[Blizzard] The Death and Return of Superman

Genesis & SNES (1994, published by Sunsoft, Megadrive version in Europe and Australia published by Acclaim)
1 player

Genesis controls:
A - shoot (button can be held down to delay it)
B - attack/pick up object/throw object
C - jump (double tap to fly, control with directions, touch the ground to land)
Y(6 button)/A & B(3 button) - special (requires red orbs underneath the health bar, each continue starts with 3)
C, B - dive bomb (diagonal down/forward)
walk into enemy - grab
grab, B - strike
grab, forward & B - throw
grab, away & B - jump and slam in the opposite direction
grab, Up & B - throw into background
grab, Down & B - 4-hit punch




SNES controls:
Y - attack/pick up object/throw object
X - special
B - jump
A - shoot
B, Y - dive bomb
walk into enemy - grab
grab, Y - strike
grab, forward & Y - throw
grab, away & Y - jump and slam in the opposite direction
grab, Up & Y - throw into background
grab, Down & Y - 4-hit punch



Blue Superman icons(which are just walked over) will restore health. Normal colored Superman icons(also walked over) will grant an extra use of special attacks. The game follows the course of the same storyline in the comics. Which means that during various points of the game the player will have control over Superman, Steel, Superboy, The Eradicator, and The Cyborg(not the one from the Teen Titans/Justice League). Some characters will have shoot 'em up-like stages.

For a character that supposedly never has any good games, he seems to do fairly well in the beat 'em up department(see also: Taito arcade game).

This game is good, but forgotten to most of the public. Blizzard, nowadays, is known for making game franchises lilke StarCraft, WarCraft, & Diablo respectively.