What makes Cosmic Invasion so appealing to someone like me is that it’s an absolute love letter to those old coin-op beat-em-ups from the 80s and 90s. If you ever pumped quarters into Captain America and the Avengers, Spider-Man, Superman, The Punisher, or the X-Men arcade game, you know exactly what this feels like. It’s a side-scrolling brawler in the same vein as Altered Beast and Final Fight, games that basically defined an entire era of arcade culture.
