Superman arcade 1988 ending

[ralphman11]

Nice ending.

[Leatherbubba]

Is the final boss supposed to be anyone in particular? Is it Brainiac?

[NiggadickJaxHD]

whos the main villian in this one... DOOMSDAY?

[ooOmegaSupremeoo]

@NiggadickJaxHD

No.

[zenattack2000]

ok im sorry if this offends any one but that was the gayest looking boss i have ever seen in my life

[puppett11]

@zenattack2000

Maybe in the eyes of a gay person.

That was badass character around my times.

[zenattack2000]

@puppett11 cute!! I was thinking about what you said and was wondering how my comment could offend you? I mean we are talking about a boss that uses an elevator so he can hit superman!! hahahalmao!!!! then it hit met " YOUTUBE FIGHTRTER"

[puppett11]

@zenattack2000

But hes still badass with his...

Flying... Saucer thingies...

And his... Big... bodyguards.

[summer20105707]

I can't tell quarter I spent trying to beat this game. But man when I did was it ever sweet. :-) Superman the arcade game rules.

[Sharpofeos]

I remember playing this as a kid !! I totally 4got about this until I came across it on here ! Thanx 4 putting this up ! Did you run this through a mame emulator ?

[BanjoKiD2K]

I remember spending a few bob on this aswell as Ninja Gaiden at Blackpool 1988 ;)

Not as much as i put into WWF Superstars the year latter though :P

[Surfer041]

The music definetely makes this game. I remember how excited I got as a 9 year old when I put in a quarter and hit the start button, here the music and see Clark turn into Superman.

[Uberaoshi]

pink bunny women?

[blade004]

80's arcade gaming was so damn playable and easy on the eyes, but then the 90's came for arcade gaming and it all turned to shit because the explosions became overkill & the graphics over the top which resulted in visual feast minus the gameplay. 90's gaming in the home however was fantastic!

[XiaochiCat]

I never knew there was a superman arcade game!? Meh' then again all the vendors in my town where capcom and midway.

[egg64]

The only good Superman game. EVER.

[MysticArksRevenge]

@egg64 That's because a Talented Japanese Company did the game. Trust me, dude. Talented Japanese developers like Taito, Data East, Konami, Capcom, SNK and Sega are the best when it comes to making videogames based off of American cartoon, movie, toy, and comic book franchises.

[tfypt]

is it my imagination or does it look like he is fighting the kree(marvel villians)

[JMFabianoRPL]

Who is the main boss supposed to be?

[AxisDimension]

Wow, every single Superman console game is terrible, but the arcade one got it right.

I really like the sound effects, especially that fireball explosion sound.

Another favorite feature is the way when enemies die they disappear with that computer-graphics-like wire frame outline.

[bbasher79]

7:13 damn made me cry seeing those beautiful Twin Towers up...

[WizzyWhipitWonderful]

Great video, but Superman's got some stubby legs...

Pretty short if you ask me...

[scrabtree1]

Nice skillz.

[CelestialJudge]

It's pretty darn sad that in the more than 20 years since this game came out, they haven't made a Superman game anywhere near as good as this.

[Wyndamn]

@CelestialJudge that canbe said about A LOT of game.

[bogossemre]

LOL fireballs shooting out of his hands ...

[102611ful]

taito came ot with taito legends series fucking surpried this was not on iny of them

[RocMegamanX]

@102611ful

Licensed game.

[filip050689]

cheater...

[kobakommander]

Wow! A Superman game that doesn't suck!

[Jbessette]

@kobakommander

there is another superman game that is good and that is the death and return of superman for the SNES.

[navyman4]

In today's POLITICALLY CORRECT SOCIETY:

Superman is a

1. Vandal (destroying fences/building construction)

2. Thief (Destroying phone booths for change/crystals)

3. and Murderer (killing innocent flying mexican wrestlers)

LOL. Awesome game. good post! lol.

[RevelationWarriors]

the punisher arcade, is the best! FRANK CASTLE and NICK FURY, two badasses, shooting up... no questions

[MMfilmProduction]

Player two was Shazam

[egg64]

Captain Marvel

[steeltownbrown52]

@egg64 Naw, I think it's a clone Superman made from Luthor's cloning booth from the deleted scenes of Superman IV:QFP.

[laserma]

is this a neogeo console?

[NepperCat]

it looks like Brainiac. But i'm not too sure.

[UtopianProductions]

I loved this arcade. Too awesome.

[kranktank]

lol just to be weird i would have done this run-thru with the second player "repaint" superman or whatever he was supposed to be

[jbTUBEny]

i always called the 2nd Superman "Steroid Man" lol

[alucard624]

Man, this game brings back some good memories from my childhood. I remember playing this game with some buddies of mine at a local arcade, when those still existed. I remember playing this and another game that was a submarine simulator that actually had a periscope you could look through and used to fire torpedoes and stuff. Does anybody remember that game or have the name of it per chance? I've been trying to find out what it was called for years with no luck. Any help I would appreciate.

[hulkster46a]

Wish this game was available for the PS3 or PS2, my kid would love it.

[elmacbee]

Licensing problems, probably. =(

[nevermindthedog]

i was a huge superman fan when i was a little kid and i was in heaven playing this game at chuck e cheese lol!

[redonejs53]

This is another good ending of an arcade game! This would have been great for Superman III as a final confrontation scene where Superman enters the villians hideout!

[codenamerockstar]

CLASSIC.

[amazingdany]

Had fun playing it 21 years ago (!) and even had more fun finishing it for FREE, w/ unlimited credit on MAME!

MAME = 80s child arcade dream come true!

[zenmart]

I know, when I first got my mame emulator I was like "ITS A FREE QUARTER!" and could not stop pushing the credit button. I love this game. I love mame! I love emulators! I even got the X-Arcade joystick for the real arcade feel......hehe MAME RULEZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

[amazingdany]

Ha ha! What I like to do is to put the difficulty to the highest and configurate the controls so I can move two-three-four characters at once! Works especially well with multiplayer Konami games! Xmen with all 6 players controlled by me!

[randyland1987]

@amazingdany one of my all time favorite games! i must have spent a million dollars in quarters on this at the arcade, where can i get it online?

[amazingdany]

@randyland1987 Gotta download the free MAME first, unzip it and the "blue/white square" will be the MAME file that you'll mainly use. Then d/l the Superman game by dragging the file directly onto the MAME one.

For both of those + a shiftful of free 80s and 90s arcade and older console games, it's best to go to romnation(dot)net.

Careful, brother, once you download MAME, you won't stop playing!

[Neville6000]

@amazingdany: I did as instructed, and yet, nothing's happening. What else do I do?

[amazingdany]

@Neville6000 Yeah, even myself I tried to download it for somebody else recently, I guess that method doesn't work anymore, it's been so long since I played MAME games. There were many new versions.

Maybe here on YT, there are videos showing how to download it?

[pricean]

This is so much better than the game on Mega Drive- where he can't fly or do anything.

[kranktank]

yikes...eating boogers is better than *that* old NES game...or the Sega version too

[trence5]

I wanted to know who was that "2nd" Superman.... His color scheme looked alot like Captain Marvel's

[nykspree8]

soooo, why is Supes shooting projectiles from his hands o.O

[prlad85]

Wow! This must have been a lot of fun to play back in the day. Very nice job by the way!

A++++++++

mERRY cHRISTMAS AND A Happy new year. Puerto Rican love from NYC!

[antijavi]

While this game does take its creative license, namely the energy balls which I think is suppose to be a sonic boom, its the best Superman game. Superman 1st and foremost is the protector of Earth and this game very much has him in that role, fighting an alien invasion around the world. Also we have enemies who should actually be able to hurt him since its Superman enemies are either equal or rival him. It's a lot better then Supes being hurt by bullets and chainsaws, like other Superman games.

[romanzelgatas]

this game had 2player where there was a red superman.

i loved this game

[KroniKKidZ28]

well its a lot better than the NES ending. Never saw Superman throw energy balls unless you count Last Son of Kryton. maybe these guys saw Superman IV and saw how many liberties they took with his powers (restructo vision?)and said "what the hell?"

[KroniKKidZ28]

come to think of it. Alot of these levels are redone with other characters in the Death and Return of Superman. That games probably the closest to an arcade beat em up on a console that Superman's seen

[CapertheFox]

I played this only one time at the north florida fairgrounds some years ago and that was the only time i ever played the game

[TheMcRaeBrothers]

why does he have dragonn ball powers?...wtf

[inyourface48]

So much for hitting the closest person...

[sdude456]

Ugh... why is Superman throwing balls of energy?

[cybersaur]

I know, what's wrong with heat vision? or Ice breath, mabye a sonic thunderclap? that would be so cool! Superman's punch colliding with a bosses punch that creats a sonic thunderclap so loud it shatters the bosses skin and causes the building to errupt

[xxpandamidknightxx]

There was some other girls besides the bunny suited ones on here that dress like the 50's Catwoman. The one with the cape. Well, this Superman game is much better than the ones that is out there. Why? Well because the game shows alot of stuff that Superman would do on his tone down level. It sucks how the new games make him god like. Except for Mortal Kombat vs DC. Superman 1988 on the arcade tops all new Superman games anyday.

[imperialpod]

Agreed.

Just been playing it on Mame and its still very cool!

Always loved the laser eye sqit sounds in the horizontal flying levels and they still do the job.

Great game and definately one to add on a compilation disc along with, Wrestlefest, Pang, superpang, bells and wistles etc. All the true classics!

[doomstoday]

This game rocked I spent lots of quarters on this one, this would be a great download for the 360 arcade.

[Senicks]

One of the better Superman games. ven had the John Williams Superman theme in it.

[leechdom]

the guys on the wall remind me of dr. zoidberg (futurama) :)

[leechdom]

good god were old.

[BurnRoddy]

Dude awsome game I remember reading about this on a magazine called Top Kids that came out around the same time as Mortal Kombat and this was still a classic.The plot of the game was from before Zero-Hour when Superman was top-notch Smoooooth

[BATCHARRO]

Gotta love those bad translations/spriteswaps...

[LarryB1984]

Whats the name of that green guy at the end?

[leslielove]

bunny girl weils assome

[Ksupy247]

OLD school game i played it when i was in the first grade. and im 22 so damn this game was played by me 15 years ago.

[scir91]

the best superman game of all time.

[therealhardrock]

the only good superman game ever made.

[scir91]

yep.

[ChikikyoKONAMI]

All thanks to Taito!!

Too bad they would'nt put it in the Taito Memories/Taito Legends compilations.

[bildo1977]

This is a licensed character game, so that's just not going to happen. The Chariots Of Fire song in Track And Field was removed from the Konami Arcade Collection on the Game Boy DS. This game may have to be and unlockable feature in the next Superman game released. Or maybe XBox Live Arcade, or Playstation Network. You can always download M.A.M.E. and download the Superman arcade game rom.

[MysticArksRevenge]

@bildo1977 That is IF Taito publishes AND develops the next Superman game.

[bildo1977]

@MysticArksRevenge Not necessarily. Here's at least one example. The original Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return Of The Jedi arcade games were developed and published by Atari Inc. All three games are unlockable in Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike for the Nintendo GameCube, which was developed by Factor 5 and published by LucasArts.

[MysticArksRevenge]

@bildo1977 Ah. Well if that certain developer can get the rights from Taito to put the original Superman arcade game onto a new Superman game, then you've got it made! :D

[steeltownbrown52]

True indeed. I allways played the red&gray Superman.

[rajayuca]

yup....i used to play it at my local video store when i was 10....i remember asking my dad quarters to play this game...it was the shit back then!!!! lol

[WAIATA4U]

Nope! This game never made it to home console...It would have been cool, though.

[scir91]

i play this on mame. it is STILL fun to play! xD

[dejuanp]

did this game ever come out on video game console form...please help.

[Devilbat]

When Superman Returns came out, they shoulda just rereleased this for GBA or DS instead of the newer crappier games that came out for them

[WAIATA4U]

Believe it or not, this was a decent Superman-titled game. What's with the Boba Fett looking guy that shot Superman? LOL

[kommisar]

Goddamn, this game fucking sucks and so does the player.

[papokrika]

someone know whre i can find this game for console particulary ps2 ps3 ... compilation ..any?

[cool70200]

wow, I havent seen this game since playing it when I was in highschool :P

[horrorfanatic313]

I never made it that far in the game. My favorite thing about this game is that it has the music from the movies in it.

[bluestrikemike]

Is that green guy(last boss) Brainiac?

[XSC3]

Nice, but I see you had to use the "infinite super punches" cheat! tsk, tsk.

So who was Red Superman?

[yottky]

How do we use this cheat?

[XSC3]

Go to pugsy's cheats page (linked off of mameworld(.)net) and copy it to your mame directory. In game, go to the tab menu and select cheats (hit enter). Once there, you should see the cheat for unlimited super punches (or sonic punches or whatever it's called) and turn it on or "set" it. It's really easy to do.

[thecoldlakekid]

Now that is an arcade game that I want to have in my house someday! That is the decent arcade game especially with the Christopher Reeve tumes from the Reeve films! They should have done a video game of Superman featuring Reeve as Superman and he throws puches and kicks just like this masterpiece video game!

[Animeaddiction]

I remember this game! I managed to beat it on one quarter without any codes. The trick is to continually charge your fist with every step quickly, release full blast, then charge again while moving forward. It took a while but it worked.

[NepperCat]

Til this day, of all the Superman video games made on every system this one is still the best.

[CEDELL29]

6:36-- Am I seeing things or does that say 1 million points. Classic!

[cyclopstb]

I remeber playing that when I was 3 years old. It was in Rye Playland and I was very excited playing it. But I was sad that it's not there anymore. But thank you youtube.

[Nintega]

I AM THE BEST ARTIST!

[fishgacy]

MASTERPIECE!! BEAUTIFUL!!!

[Supermugen]

Seems like whoever's playing has some kind of code that lets them shoot the energy beams without charging the punch... but still, great to see this on youtube.. I own one of the arcade machines, and I love it!

[ChikikyoKONAMI]

The shooting stage felt like GRADIUS.

[guysanchez]

To think that the best video game the Superman franchise has generated was a beat 'em up / shoot 'em up made almost 20 years ago.

[JCASTILLO8155]

The game is fun. Dam I am old!!!!!!!! II played this at the arcade In 1991.

[PoPoNellie]

I used to love this game. Had pretty good music for a game of its time too.

[ReijiAzuma]

Superman firing energy beams from his hands and fighting yellow jump suit guys, pink bunny women, weird spider monsters, and Hulk-like creatures. A gun-toting cyberpunk Batman. DC comics video games of the late 80's/early 90's were on acid.  Wish it was still that way.

[Filby]

Cool. Was that Brainiac at the end?

[LongBeach2SanDiego]

i barely got to the second stage on this in the arcade. i remember 2nd player looking like captain "shazaam" marvel.

[fanofheadroom]

i think the second player was superman red

[figment1988]

it's funny. this was made 6 years before the "death of superman" angle. which is when they added those variants of superman. and originally, the red superman wasn't going to be player 2's character. the second player was going to be a female (probably supergirl).

[StVincent1979]

Good Looking Out!!

[teoteous]

The '8' lookes '$' in the game.

[bunzy11]

i always loved playing this game, you would always have to pry me off it:)

[Animeaddiction]

I loved playing this game. I managed to beat it on one quarter.

[ryufan24]

I remember this game. It was a rare find, but a good one. I didn't find it in an arcade I found it in a dry cleaner around the corner from my house.

[deepvoodoo]

Awesome game for its time. As far as I'm concerned, the Superman of SUPERMAN RETURNS is the player 2 option guy.

[bkschosen]

WOW..that was actually kinda cool, wish I could have played it.

[leonardo0200]

females in pink bunny outfits? hmmm :)

[ChibiGAL]

Oh i remeber this game awsome video.