You're probably looking at the picture to the right and thinking, "Wait, there was a Wolverine game for the Nintendo Entertainment System?" The answer is yes. Back in 1991, LJN released this little beauty, and I spent my birthday money on it. Like many games of its time, Wolverine was a platform game. You know what that means? Lots of jumping and falling to your death! You know what that equals? Lots of angry and frustrated kids.
== TEASER ==
Wolverine offered two moves: jump and punch. No ducking allowed. You could also move left or right depending on how you are feeling at that moment. However, you could also press the select button to do the unthinkable, release Wolverine's claws. But wait! Don't use those claws too much because they drain
The most fun you can have in this game though is pouncing on people from afar... and then slashing their heads off. You can use all of Wolverine's powers to sniff out the bad guys and from reading all the reviews of the actual game, people seem to love it. Funny thing about the new game, it's tied into a movie, and movie tie-in games tend to suck.
So the first Wolverine game was a complete and utter miss, and the latest one seems to be a little more on the money. Sure, there's a few games in between I'm not touching on, but are they really worth it? If memory serves me correctly, not really. If you're really interested in playing the original Wolverine game, good luck finding the cartridge for the game; however there are a few websites scattered around the net that will let you play NES games online. As for the Wolverine Origins game, you can find it pretty much anywhere since the game is a little more than a year old.
This is what I had to deal with as a kid. P.S. I could never beat the game because it was WAY too tough. By the way... How come I could NEVER duck and crawl in the original game but this guy does it seamlessly.
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