History VideoGame / Superman64

** Braniac isn't as terrifyingly powerful as Darkseid in regular DC media, but he's still super-genius android fully capable of destroying planets on his own and a major threat to the Justice League, and his treatment in this game is even more disgraceful than Darkseid- Darkseid at least actually ''fights'' Superman, while Braniac just stands there.
** Thanks to bad game design, Superman himself has also been hit with this. It is astonishingly easy to for enemies to hurt him, and he has so little control over his flight that ''passing through rings'' is a gigantic chore.

->''In short time your fate will be sealed, Superman.''

''Superman'' (or ''The New Superman [[TyopOnTheCover Aventures]]'' [sic][[note]]although, the word is correct... in French[[/note]]), [[FanNickname unofficially referred to as]] ''[[FanNickname Superman 64]]'', is an infamous video game based on ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' and released by Creator/TitusSoftware on May 31, 1999 on the UsefulNotes/Nintendo64.

** ''Reprogrammation'' happens to be the French word for ''Reprogram''. Given that the scenario, the fact that Titus is a French company and the fact that this game is essentially an ObviousBeta, it's possible that they overlooked it.

* BabyBoomers: Baby carriages inexplicably explode when picked up and thrown.

* ObviousBeta:
** There are so many glitches in this game that, despite its notoriety, no comprehensive list of them even exists.
** Sadly, there's footage on Website/YouTube of an actual beta of the game. And it's arguably ''[[EpicFail better than the release product]]''. The producer of ''Superman 64'' primarily blamed it on the [[ExecutiveMeddling licensers digging their hands messily in the development of the game]], and that apparently a massive amount of the code and assets had to be redone mere months, if not weeks, before release. With the ROM of the beta now available, the general consensus is that while the controls are only slightly better, the lack of rings and reduced occurrence of flight stopping glitches make the beta ''far'' more playable than the final product.

* AllThereInTheManual: After a fashion. By default, your only hint of a storyline is the single intro screen you see when you start up the game. However, there's a menu option in the pause screen that gives you an extra paragraph of text, and the game came [[{{Feelies}} bundled with a comic book]] that explained the game's backstory in ''much'' more detail.

** Superman villains Jax-Ur and Bizarro appear in the game's tie-in comic and are implied to be involved in Lex Luthor's plan. Neither villain appears in the actual game, though a photo has surfaced of Bizarro in level 8, presumably originating from the game's development.

* EvilerThanThou: The tie-in comic has Brainiac defeating and subjugating Darkseid, then [[VoodooShark not really giving a reason]] for why he doesn't dispose of Luthor with the same ease instead of working with him.

** The tie-in comic book explains that the reason Lex Luthor somehow has Darkseid under his control is because Brainiac, who helped Lex create the virtual world, managed to overpower and capture Darkseid thanks to his "technological superiority." The comic does not, however, explain why Brainiac doesn't just [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim beat Superman himself]] if he is perfectly capable of taking on someone who's ''stronger'' than Superman.

* TextlessAlbumCover: The North American front cover art simply displays Clark Kent ripping open his shirt to reveal his Superman suit underneath, with the title nowhere to be seen. The PAL version added the title.

* TyopOnTheCover: ''The New Superman Aventures'' ([[RunningGag sic]]).

[[caption-width-right:350:Enjoy this N64 ''Superman'' [[CoversAlwaysLie box art]]. It’s the best thing about it.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Enjoy this N64 ''Superman'' [[CoversAlwaysLie box art]].]]

''Superman'' (or ''The New Superman [[TyopOnTheCover Aventures]]'' [sic][[note]]although, the word is correct... in French[[/note]]), [[FanNickname unofficially referred to as]] ''[[FanNickname Superman 64]]'', is a video game based on ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' and released by Creator/TitusSoftware on May 31, 1999 on the UsefulNotes/Nintendo64.