Superhero games are a lot like superhero movies: they’ve been around for ages, but they haven’t been good until very recently. Many people would credit 2008’s Iron Man and the birth of the MCU with the creation of the modern superhero movie, but I’d argue it goes back to X-Men in the year 2000. Likewise, when people talk about the first good superhero game, they’d likely go back just one year less to Batman: Arkham Asylum in 2009; but I’d argue the true nucleus of superhero gaming also came in 2000, with Spider-Man on the original PlayStation.