Batman バットマン

Batman

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9.2

1989-12-22

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Batman (バットマン) is an action platform video game developed and published by Sunsoft and was released for the Family Computer on December 22, 1989 in Japan. The game would later release for the Nintendo Entertainment System on February 13, 1990 in North America and on September 14, 1990 in Europe as Batman: The Video Game which is loosely based on the 1989 film Batman. The game contains five levels culminating in a showdown with the Joker in the bell tower of Gotham Cathedral. It was received well.

Sunsoft developed three related games with the same title for the Game Boy, Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, and PC Engine in 1990.

Description:

He’s totally new. Totally tough. And he’ll stop at nothing to make sure justice prevails! From the dark streets of GOTHAM CITY to the deepest corners of the criminal underworld comes the CAPED CRUSADER as you’ve never seen him before. Incredibly strong. Armed to the teeth. And ready to put his life on the line for the sake of all, on a search-and-destroy mission to end the Joker’s reign of terror. He leaps, he flies, he dodges enemy fire and delivers it right back... with a vengeance. This is no kid stuff. This is as real as video gaming gets. If you liked what you saw in the movie, you’re gonna love what you see here. Because this time around, BATMAN is all business, and he won’t let anything stand in his way!

Gameplay:

The game has a feature that was unusual in side-scrolling platform games at the time, largely to the NES itself. Unlike Sunsoft’s Batman for the Mega Drive/Genesis, which features the grappling hook, Batman has the ability to do a wall jump. He is able to use three projectile weapons: the batarang, batdisk, and batpoon, which are powered by pellet cartridges.
The stages in the game consists of the Gotham City Streets, Axis Chemical Plant, Gotham Sewers, Mysterious Laboratory, and the Gotham Cathedral Belltower. A number of notable DC Comics villains appear as low-level minions in the game, including Deadshot, KGBeast, Maxie Zeus, Heat Wave, Shakedown, and Nightslayer.

The bosses in the game are Killer Moth, a device known as the Machine Intelligence System, the Electrocutioner, a machine known as the Dual-Container Alarm, Firebug, and the Joker. The penultimate boss will be skipped in the continued play if the player reached the Joker previously, so the player can directly fight the Joker next time.

Development:

The prototype version of the game had some significant differences, such as a 1UP icon and entirely different cut-scenes. The game’s original last boss was Firebug and there was no Joker boss. Instead, Batman defeats the Joker in the ending cut-scene. The art and dialogue were changed from the prototype to the final version to better reflect the look and events from the film.

• Game Boy version

The Game Boy title holds an aggregate score of 78.75% on GameRankings. It features Batman attacking with a gun and is arguably the least related title to the film. The Game Boy version of the game sold over 500,000 copies by December 1990.

• Genesis version

A title for Mega Drive/Genesis was also developed by Sunsoft. Unlike the NES version, its plot has more similarities to that of the film.

• PC Engine version

Batman for the PC Engine is an action-puzzle game, developed by Sunsoft and released in 1990 only in Japan. For unknown reasons the game was never released in North America for the TurboGrafx-16. There originally was a side scrolling action Batman like the other console versions, but it got canceled at some point and was replaced with what became the released product.

Nintendo Famicom

SunSoft

4907940100356

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Japan

8-bit

Cartridge

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Thick Snap Case

~$27.80

2025-08-15

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