Genre: 2D / Fighting / One-on-One CDs: 1 (396 Megs) Players: 1 or 2 Player Versus ESRB: Teen
 Animated Violence
Publisher: Capcom Retail Barcode: 0 13388 21017 6 Memory: 1 Block
Developer: Capcom Sony ID: SLUS-00257 Accessories: None
Released: September 30, 1997 PSRM: 003290


Box Copy
Play as your favorite Marvel character: Wolverine, Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, Captain America, Iron Man, Psylocke, Shuma-Gorath, Blackheart, Juggernaut, or Magneto. Power up with an Infinity Gem - Grant your super hero healing power, super attacks, and increased strength.

Discussion
Excelsior!

Now we’re talking fun! Capcom’s triumphant sequel to X-Men: Children of the Atom proved to be a huge hit at the arcades and in the home console. Bringing together 6 heroes and 4 villains our once yearly fighting game company proves the PlayStation is capable of some great things.

Besides your standard Street Fighter-like controls, MSH tosses in some interesting play mechanics based on the Infinity Gems. Each gem covers a specific ability, among them health, speed, time, etc. Once these are equipped, your character becomes enhanced for several seconds. This can bring an interesting aspect to the fight, as characters who enhance their actual ability (for example, Hulk using Strength) become almost an unstoppable juggernaut…including Juggernaut!

With the exception of some questionable loading times every so often, Marvel Super Heroes holds its own after all these years, and truth be told, is still one of the true staples of the PlayStation universe. 		Trivia
  • There are now 3 confirmed variants apart from the regular release! See below for details.
     
  • I just noticed this while scanning in the variants. The game's case artwork actually presents you all but two characters separated by alignment. The front cover features all 6 good guys, the CD features the 3 'human' bad guys, and the inside back insert features the 'god' character Thanos. Oddly, the two missing are the bad 'creature' characters - Shuma Gorath and Blackheart. Sadly, the Fighter's Edge version ruins this by having a silkscreen of the good guys on the CD. 
     
  • Despite not showing it, the US Sega Saturn Version uses the Japanese 1 Meg Cart.
     
  • Several stages are interactive in not-so-subtle ways. Your attacks will constantly damage Iron Man's lab area, you can destroy the bridge in Wolverine's stage, get thrown through Shuma-Gorath's area, etc.
     
  • The game is based loosely around the events of the Infinity Gauntlet storyline from the early 90s Marvel Comics. Thanos, the end boss of the game, searches out 6 Gems that essentially give him the power of a God. He removes half the universe's population with a single snap of his finger, can control entire planets, and creates his own mate. In the game, each of the 6 Gems have specific powers that help you against an opponent. Thanos has control of all 6 in the final battle.
     
  • Like other games, several characters were borrowed or lent to other games. Juggernaut, Wolverine, Psylocke and Magento came from the X-Men: Children of the Atom game. Most of the cast then went on to be in Marvel Super Heroes Vs Street Fighter and the Marvel Vs Capcom games.
     
  • The Fighter's Edge variant is in regards to a weird promotion that Cpacom and GamePro set up. Essentially each Capcom game had points you could clip from the manual's back cover. Sending these in would allow you to buy Shirts, SNowboards, Mugs, etc. The problem was that instead of having the killer capcom artwork that everyone would want, it only featured the Fighter's Edge logo, which was was very generic and rather pointless. The program eventually quietly closed.
     
  • Originally worth 15 Points in Capcom's now defunct Fighter's Edge promotion.
Variants / Misprints
This will be a little confusing. There are 4 total versions (known) for Marvel Super Heroes.

The original releases were the "Instant Win" version seen in the page's top panel, and the Target Exclusive "Free Hotline Card" version show to the right. Target's version had the phone card shown below:



Everyone else had the Instant Win ticket, which was part of a promotion through Capcom.

After these two offers subsided, the plain version was released, show to the right of this paragraph.

Finally, for the re-release pertaining to the Fighter's Edge promotion, the newly skinned version seen to the right of this paragraph was released, along side several other Capcom games with the Fighter's Edge cover style.

Marvel Super Heroes "Target Hotline Card" Variant: PSRM-003291

Marvel Super Heroes "Plain" Variant: PSRM-003290

Marvel Super Heroes "Fighters' Edge" Variant: PSRM-003290
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