[games] Atari’s Superman Game … A deep-dive into an Atari 2600 video game based on Superman. ‘Superman is, as you’d expect, based off of the influential DC Comics character created back in 1938 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Superman is not the first licensed video game ever made – that honor goes to Fonz, a 1976 arcade game by Sega – but it is probably the first unique one, given that Fonz was just a rebranded version of Sega’s Road Race game. It’s also an early example of corporate synergy in the game industry. Warner owned both Atari and DC Comics at the time, and had just published the hugely successful Richard Donner Superman movie in December 1978.’
Atari’s Superman 2600 Video Game
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