User blog:Shoe2/Gaming and Marvel

I'm a huge gamer and a huge comic book fan, so one of the things I have always loved are tabletop Marvel games.

The first one I ever played/collected was Marvel Overpower the CCG that came out in the early 90's CCG craze. I collected almost every card, and never found anyone else who wanted to play in my area. The game died in 1999, it had an ok run, but didn't survive like Magic the Gathering and other popular games.

There were also a couple of really terrible board games based on the X-Men from the 90's and I played them both, but they were not very fun. I'm a little too young for the early Marvel RPG from the 80's but I wish I had had the opportunity to play it (I have the PDF's and am just waiting for a chance).

Flash forward to VS. system, I didn't buy into this game until after it's death, but it seemed like a great game and I enjoyed playing it with my 15 year old brother-in-law who lived with us for a short time. The game just, for some hidden corperate reason, couldn't stick around.

Most recently, Margaret Weis Productions released the Marvel Heroic Roleplaying game. I must admit, at first, I didn't like the system, but it was a Marvel game that was alive and kicking and I was determined to get onboard.

Long story short, that game has now failed too, after a short year lifespan. My question is this: Many people I know who are gamers also love comics, why then, do Marvels' games always seem to fail.

The only Marvel game that has stood the test of time is Heroclix, and even that failed and was bought out by a different company, so what's the deal?