It seems that this mission uses a modification of the story in Superman issue #162 from July 1963, which featured Superman-Blue and Superman-Red, taking down one of Brainiac’s ultimate weapons.
The "Death & Return of Superman" is also pretty good, although in the same vein of beign hard like Adventures of Batman & Robin for the Sega Genesis. They went and did all of the Supermen playable, minus Clark with the black suit and metal emblem.
@@mattvolonte9026 That's his point. There has not been one good Superman game since the 2D era. With all the technology, and with Superman having all the crazy powers he has, we have yet to actually see a game using that to it's full potential.
@@13Gangland Besides, there's a lot they can do with Superman if they give enough thought to it. I still don't understand the trend of "oh no, he is way too OP, a new game would be boring". I mean, they can always depowered him a bit, make him go against supernatural enemies or so on.
That 2 player orange and silver version of superman is not shazam he doesn't even have a thunder bolt on it's chest its has an s on its chest that stands for superman
This game looks like it can be remade to have both Superman & Shazam. Superman with his heat vision & freeze breath & Shazam will have his lightning projection & lightning storm...
Geez, stop calling the 2nd player "Shazam". Back in 1988 when this game came out Shazam was known as "Captain Marvel". And technically the 2nd player wasn't even Captain Marvel, but a pallet swap of Superman!
I remember playing this game at arcades back in 1980s. I enjoyed it. But to this day, I don't know who the second Superman (in red) is... I once thought it was Captain Marvel (a.k.a. Shazam). Then I thought it was Mon-el... I'm still really not sure.
Why does everyone insist that player 2 is Captain Marvel? (That's right, in 1987 when this game came out that was his name) It's just a pallet swap of Superman. Just like Mortal Kombat had pallet swap ninjas to save on memory, player 2 is just that. Captain Marvel has gold boots, wears a white cape (pretend all you want but this game uses grey for player 2), doesn't wear trunks over his tights and has a lightning shaped logo...not diamond shaped like Superman's . You can pretend all you want, it's not Captain Marvel.
I believe it actually came out in 1988, for the 50th anniversary of Superman. (Kinda like how the cartoon that aired on CBS exclusively for 1 season did. Note: if you want to see the cartoon, you can probably find it on eBay I assume, but I know for a fact it's on DVD Netflix.)
Funny thing about that: Back then you could get the rights to Superman, and that was it: Just Superman. If you wanted to have more characters, like Lex Luthor, you had to pay more money for the rights of those separate characters. Taito only had money for Superman, that's why every bad guy in the game is some made up guy. Even player 2, which everyone thinks is Shazam/Captain Marvel, is not. Taito just made up some guy (that just so happens to have the same color scheme of Shazam/Captain Marvel), and called it a day. Which is why player two is just "Superman with a color swap" (I mean, Shazam doesn't have heat vision and "Player Two" does, for example)
@@CSLucasEpic Then i guess Taito was nothing more than a cheapskate company if they were not willing to pay more cash to include Superman Villains like Lex Luthor, Brainiac, Metallo, General Zod, Parasite, Darkseid, etc. Would have been a lot better than these Generic run-of-the-mill nobodies for this game.
@@ETH5626 Or maybe you are just stupid, whining about this like an idiot, while having no idea of the cost and whether or not it would have been justified.
Perhaps Superman right alone was pretty expensive but Taito decided to jump over the shark, knowing that games based on source material would sell like hotcakes. Wasn't aware that the devs had to pay for individual characters instead of the whole franchise. Wondering if that's the same case for Konami when they were making TMNT games.
This is my all time favorite arcade game super man he can save earth by him self he do not need back up he can beach press one million tons with ease i play this arcade game back in Chicago ill back in the day he is strong hero that the road warriors
The grey 2nd player is, according to Wikipedia, just a color scheme for player 2 could tell. Some say he is actually another character. Others say it is just the game. Idea? “Shazam”?
Tom Welling's Clark Kent should have wore the red spandex Superman suit with the gray cape, S-shield, trunks and boots, the same ones that the Red Superman wore in the 1988 Superman Arcade Game in the Arrowverse's Crisis On Infinite Earths event.
It would be interesting if the red Superman in this video game is the clone of the blue Superman. He could probably started out as a villain previously then later became good and became a superhero.
-_________- wrong Shazam has a lighting bolt and he don’t that’s just a player 2 version of Superman. I remember playing this game all the time at the arcades
If they remade/updated this game for nowadays you could probably have a New 52 Superman skin, Cyborg Superman, Eradicator, Bizarro, Henry Cavill Supes, etc.
As a kid I was always curious who the red guy was. Never knew Shazam could shoot lasers from his eyes or that Superman could generate hand projectiles. Strange
In the Manga/Anime "My Hero Academia" one of the lead characters, All Might, is able to "throw" huge gusts of wind to knock around the villains just by throwing punches at the air. His protégé, Deku, does something similar by using his finger flicks to create concentrated "bolts of air." Maybe Superman was using a similar technique? Something with a little more force and control than just using his super breath.
I have always wonder why didn't just make the second character Supergirl then that would explain why they have the same exact power without this being a weird question of who is this.
Probably due to sprite limitations. Making a palette swap didn't require a fully animated alternate sprite set for player two. Thus freeing up more room for enemy sprites/props/etc. That's why most 2 player games of the era just make player two a recolor.
Am I the only one who notices that some of the bad guys in this game look like Marvel characters [Silver Surfer, Black Bolt, Human Torch, Abomination etc]?
Taito's 1988 arcade adaptation of Superman is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to this now-defunct company screwing up the geography of North America as well as the English language.
I was playing this ~25 years ago at a bowling alley. I was stupid, and a kid, and my sweatpants didn't have any pockets so I stuck all of my remaining quarters in my mouth. While playing, I must've gotten excited or whatever and I swallowed one of the quarters. I could feel the ribbed edge all the way down my esophagus. To my knowledge, I never pooped that sucker out either. That reminds me as well of when I was 5 and at kindergarten. My butthole felt really itchy and I can distinctly recall pulling a completely intact blue toothpick out of my ass. Weird as hell eh?
You would need to use MAME++ 0.119. Keep in mind there is a chance of desync when playing online, but if you are creating a save state every stage, you shouldn't lose your progress. There are also other choices like MAMEHub and Retroarch, but I don't like them as much.
merenguin It's supposedly Captain Marvel, but the game itself doesn't actually say that, as far as I know. From the pictures I've seen of Captain Marvel, he has a lightning bolt logo on his chest. On the high score screen in this game, you can see the red player has the traditional Superman logo on his chest. It's possible it's not supposed to be a specific character and it's just a generic player 2.
+merenguin Actually it's a homage to an old Silver Age comic called "The Amazing Story of Superman Red & Blue" in which Superman was divided into two people. It was printed in Superman #162.
![[TAS] Mach Breakers: Numan Athletics 2 (1 player)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/4BPC48GxgJE/mqdefault.jpg)
That sound you hear is all the quarters from this game funneling directly into John Williams' bank account.
It seems that this mission uses a modification of the story in Superman issue #162 from July 1963, which featured Superman-Blue and Superman-Red, taking down one of Brainiac’s ultimate weapons.
Sad that after 30 years of technological advancements in gaming that this is still the best Superman game to date.
way better than the abysmal superman 64
The "Death & Return of Superman" is also pretty good, although in the same vein of beign hard like Adventures of Batman & Robin for the Sega Genesis.
They went and did all of the Supermen playable, minus Clark with the black suit and metal emblem.
@@mattvolonte9026 and it's alot more playable than superman 64 lol
@@mattvolonte9026 That's his point. There has not been one good Superman game since the 2D era. With all the technology, and with Superman having all the crazy powers he has, we have yet to actually see a game using that to it's full potential.
@@13Gangland Besides, there's a lot they can do with Superman if they give enough thought to it. I still don't understand the trend of "oh no, he is way too OP, a new game would be boring".
I mean, they can always depowered him a bit, make him go against supernatural enemies or so on.
An 80’s arcade predicted Shazam along side Superman before we ever got the DCEU.
That 2 player orange and silver version of superman is not shazam he doesn't even have a thunder bolt on it's chest its has an s on its chest that stands for superman
@@derekkinman7492 I know I was making a joke but take away the s on the chest and you got Shazam
@@BelmontClan That's his long lost twin, Kel-Al
The Red Superman wearing gray cape, trunks, boots and the S-shield on his chest is cool.
He kind of looks like shazam if you ask me.
It's not an S.
2nd player:
Captain Marvel aka Shazam
Was it? I always thought it was Mon-El. How do you know?
It's not Captain Marvel dumbass.
mon-el had a blue cape. Shazam is known for his red uniform and white cape
Shazam
Its not shazam. Its just an alternate colored superman. Like a purple suit ken.
The 2nd player looks like Shazam.
it´s Shazam. An easter egg
He was known as Captain Marvel back then.
Wrong its a 2nd orange and silver version of superman
I used to play this game in arcades back when arcades were a thing. Lol for years i thought player 2 was Shazam.
It is, Shazam. (aka Captain Marvel)
@@jamierose9095 No it isn't. They could not get the rights to use Shazam.
It’s Superman-Red.
Superman and Shazam Cool Game.
This game looks like it can be remade to have both Superman & Shazam. Superman with his heat vision & freeze breath & Shazam will have his lightning projection & lightning storm...
Geez, stop calling the 2nd player "Shazam". Back in 1988 when this game came out Shazam was known as "Captain Marvel". And technically the 2nd player wasn't even Captain Marvel, but a pallet swap of Superman!
While it might be a pallet swap there’s no denying that it looks like Shazam/Captain Marvel even the hair color is different
Taito showed how easy it is to make a good Superman game, so why can no one else do it?
I loved this game!
Holy shoot, I haven't seen this game in forever. I remember playing it at a convenience store.
I remember playing this game at arcades back in 1980s. I enjoyed it. But to this day, I don't know who the second Superman (in red) is... I once thought it was Captain Marvel (a.k.a. Shazam). Then I thought it was Mon-el... I'm still really not sure.
Looks like Shazam
Why does everyone insist that player 2 is Captain Marvel? (That's right, in 1987 when this game came out that was his name) It's just a pallet swap of Superman. Just like Mortal Kombat had pallet swap ninjas to save on memory, player 2 is just that. Captain Marvel has gold boots, wears a white cape (pretend all you want but this game uses grey for player 2), doesn't wear trunks over his tights and has a lightning shaped logo...not diamond shaped like Superman's . You can pretend all you want, it's not Captain Marvel.
Maybe he's a Kryptonian astronaut that was cryogenically frozen while the planet exploded?
They just need to believe it even though it's obviously not him.
It's Namrepus!
I believe it actually came out in 1988, for the 50th anniversary of Superman. (Kinda like how the cartoon that aired on CBS exclusively for 1 season did. Note: if you want to see the cartoon, you can probably find it on eBay I assume, but I know for a fact it's on DVD Netflix.)
The second Superman is only for co op and never explained . Not Shazam
Hilarious that the finishing blow to Braniac was when his own guy threw Shazam at him
I'm surprised this game didn't have Iconic Superman Villains like Lex Luthor, Brainiac, Metallo, General Zod, Parasite, Darkseid, etc.
The game developers couldn't get the rights to the characters.
Funny thing about that: Back then you could get the rights to Superman, and that was it: Just Superman. If you wanted to have more characters, like Lex Luthor, you had to pay more money for the rights of those separate characters. Taito only had money for Superman, that's why every bad guy in the game is some made up guy. Even player 2, which everyone thinks is Shazam/Captain Marvel, is not. Taito just made up some guy (that just so happens to have the same color scheme of Shazam/Captain Marvel), and called it a day. Which is why player two is just "Superman with a color swap" (I mean, Shazam doesn't have heat vision and "Player Two" does, for example)
@@CSLucasEpic Then i guess Taito was nothing more than a cheapskate company if they were not willing to pay more cash to include Superman Villains like Lex Luthor, Brainiac, Metallo, General Zod, Parasite, Darkseid, etc. Would have been a lot better than these Generic run-of-the-mill nobodies for this game.
@@ETH5626 Or maybe you are just stupid, whining about this like an idiot, while having no idea of the cost and whether or not it would have been justified.
Perhaps Superman right alone was pretty expensive but Taito decided to jump over the shark, knowing that games based on source material would sell like hotcakes.
Wasn't aware that the devs had to pay for individual characters instead of the whole franchise. Wondering if that's the same case for Konami when they were making TMNT games.
The one thing I remember about this game being among the top ten Eats All Your Coins Up Worst List.
This game has been in my memory for 30 plus years. I thought the suit was brown . 🤯
I never made it all the way to the end cause i kept dying. thanks for the upload.
Would have loved someone to have remodeled or ported this with an actual Captain Marvel skin. That would have been bad ass.
This is my all time favorite arcade game super man he can save earth by him self he do not need back up he can beach press one million tons with ease i play this arcade game back in Chicago ill back in the day he is strong hero that the road warriors
The grey 2nd player is, according to Wikipedia, just a color scheme for player 2 could tell.
Some say he is actually another character. Others say it is just the game. Idea?
“Shazam”?
The irony is if you gave Player 2 a Blue capes and boots you could say Mon-El and it would make sense power wise
Tom Welling's Clark Kent should have wore the red spandex Superman suit with the gray cape, S-shield, trunks and boots, the same ones that the Red Superman wore in the 1988 Superman Arcade Game in the Arrowverse's Crisis On Infinite Earths event.
It would be interesting if the red Superman in this video game is the clone of the blue Superman. He could probably started out as a villain previously then later became good and became a superhero.
player 2 is the lesser known Duperman.
Vincenzo medio no it’s not it’s just another Superman for player 2 alternate color.
@@thompsontroy083 its shazam
-_________- wrong Shazam has a lighting bolt and he don’t that’s just a player 2 version of Superman. I remember playing this game all the time at the arcades
@@thompsontroy083 oh that are details, its a game of the 90' s dont expectate too much bro
-_________- wrong again it’s an 80’s game, came out in the late 80s 🤦🏾♂️
Took almost 10 dollars in quarters to finish this back in the day
lol yea i remember dumping so much money into this as a kid
If they remade/updated this game for nowadays you could probably have a New 52 Superman skin, Cyborg Superman, Eradicator, Bizarro, Henry Cavill Supes, etc.
As a kid I was always curious who the red guy was. Never knew Shazam could shoot lasers from his eyes or that Superman could generate hand projectiles. Strange
It’s not Shazam.
In the Manga/Anime "My Hero Academia" one of the lead characters, All Might, is able to "throw" huge gusts of wind to knock around the villains just by throwing punches at the air. His protégé, Deku, does something similar by using his finger flicks to create concentrated "bolts of air." Maybe Superman was using a similar technique? Something with a little more force and control than just using his super breath.
Shazam!
I have always wonder why didn't just make the second character Supergirl then that would explain why they have the same exact power without this being a weird question of who is this.
Probably due to sprite limitations. Making a palette swap didn't require a fully animated alternate sprite set for player two. Thus freeing up more room for enemy sprites/props/etc. That's why most 2 player games of the era just make player two a recolor.
Where did the other Superman come from? Usually, when there's another clone of a super hero, he's usually evil.
When did Superman add the Hadoken to his list of powers? Is that in the comics or just this game?
This is actually a good Superman game though
The only _at all_ good, and thus *best* there ever was … _so far_ …
Superman & Shazam Or Captain Marvel?
Ya I remember this.. awesome game!
My child hood awsome
Why is there a restaurant in the San Francisco stage called "Cold Meat?"
At least I sure as hell hope it's a restaurant...
Maybe a gay bar???😂
Superman & Captain Shazam To The Rescue
Wow - I haven't seen this for a very long time!! thanks guys
Am I the only one who notices that some of the bad guys in this game look like Marvel characters [Silver Surfer, Black Bolt, Human Torch, Abomination etc]?
Superman & Shazam
This game was the coolest shit
brings back memories of Master this game I can beat in one quarter
If Red Superman wears a blue cape, S-shield, trunks and boots...it would make him look like Mon-El.
Or Even Better... Valor!
Who is red Superman? Where did he come from? What did he origin from?
14:50. I never knew that Mount Rushmore was in Washington DC. Must be in Maryland. xD
Seriously, they didn't do their research.
Taito's 1988 arcade adaptation of Superman is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to this now-defunct company screwing up the geography of North America as well as the English language.
Not only Mount Rushmore but apparently Niagra Falls too.
What if it’s super man and captain marvel aka Shazam arcade game
i remember this game, and what is funny, two superman
Does it really just play the theme song over and over the entire game until the last couple levels? Lol
and well ... what did they end up in, is it red superman, shazam, Mon El XDDDD ... or Red Son?
Shazam!!!!!
#arronmunroe "Hey #arronmunroe, that's #Superman & #CaptainShazam to YOU..... you're welcome people." 😊😏💖🕹️🎮🎬📱🔮 #DCEU #MiddlebrooksFanatics
Shazam and superman togeder!!!!!
Excélsior!
Is the red Superman supposed to be Shazam?
The boss is Emperor Zaa
its brainiac
Why is Shazam in this game? Eh he works.
They should have just made the second player Shazam
I say supergirl then that would explain them having the same power
developers didn't have the rights. which is why he's colored that way
@@Togemon5 That would of been good as well.
@@KevTheGalaxybender Oh Ok. But you can tell they were trying too anyway with that color scheme.
1 Player Superman
2 Player Shazam
It’s Shazam & Superman
Superman and shazam 😅
That is not SHAZAM people. The game developers could not get the rights to use him. That is just a Superman clone with the colors swapped out.
THE SAME SUPERMAN THEME PLAYS FOR THE ENTIRE GAME. This is worse than the NES Ghostbusters game.
No way! The Superman theme kicks ass!
Shazam
Superman y Shazam
Superman and Shazam ???
I was playing this ~25 years ago at a bowling alley. I was stupid, and a kid, and my sweatpants didn't have any pockets so I stuck all of my remaining quarters in my mouth. While playing, I must've gotten excited or whatever and I swallowed one of the quarters.
I could feel the ribbed edge all the way down my esophagus. To my knowledge, I never pooped that sucker out either.
That reminds me as well of when I was 5 and at kindergarten. My butthole felt really itchy and I can distinctly recall pulling a completely intact blue toothpick out of my ass. Weird as hell eh?
Nate Daren dude I'm at a total lost for words
...but they say that _change comes from within._
Thumbz down nigga
I have this game for MAME, but how do I do go online with others?
You would need to use MAME++ 0.119. Keep in mind there is a chance of desync when playing online, but if you are creating a save state every stage, you shouldn't lose your progress. There are also other choices like MAMEHub and Retroarch, but I don't like them as much.
arronmunroe You are the best! Thanks.....
It would be more cooler if the Red Superman's cape, S-shield, trunks and boots were blue than gray.
where i find this game??????? please heeeeeelp :
Try looking for "superman.zip". You would need MAME to play it.
Get a raspberry pi 3
Taito is the greatest of all time
Taito, Data East, Capcom and Konami 👍
delicius O:) 100%
daveroi
Who was the player 2??? The red guy????
merenguin It's supposedly Captain Marvel, but the game itself doesn't actually say that, as far as I know. From the pictures I've seen of Captain Marvel, he has a lightning bolt logo on his chest. On the high score screen in this game, you can see the red player has the traditional Superman logo on his chest. It's possible it's not supposed to be a specific character and it's just a generic player 2.
+merenguin Actually it's a homage to an old Silver Age comic called "The Amazing Story of Superman Red & Blue" in which Superman was divided into two people. It was printed in Superman #162.
+merenguin you can also pretend it's Monel. Or perhaps "New Super-Man" as seen in the upcoming "Rebirth" comics.
hypnodance Captain Marvel doesn't have heat vision. Besides just look at the cover of Superman #162
merenguin tobe
Player 2 is from Superman: Red Son
@Tom Caine Red Son had a gray suit.
Is Shazam
from a 90's kid - game looks wack
Who cares if you're a 90s kid? It carries the same weight like someone saying "they're a 70s or 80s kid".
This not superman the arcade game
How about call it the adventures of superman and shazam
Que malos jugando por Dios €!!€€ hace que aburra el juego
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuria
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otaku