Batman Returns (NES) Playthrough

[@NintendoComplete]

It's not quite the classic that the SNES game was, but this NES beat 'em up definitely rocks that classic Konami style.

[@ianstuckey4405]

So how does this compare to say Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 and 3 on NES?

[@NintendoComplete]

@@ianstuckey4405 it's similar to both, but the controls aren't as good as they were in either of those games.

[@jaredgold1742]

i am thankful for wishes i am thankful for wishes

[@RandalfElVikingo]

Music is badass on this one.

[@Psychokyuubi666]

@@RandalfElVikingoYeah, the OST is great even if the game is of course inferior to the SNES Adaption. For real there isn’t one bland track :)

[@heydon9601]

Glad to see a playthrough of this game. The graphics are fantastic for the NES, dark and moody with one of Konamis best OSTs to back it up. Doesn’t make it any easier, but the visual and audio goodness is too much to ignore.

[@mediaguy4037]

This and the original Batman are both one of my top 10 nes games!

[@jaredgold1742]

i am sorry for everything i am thankful for everything two

[@LITTLE1994]

This game looks pretty dang good for NES in terms of graphics!

[@chrismifsud7154]

And music

[@darkadamcomics6746]

the music was the best part of. it made the game play fun. still play till this day.

[@CJP__]

Nostalgia. Long live the NES

[@Seiko180]

Batman was the only superhero character who had good games back in the 8 bits era

[@joeyjo-joshabadu9636]

Batman was so much more than a superhero in the '90s(that includes 1989 lol)

[@defblinders9585]

​@@joeyjo-joshabadu9636The Batman Returns Super Nintendo game is one of the very few games that GamePro Magazine gave a complete perfect score.

[@SENTRYXX]

AND TMNT

[@VahanNisanian]

The boss music was also in "Abobo's Big Adventure", for the Super Mabobo level.

[@romariogamingchannel]

Batman returns to Gotham City, and I return 30 years back… 😢 Awesome game! Thank you, Konami, for my happy childhood

[@Kaztrofy]

Doesn't matter how outdated NES graphics gets, the music always bring it.

[@huaxiong1990]

Excellent playthrough. Worth noting this game was composed by Mega Man 2's primary composer (Takashi Tateishi), hence why some tracks (like the first stage and 5-1) have a Mega Man vibe going for them, albeit on a Konami sound driver.

[@dougggthegoof]

Yeah, I noticed the tracks have a Mega Man vibe to them. No wonder!

[@veg411]

Explains why stage 1's music has been stuck in my head for 23 years.

[@jaredgold1742]

[@dillontam9752]

Comparing this Konami Batman game with the Sunsoft ones really show off what each company does best and how their approaches differ when it comes to making kickass games. Where Konami's sound is defined by their clean instruments and complex arrangements, Sunsoft has their iconic Bass with complex backing traded for a fuller sound. The graphics go a similar direction- the Konami house style is trendy yet rough, but Sunsoft's more grounded graphics are polished to the point where you can barely see the pixels. Both are brimming with good ideas and talented execution, but what Konami has in ambition, Sunsoft makes up for in polish.

[@pmnelson81]

Konami made much better games than sunsoft. Sunsoft had a few hits, but konami/ultra had loads of hits.

[@dillontam9752]

@@pmnelson81 Konami managed the neat trick of maintaining quantity AND quality with their small armies of artists, musicians and programmers cranking out games after games. Sunsoft was operating at nowhere near that same scale, as talented as their own teams were.

[@Steph_7d7]

Regarding the nes batman games your take is absolutely spot on. The nes era was a great time for batman fans and chiptunes.

[@ferrum7703]

In terms of sprites for games, Sunsoft is good here, they have a lot of sprites for one model, which makes for smooth movement of the character, this is realistic, while in other NES games, characters for the model use 2-3 sprites for walking, for example. and Sunsoft used 8 sprites for Batman movement

[@laem2121]

My childhood game :)

[@leonardoojeda9629]

ESTE JUEGO UNA NOSTALGIA ME DA. CUANTOS RECUERDOS

[@corporateshill7473]

Used to play this with my dad all the time. Guys on stilts always scared me. For some reason it crossed my mind today, so here I am. RIP Dad. Subbed.

[@BlackPopeye44]

6:35 you get a Batman N64 for beating the boss

[@chaosgreyblood]

One underrated quirk on the game is that the enemies quickly get back on the screen after you send them flying out of it, even though they may end up a couple of meters away! It's convenient if you don't want to wait for them in taking their sweet time returning to the fray.

[@NintendoComplete]

I noticed that too. It's like the exact opposite of Annet Futatabi where you spend half the time waiting for the enemies to walk back onto the screen

[@xwf1000v3]

One of the games that I’d regret not playing.

[@xavierlegoy935]

What a good intro. And that song

[@hotcheetos9168]

One of my personal favorites when little great vid your amazing thanks

[@bademuscuriacius2266]

My first game on nes

[@_ELISSE_]

Me encanta!. Que recuerdos hermosos. 🖤

[@Natedoc808]

Classic Konami soundtrack with classic beat em up layout. Batman looking jacked in this one too.

[@user-ui7iy4vk1e]

I like the flickering windows of the high-rise buildings in the background. They look in the NES and '90s way. And they remind me of me being a child then. Hm. Being a grown-up sucks.

[@ClassicGameSessions]

This looks great on the NES - nice playthrough. I finished "Batman: The Video Game" on the NES back in the day but I remember it being a bit challenging! Happy Holidays!

[@P3RDT0]

So anyways, I started blasting...

[@greensun1334]

It's the NES-counterpart of Streets of Rage on Master System! Solid 8bit-beat em up, looks almost like an early 16bit-game!

[@alexwolf2870]

Childhood right there, thank you, the resemblance this game fight system's mechanics has with the one from Arkham series is stunning

[@theponderer9448]

The music in this game was so sick!!!

[@waynecuff3140]

This is a time when Konami was amazing. 8 and 16 bit awesomeness.

[@susanfit47]

Batman Returns is a somewhat satisfying, side-view, action celebration that puts up a good fight, with Konami’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. In fact, put a black mask on Leonard, exchange Shredder for the Penguin, remove the second player, and you’ve got the basics for this cart. Unlike the 1990 Sunsoft game Batman: The Video Game, this entry focuses less of Batman’s nimble moves, and more on beat-em-up street brawling. Sound familiar, TMNT III aficionados?

[@jillrcpd8227]

Good soundtrack!

[@vgaoct91]

I need to try this one out again! Konami goodness in late NES-era form. At least it's leaps and bounds better than the two NES adaptations of Aladdin and the Lion King or Hell, Back to the Future II & III before it! FYI: I saw a speedrun from back in the day that made good use of the sliding mechanic! [Non-TAS, BTW]

[@xxHUNGRY4THETRUTHxx]

Built off the TNMT 2 engine Konami couldn't do much wrong here. In some way it's slightly improved save the two player option.

[@RetroRogue.]

NES Batman is my 2nd favorite Batman game this is probably 3rd. Number 1? Easy The Adventures of Batman and Robin for Sega Genesis. The soundtrack is my favorite of all time. Very dark.

[@Bloodreign1]

Nothing dark about that soundtrack, if anything it's too upbeat and fits more of a nightclub scene than a Batman game.

[@susanfit47]

Batman Returns is a re-worked version of the game engine from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Arcade Game and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: The Manhattan Project. We've seen this kind of "recycling" before--Capcom uses its Mega Man engine with most of its Disney tie-in games (DuckTales, Darkwing Duck) and Sega seems to use the Sonic the Hedgehog engine on every platform game it releases.

[@raskolnikovii1191]

51:28 Giancarlo Esposito's Batman

[@DrBIeed]

I feel like every Batman game on NES got top notch treatment between Konami and Sunsoft.

[@dorourke105]

okay i wondered where that music from AVGN's magnavox odyssey review came from now i know

[@ferrum7703]

9:31 Thanks, it was very informative

[@Countsmegula]

All the generic clown mooks all look like Necro from Street Fighter 3 thanks to the NES spritework.

[@dougggthegoof]

Glad I'm not the only one who thought that!

[@utasavbiswas5109]

Really my chai dhood memory

[@kamalaharrisloveskneepads3229]

Nintendo complete continues to be awesome while evil doers throw a baseball at Batman.

[@Steph_7d7]

I wish i would have had this loaded on my nes classic when i had it modded. Maybe ill make a new list of games and have it modded again with the latest hakchi and this awesome game.

[@wawa-yl1sw]

Was the first game i had and i liked it so much

[@TheWitchingHourBand]

one things for sure both the nes and the snes versions are better then the god awful genesis version.

[@gabrielsylvestre3708]

Didn't this game have secret rooms or areas like Spider-man: Maximu Carnage/ Separation Anxiety? Can't remember.

[@chrisd5598]

I never knew they made returns for nes I had it on snes

[@СергеевСергей-м4п]

Control of the game is quite convenient. The disadvantage is far-fetched. The color scheme is also normal as for the nintendo system.

[@justina9137]

I never could get past the Organ Grinder

[@shadowofbosstown]

Damn. I thought the snes one was it.

[@OMundodosRetroGames]

I like this game, but I absolutely love the Master System one

[@benitosierrajr3958]

But still better than the Genesis version.

[@OMundodosRetroGames]

@@benitosierrajr3958 I haven't played it, so I can't tell nothing about this version. But I played both Batman (movie) games on NES and Genesis and I can tell Sunsoft was one of the best game developers

[@openget]

Excellent play and capture :) Sorry to ask it here, I found no contact address : I'm making a retrospective video of Batman video games, and as I can't play them all by myself, is it ok to use and recut some of your videos? I keep about one minute per game. Your group would be credited, of course.

[@amyrosearchiesonicplaypoem8760]

Cool video.

[@ck3plays]

Didn’t even know there was a Batman Returns game. Hit sound effects are directly ripped off of Double Dragon II.

[@mariusamber3237]

One of the easier retro Batman games, honestly. Never had much trouble playing through it with just the slide and flying kicks. I'd say it's my 2nd favourite of the NES games. I liked it more than Return of the Joker, but less than the original Batman... though yeah, this one is much easier to complete than either of those!

[@rickycat8241]

How do You throw batarangs?

[@СтаниславПолищук-ж9ж]

секретку на лестнице помню и сейчас на втором уровне. на этажах. в стену подкат надо сделать и жизни большое пополнение вылетает. Этого я так понимаю никто не знает

[@Bloodreign1]

This games soundtrack is insanely good, no it doesn't match the dark mood of Batman's world, though there's a certain other Batman game that can be said about (but is far too hard for it's own good, and the soundtrack REALLY doesn't fit the game at all), but unlike that other one, this is from an established company with a good reputation, and not some small developer no one ever heard of, plus it's difficulty is quite fair. Bought this one about 2 years ago, gotta crank the volume up when I play it.

[@WeskerSega]

Say what you want about the Mega Drive version of The Adventures of Batman and Robin, it's still an awesome game with an outstanding soundtrack and you and your hate will just have to deal with it.

[@Psychokyuubi666]

The soundtrack fits pretty well actually as well as Sunsofts game too.

[@Bloodreign1]

@@WeskerSega It's a soundtrack that will put you to sleep, not to mention it's quite unfitting for the property the game is based off of (Jesper Kyd stuff is just sleep inducing, he's not the Follin Brothers in the least bit, or a Hitoshi Sakimoto). Sunsoft put out a far superior sounding Batman game for the Genesis (and it has fair difficulty), put that in your pipe and smoke it pal. The Clockwork Tortoise mess is basically Gunstar Heroes (run and gun), but not nearly as good as GH is. GH runs circles around that Batman and Robin game, even gaming magazines of the day complained heavily about how unfair Batman and Robin was. Sunsoft's Batman on the other hand, got great reviews from gaming magazines of the day, and I can see why, it's actually GOOD.

[@danielhebert6839]

It's Ninja Turtles 2 with a Batman skin lol.

[@Psychokyuubi666]

It’s still a great game though mister Herbert. The cutscenes in are for one are more detailed than Turtles 2

[@MaestroDrake]

Who saw that ending for the first time?

[@maxk6655]

It was hard to beat. It was like a dark souls from my childhood 😂

[@bademuscuriacius2266]

When i was kid, i everytime tood at 4th level 😢

[@GareBearGamingGround]

Konami used to be so awesome 😫

[@jozz2]

What company made this game? It has a konami-like music👍🏻

[@solarflare9078]

Konami It's partly composed by the Mega Man 2 composer though

[@ariesmercurio1869]

The first Batman game on nes was better This is good but it's just your average beat em up excepting the batmobile stage

[@manekmohan2974]

This isn't as great as the former edition, good though 😁

[@Itshowtime7223]

This is very difficult game 👍👍👍

[@ederm.ribeiro6512]

😎✌👍

[@RealAlphaMale69]

Still better than SegaMegadrive's version lol

[@camulodunon]

Mega drive version is actually fun.

[@Bloodreign1]

@@camulodunon It's probably the l;east fun of the Batman Returns games due to it's difficulty spikes ( a nice difficulty curve would've helped), absolutely drab colors against dark backgrounds, the game seemed to love the color purple, which fits more of the Joker than the Penguin. A couple stages do look neat, but the color count on that game is so low, and the grainy look to everything absolutely ruins what could be a good game. You look at Alisia Dragoon for the same console, and how the Japanese developer put a lot of love and care into the game, including colors that actually look good, and absolutely no graininess to it, and it puts Batman Returns on the same console to shame. Not to mention AD is also tons more fun to play than BR on the Genesis.

[@ludwikd]

Well done Konami...

[@jerichogarry]

I thought the movie had the perfect designs for the Penguin, Gotham's version was too skinny for my liking.

[@C.demirel]

Music🎶 👍👍

[@victormaitland5331]

I flipped this🕹

[@filipemorgado7002]

When the 8bit nes version is much better than the 16bit genesis/mega drive version! I should know. I owned both and was sooooo disappointed with sega over this!! No excuse!!!!

[@rafazalewski3745]

2:55 V12

[@billlyons7024]

looks super easy

[@chrisspearline767]

Like a Double Dragon TMNT clone

[@eugenehills8371]

I'm sorry I I grunts

[@black2785]

I Am Batman Mod looks disgusting, I wish they did Batman Returns with those graphics

[@GabrielproGaming]

In batman returns

[@GabrielproGaming]

O my goooooood is batman, my dad :batman is the best character Im: :VV:

[@rartu]

Looks like they reskinned Castlevania...