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[[File:supes 4004.jpg|link=Superman 64|frame|[[Most Annoying Sound|Then there's no time to waste!]] [[Seanbaby|We've got to get through these hula hoops,]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140228041818/http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/4356 and fast!] ]]
 
{{quote|''"IF YOU WANT TO SAVE YOUR FRIENDS, [[Memetic Mutation|SOLVE MY MAZE!]]''"|'''[[Lex Luthor]]''', ''[[Superman 64]]''}}
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* ''[[Superman 64]]'' is universally considered one of the worst [[The Problem with Licensed Games|licensed games]] ever made, thanks in part to its overabundance of Pass Through The Rings missions. The bad controls do not help at all. And this is the bearable part.
** Bizarrely, Lex Luthor introduces these ''linear'' ring racing segments by challenging Superman to [http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/2218/250660-superman64_screen_large.jpg "SOLVE MY MAZE"]{{Dead link}}. This went all [[Memetic Mutation]] for N64 magazine (later [[NGamer]]), to the point that Lex Luthor's Solve My Maze became a regular feature when the title [[Magazine Decay|changed focus to the GameCube]] and became NGC.
* The recent ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' games are huge users of this one. ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas|San Andreas]]'', however, took the cake.
* The ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'' series.