I’ve never been a huge comic book fan, but I am familiar with some of the characters and situations. Captain America, soldier with a shield. Hawkeye, bow and arrow guy. Iron Man, rich guy with fighting armor. Vision, android. I learned all of that from the arcade game starring the four of them, Captain America and the Avengers.
So it seems that the dastardly Red Skull has used his mind control device and massive wealth to gather a team of supervillians. Goal? World domination, of course. So Cap and his buddies have to save the planet the only way they know how, by pummeling the villains senseless.
The game is pretty straightforward, run to the right, savagely destroying everything in your way. There are comic-style interstitials between the levels and what might possibly be the cheesiest voice acting ever recorded (I’m pretty sure there’s just one guy doing all the voices, and his range is… less than impressive). So it adds to the cheesy-appeal factor. Lots of characters across the Marvel universe make cameos to help out, so if you’re into that kind of thing, it might be kind of fun to try and spot them all. But I just play it because Captain America has a hard time saving the world without my help, and it’s nice to feel needed.