

Green Goblin sits at the top of the tower, and is depicted as a loose collection of green and purple squares standing on a moving glider. It has players slinging their way up a building as Spider-Man, diffusing bombs and avoiding bad guys along the way.

Published by Parker Brothers, the Atari 2600 adaptation is essentially a reskinned variant of Crazy Climber. It’s not just an abstract joke that’s Green Goblin as he appears in 1982’s Spider-Man game. That’s where we get the film’s most hilariously obscure references: One of the villains shown is simply a collection of green pixels floating in a tube. At one point, he’s even introduced to a few villains from video game realms. The long sequence is a gold mine of references, as Miles meets various Spider-Men and villains from different worlds. In Across the Spider-Verse‘s second act, Miles Morales is introduced to the Spider Society, an elite team of Spider-Man pulled in from around the multiverse.
