C64 Longplay [054] Batman the Movie

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Played by: Retroplay
00:00 Loader pic & title music
02:58 Game starts
16:20 Disappointing ending

[@moibrahim9876]

The music is excellent in this game. And I love the variety in levels. One of OCEANS finest

[@purgetheheretic]

The music is truly excellent. Brings back vivid memories from my youth

[@KhamStronk]

Not that hard, considering Ocean usually released complete dumpster fire games.

[@TomiHaustola]

I tend to return back to listen this music again and again. And c64 sid sound is so perfect in this.

[@harrybaker9044]

The music on the batmobile level is my favourite. Really fast paced beat that creates a sense of urgency, and it's catchy enough that you could almost dance to it.

[@metehanakduygu2183]

Yee 😎😎

[@sgirwan]

The soundtrack is awesome!! This game brings back so many good memories!

[@Viplexify]

The music should be remade, it's absolutely award-winning

[@airw99]

I did a remix to the intro music on my channel.

[@twophan]

I think this game is one of my earliest C64 memories, watching my brother play this game. Seeing Joker falling at the end was one of the scariest things I ever saw and had to leave the room

[@ricokeando8659]

Genau wie bei mir....nur ich habe es selber gespielt

[@Tony-tm6js]

The c64 sid chip was amazing for its time the c64 music was incredible. Combat school is another piece of genius

[@Mike649foxx]

The damn driving stage! When games were ruthless!

[@KhamStronk]

More like when you were a kid and shit at games.

[@DrBigt]

I was never able to beat the driving stage! Finally I can see the entire game!

[@Debbiebabe69]

you never knew the hack? When you die on the driving/chemical lab/batwing stage, it tells you to rewind the tape. Dont, just play it from where it is. It will load the final (cathedral) stage instead.

[@fydocuki87]

Memories of this game. I always died on the driving stage

[@pda1799]

Loved this game back in a day. Also it was one of the few c64 games I have managed to beat)

[@alisonbewick5550]

Good game, and Matthew Cannon's musical score was superb :)

[@TheRubberStudiosASMR]

Incredible music for its time.

[@paulaaleksandra8979]

My favourite game from my amazing childhood 🥰😍 but only problem was that I never finished all 4 levels 😂😅 but the game is so unique and still have this atmosphere like it had in the 80's thank u so much !!!

[@Debbiebabe69]

you never knew the hack? When you die on the driving/chemical lab/batwing stage, it tells you to rewind the tape. Dont, just play it from where it is. It will load the final (cathedral) stage instead.

[@lickybigbox]

The song that plays during the batwing level has bin playing in the back of my head since the game came out…. Love it

[@trydowave]

its a great tune

[@Measure_Head]

Wow ! Nostalgie ... J’avais 7 ans quand je jouais à ce jeu, j’avais galère à le finir lol Les musiques sont vraiment bonnes

[@jjamo5]

Memory Flashback 9 years old playing this on C64 1989 :D! Thanks matey!

[@Alaemortis]

My childhood! Thank you for this upload!

[@justinwmusic]

I used to boot this game up just to listen to the title screen song. Hell, I still come back to this video once a year.

[@urielramirez9449]

I almost cried, so many good memories with my brothers, in my parent´s house

[@windsweeper8002]

On the tape version, if you died on levels 2,3 or 4, instead of following the instructions to rewind the tape, pressing play loaded up the final level giving you infinite lives.

[@justinwmusic]

It's incredible how far ahead of Nintendo the C64 was in the sound department.. with only 3 voices versus 5!

[@FadkinsDiet]

It also depends a lot on the artist creating the music and knowing what techniques work well.

[@AchtungBaby77]

Man, this is my childhood right here! Amazing music and gameplay. Looking back at it now though, it's really the Axis Factory and Cathedral levels which made this game shine - swinging around on the batrope from platform to platform is amazing fun. The three levels in-between feel more like filler material and are nowhere near as enjoyable.

[@ravinderkandola597]

Another great way back playback, thx for the memories.

[@ChrisBenoit31]

Wow, I remember playing this game when I was a kid. And I remember finisching it too, but it was quite difficult for the little kid I was; played alot before reaching the end!

[@amundbisgaard7295]

I remember being able to "hack" this game with no hacking equipment. Recipe: Get to the end of level 1. Make sure you are on your last life. Kill the boss, then step off the ledge, falling to your death. Killing the boss triggers the loading of levels two - four. Dying triggers game over, but the game now doesn't know how to process this. Result: You start level 2 with infinite lives.

[@nevioberki9894]

many memories of this game, if it wasn't for my fever which I had as a child I would never killed the joker....such a great music, this, dragon breed, nemesis, silk worm, wonder boy in wonderland, rastan, trojan, battle ship, platoon, barbarian, Untouchables, Ikari warriors, Operation wolf, wonder boy, ghost n ghoblins, out run...and Rick Dangerous are my favorite C-64 games

[@mattjames6349]

the other guy did the leftover bits! priceless!

[@michaeltsung9741]

Awesome loading screen pic, one of the best I've seen

[@jarosawblaminsky2988]

Copy of Batman The Movie comic front page. :D

[@michaeltsung9741]

ah, ok... thx 4 info

[@yandman26]

Taken from the coming adaptation of the movie

[@jarosawblaminsky2988]

I like when half-body Joker climbs the ladder at the end.. looks like a green bear :D

[@phalanxrazorz4863]

The 80's rocked, here's the proof. The music industry's turned to shit so everyones out rediscovering gems from way back. When i say everyone i mean ME, thats what I'm doing

[@BG-pt7fy]

Music ramps up at 13 minute mark. Improving on perfection. So good.

[@TommyCurrell]

I remember me and my brother teaming up to beat the driving stage. One concentrates on the road the other looks for the turn :) I always died on the batwing level

[@abuelopeleon835]

Daaamn that music absolutely amazing

[@markduchey8785]

Music is great in this game. Especially the batwing level and the final cathedral level.

[@BugaBean]

Best soundtrack ever

[@djapeboss]

mannnn. I think this was my first game ever on C64 :) NOSTALGIA

[@H0LDENSUX]

That smilex antidote solution was too quick. I was just getting into the music for that stage.

[@VorSatanClause]

Ahh, good old c64...so many memories xD

[@DJJKing]

Coool game at the time. Remember my wrist aching after going crazy on the joystick 🕹️ dramatic music though 😊

[@deano2160]

This one felt abit special when i was a kid. Great game.

[@BFCrusader]

The car section... did Batman get home driving in circles going left?

[@tatsujincorp]

The Cathedral is one of the most best and most melancholy SID of all time. ♡

[@DrGonzo123456789]

The Axis chemical factory tune is dope as f*ck.

[@pragmax]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="535">8:55</a> - "Yeah, so what you wanna do is go down Rt 5. and exit a mile after the Batcave - you'll see it on the left. Can't miss it."

[@bobkippuz]

Proper loved this game. Finished it without losing a life . Told my mum and she didn't give a fuck lol

[@animemanXLK]

I remember stumbling across this in a local second hand store for next to nothing. Only played it for about half an hour or so. My c64 was rarely used by that point.

[@jasonalexander7089]

This game new and sealed must be worth a small fortune now

[@3adel3li48]

Love you man sweet days

[@foughtthelol]

Spectacular quality.

[@temirazor]

Awesome soundtrack

[@Aerojet01]

They did an excellent job making this for the C64 and exceeded all expectations considering it is an 8 bit machine. The music and graphics were brilliant for its time. One of the best games in the history of the C64.

[@dlfrsilver]

i have this game on C64 and it's a disgrace, exactly like Robocop. What were Ocean Thinking when they forked out this shit ?

[@planetxsurveillance.dinkwi5766]

Lol

[@dlfrsilver]

@@planetxsurveillance.dinkwi5766 yeah ! :D

[@planetxsurveillance.dinkwi5766]

@@dlfrsilver what you are actually serious lol

[@dlfrsilver]

@@planetxsurveillance.dinkwi5766 unfortunately yes. Batman and Robocop on C64 were crafted with no care.

[@Staminist-MMF-80]

Now I remember! When I played this game, this level was freakin' HUGE! At least by those standards :)

[@GenMaster]

lmao that ending sequence Joker falls down like a ripe fruit 😂😂😂

[@stevieboy7873]

Brings back childhood memories, I’m 38 now and had this game snd comadore 64 when I was under 10 years old , funny thing is the comadore 64 and all games are still in my mums loft in a box lol

[@EdgyNumber1]

That Matt Cannon theme tune. Always awesome. I'd love to see/hear him and Matt Gray team up to use this in a new Reformations album where the tunes have been updated with more modern instruments. It's a little slow here the Amstrad CPC version has a better iteration.

[@dlfrsilver]

yes the tempo is wrong on the C64 version.

[@Am_Brew]

As a kid I grew up with this game. Had about 50+ other games but only this, Jack Nicholas Golf, Back to the Future and California Games were originals the rest were copies. I wish games still amazed me as much as they did when I was a kid.

[@Taarnafeather]

Great music! :)

[@19Tharg76]

As my dude said below, the music for this game was awesome on the C64

[@sgirwan]

This is so much better than Uncharted 4

[@srichard7291]

lol

[@asylumgaming1154]

sgirwan Ikr

[@steveperry8431]

Batman c64 classic old school days

[@edunoeduno4980]

tomb raider on gbc is better than Uncharted 4.

[@garycox9341]

Brings back memories as an 11 year old finnishing my last term in primary school in 1990!

[@wordman3624]

I can't believe they had a level where Batman had to analyze products for the Smilex poison. That was never even shown in the film! It would be like a Pulp Fiction game where you had to clean up the blood, brains and skull out of the car and later have Vincent take a dump at the diner.

[@flexmcpee]

Oh my days so many happy memories playing this as a 9 year old. And 1st time pirating a game on my HIFI 😂

[@gavinpgraham]

Wow, I haven’t seen this since I was a child. You could skip to the last level by just turning the tape over.

[@mikeblock4694]

I missed this game..

[@ematech]

best conversion from a movie on C64 after Ghostbuster

[@Darkmoor9]

Amazing graphics and music, but I have to admit I find the Spectrum version much more playable.

[@jasonalexander7089]

Subscribed!!!!

[@H0LDENSUX]

Ha! Ha! concludes the laughing device in the joker's Jacket. He fell 3 times faster in the game than in the movie.

[@TheUsualSuspekt]

This game seemed so much longer than 16 min as a kid.

[@mikeshirleyforever]

The loading stage at the beginning felt longer! But waiting for that music to kick in was such a thrill.

[@lofthouse23]

Ah memories....

[@RickinBaltimore]

Check out the Easter egg in the high score table "Zach Townsend" if you spell downwards on the right and left columns, and "Maestro" in the middle

[@volkankacan184]

in c64 top 10

[@JyriJii]

Finally I got a one c64 that has a working sid-chip...this is awesome. And I have to train my skills on this game. Even though my chip is only 8580 its awesome with this game. And my original batman tape is screwed...I have to adjust it lots of times that it just loads the game. Oh the cassette glory :)!

[@JustJamie1983]

Awesome game

[@Optimus6128]

It's interesting to see the C64 version of this. It was top game on CPC. What this version has in comparison to CPC is smoother scrolling. What is missing is the sound effects. But it's nice to see the great music as I remember it from CPC, but on SID now. I am also wondering if the controls/gameplay where good, because I haven't heard about this game on C64 before, not the most famous of the machine.

[@DerDude1977]

What a great game. Batman - The Movie was my first game on my own C64 with a floppy drive to christmas and I got this an Moonwalker (- which in my opinion wasn't so crappy as many magazines told). And Indiana Jones 3 (The Action game) wich in my opinion was really bad. I don't know how often I made a playthrough with Batman. At least 20 times. The game was very playable and relatively long for a C64 action game back then. It wasnn't too easy and not too hard. Very playable. Music in this game was fantastic! And graphics were good too. I especially liked the Batman "sprite". Batman was surely one of the best licence games by Ocean. Althoug I knew at some point where to go and what to do, Batman didn't get boring to me. Surely one of the best action games on the 64. There was so much to explore back then when I got my Commodore 64 (Many games were copies back then, but when it came to Batman I had the original version) that I couldn't exactly tell which games I played the most. I think that my most played game back then was Airborne Range by MicroProse. I bought it because I was able to get back "Chambers of Shaolin" which I thought was rubbish. It had a template in the box (- oh, the good old game boxes with printed manuals, especially by MicroProse). Airborne Range on the 64 was also fantastic in my opinon. I also played Iron Lord quite often but only the first part in the "open world" was very good (music, sound, graphics, atmosphere.): But the last two parts (strategy part an the "action game" at the end didn't fit to the rest of Iron Lord. Od course I liked and knew many many games on the small Commodre. Started playing on that machine in 1984 when a friend at school hat one. All the "Games-Series" by Epyx. Yie Ar Kung Fu, Cauldron, Blue Max, Zaxxon, Spy vs. Spy (which was really strange and had a very "pychedelic" music), Impossible Mission, and nearly everything that came out. Later I loved Hostages and Test Drive, and of course Pirates! which I played at the home of another friend, because I still didn't have my own computer. In 1987 I got a C-16 from my uncle, because he got himself a C-64, I had to give my Playmobil pirate ship to my cousin for the deal. Then things went faster. I got my first 64 without a floppy drive second hand. Christmas 1989 I got a floppy drive (and BATMAN!). Soon after this I made new friends at the new school... . One had an Amiga 500. After seeing those "sharp" graphics on the Amiga and listenig to its "special" sound I knew I had to get an Amiga ASAP! But I had to wait until 1991. One or two years later PC games started to overpower Amiga games when VGA-graphics and Soundblaster became standard. When I first saw and played Wing Commander, Space Quest IV and other good looking PC-games I was upset as PC's were unachieveable to me as they were so expensive In 1993 I worked all the school holidays and as I hoped, that the then knew Amiga models (Amiga 1200) would turn the tide against the PC's I invested all my money in an Amiga 1200 with a hard drive. It wasn't a totally bad decision as there were some good games for the 1200 (Colonization, UFO, etc.) which sometimes were even better than on the PC.. And I liked the operating system. Workbench 3.x to me was far better than Windows until Windows XP was released. I also got me some extra RAM and a "turbo card". It was a nice and good machine but for Commodore it was "too little too late". In 1997 or 1999 I finally bought my first PC (after a second hand PSX) but it never had the same "magic" as the C64 oder Amiga. Finally: I had the joy to play great games back then like Wing Commander Prophecy, Delta Force, Jagged Alliance (and some other great strategy games like Anstoss (On the ball I think it was called in English) 2Gold, Half Life, Unreal (whicht was fun with friends but which I didn't like that much), Duke Nuke'm, Total Annihilation, Command & Conquer 1 and 2, SWOTL, Panzer Elite (the simulation, not the later "PE Action", Panzer General, Civil War General, Gothic 1 and 2, Ultima 7 when it comes to rpg's (I loved Eye Of The Beholder 1 and 2, but Amiga versions were as good as the ones on PC). Ah, good, good old times! Sorry for my long long monologue. But I did get really nostalgic vibes seeing this longplay. "My wolrd" was good back then. Last year my mother died and I had and have to work on many personal problem right now. Thinking of "the good old times" sometimes is a good thing to me. Bye and best wishes!

[@muraalia]

Ah, this game! I loved this! My copy is probably less than legit, it offers the chance to cheat (=not die), and I always did, because otherwise I couldn't have finished it. :P Great game, and the music is so good! I wonder if I could still remember the right path in the first and last stages.

[@FadkinsDiet]

This playthrough Batman absorbs several bullets with no ill effect, so it might be th4 same version.

[@mikedski9698]

Batman: I'm Batman!

[@msu7777]

I think this game has only 1 stage -> when i play this game it ends with first stage. Glad to see there is more.

[@pizzapower270]

Those graphics are pretty good considering the C64 came out in 1982.

[@CloudStrifeZX]

this is a true videogame not that interactive movie like crap we get today

[@daveshen0880]

SuperFalconZX I prefer Batman NES. Not this shitty game.

[@yoursRedPill]

Loaded this Game arround 20 Minutes only to hear that Music

[@glenreidy]

Crash rewind to zero haha. I’ve been wanting to play this game again. I’d like this game to be released on smartphones.

[@metehanakduygu2183]

yeah oldies are besties

[@ksauerrr]

I did beat this game on C64 back in a day. It was very difficult.

[@peterkarras8523]

It was an awesome game

[@SomeOrangeCat]

Weird thing is, the Spectrum port impressed me more, probably because I wasn't expecting a game looking that good on the hardware.

[@rockys201]

There was a really cool cheat you could do once you reach the batmobile level, if you just keep going right you'll run into a bunch of cop cars and if you run into them and use up all your lives and die, you'll go right to the very last level! I found this out when I was a kid and was really awesome!

[@Debbiebabe69]

Not just that, all you had to do was die on the batmobile, batcave, or batwing level, and when it told you to rewind the tape, just press play.

[@LoewenPforte]

Nice Outfit.

[@24framez_]

"Ha Ha"

[@giuseppelavecchia775]

Gran gioco.buona la versione C64

[@Klynch111]

I don't remember the game beinh as short as this

[@Jac2Mac]

This Batman game was released in the US by Data East.

[@NihilQuest]

I liked this version much more than Amiga port.

[@edrice2621]

This game reminds me if Bionic Commando.

[@literallypuni4091]

The Grappling Hook can also be used as a weapon for diagonal-up attacks.

[@christophersonnenberg7050]

Only in the Trainer Version?!

[@literallypuni4091]

@@christophersonnenberg7050 No, the game itself.

[@Vrabsher_-Supreme_Perhinther-]

Yeah you use that to make the Joker fall from his ladder .

[@turrican3839]

A soundtrack to rival Sunsoft's efforts on Batman

[@jasonalexander7089]

Isn't the sound engine too primitive?

[@turrican3839]

@@jasonalexander7089 no, its just the limitation of the C64 soundchip only having 3 channels, BUT it is far more flexible

[@journeytosilius1]

This game looks cool! I never did play it growing up, or even know about it. I started with the NES Batman. The music is good, and gameplay is slower paced than later consoles. But did Commodore 64 games generally not have bosses or is that just this game? Lol. He gets to the top and just whips Joker's ass off the ladder and that's it. Still this is pretty great and I expected not as good graphics from C64 games.

[@CraigGrannell]

Bosses were uncommon on C64. But watch a longplay of Turrican 2 and you should see plenty.

[@enricomazzarellosimracing6502]

Could you explain how it works the level of the chemical analysis ?

[@abooogeek]

I don't know why, but this version of the game is in my opinion the best one. It has something that the 16-bits version (Amiga, Atari ST) are not able to transpose (maybe it is the SID music?)

[@handsomebrick]

what if a new Batman movie had orchestra versions of all these songs with no explanation of where they were from

[@ivanponce4826]

The ending is like Bruuuh