Superman/Rastan?

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I just happened to see a screenshot from Superman by Taito, and the graphics look like they were done by the same team that did Rastan. Now I love Rastan, is Superman any good? I think I will check it out in MAME tonight. :D

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I like Superman too, but the gameplay is extremely repetitive. Each stage has the same basic enemies and you alternate between the same type of stages as well (side scrolling, vertical scrolling where you fly, and a horizontal scrolling section where you are flying also). Honestly once you've played through one stage, you've pretty much seen it all other than different backgrounds. I used to like playing the game quite a bit, but I was a huge Superman fan as a kid so I'm sure that helped. I do like the John Williams Superman theme that plays in game. :)
 
Rastan is classic and a great, challenging game.

Superman is so bad, I don't think you could give it away for free. Someone had posted a question recently and the winner would get a Superman PCB free. I think the winner declined the prize. Haha.
 
I'd say Rastan is better than Superman for the music alone! Superman's gameplay is way to monotonous but most jamma games for that era were....:cool:
 
I had a chance to purchase a Moppet convert to Super man and they applied Super Man art to the side. They wanted $700 or 500+ my Ms Pac. I walked away without it. I was hoping they would come down on the price later and I could get it but they eventually sold it. I didn't ask how much.
 
My biggest problem with Superman isn't the repetitive (but awesome) music or the fact that the gameplay gets boring, it's the fact that they made Superman a wimp. Too many enemies beat the living daylights out of you, simple objects harm you, etc, etc.

Missed opportunity is what I think Superman was in the arcades.
 
My biggest problem with Superman isn't the repetitive (but awesome) music or the fact that the gameplay gets boring, it's the fact that they made Superman a wimp. Too many enemies beat the living daylights out of you, simple objects harm you, etc, etc.

Missed opportunity is what I think Superman was in the arcades.
I hear you there, but I guess he has to be able to take some damage if they want to take your quarters. Still, it has to be better than Superman 64. :D
 
OH Hell, yeah. Rastan is awesome. It was my first grail, and my first arcade game. I sold it later when it died on me, but not before I played the cost of the game at arcade out of it. And I do have the PCB currently in my collection. And I always liked the graphics on Superman, but it isn't as good as Rastan.
Do you like Rastan too?
 
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Rastan rules... I didn't realize it was so popular. The music when 40 bats come charging at you still freaks me out a little bit... Awesome!

Never even knew there was a superman game before this thread except for the Atari 2600 version which was the 3rd worst game ever behind ET and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
 
Rastan rules... I didn't realize it was so popular. The music when 40 bats come charging at you still freaks me out a little bit... Awesome!

Never even knew there was a superman game before this thread except for the Atari 2600 version which was the 3rd worst game ever behind ET and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Dude, I'm with you on ET, but Raiders of the Lost Ark was probably the best Atari game ever made. That shit was visionary. The first game I can remember where you actually had to solve puzzels to make it through. Unlike ET the game actually made some sense. You just had to figure it out.
 
Was there ever a good Superman game? They always seemed to arbitrarily limit his powers so you couldn't really get the 'Superman' feel. As mediocre as it is, I think this arcade Superman is probably the best Superman game ever made.

PS I always thought that 2nd player Superman was kind of weird. When I was a kid my friends and I called him 'confederate Superman' since he had that grey cape. Used to play that one at the gas station a lot.
 
Was there ever a good Superman game? They always seemed to arbitrarily limit his powers so you couldn't really get the 'Superman' feel. As mediocre as it is, I think this arcade Superman is probably the best Superman game ever made.

PS I always thought that 2nd player Superman was kind of weird. When I was a kid my friends and I called him 'confederate Superman' since he had that grey cape. Used to play that one at the gas station a lot.
I still have all the Superman comics I bought as a kid and one of them was a re-telling of the idea of a blue Superman and a red Superman. The KLOV entry also mentions this as a possibility for why they changed the color. Also I really enjoyed the Death and Return of Superman game that was on the SNES in the early to mid 90's. It was a standard beat 'em up, but it also had a problem with repetition, though not as bad as the arcade game.
 
I still have all the Superman comics I bought as a kid and one of them was a re-telling of the idea of a blue Superman and a red Superman. The KLOV entry also mentions this as a possibility for why they changed the color. Also I really enjoyed the Death and Return of Superman game that was on the SNES in the early to mid 90's. It was a standard beat 'em up, but it also had a problem with repetition, though not as bad as the arcade game.

Here is more for those who don't know:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_Red/Superman_Blue
 
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