A number of officially licensed

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s based on the character

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have been created, the first being released in 1979, over a year after the

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. Over the years, video games based on Superman have attained a reputation for being of low quality. The most prevalent example of this is the 1999

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Superman game which is considered to be one of the worst video games ever made. As a result, later Superman games were given "the Superman curse", which means that there will be negative reception for that game.

Standalone games

Related games

Mobile games

Canceled games

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Superman Video Games Superman video games

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Lists of video games by franchise Superhero video games