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This from Ranker:
"Starting us off the is the Superman game for the Atari 2600 released in 1979.
This game is actually known for being pretty unplayable, however it is the first super hero game to come out for a home console system so it definitely has a place on this list.
It starts out with the phone booth quick change which is kind of cool, though.
In case those of you watching this video feel like you just took some bad acid, don't call 911 (or your dealer) just yet, here's what's happening in this video and the "plot" of this actually pretty inaccurate game.
"Basically you have to repair the bridge and arrest Lex Luthor and his other thugs. If the kriptonite (that atom thing) touches you, you become powerless (the Spider-Man) and have to find Lois Lane (the nurse). She "cures" you.
When you're finished, you have to go to the journal where Clark works (the rectangle with a question mark) and the game ends. The other rectangles are subways entrances (I think). And I don't know what the helicopter is for."
(thanks YouTube!)"
Now for number 2 on the list: Spider-Man!
"A classic game, w/o Superman's playability problems, Spider-Man was one of the MUST OWN Atari games from our youth.
An exercise in avoidance, it played closer to Donkey Kong than an actual Spider Man game, but it is the one we all remember taking out of those grid-patterned white boxes and throwing into our Ataris.
This game took the genre about one step further (no more, no less) and was actually able to mirror the some of the abilities of the actual comic book character.
In the game you could swing like Spider-Man and even climb walls like him. Sure, the entire premise of the game revolves around Spider-Man trying to do something that would pretty much be a given for him in absolutely any other situation, but it's as close as they got back then and sure as hell kept ME entertained when I was a young lad."
Too bad Raimi didn't take that costume idea for the Green Goblin used in Atari's promo commercial for the game way back in 1982. Hey, at least he didn't look like a Power Ranger!
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