Just like almost all the other Gameboy games I played growing up, Batman the Video Game was hard, but fairly simple game. Much like Super Mario Land, you can only move to the right, there are hidden blocks, enemies and bottomless pits that will kill you fairly quickly, and the occasional flying stage. Unlike Super Mario Land (and unlike Batman in pretty much every iteration ever), you use a gun to break blocks and kill enemies. Similar to Contra, there are power ups that change which gun you are using (the most powerful one shoots Batarangs) as well as powerups for being able to shoot more bullets, be protected by a circle of Batarangs, speed up said Batarangs, and get extra lives.
I think the "plot" of the game is trying to follow the movie? It starts with you confronting Jack in the Axis Chemical Factory. Then you go through a museum. Then the batwing levels (which were pretty brutally difficult shoot 'em ups). Then into the cathedral to face the Joker once and for all. I guess it was short just like Super Mario Land, too. It's also pretty entertaining because the life counter is in hexadecimal and how the first and last boss fights are pretty much identical. If you have 30 minutes to kill, you can watch the entire game
here. I remember really hating that auto scrolling level at the end...
I loved that game. As I recall, the very hardest part was beating the Joker at the end.
ReplyDeleteI was always glad for the Batwing levels. They were easy compared to those final forced-scrolling ones :-/