Batman

• Release Date: 1990
• Genre: Action
• Style: Side-Scrolling Combat
• Similar Games: Rolling Thunder (Nintendo Entertainment System), Rolling Thunder (Commodore 64/128), Rolling Thunder (Arcade)

Game Description

Based on the smash film, Batman, players take the role of the Caped Crusader in this mixture of side-scrolling fighting combat and first-person driving and flying. In the side-scrolling combat mode, Batman can not only punch and kick his enemies, but can attack them from a distance by throwing Batarangs, Gas Bombs, and his Bat Rope. Between the side-scrolling combat rounds, players are put behind the wheel of the Batmobile, shooting the Joker's cars while avoiding their attacks. In the second to last level, you are in the cockpit of the Bat Plane, shooting down Joker's helicopters and collecting the deadly gas balloons hovering over Gotham City. At the end of each level, you usually must defeat the Joker to advance. Batman includes voice audio clips of Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson as well as digitized photos that appear between the different levels.

Roots & Influences

Based on the Batman character created by Bob Kane and made famous first in comic books published by National Periodicals, now DC Comics (part of AOL Time Warner). The Batman later appeared in numerous movie serials, books, movies, animated television series, and video games.