Release date: 1978/1979

This page collects games whose release year is recorded on the site as “1978/1979”, for titles where a single year was not settled. At the moment it holds one game: Superman, John Dunn’s action-adventure for Atari, in which you rebuild a broken bridge in Metropolis and round up Lex Luthor’s gang. It is usually dated to 1979, and it was the first video game to star a published superhero.
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Superman

Superman is an action-adventure game for the Atari 2600, programmed by John Dunn and released by Atari in 1979. Lex Luthor has blown up a bridge in Metropolis, and you, as Superman, must rebuild it, catch Luthor and…

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