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History of Batman Video Games
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MightyHedgehog
Member
Huh? How long did it take to reach other shores, exactly? This hit the US not so long after release in Japan. Okay 16-bit computer/Amiga/ST-ish simple side scroll game, but the music is quite fucking awesome.
Rocksteady's Batman is definitely the cream of the crop, but I kinda really liked the novelty and sheen of the arcade-like scaling/rotating sprites of the SCD/MCD flying/driving stages as well as the really good and Elfman-like Spencer Nilsen tracks. Too bad the rest was the lame Genny/MD cartridge game. Also, NES Sunsoft Batman was obviously an awesome NG-like action game with a killer soundtrack. Never much cared for any other Batman games outside of the usual picks (SNES BR, SNES and Gen Adventures of B&R).
Infernal Monkey
Member
One of the hardest fucking games I've ever played.
Well the wiki says they were released one month apart from each other, but my memory and gut are saying it took about a year between releases. I remember there being some controversy about third party contracts preventing the game from coming over. Eventually solved, of course. And as all that was going on EGM was pimping the game like crazy in their import section.
Edit: Yeah I'm thinking the Japanese version actually released in 1989.
I did. Honestly, Batman and Robin was one of my most anticipated games at one point. The main part I was excited about was the fact that you could freely roam around. I never really experienced the full game, since my excitement wasn't nearly as strong after giving it a try, for some reason.
My favorites are the Adventures of Batman and Robin for Sega, Batman for nes, and Batman Returns for Sega. Unfortunately I never had a chance to play many of the other titles released back then. At one point, I considered Batman Forever one of my favorites, but I was like 7 or 8 and didn't think too much back then....
B_Rik_Schitthaus
Banned
Using 'fail' instead of 'failure', instant failure.
Kong Fisso
Banned
Batman 1986 totally looks like Solstice for NES. It even has the hollow blocks and same sort of enemies. HMMM!!!!!
I had this one for my Amiga!
Never finished it, but I always liked the way it looked
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBtCjwl5Nd8
Never finished it, but I always liked the way it looked
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBtCjwl5Nd8
Jill Sandwich
the turds of Optimus Prime
One of the hardest fucking games I've ever played.
YES! Quite a lot of Lynx games were tough, but Baman Returns was brutal.
Night_Trekker
Member
all one needs to know
10/10
Batman: Vengeance was a pretty damn good game, man. Especially given the quality of Batman games up to that point. Arkham Asylum blows it away, but of course it does.
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
Batman NES had awful controls and was hard as Hell. But it was still sogood.gif.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
I think y'all are forgetting this:
Such an odd game. Not terrible by any means, though. Not GOOD, but I've played worse.
Such an odd game. Not terrible by any means, though. Not GOOD, but I've played worse.
ChackanKun
Member
That guy missed the best Batman game ever:
Exclamation-One
Member
Crap... crap... crap... crap...
Ah! Now that's good work. I don't know if it's art, but I like it!
Ah! Now that's good work. I don't know if it's art, but I like it!
No way dude, didn't you get the menu? Everything made in Japan is crap!
Sunsoft's NES Batman is still my favorite, hell that level 1 music is just god-tier. Arkham Asylum wasn't bad though, just felt way too "safe", i.e. like the Uncharted series... mechanically, nothing really stands out and makes the game compelling for anything more than a single playthrough. Haven't played City yet.
Dead to me. Dead. To. Me.
Heck, it's the first outing of the Ritman/Drummond pairing that went on to make Head over Heels and (much later) Monster Max! It's a *great* game.
is everyone here trying to act like this didn't exist? Because it did.......be honest...who played it?
When I was five years old...
JumpingTheGun
Banned
you forgot this
and this
(the graphics at the time were being hyped as on the same level as 16 bit)
Was it Batman Forever? We need anecdotes.
Acclaim used to be HQed reasonably close to where I live; when my friends and I were little our dream job was to work as Acclaim game testers (even though we knew back then that Acclaim games were usually shitty, 'playing games all day' still seemed like the best job in the world)
I was amazed all the Batman: Returns SNES intro. My child mind couldn't believe my SNES was doing that
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiHzzsNwoEs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiHzzsNwoEs
Jake Tower
Banned
Don't forget the game with the best sound effects, Crispin Boyer's favorite game, Batman and Robin for the Game.com.
I got this off my grandparents the day I got my Mega Drive. Amazing game.
Hardly possible. Must be an oxymoron.
megashock5
Member
I rented the import from a local shop and loved it, but it never came out here. Batman Returns got a wide Genesis release though, so I got it - and it sucked.
valentine71
Banned
is everyone here trying to act like this didn't exist? Because it did.......be honest...who played it?
Is it not the one on the PSX? An open world game with the Mr. Freeze as the antagonist?
No love for Return Of The Joker GB?
I still hold a grudge against the Joker fight on hard. Me and my friends never beat it.
Played this for years (years!!!) and never beat it. Game was brutal near the end... so many good memories on my Gameboy.
from the 'funny pics' thread, but this was essentially my childhood, save the game purse:
off topic, but enjoy anyway!
Shadow Hog
Member
Good, so I'm not the only one thinking this.
I mean, seriously, Batman Returns was at LEAST four different games (NES is completely different from SNES, which is completely different from Genesis, which was enhanced with driving stages for Sega CD; I have no experience with the GG/Lynx/PC versions), and he just slaps them all under one header. That's not at all doing justice to how varied the whole Batman gaming line gets.
zephervack
Member
Those were cool, I had the Megaman one. *brofist*
No love for Return Of The Joker GB?
I still hold a grudge against the Joker fight on hard. Me and my friends never beat it.
Return of the joker had AMAZING graphics for being in the Gameboy, also it was hard as hell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISfZ8o8i1QM
Yeah, I still have it someplace. Was pretty hard back in the day.
I got to the last boss and didn't realize I had to beat the generator thing.
Didn't wanna play through the game again after all that.
Also had Batman Forever for Genesis. It was kinda...weird.
all one needs to know
10/10
Kind of true. Though I wasn't nearly as big on Arkham City as I was Asylum. Actually that game was one of my biggest disappointments last year, but much of it being personal nitpicks.
I would add Adventures of Batman and Robin on SNES as well. Loved that one. The Genesis version was ok, amazing tech for the time, but not really a great Contra clone.
That's the one. Thankfully, years of repression therapy have removed most of the memories, but I remember the testers making a gameplay tape (For promotional purposes? We never figured it out.) and gleefully entering their "names" after every death as "Dont," "Play" "This" "[Expletive deleted]," "Game."
Also, Robin could swing vertically on a lamppost and would sometimes get stuck in the spin animation, going around and around until the game was restarted. It happened pretty often, and I don't recall if Acclaim ever fixed it. Sometimes the testers would just get that bug and leave Robin swinging on the pole for hours.
Acclaim used to be HQed reasonably close to where I live; when my friends and I were little our dream job was to work as Acclaim game testers (even though we knew back then that Acclaim games were usually shitty, 'playing games all day' still seemed like the best job in the world)
It wasn't a bad job, but testing Mortal Kombat II for Game Boy (not the Game Boy color, mind) every day, eight hours a day, for weeks was not what I call a productive use of anyone's time.
Acclaim gave us free snacks and sodas, and there was free pizza every Friday. Also, testing video games is, ah, not particularly taxing work. They loved me because I wrote up lots of bug reports, and was good about reproducing other people's bugs. When I was promoted, I remained a part-time temp at the same pay rate, but I did get to come in to work and supervise testing sessions on the weekend!
Only read the first half, but it's a pretty terrible history. Completely skipped the first Game Boy Batman, and somehow lumps together games like the NES and Genesis Batman, multiplatform releases of Batman Returns and Batman & Robin, when almost none of those games were even similar outside of the settings.
That wasn't it. I think it was Batman Forever: The Arcade Game.
Yes, yes it was.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfI3LIrnIxo
Definitely. Hell, the Penguin level alone was almost like a puzzle adventure game. In a perfect world that game would be the textbook for how to make a video game based on a TV series.