Games and Toys
Giant spiders appear in several role-playing video games, such as Dungeons & Dragons, and the first edition of Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game, where they are described as "a spider of staggering size—perhaps 15 feet around—with great furred body." In the Metroid series of video games, spider-shaped foes are common, with the trilogy's antagonist, Metroid Prime, having a spider-like Metroid as her primary physical form. The trilogy also includes the Ing, antagonists of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, whose warrior forms resemble spiders, albeit with five legs rather than eight. Atlach-Nacha is an H-game centered on a spider demon disguising herself as a human woman.
In the LEGO toyline Bionicle series, the Visorak horde is a species consisting of six spider-like breeds. They are created by the Brotherhood of Makuta to take over islands. They possess mutagenic venom, and spin sticky green webs. In the Transformers series, Blackarachnia is a Decepticon that turns into a giant spider. Being part biological, her venom paralyzes other Transformers and she is capable of spinning webs.
Read more about this topic: Cultural Depictions Of Spiders, Other Depictions
Famous quotes containing the words games and, games and/or toys:
“In 1600 the specialization of games and pastimes did not extend beyond infancy; after the age of three or four it decreased and disappeared. From then on the child played the same games as the adult, either with other children or with adults. . . . Conversely, adults used to play games which today only children play.”
—Philippe Ariés (20th century)
“At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)
“If, during his daily walk, he met any children flying kites, playing marbles, or whirling peg tops, he would buy the toys from them and exhort them not to gamble or indulge in vain sport.”
—For the State of Rhode Island, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)