History VideoGame / Superman64

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Done unintentionally. Cutscenes use the game's engine. As Superman flies out a window into the city and the screen fades to black, you can see him crash into the textured wall that depicts the skyline.
* ItGotWorse:

** [[ItGotWorse Even worse,]] there's footage on Youtube of an actual beta of the game. And it's actually, if arguably, ''better than the release product''. The producer of Superman 64 primarily blamed it on the [[ExecutiveMeddling liscensers 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.

* KryptoniteIsEverywhere: The game has "Kryptonie fog" in every level, diminishing his superpowers. Of course, it's just an in-game explaination for the severe distance fog that was supposed to mask the Nintendo 64's poor draw distance.

The player assumes the role of Superman and is challenged to complete puzzle obstacles throughout the game; usually levels contain similar challenges. In many levels, [[PassThroughTheRings Superman flies through a series of rings within a time limit]] (unless the player chooses to play the game on an easy difficulty; the rings then disappear but the timer remains the same). The "virtual Metropolis" is filled with what the [[HandWave developers called "Kryptonite fog"]] (which was actually the game's inability to render anything more than 10 feet away without being choppier than it already is), supposedly there to slow him down. Other levels feature Superman moving through buildings fighting various enemies and going out of his way to [[ChronicHeroSyndrome protect the virtual world's inhabitants.]] Oh, and every ring-based level is a TimedMission, too.

The player assumes the role of Superman and is challenged to complete puzzle obstacles throughout the game; usually levels contain similar challenges. In many levels, [[PassThroughTheRings Superman flies through a series of rings within a time limit]] (unless the player chooses to play the game on an easy difficulty; the rings then disappear but the timer remains the same). The "virtual Metropolis" is filled with what the [[HandWave developers called "Kryptonite fog"]] (which was actually the game's inability to render anything more than 10 feet away without being choppier than it already is), supposedly there to slow him down. Other levels feature Superman moving through buildings fighting various enemies and going out of his way to [[ChronicHeroSyndrome protect the virtual world's inhabitants.]] Oh and every ring-based level is a TimedMission, too.

LexLuthor creates a virtual version of Metropolis and then succeeds in [[DamselInDistress trapping]] LoisLane, JimmyOlsen and Professor [[DistressedDude Emil Hamilton]] within it. Superman is forced to enter Luthor's virtual world and [[AC:[[MemeticMutation SOLVE HIS MAZE]].]] He also has to complete puzzle obstacles in order to save his friends and stop Lex Luthor. Other villains Superman battles in the game include Parasite and Brainiac.

LexLuthor creates a virtual version of Metropolis and then succeeds in [[DamselInDistress trapping]] LoisLane, JimmyOlsen and Professor [[DistressedDude Emil Hamilton]] within it. Superman is forced to enter the virtual world and [[AC:[[MemeticMutation SOLVE HIS MAZE]].]] He also has to complete puzzle obstacles in order to save his friends and stop Lex Luthor. Other villains Superman battles in the game include Parasite and Brainiac.

LexLuthor creates a virtual version of Metropolis and then succeeds in [[DamselInDistress trapping]] LoisLane, JimmyOlsen and Professor [[DistressedDude Emil Hamilton]] within it. Superman is forced to enter the virtual world, then to fly through a series of rings and destroy cars. He also has to complete puzzle obstacles in order to save his friends and stop Lex Luthor. Other villains Superman battles in the game include Parasite and Brainiac.

* FissionMailed: It's possible to make it so that [[MemeticMutation Lex Wins]], and then proceed into the next part of the stage. An example can be seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZOWibh__uQ#t=27m50s here]] (around 27:50).

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

* XanatosGambit: Even if you beat Lex, [[spoiler:he's still in the real world.]] LEX WINS.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: The ring levels allow you miss a few of the rings (equal to the number of rings that are gold). Also if you fail a challenge after a ring level, you normally have to play the ring level again, but if you've already cleared the ring level 3 times, you can keep retrying the challenge indefinitely.

* NumberOfTheBeast: The total number of rings in Ride Stage 2 is 616. But this is likley a coincidense.

** [[VoodooShark How Superman is able to fly, let alone breath, with that amount of Kryptonite Fog is unexplained.]]

''Superman'' (or ''The New Superman [[strike:Adventures]] Aventures'' [sic]), [[FanNickname unofficially referred to as]] ''[[FanNickname Superman 64]]'', is a video game based on ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' and released by TitusSoftware on May 31, 1999 on the {{Nintendo 64}}. It is notorious for the negative reception it received from critics and is considered one of the worst games of all time.

** [[ItGotWorse Even worse,]] there's footage on Youtube of an actual beta of the game. And it's actually, if not arguably, ''better than the release product''. The producer of Superman 64 primarily blamed it on the [[ExecutiveMeddling liscensers 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.

* ObviousBeta: There are so many glitches in this game that, despite its notoriety, [[BeyondTheImpossible no comprehensive list of them even exists]].

* DevelopmentHell: The game was announced in 1997. It was released in America in May 29, 1999 and in PAL Territories in July 23, 1999.

The player assumes the role of Superman and is challenged to complete puzzle obstacles throughout the game; usually levels contain similar challenges. In many levels, [[PassThroughTheRings Superman flies through a series of rings within a time limit]] (unless the player chooses to play the game on an easy difficulty; the rings then disappear but the timer remains the same). The "virtual Metropolis" is filled with what the [[HandWave developers called "Kryptonite fog"]] (which was actually the game's inability to render anything more than 10 feet away without being choppier than it already is), supposedly there to slow him down. Other levels feature Superman moving through buildings fighting various enemies and going out of his way to [[ChronicHeroSyndrome protect the virtual world's inhabitants.]] Oh and every level is a TimedMission, too.