Batman: The Video Game
Batman is a video game developed by Sunsoft and released for the Sega Genesis in 1990. It was inspired by the 1989 Tim Burton-directed Batman film. The game is more faithful to the film's plot than the NES…
Batman: The Video Game is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by SUNSOFT, released 27 July 1990 on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
What Batman: The Video Game is
Batman: The Video Game is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by SUNSOFT and released in 1990. It is available on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
After witnessing his parents' brutal murder as a child, millionaire philanthropist Bruce Wayne fights crime in Gotham City disguised as Batman, a costumed hero who strikes fear into the hearts of evildoers. While stopping a raid at the Axis Chemical Factory, Batman knocks the gangster Jack Napier into a vat of chemicals. Napier is driven insane by his new deformed appearance and, calling himself "The Joker," seizes control of Gotham's criminal underworld. The game consists in six stages, four of side-scrolling platform action and two side-scrolling shooter ones, in the following order: Gotham City Street, Axis Chemical Factory, Flugelheim Museum, Gotham City Street (with the Batmobile and…
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 DC Comics series
Batman: The Video Game is the sixth of 185 entries we hold in the DC Comics series. It arrived 7 months after Superman: The Man of Steel. The next entry was The Flash in 1991.
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