Superman

Superman

released on Dec 31, 1979

Superman

released on Dec 31, 1979

Superman is an action adventure game for the Atari 2600. It was one of the first single-player games for the system and one of the earliest licensed video games. Superman is one of the first to utilize multiple screens as playing areas.


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Superman de Atari era um que só se ouvia falar, era dito que não prestava e fim da história.
Mas não existem jogos ruins do Superman, deve haver um sentido para isso, fui atrás de respostas.

É não, não tem sentido mesmo.

O enredo é simples: Luthor e seus amigos estavam entediados e explodem uma ponte de algum riacho, vamos dizer que é a Golden Gate Bridge, pra dar alguma significância. Clark flagra tudo, veste sua cueca vermelha favorita, e sai em busca de justiça. A missão agora é levar cada um dos criminosos para a cadeia, recuperar os 3 pedaços da ponte e reconstruir ela.

De primeira, voando por aí, você nota que é um grande mapa de telas que você está explorando, e é bem fácil se perder, porque ele não segue um padrão convencional, é um mapa em forma diagonal e que você pode explorar ele todo voando pra sempre em apenas uma das direções, eu não estou zuando kkkkkk
Enfim, acredito que a ideia era essa mesmo para você decorar telas e fazer tudo no menor tempo. Tem um metrô também, mas ele só ajuda metade das vezes. A única utilidade do botão de ação é ativar a "visão além do alcance", você segura o botão e escolhe a direção pra ver a tela seguinte, é útil no metrô pra saber quando saltar, se é que você se acha ali.

Depois de jogar todo mundo na cadeia, o que não é lícito fazer, caso você vire herói um dia, dar uns beijo na Lois Lane que tá perdidassa no jogo e reconstruir a ponte usando engenharia reversa, você vira Clarque Quente de volta e pode caminhar até o Daily Planet para cumprir suas 12 horas de trabalho, sem direito a almoço.

Eu menti, existem jogos ruins do Superman.

Decades from now, when actual AI exists, it will tell us that this game's code is akin to waterboarding a chipset.

It's Adventure but with less fun and polish. You fly around grabbing items and putting them where they go before returning to the Daily Planet as Clark Kent. It's a really noble attempt at channeling the superman of the era, but lives in the extremely tall shadows of other games just like it. Someday a good Superman game will come (that isn't Death and Return for the SNES)

This is the Superman game of all time.

Game #41

Superman is one of the earliest coulda-woulda-shoulda games. A game that you can tell would have been a borderline classic if they just did this or changed this or, in Superman’s case, if it came out a year or two later. Its one of, if not the first, home console games based on an existing IP - I’m still not googling it to see if my assumptions here are right, sorry, contribute to the Patreon I don’t have if you want accurate well researched content piggy - and certainly the first Superman game, so they went real ambitious with it.

You can tell that ambition by how it becomes a quickly flashing graphics cycling mess the minute more than two things are on screen at once. But there really wasn’t anything like this on the Atari yet, not even close. Superman has scrolling continuous maps to go through, each one a little different, there are short cuts you can take, its hard to say its non-linear but its the closest thing to non-linear you get on this console for a little while longer. Its actually closer to the game Adventure than it is to any of the action or arcade games on the 2600.

You are tasked with rebuilding a destroyed bridge, going around and scooping up Luthor’s goons to drop into jail which itself is a fun little distraction, capture Luthor himself, and then get back to the phone booth before anybody realizes your elaborate disguise is a fake. If you get Kryptonited you have to find Lois Lane and make out with her which I’m almost certain was so well animated for the time that some degenerate cartoon pervert rubbed one out to it in these pre-anime days. The goal is to do all these things as quickly as possible and I mean you can bang it all out in about a minute if you know what you are doing, so after that it becomes a paper weight more than a cartridge game, but even with all the shortcomings this was a solid glimpse into where gaming was going and its worth it for that alone.