Superman: The New Superman Adventures, commonly referred to as Superman 64, is an action-adventure video game developed and published by Titus Interactive for the Nintendo 64 and based on the television series Superman: The Animated Series.
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Development of Superman 64 began in 1997 and was largely hampered by constraints between Titus and the game's licensors, Warner Bros.
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Superman 64 is a three-dimensional action-adventure platform game, where the player acts as the titular hero saving the citizens of Metropolis, such as Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen and Professor Emil Hamilton, from a virtual reality of it created by Lex Luthor.
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Superman 64 can walk, fly, punch enemies, and use super-strength to lift and carry large objects.
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The 1997 presentation of the game did not reveal anything about taking place in a virtual world, but stated its premise would be Superman 64 trying to save Lois and Metropolis from Lex Luthor's very dangerous creation the Lexoskel-5000.
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In June 1998, GameFan published the first screenshots of completed parts of Superman 64, which included views of the interiors, Metropolis, and the 3D model of Superman 64.
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Gamers' Republic, in July 1998, reported that Superman 64 consisted of 15 stages where the playable character is "beating up bad guys and solving puzzles while trying to find the kryptonite diffusers in each level, " revealing a four-player battle mode the source positively compared to Star Fox; it felt its levels looked "well designed" and applauded its incorporation of Superman 64's powers.
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Superman 64 was one of only five Nintendo 64 games presented at the 1999 Tokyo Game Show.
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NPD Group data reported Superman 64 being a top-ten seller in North America during the weeks of June 1999.
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Superman 64 was turned off by Metropolis' lack of close-up details "that play a big part in the life of a city".
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Statements of Superman 64 being one of the worst video games of all-time have continued in later years.
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Twitch and YouTube host plenty of videos dedicated to the anti-glory of Superman 64, some of them made by people who were barely born when it was released.
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