The Nerd in “Unfinished Business”

The Nerd

Time to do a super game. (shows the cartridge of the Nintendo 64 game) Super Mario 64. (A heat vision zaps the cartridge away as the camera reveals the antennae-gold Superman 64 cartridge.) No! That's right, it's back. (shows footage from his Superman 64 review) I already played this game, I already showed you how bad it is, but it gets worse. Much worse. First, a little background. I've complained already they should've used the Superman Theme, you know, by John Williams. But I didn't know at the time, this was based on Superman: The Animated Series. It was the second in what's often called the Timmverse, or DC Animated Universe, which consisted of the highly acclaimed Batman: The Animated Series, The New Batman Adventures, Batman Beyond, Static Shock, The Zeta Project, which absolutely no one remembers, then finally, Justice League and Justice League Unlimited, with a few features sprinkled here and there. Superman: The Animated Series helped bring a lot of the mythology from the comics to a whole new audience. Characters who were often excluded from previous TV or film incarnations finally got more attention, and have since gained popularity and shown up in other shows and movies. It was regarded as a great series, so it's surprising it led to one of the worst games ever made. Alright, enough of the history lesson. Let's get on with this shit. So, here's an interesting detail I missed before: The story of the game is that Lex Luthor has hidden Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen and Emil Hamilton in his virtual world. That's right, this entire video game takes place inside... a video game. You'd think a genius like Lex Luthor would use his ability to create anything in a virtual world, and come up with some crazy obstacles or enemies for Superman to face. So what did he decide on? You know. Rings. (Superman flies over to the last bit of rings and then screen cuts to black.) Yeah. Not messing around this time.