13 Video Games That Prove Superman Is Cursed

13. Superman – Arcade

We'll start with Taito’s 1988 coin-op because it is, without doubt, the best game to feature Smallville’s most famous son. The problem is that that's not exactly saying a lot.

In this game you fly around fighting bad guys and shooting them with your eyes until you finally reach Emperor Zaas for the final battle. There is little variation in the gameplay and while it’s extremely fun at first it does become tedious pretty quickly.

The most interesting feature of this game is that it has a two-player co-operative mode. The second player assumes the role of a red Superman. Comic book buffs will know that such a character did actually appear in one lone issue (Vol. 1 no. 162) as part of an imaginary scenario. It was recently discovered that the second player was originally supposed to be Supergirl, as all the sprite images were left in the ROM.