Video Game, Superman: The Game
date: label: Date made
content: 1985
name: label: publisher
content: First Star Software, Inc.
label: maker
content: First Star Software, Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This 1985 Superman themed video game was intended for use on Commodore 64 and 128 home computers. Made by Fernando Herrera and Jim Nangana for First Star Software, the game comes on floppy disk, and is packaged along with an accompanying instruction guide. In the game, players can compete either as Superman or the villain Darkseid.
label: Description (Brief)
content: First Star Software began operations in 1982. Fernando Herrera, one of the company's founders, was born in Bogota, Columbia, moving to the United States in 1970. He helped finance First Star Software using prize money awarded for winning the first annual Atari Star Award in 1981. Herrera received the award for "My First Alphabet," a game the programmer originally developed to help teach his son, who had been declared legally blind.
label: Description (Brief)
content: At First Star, Herrera created influential games such as "Astro Chase" and "Bristles." On "Superman: The Game" he worked with Jim Nangana, who is known for developing the game "Flip & Flop."
label: Description (Brief)
content: The character of Superman first flew into action in 1938. The costumed superhero was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, two Jewish teenagers from Cleveland Ohio, who used, among other things, classical mythology and the era's popular science fiction and adventure writing for inspiration.
label: Description (Brief)
content: With his debut in Action Comics #1, Superman became an instant sensation with audiences, inspired by the "Man of Tomorrow's" virtue and heroics at time when the Nation was slowly emerging from the economic catastrophe of the Great Depression and moving closer to World War.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Born on the doomed planet Krypton, Superman was sent to Earth as a child, where our world's yellow sun granted him extraordinary powers such as flight, super-strength, near-invulnerability, as well as other extraordinary abilities including heat and X-Ray vision. As an adult living in the city of Metropolis, the alien, born Kal-El, protects his identity by assuming the persona of Clark Kent, a "mild-mannered" journalist.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Fighting for "Truth and Justice," Superman birthed a cultural fascination with superheroes, and has become one of the most recognizable and influential fictional characters in history. In addition to comic books, the character has been explored in all forms of media, including radio, television, and film, and has been used to promote a variety of successful consumer products, educational initiatives and public service campaigns.
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Superman
label: Subject
content: Games
label: Subject
content: Video Games
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: DC Comics, Incorporated
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0213.142
label: accession number
content: 1987.0213
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0213.142
objectType: label: Object Name
content: game, computer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 7 1/4 in x 5/8 in; 24.13 cm x 18.415 cm x 1.5875 cm