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- It's one of the earliest movie tie-in games - Superman was the biggest film of 1978. It's worth noting that the movie tie-in eventually all-but-destroyed Atari, after ET was such a massive flop in the early 80s.
- The game is the half-brother of Adventure, the legendary graphic adventure game released a year later on the same system. Both games shared the pick-up-and-drop-objects mechanic, and the system of inter-connected game screens, revolutionary at the time.
- The game is one of the first to attempt a story-driven narrative within an action game. You are faced with a number of concurrent tasks - saving Lois, rebuilding a broken bridge, and collecting up the bad guys within a Metropolis setting.
Fun Facts
-A 4 year old Jeff Gertsmann can be this game in under a minute.
Put the bridge back together and throw Lex Luthor and his gang in jail in this early Atari 2600 release.
This 2600 release is especially notable for a few reasons...- It's one of the earliest movie tie-in games - Superman was the biggest film of 1978. It's worth noting that the movie tie-in eventually all-but-destroyed Atari, after ET was such a massive flop in the early 80s.
- The game is the half-brother of Adventure, the legendary graphic adventure game released a year later on the same system. Both games shared the pick-up-and-drop-objects mechanic, and the system of inter-connected game screens, revolutionary at the time.
- The game is one of the first to attempt a story-driven narrative within an action game. You are faced with a number of concurrent tasks - saving Lois, rebuilding a broken bridge, and collecting up the bad guys within a Metropolis setting.
Fun Facts
-A 4 year old Jeff Gertsmann can be this game in under a minute.
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