Batman 89 Movie Games - All 8 Ranked!

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Batman 89 is 30 years old now - did you know that it had eight unique games tied to it? NES, Game Boy, Sega Genesis / Mega Drive, arcade, Amiga and other PCs, PC Engine (Japan’s TurboGrafx-16), and two Tiger LCD games. Let’s count them down as true Batman fans - not just ranking them by game quality, but also taking how well they represent the move into account.
You might want to watch this first, reminiscing on the great Batman hype of 1989: • Batman (1989): The Phe...
Clips borrowed from these fine KZfaq links:
Batman NES commercial: • Video
Batman Amiga: • Amiga Longplay Batman ...
Batman ZX Spectrum: • ZX Spectrum Longplay [...
Batman Arcade OST: • Batman The Arcade Vide...
Batman Tiger Electronics commercial: • Tiger Electronics Hand...
Batman Tiger Electronics Watch: • Batman Game Watch by T... , • Tiger Electronics Doub...
Batman Tiger Electronics Handheld: • 14035 Tiger Electronic...
X-Men/Mortal Kombat Tiger Commercial: • Video
Bob Hope as the Joker, Michael Crawford as Batman: • Michael Crawford as Ba...
The Dark Knight Rages: • THE DARK KNIGHT RAGES ...
Batman: The Brave and the Bold Wii Trailer: • Batman - The Brave and...
Batman Pinball: • 1989 BATMAN Pinball Ma...
Pac-Man Commercial: • Atari 2600 1982 Commer...
Mario Bros. Gameplay: • Mario Bros. (1983 Arca...
Black Batman suit mod: www.romhacking.net/hacks/2156/
Read about retro superhero games in “WRONG! Retro Games, You Messed Up Our Comic Book Heroes!”: c-bake.com/oldcomicgames
© 2019 Christopher Michael Baker
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@DarkDekicDuka 5 жыл бұрын

I just want to say, thank you for making this video. Thank you so much. It brought me back to the KZfaq of old, made me feel real good in general. So thank you.

@cbake76 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for checking it out, Luke -- and for the kind words! I just try to make videos I'd like to watch myself.

@thesentinel5523 3 жыл бұрын

Good job on this one. By the way I like the fact you chose to premiere it on June 23, the date of the release of Batman 89 in movie theaters 30 years later.

@cbake76 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! 😀 That was very intentional.

@Dynaman21 3 жыл бұрын

Game Boy Batman - So anyway, I started blasting...

@joshuahenderson 3 жыл бұрын

Did not realize there were this many Batman games. The one on the arcade looks the most interesting.

@cbake76 3 жыл бұрын

It's certainly the most like the movie.

@boblowes 5 жыл бұрын

As a Batman-obsessed youth through childhood, I couldn't wait for the movie to come out. Being in the UK, our exposure to Batman was a lot more limited - we'd had the TV show and (occassional) cartoon; plenty of toys, and I imagine the comic books were available in bigger cities (though certainly not where I lived); but the summer of 89 saw Batman merchandise pick up like never before. There was the novelisation, making-of books, t-shirts, toys, etc, and plenty of reprints of comics suddenly available. One of my favourite was a series of paperback books reprinting the Batman of the late 40s through to the early 60s, with ek themed around a big-name villain (Catwoman, the Penguin,, two Joker books) and one one with Robin. There was also a series of prose short stories which were a lot of fun. And then of course, there were the computer games. Ocean had actually published to prior Batman games - the first (Batman) was an isometric puzzle platform, with you controlling a podgy Adam West Batman, attempting to rebuild the Batmobile, with the Batcave being full of various traps and monsters. It was rubbish. But it was the first Batman game ever published on any platform. Then, they released Batman: The Caped Crusader, which was a much more accurate-to-the comics version of Batman, attempting to defeat the Joker (or Penguin, if you flipped the tape over). Batman the Movie (as it was typically known) was amazing. Ocean re-used a technique they'd created for their RoboCop game (which they had then licensed as an arcade to Data East) where they would turn specific scenes or sequences into levels of the game. I had the Spectrum version, which was a lot of fun. But when I upgraded to the Amiga, I refought it for that machine, and was blown away by the Batmobile and Batwing levels. The Amiga version is by far the best - the PC version is horrible.

@cbake76 5 жыл бұрын

I love your story and your insight! I actually started out playing the PC version, and I could never get the controller calibrated properly in DOSBox -- maybe it was the game actually sucking there. But I had fun with Amiga just using the keyboard. Pretty impressive use of voice for the time, too.

@JunkyardDave 2 жыл бұрын

This was a great video! I had no idea until I watched it, it wasn't the Joker in act 4 on the TV screens. Silly enough, I read some stuff by Yuichi Ueda recently who complained while developing/designing this, he took source material from the comics, totally unaware the copyright was different from comics to movie and was scolded for it by Warner Brothers themselves. Maybe that explains why some characters are completely out of place or explains their inclusion in-game and absence from Burton's movie. I do think, as objectively as possible, Batman is a phenomenal NES early platformer. Sunsoft absolutely nailed everything about it, and it holds up just as well as late NES games such as Bucky O'Hare. I also very much agree, casually, the bosses feel more like "what? I survived!?" more than feeling like you've learned anything - until Firebug, act 5 and Joker anyway. The game forces the player to learn then as there's a huge difficulty increase. Great video!

@cbake76 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome comment! I’d love to see that interview if you happen to remember where you read it. I worked on Spider-Man games myself, and I know the differences between film and comic licenses all too well. I can see that scolding happening. 😀

@andrewwhitfield5480 3 жыл бұрын

I had the watch as a kid. I don't miss the gameplay.

@cbake76 3 жыл бұрын

Ha! Thanks for legitimizing its placement. 😀

@FunkyGOB 3 жыл бұрын

Man i cant tell you how many times i threw my controller and bit its cord out of sheer frustration from the NES game. Just as hard as Ninja Gaiden and just as rewarding when i finally beat it. Most favorite NES soundtrack of all time. Even now at 35 years old, i know a Batman NES song the minute i hear it. Great vid!

@cbake76 3 жыл бұрын

It's a tough one for sure. I couldn't quite beat Joker when I recorded footage for this video -- which makes me all the more impressed with my younger self for beating it the second time I rented it! And yeah, the music is amazing.

@roninja6929 3 жыл бұрын

I had the Batman Watch and thought it was the best thing ever! The kids in the playground thought so too and I was talk of the school....oh simpler times...now I play Arkham Knight on the Xbox One..to steal a quote from Batman Returns the more things change the more they stay the same.

@cbake76 3 жыл бұрын

I don't think I ever knew it existed at the time -- but I totally would have been jealous of you, too.

@cesareonthemidway 3 жыл бұрын

Batman does do the Dracula cape thing in the comics. Most notably the cover to Batman 9, a stone cold classic.

@cbake76 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, good point. Still, he’s not walking like that very often, if at all. It’s just weird.

@marsiscool2428 3 жыл бұрын

Nice review.

@cbake76 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching.

@keithws2779 3 жыл бұрын

I was 8 when the movie came out and super excited to see it. My dad took me to a drive-in theatre to see it... Unfortunately at that age I would basically just pass out when I was tired. I saw the opening scene, and then suddenly the credits were rolling. I was devastated, lol.

@TheRubberStudiosASMR 3 жыл бұрын

Same kind of thing happened to me with Jurassic Park first time I saw it. I felt like I missed a lot when I spoke to my friends. But then it ended up being one of my favorite films.

@cbake76 3 жыл бұрын

I'm bummed for both of you guys -- two amazing movies you just had to see in a theater when they were out! 😀 Oh, and not to sound like too much of a commercial, but I really think you'd enjoy the video that directly preceded this countdown back in June 2019 -- the video pinned to my KZfaq channel, actually. It's all about how the movie's hype shaped me as a superhero geek.

@Danbo22987 3 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile I saw Spider-Man 2002 at a midnight showing at 6 years old and stayed awake through the whole thing somehow

@cbake76 3 жыл бұрын

@@Danbo22987 Love it! 😀

@patfer1189 3 жыл бұрын

Correction for NES Batman: the other two weapons aren't "guns". One is a 'spear gun', as per the game's own manual, which the character used in the movie even for offensive purposes. Granted in the game it explodes at the end like a grenade, but nonetheless judged based on the intended description and the limitations of the hardware it is representative of the film to an extent. But even debating it could be described as a 'gun' even if it is not bullets he is shooting the other is a three-way shuriken (ninja star), or as it is called in the game's manual a "Dirk" (edged weapon). more in line with the Batman character. Now- it is true that Batman hasn't used straight up shurikens, and that we wouldn't see him being around them until Batman Begins 16 years later, but this was likely the result of the 'gamification' of what was on the screen. Batman up until then had been shown using the so called "Batarang" usually with a rope attached to it, to either climb or tether enemies. At the same time he had shuriken-type Bat-shaped throwing stars of sorts that would not behave like a batarang but would be used for offensive purposes. In trying to make this distinction with smaller graphics, while adding variety to the gameplay, the game shaped the weapon as shurikens though they read like spinning bat shaped 'stars' . All in all, however, it is a mistake to call at least one of the other two weapons a "gun".

@NicholasWingoldenkiwi2095 5 жыл бұрын

I would honestly so love to see a remake of this video game with the dialogue and scenes and action sequences

@cbake76 5 жыл бұрын

Which one? 😀 Whichever one you're talking about, I'd play it...

@skyry101 3 жыл бұрын

Then you'll like this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bpipi7p71ZmomJc.html

@sexcorpio6976 3 жыл бұрын

10:26 That's the only satisfactory game about Batman I know as yet

@mushi1985. Жыл бұрын

This need to coming out on ps4, ps5, steam collection

@gumdeo 3 жыл бұрын

The Amiga version is my fave.

@brucelaborin2124 3 жыл бұрын

I played through the NES version, and ONLY that version. I never looked into or knew much about the other versions, until The Angry Videogame Nerd covered them. But my other favorite was Batman Returns on Super NES. Great emulation of the look and feel of the movie, and the Final Fight arcade game play was the best. A great beat 'em up!

@cbake76 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Batman Returns SNES probably gets the highest Batman Score of any ‘90s movie game. 😀

@NEUR0MANCER_ 3 жыл бұрын

yea... never played these. before my time. I grew up on batman returns for snes which has always been the best 2d batman game.

@cbake76 3 жыл бұрын

That's a good one! Also deserves high marks in the Batman Game rating, as it's really close to the source material. Thanks for stopping by!

@Javik12 5 жыл бұрын

it was a good ranking, and agree a lot with the first one

@cbake76 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for showing up to the premiere, Javik!

@danielshottopics8187 3 жыл бұрын

I Remember seeing a Copy of Tim Burtons Batman the Game for NES at K Mart in 1992 I was 5 at the Time and I wanted a Batman Game but Batman Returns for the SNES was 90 Bucks Plus Tax, So I Looked around and saw the Bargain Bin and I saw a Copy of Tim Burtons Batman the Game for NES and Since I had a SNES I Could not get it but I Should of at least Bought it as a Collectors Item.

@cbake76 3 жыл бұрын

90 bucks?! Wow! Guessing you’re in Canada? I actually bought a complete boxed copy of the NES game shortly before I made this video for $50 US - so it’s not totally unattainable.

@Rilyn666 3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad the Ocean game got so high in this, it's the one i am most familiar with on the Amiga and Amstrad. I didn't get to play the NES version up til into my 20's and it's great too, if not better.

@cbake76 3 жыл бұрын

And I didn’t even know about he Ocean version till my late 30s. 😀 Thanks for watching!

@NotABot55 3 жыл бұрын

2:47 You probably already figured this out, but there is a fullscreen version of the Batman pinball cabinet on VirtualPinball 9.x.x onwards. 3:16 Well, given that MAME has been emulating all those LCD games a while now for whatever reason...

@SeanobLulz 2 жыл бұрын

I played the Batman arcade game once, in the lobby at the front of the Jamesway (or was it the Ames?) in Warrenton, VA

@urstillaklown0843 3 жыл бұрын

Took me 2 years to beat Batman NES

@kadosho02 5 жыл бұрын

I never did play any of these titles. Although I remember seeing the reviews in magazines. That Amiga one I did not expect. Nor the PC Engine one either. Vastly different from the other versions.

@brightblackgrouse6236 5 жыл бұрын

thank you.

@cbake76 5 жыл бұрын

You're welcome.

@BrothersWebOfficial 5 жыл бұрын

Happy Batman day!!!

@cbake76 5 жыл бұрын

You too!

@BrothersWebOfficial 5 жыл бұрын

@@cbake76 Thanks! -Luke

@Oldschool1943 Жыл бұрын

does any of these studios that developed and published Batman 89 Movie Games currently exist? it would be cool to get a modern collection remake of all of these games especially that arcade one, soo mad that the arcade version is not a console game smfh

@technomancerhammerballs8816 2 жыл бұрын

>ruthlessly murders some dudes yep, sounds like tim burtons bat

@sm4carnageihope 3 жыл бұрын

Will you be doing the same thing next year for Batman Returns?

@cbake76 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve certainly thought about it! It’s unlikely given how busy life is these days, but I like the idea of it, yeah. Thanks for asking. 😀

@sm4carnageihope 3 жыл бұрын

@@cbake76 Can only ask you to do what you can.

@cbake76 3 жыл бұрын

Much appreciated!

@BlastbeatsLOL 3 жыл бұрын

The boss in the NES version was actually Firebug, not Firefly.

@cbake76 3 жыл бұрын

Yep. Misspoke. Though I think you can safely argue it’s actually Random Anime Supervillain Guy.

@BlastbeatsLOL 3 жыл бұрын

@@cbake76 Ha pretty much, he's kinda like a giant Quick Man. I reckon they were clutching at straws searching for anybody in the rogues gallery sans-jetpack who had even a vague association with fire.

@jeremy.802. 4 жыл бұрын

I love tim burtons batman 89 film my favorite batman film ever made batman sucks now ever since batman v superman destroyed the character dark kinght trilogy was fantastic.

@cbake76 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Did you see the video before this one that was more about the movie and its hype?