Batman: The Video Game
Batman: The Video Game, is a group of platform games developed by Sunsoft for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Game Boy, loosely based on the 1989 film of the same name. Despite having the same title…
Batman: The Video Game is a platform developed by SUNSOFT, released 22 December 1989 on Family Computer and Nintendo Entertainment System.
What Batman: The Video Game is
Batman: The Video Game is a platform game developed by SUNSOFT and released in 1989. It is available on Family Computer and Nintendo Entertainment System.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Batman: The Video Game, is a group of platform games developed by Sunsoft for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Game Boy, loosely based on the 1989 film of the same name. Despite having the same title, each is actually a different game. The NES title is arguably the best known and contains five levels culminating in a final showdown with the Joker in the bell tower of Gotham Cathedral. It was received well despite changes from the movie upon which it was based. Sunsoft later released Batman: Return of the Joker as a follow-up which is not related to any movie.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Batman series
Batman: The Video Game is the third of 221 entries we hold in the Batman series. It arrived 12 months after Batman: The Caped Crusader. The next entry was Batman in 1989.
What it launched against
Batman: The Video Game launched on 22 December 1989, within three weeks of Fantasy World Dizzy, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, Pipe Dream and Denaris.
Released around the same time: Fantasy World Dizzy, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, Pipe Dream, Denaris.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Dlc
Quick answers
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