13 Video Games That Prove Superman Is Cursed

3. Superman: The Man Of Steel – The Computer Game

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Also known as Superman: The Game, this title was first released in 1985 for the Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit home computers by First Star Software. After this things get quite messy as I will endeavour to explain.

An English company called TyneSoft had already licensed several First Star games for release in Europe such as Boulderdash and Spy vs. Spy so it was only natural that they would pick up Superman. However they also negotiated an agreement that would allow them to port the game to other computers, but as a new game named The Man of Steel. Pretty much every one of these versions would end up being different from one another and were basically just a series of mini-games very loosely tied together.

As bad as the original First Star game was, the TyneSoft iterations were even worse and the mess of completely different games only made things worse with nobody quite knowing what game they were getting.

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Kieren is from England and is a well known figure in gaming circles. As a writer he is probably best known for his work on the award-winning Retro Gamer magazine but over the years he has written for numerous publications and websites. A keen games collector himself, he is also the organiser of several UK-based gaming events and has a big social media presence.