't seem to reach.

@PanelstoPixels 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad you like it!

@tf5463 4 жыл бұрын

Yes! So much research and effort. It is criminal he has so little subscribers.

@PanelstoPixels 4 жыл бұрын

@@tf5463 I agree.

@blammowammo8316 3 жыл бұрын

That's not even true. Other channels do this exact same thing, you just haven't found them yet.

@blammowammo8316 3 жыл бұрын

@@tf5463 No, no it isn't.

@mikecargioli3030 4 жыл бұрын

I love Mutant Apocalypse. All the Capcom licensed titles on SNES were pretty great.

@PanelstoPixels 4 жыл бұрын

Yes!! Mutant Apocalypse and War of the Gems are two of my all-time faves.

@kikook222 3 жыл бұрын

'threaten us with a remaster' I loved that line.

@GeekTheGecko 4 жыл бұрын

Where is Spawn: In the Demon's Hand or Spawn: Armageddon?

@gnosticsam 3 жыл бұрын

I was wondering the same thing. Armageddon was fun in my memory

@jdoggydogg 3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing considering that Armageddon came out after Soulcalibur 2...

@lordmaster4306 3 жыл бұрын

Because they're not terrible

@GreekGeek891 4 жыл бұрын

"Wildcats are a bit shit" And you lost me.

@markw110 4 ай бұрын

Joe Casey's run in the early 2000s rules.

@FoxUnitNell 3 жыл бұрын

There was a cancelled Atari Jaguar game for the Image Comic title, "Maxx", and it seemed to play like a pretty cool isometric sidescroller with plenty of animations for when the player would get trapped and such.

@jungleGSC 3 жыл бұрын

the old spawn game was fire and so was the dreamcast one

@MattDraper 4 жыл бұрын

How much better could this video be? And the answer is, none. None more better.

@blammowammo8316 3 жыл бұрын

It could be better, any video on KZfaq could be done better. Stop with this false support.

@Danny-qc8fv 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for making these videos. They always brighten my day-even talking about lousy games, you have a loving tone. The channel is just always so pleasant to visit.

@PanelstoPixels 4 жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks! This comment has made my day. Glad I can help!

@blammowammo8316 3 жыл бұрын

The fuck?

@DanielBrongers 3 жыл бұрын

It is a shame that only The Darkness games (both on Xbox 360 and PS3) and Spawn (PSOne and the original Xbox console) no other Image property were made into a video game. I would love to play a WILDCATS, Youngblood or perhaps even a Witchblade video game on previous, current or perhaps even the next gen consoles...Kinda wish they had more love than just Spawn and The Darkness.

@casualenjoyer5420 10 ай бұрын

Dude @17:03 you literally unlocked a memory from my childhood that I didn't even know existed. That arm advertisment haunted me as a kid when I saw it in a video game magazine but I had a morbid obsession with it as well lowkey. Didn't even know what game it was for.

@ivanmcgann1989 4 жыл бұрын

11:07 I've never heard of Shadow Hawk so as a novice he looks kinda like a more metal Wolverine. I've got to look into him.

@PanelstoPixels 4 жыл бұрын

It's cheap, trashy fun but I love it.

@stanleyheaddii60 3 жыл бұрын

The best Spawn game was "Spawn: in the demons hand" for the Sega dreamcast.

@RappingNinja 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent video, wish this channel had thousands of views. Also wish you’d covered another PS1 game based on Image Comics - Danger Girl! At least it got released, if nothing else. (And indeed, it lacks much else going for it.)

@johnny4677 4 жыл бұрын

Good stuff man....enjoyed it all the way throughout....

@jungleGSC 3 жыл бұрын

almost every cartoon and game was a glorified toy commercial in the late 80s and 90s

@cbake76 4 жыл бұрын

Great stuff as always! Fun Spawn SNES fact: It was copublished by Sony Imagesoft (with Acclaim). Probably the last Sony game published for a non-PlayStation console. Also, I think it deserves a lot of credit for feeling like a new Spawn story that I think could have been an actual issue (minus Billy Kincaid, who should have been dead). You didn’t get that very much at that time in comic games, so much as you got levels taped together by strings of rogues gallery characters without much thought as to why.

@cbake76 4 жыл бұрын

Oh, and you forgot to mention Not Jean Grey chiming in all the time. 😀

@PanelstoPixels 4 жыл бұрын

Damn, how did I miss that?!

@Demsky83 3 жыл бұрын

There was one Good Spawn game back on SNES but the fatal flaw was if you ran out of energy you couldn't finish the game. Health bar be damned.

@MoCa1979Jr 3 жыл бұрын

I loved Marvel, Image & DC (in that order) in the 90s, so w/ a few tweaks & some remastering, I wouldn't mind playing any of these games on modern consoles. That WildCATs game looks to be the most promising, they just need to: make it co-op, have additional playable characters (i.e. Grifter, Voodoo, Zealot & even Void), & give them more powers/moves.

@larbearthegamer902 3 жыл бұрын

We're just gonna forget Spawn in Demon's Hand? In my opinion it's the best Spawn game from the 90's.

@mikemayberry7121 4 жыл бұрын

I really enjoy the content of this channel! I'd really like to see you do a video about the original GameBoy Spider-Man trilogy. Keep up the great work

@PanelstoPixels 4 жыл бұрын

Good suggestion. I'm not too clued up on handheld stuff but I still have my old Game Boy.

@exeacua 3 жыл бұрын

I really love the concept of youtr channel, I hope some day you can also do videos about games based on manga and european comics.

@SirRavix 4 жыл бұрын

That run cycle in The Eternal...XD

@timgonzales2891 3 жыл бұрын

My little brother doesn't know the pre arkham world, where almost every licensed game ranged from unplayable, to at the best mediocre. Most often just terrible.

@nerdfatha 3 жыл бұрын

Oh man, I may have to hunt down that Shadowhawk rom. He was always my favorite of the Image characters. I also get distracted by shiny covers.

@happiaxxident 10 ай бұрын

Just discovered your channel. I’m a professional game designer going on 30 years industry experience. I’ve worked on two, surprisingly, Panels to Pixels themed games. Excited to see if either pop up on your channel and how they fair.

@richardnixon846 3 жыл бұрын

This video should be called “Image comics videogames that were never published”

@krono5el 4 жыл бұрын

Shadow hawk were some of my fave childhood comics, so rad : D

@mack3265 4 жыл бұрын

Hey. Panels to Pixels! Have you played any of the Christopher Nolan tie in games? I believe the only two I played was Batman Begins for PS2, and the mobile game for The Dark Night Returns.

@thisWinglessAngel 4 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking of Spawn the Eternal yesterday. Game wasn't great... but i loved Spawn so much i played the ever living hell out of it. Though i couldn't get past Medieval Spawns area. I always thought the guys at Santa Monica Studio should take a crack at Spawn, with what they've done with God of War in the past, i feel like they'd do him some justice.

@PanelstoPixels 4 жыл бұрын

Honestly, seeing how badass the Spawn model in Mortal Kombat 11 is, I'd take ANY modern Spawn game. A God of War style romp through Hell would be awesome.

@liesureleeminis8268 Жыл бұрын

I have an absolute love for all the spawn games just from my obsession. I spent ages playing the gameboy color and SNES spawn game

@ANIME121ADDICT 4 жыл бұрын

its interesting while wildcats are the worst characters, they have definitely had the best comic runs, with writers such as alan moore, joe casey, warren ellis and artists like travis charest and sean phillips coming though the reins, definetly the best stuff to come out of the classic image years.

@captainfineapple4906 4 жыл бұрын

No Spawn Armageddon on the PS2?

@PanelstoPixels 4 жыл бұрын

Not a 90s game. Maybe a part 2 one day...

@PanelstoPixels 4 жыл бұрын

Hey, who you calling a fragile player?! I would like to do a part 2 that covers the 00s games at some point. I also missed off Spawn for the GBC because I don't really do much handheld stuff. We'll see if I get round to it.

@kaanunal8899 4 жыл бұрын

Isn't "The Darkness" a Top Cow property?

@TevyaSmolka 4 жыл бұрын

Kaan Ünal yes

@PanelstoPixels 4 жыл бұрын

Yes but initially published under Image. I guess it's only tangentially an Image game because of the Silvestri connection.

@kaanunal8899 4 жыл бұрын

@@PanelstoPixels Thanks! I just checked it and you're right. My bad.

@IdiotsInCarsChina 10 ай бұрын

I really hope the algoritm promotes this channel more, what an absolute gem!

@Rhetorical346 9 ай бұрын

Knowing what we know about Tommy Tellarico, he probably had nothing to do with the music.

@bobbyhall7472 10 ай бұрын

The guy wearing the Malcolm X hat is so nineties! Bootleg caps and bootleg clothing!

@outerheavengaming6196 3 жыл бұрын

I remember loving Spawn: Armageddon for the PS2

@koufax3739 4 жыл бұрын

I never really owned any image comics other than the walking dead, spawn had that killer HBO show tho ran 3 seasons, cool that they give the creators full rights to their creations but I always preferred dark horse to image. Great vid guy, I see the effort u put into your videos😁

@TheNerdHerd 4 жыл бұрын

Great vid!

@PanelstoPixels 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@Nin_the_Shinobi 3 жыл бұрын

I think Spawn deserves to get a good modern game like Spider-Man and the Arkham series

@fandomvault4901 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video dude. I enjoy channels that are comic specific & this is my favorite by far. I know exactly how you feel about shiny covers bro..I am guilty of buying the cyber force 90s shiny cover. How do you feel about cyber force?

@PanelstoPixels 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! Oh yeah, I LOVE Cyber Force. Silvestri is def the most underrated of the Image dudes.

@fandomvault4901 7 ай бұрын

Oh I agree. I just recently scored a soft cover graphic novel of the 90s cyber force run. What are your thoughts on the remake?

@OwenLikesComics 4 жыл бұрын

This is such a great video, loved it!

@PanelstoPixels 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Owen! Means a lot.

@Mr.Cthulwho 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you guys for giving a shit about your audience. Hard to find so much detail in a channel. Keep it the FFFFFFFFFFFF up!

@dkupke 3 жыл бұрын

Wasn’t there a The Maxx game that never got past the prototype stage?

@SlapNuts4Life 10 ай бұрын

I can't believe you missed the best one of all, Dangergirl on the PS1. At the time DG was from Cliffhanger Comics which was a part of WildStorm which of course is under the Image umbrella.

@badbabybear1 3 жыл бұрын

I played Spawn the Eternal so much as a kid.

@Steadysphere 3 жыл бұрын

17:27 Wait a minute. How did you find out my oddly specific way of playing Doom on the SNES?

@chancepaladin 9 ай бұрын

Once I started playing WildC.A.T.S. and 'got it' I couldn't stop playing through tilt he end. holy crap what a game! if you've already played through the xmens and spidermans, try it! Spawn was pretty rough. :( I have that Shadowhawk comic it's beautiful. I can't wait to check that game out!

@ralphharrison6622 3 жыл бұрын

I remember the day I read my first image comic. It was wildcats issue 2. I loved it, couldn't get enough. Then, image was everywhere. It got super over saturated. So many 'x teams' comics started puking out all over the place. After that, I just walked away from comics all together.

@Monkeyshaman 4 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure early ps1 titles are why we have more pushed release titles today.

@rolandkatsuragi 2 жыл бұрын

Didn't know there were attempts to get a Gen 13 game off the ground

@andrewquick4176 9 ай бұрын

Fantastic video Well done

@stanlee5465 3 жыл бұрын

Me Too! Give me a hologram or foil embossed cover, and if the character is disrupting the comic's Title then EVEN BETTER!

@Baronsunday 4 жыл бұрын

Dude ! What about Spawn on Dreamcast and I believe XboX?

@MattyStoked 4 жыл бұрын

Here I was thinking I'd be all snooty and tell you that there was a cancelled ShadowHawk game. As if!

@jadenandthefamily9974 3 жыл бұрын

We need a image comics PITT game or invincible game

@jeffleake1960 Жыл бұрын

spawns been done dirty in other media other than comic books

@blazejknap8401 3 жыл бұрын

I would like to see a remastered spawn on the snes, armageddon and eternal released in as a collection like devil may cry

@jediknightgeo 4 жыл бұрын

Many mediocre Spawn games? He's only had 5 games in general lol.

@PanelstoPixels 4 жыл бұрын

And all of them were mediocre.

@jediknightgeo 4 жыл бұрын

@@PanelstoPixels I definitely wouldn't say that. The Super NES version was OK, it was the controls that were terrible to pull off moves and they could have eased up on the difficulty at times as it felt cheap. Spawn In The Demons Hand on Dreamcast as fun as hell.

@GreekGeek891 4 жыл бұрын

Last time I checked that James Rolfe would disagree about Spawn Armageddon and the Dreamcast game being mediocre 😉

@sokutokh3521 2 жыл бұрын

The first Spawn game on this looks pretty fun. I’d love to play it someday.

@superheroenjoyer6763 3 жыл бұрын

17:57 that could actually work. Get netherrealm to do it, make it the exploration like the krypt and the fight lie normal mk.

@evanabbott2737 3 жыл бұрын

I had that spawn game for snes as a kid, I could never get much past the first boss, “the redeemer”.😁

@st1ka 3 жыл бұрын

aww I was hoping to see Spawn for the Game Boy color as well

@mysteryneophyte 3 жыл бұрын

Dude i love Rob Liefeild comics and characters man, I really do.

@woolfieMcP 3 жыл бұрын

anyone know the song at 8:25?

@Panthror 10 ай бұрын

Got to say: Jim Lee's Cyclops at 5:54 looks a lot like Rob Liefeld's Captain America at 8:19

@DrGamelove 3 жыл бұрын

Capcom made a pretty cool Spawn game for the Dreamcast. But if I recall it didn’t have much to do with anything and was just a third person competitive shooter with spawn character skins. Beats the hell outta that PS1 game you showed though.

@bahmat 3 жыл бұрын

I'm surprised Rob Liefeld is still considered an artist.

@MP-vd1ck 3 жыл бұрын

Rob Liefield's official title is pouch illustrater

@blueworldcomics7908 4 жыл бұрын

You didn't do a great job explaining why that last Spawn game was bad... I kinda wanna play it now...

@Irishfatboy 2 жыл бұрын

Watching this video makes me in the mood to be ready for an invincible game, I want it to be real

@bondagedangel 3 жыл бұрын

Soul calibur 2 was in 2002 and Spawn Armageddon was 2003

@nexusgiga 3 жыл бұрын

todd please release these spawn games i need them

@whitespyder9 3 жыл бұрын

@2:22 are you suggesting that Chris Claremont co-founded Image Comics? Because he didn’t . He intended to write a book for Image in the early days, but that plan wouldn’t pan out until several years later.

@Aerosplinter Жыл бұрын

What if Arc System Works collaborated with Image Comics? That would be an insane crossover fighting game.

@toyboimaniac1661 3 жыл бұрын

OMG Night Hawk silhouette is DEADASS Wolverine. Lol

@dangerousdays2052 10 ай бұрын

Shadow Hawk aka Not Wolverine

@bobbygreen6907 3 жыл бұрын

Wildcats was never shit

@shadowhawktalks7814 3 жыл бұрын

I was a huge Shadow Hawk fan , obviously

@Jdkcicnsno 8 ай бұрын

Didn’t PS2 have a Spawn game? I’d be cool to have a video from Panels that covers all spawn games

@chiquita683 3 жыл бұрын

I always thought Jim Lee was Stan Lees son. So weird they both happened to have the same last night

@IHJello 3 жыл бұрын

That side of humility by diving into the shitpost.. i like it, but dont do it too often lol.

@LSSJTHOR Жыл бұрын

"Spawn in the demon's hand" was underrated. It WAS the BEST Spawn game. (Still got it 4 my DC)

@scottmcclary594 3 жыл бұрын

Jesus Christ those snes games, if I was lucky I might get to the second level before I game overed and had to start over in all my favorite properties, took me 15 years to beat the death and return of superman and I only did it once!

@whosaidthat84 3 жыл бұрын

All those beat em ups should have been two players and had just a tad more variety. They were never meant for kids to beat.

@justafanofnerdculture7602 2 жыл бұрын

I definitely enjoyed the SNES Spawn game, as well. It also features some of the best music in a video game, for me.

@Serkel 4 жыл бұрын

I think my favorite of the Image Comics games must be that Spawn game for the Dreamcast, it's just very fun to play with friends but there are a lot of better options for that kind of game in the console. Probably the only time Wild C.A.Ts were genuinely good was in the Wildcats 3.0 comic, I highly recommend checking it out, it's just fantastic and probably one of my favorite comic books of all time.

@loserscorner6746 4 жыл бұрын

I'd love an Invincible game. Like PS4 Spiderman meets the dynamics of RPGs like the Witcher. Plays through the story of the comic and beyond

@PanelstoPixels 4 жыл бұрын

I'd love to see a superhero game as fluid as Spider-Man but with deeper RPG systems. That's what I was hoping Avengers would be but I won't hold my breath. Your animated profile photo is rad, by the way.

@loserscorner6746 4 жыл бұрын

Panels to Pixels Cheers dude! Keep up the amazing channel. Genuinely always love the vids

@Tehdran 10 ай бұрын

It only took 3 more years for you to get a cellphone game lol

@mysteryneophyte 3 жыл бұрын

maximum carnage is in my heart and soul for ever, from everlasting to everlasting.

@northkoreanpropagandist7271 3 жыл бұрын

More like Batman and Robocop meshing together to look like Wolverine.

@VengefulNonsense 4 жыл бұрын

You mention Spawn on the SNES being "the best Spawn game" and then you didn't even cover Spawn: Armageddon or Spawn: In The Demon's Hand which are both pretty great Spawn titles. (Also my money for best Spawn game is on ITDH but that's just my opinion).

@PanelstoPixels 4 жыл бұрын

Eh... SNES is still the best, if you ask me.

@Diggy22 3 жыл бұрын

No mention of Spawn: In The Demon's Hand? That would have been a good redemption for the crappy Image games featured.

@The_Infamous_Boogyman Жыл бұрын

The darkness was awesome and i want a movie of jamie eating hearts!

@legoking6165 4 жыл бұрын

Hey there Panels to pixels! So, I noticed you reviewed and ranked all the MCU movie tie-in games and all the X-Men movie tie-in games. So is it too much to ask you for a review and ranking of all the spider-man movie videogames? All three Sam Raimi and both Marc Webb films got game tie-ins so.....maybe?

@PanelstoPixels 4 жыл бұрын

Hey! It's possible but I think that has been pretty well covered by other KZfaqrs including GodzillaMendoza. Maybe if a lot of people requested it and wanted to hear my take on it?

@legoking6165 4 жыл бұрын

Fair enough.

@angeltread 4 жыл бұрын

I request it. Mark it down.