According to Richard Kay of Software Creations, development of the game was fraught with problems. In an interview he said: "Spider-Man And X-Men started going horribly wrong and Acclaim were screaming at us and threatening litigation and we ended up with three teams on this one game"
Acclaim terminated their license deal with Software Creations to make the home console ports of Mortal Kombat (1992) due to the executives feeling the British based developers weren't committed enough to Spider-Man and the X-Men: Arcade's Revenge (1992), an outcome which Richard Kay, co-founder of Software Creations, regrets as the home console versions of Mortal Kombat released across the various formats would have earned him and his company over 40 million in royalties.