lukenuetzmann plays Spider-Man and X-Men in Arcade's Revenge - Part 6 of 14

In this edition of the PrinceWatercress Blog, we play the first Storm stage, and if you were expecting to fly around and destroy giant robots with tornadoes and lightning or something, guess what? Your expectations are about to be crushed in the most brutal way that a video game can crush them.

Storm Stage 1

We're playing as Storm...and we're swimming. What the crap?

Shoot the pump at the beginning of the level. It's that machine with the little pink wheel that you would turn with your hands in real life with your lightning. This will raise the water level.

When you go underwater, the bubbles on the oxygen meter will get smaller and smaller until you have none at all. Whenever you get hit, you lose oxygen. To replenish it, you'll have to make it to the surface and stay there for a few seconds so it can completely refill. Yes, this is your life meter. Wonderful. Also, if you see any bubbles underwater, move into them and you'll refill a little bit of your air. You'll see them come out of the ground at times, so keep a look out.

You'll be in a maze where you'll have to destroy those pumps to raise the water level and you'll have to destroy walls that block your path in order to move on.

Whenever you find a giant clam, destroy it to get two pearls to come out. Grab these pearls for points. You'll also find bubbles come out of these things after you take a clam out. You can also find other power-ups, such as the whirlwind and the eight-way lightning attack.

The gold icon that looks like a compass is your eight-way lightning attack. Use it and you'll shoot lightning in (what else?) eight directions. It only works once, though.

The whirlwind is pretty self-explanatory - it sends out a whirlwind that takes out anything in front of Storm, and it can also protect you from enemy fire. You can get one from the pearls in the clams.

The enemies here are pretty easy: you have squids that shoot at you, scuba divers, mines that are really annoying and can block you from the surface of the water, and electric barriers that take too long to briefly turn off so you can go on your merry way. Be very careful near these barriers, because when you stand still underwater, you slowly start rising to the surface.

If you're stuck, you probably missed a pump...and you're probably going to have to waste a lot of oxygen just to find it and get back to the surface. Thanks for being a jerk, game.


The boss is just a stupid orb moving up and down a wall. Just make your way to the surface so that you can refill your air every single time you get hit, and just shoot at it. After several shots, you've defeated it. What's really weird is that you don't know it's the boss until after you beat it and go to the right afterwards. What a disappointment.