NES Longplay [112] Batman Returns

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This is the last Batman game on the nes. It's a decent beatem up game. -
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[@rudyhu4518]

the music brings me back to good ol 90s

[@andreiwayneandrewbrucewayn3421]

That's right,me too,the song from the Ice Princess level is THE BEST!

[@TillTheLightTakesUs]

One of the best NES games ever.

[@Gogetta80]

Didn’t even know there was an nes batman returns. Only knew of SNES

[@unnamed6595]

One of the best, but no 2 players mode

[@jaadea]

I dont knew about this game in NES, only for SNES

[@jaadea]

SNES or NES?

[@perrymehta6438]

@prof I like the game but I like the first one more

[@bambarylo]

Never passed the freaking duck when I was a kid. Thank you for taking me to the end of this game. Definitely one of the best nes games.

[@nasukemugiwara]

Lol same 😂😂

[@EIOK]

OBRA MAESTRA. Por donde lo mires, es una pieza clave de la generación que nacimos en los 90’s.

[@NewportBox100s]

The intro to this game scared the crap out of me as a kid. It's so dark! I never even got past the first boss. -_-

[@Mikhuilangelo]

Me too. But i know supercode and was immortal)))))

[@stefanos64]

Yeah I was scared too, it brought me nightmares when I've seen it, I wonder if any kid now gets those feelings if they play this game, the fear in the first cutscene (well it wasn't the good part if you ask me)or the excitement we had for this game back to these days... Whatever computers could't create back to these days, our imagination could...if you know what I mean. Im feeling lucky that I was born this times, there are many things that kids now won't come accross because they have their fancy 1080p games now...

[@the_bane_of_all_anti_furry]

@@stefanos64 i was borned in the early 2000 but i had the lucky to fell many good games like zelda TTP and skyward sword aswell metroud prime trilogy on all my 720 Pixel tv monitor and my wii i was lucky of this cause few years later game industry turned out in an bloody bloated monsters of microtransations premium pass and loot boxes....

[@gabnrami]

Yes i always skipped it heheh

[@god-level6626]

lmao same y'all rn I'm 14 and when I first listened to the intro it made me shit my pants I was 7at that time and all I'm still traumatized ngl

[@Jakerocksteady]

Wow, the music in this game is incredible!

[@Mr-DNA]

It's hilarious how much this plays like a TMNT game. The clowns even throw punches just like a Foot Soldier.

[@TheChronoTiger]

The cutsenes of this game scared the living crap out of me as a kid. I only remember getting past the first boss. I remember that my dad finished the game though.

[@PashaDefragzor]

+GameCheetah hah :D

[@elblogdelfeno]

Dude my memories are exactly like yours! I think my dad didn't get to finish the game though, because it wasn't ours, he traded it for a few days probably.

[@storedmush]

Best game of my childhood!

[@estebanetchegoyen]

Looks like a very decent game for NES. However, it was released when my attention in that time was already focused into the 16- bit videogames. Because of this, I never knew about this one. Thanks for sharing!

[@dimelo8826]

And there’s a 16 bit version of it as well

[@emanuelb.2559]

this game was amazing, a lot of content and variety for a 8 bit game

[@JuroJack]

Finally I found this game! I remember I used to try and badly fail at playing this game when I was less than 5 years old. I never made it past the first boss so I'm really looking forward to seeing this play out!

[@snapclub8751]

The farthest I’ve gotten is 4-3.

[@sk8in113]

James on cinemassacre really needs to do a part 3 with all the batman games out there.

[@ayaansheikh102]

True respect who ever has uploadee this. I love this game in my childhood in Dubai I had a cacet. Man this music loved batman and still do... Super hero

[@icedragon2000]

Never played this game on the NES, I had the Genesis version which was completely different. I only learned about this one because it had the same composer as Mega Man 2. Great music from an amazing video game composer.

[@BryanX64]

***** Was thinking the same thing.

[@stefanos64]

Megaman 2 and 3 music themes also where so great! That makes sense Dude! I didn't know that.... Also the mega man that the younger children nowadays listened to, liked the musical themes very much!!!

[@ClassicTVMan1981X]

Takashi Tateishi, AKA Ogeretsu Kun

[@teavirus]

one of my favourites when I was a 9-year-old-kid along with ninja gaiden 2. still shiver me timbers when hear its music! good ol' days.

[@Clarensee]

What a great game (that is BALLS hard)! Konami, man... they've left an amazing legacy. I love how the bikers keep running faster than their bikes, when exploded.

[@Ghyll]

beated when I was like 10years old. So many memories.. The music. just awesome

[@betolp4895]

Thanks for this memories! On stage 2 if you hit the eyes cat with your subweapon you get some items.

[@JuanHerrera-hg7zg]

My god... i was... i dont known, 5 years old maybe when i played this. I remember that ''the boss duck' was fucking difficult for me.

[@edwardgaines6561]

Konami did such a GREAT job in their 8-bit rendition of Batman here. And I thought Konami only did arcade games legit!😚

[@ROFusion]

@HicksZ34 I was thinking the same thing! I loved the side-scrolling beat em up style of TMNT 2 and TMNT 3.

[@aztecwhistle9122]

@HicksZ34 I'm late but I just wanted to say that they did with X Men and The Simpsons lol

[@aztecwhistle9122]

@HicksZ34TMNT 3 is awesome since all of the turtles have their own unique special attacks as well. That can't be said for the other TMNT games.

[@loringbush1455]

I never knew that this came out for the Nes! Yes I still have Batman Returns for my Sega Genesis and Game gear! Wow! What an amazing soundtrack!

[@ClassicTVMan1981X]

The "item get" sound sounds like the one from the NES Castlevania games, and I've heard people say even the death jingle heard in Castlevania (I) and Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse is also recycled here. You gotta love Konami...

[@javieralexandermartinezmat424]

este juego es un clásico, que bueno es recordar viejos tiempos

[@patp3725]

I remember thinking this looked soooo good back there (so much so that it took me a while just now to adjust to what the NES graphics really looked like!) Still, awesome game, and the "cutscenes" look really nice for 8bit

[@MythopoeicNavid]

Thank you so much for sharing this -- due to the popuarlity of the SNES Batman returns game, this (arguably superior) game is seriously underappreciated online. Most 'History of Batman game' lists miss out on this one. Thanks for posting this! My whole childhood prior to the release of the adv. of batman & robin on SEGA was spent on this.

[@MythopoeicNavid]

alxxpspqr That's a very good observation regarding the TMNT 2 engine -- and you're right the graphics alone suggest that. I am a fan of the music though, the rather foreboding and cold theme perhaps resonates with my earliest memories too much to suggest a forgotten world, haha. I remeber the NES and SNES versions as well, not too fan of Return of the Joker but they all prove one thing; The awesomeness of the Batman video-game franchise!

[@MythopoeicNavid]

alxxpspqr Well the critical success of later Batman games do qualify it as 'awesome.' As for a forgotten world, haha yes perhaps I could've phrased it better -- but what I meant was that its music was very evocative of the Batman Returns movie. Thanks!

[@vidydvici]

You are awesome! thank you for taking the time to do this! brings back good times!

[@sergeik1750]

Одна из лучших игр.

[@АндрейФевралёв-я6т]

11:50 "cat eyes" can be crushed.

[@Clarensee]

WHAT . A . MASTERPIECE...

[@leonelmenanatareno5629]

Indeed a masterpiece!! One of the most awesome ports for the nes!!!!

[@EpicBadTeams]

u know you can hit that cat head in the eye it give you an item

[@HE360]

These were some of the best graphics for the NES back then.

[@Maxi-Gonz.]

I remember that my parents bought me once a bootleg disc with a TON of NES ports for my PS1 as a very little young kid, and found my mother playing this (she loves the Batman things) and then I give it a shot. It was a lot of fun in a nice afternoon. Shamefully, I don't know where my PS1 is; I lost it like 10 years ago. Maybe my parents sold it to give me my next console wich was a XBOX 360.

[@shadowjoker830]

This soundtrack is unbelievably good !!

[@FF28303]

ذكريات جميلة يا صديقي رجعت الى سنة ١٩٩٨ بعد فوز فرنسا بكاس ألعالم شكرا لك

[@xgaboonx0022]

Guess I have to start playing these games after 25 years again. So simple and fun!

[@CliffuckingBooth]

When I get high and watch these games I played as a 7 year old its like travel through time...Sometimes I even remember memorise I thought I have lost long time ago :) Anyway thanks for the videos

[@bangbangkardiman5048]

バットマン (PCエンジンCD 1993) 声の出演: バットマン: 玄田哲章 ジョーカー: 青野武 アルフレッド: 北村弘一 トゥーフェイス: 大塚明夫 ポイスン・アイビー: 佐々木優子 ハーレー・クイン: 伊藤美紀 キャットウーマン: 高島雅羅 ジェームズ・ゴードン: 小林修 ペンギン: 富田耕生 スクレアクロー: 納谷六朗 ミスター・フリーズ: 池田勝 キラー・クロク: 銀河万丈 リドラー: 安原義人 クレイフェイス: 江原正士 ナレーター: 山寺宏一 演出: 加藤敏 音響制作: (株) 東北新社

[@thegeezerdan]

2nd best batman returns game behind the super Nintendo version.

[@figment1988]

and one of the last good batman games before they began to dish out the crappy ones based on the horrendous Joel Schumacher movies... Thank goodness Christopher Nolan came and gave the movie franchise the proper comeback it needed, while the games did get better (even though the Arkham series are original stories)

[@thegeezerdan]

+Death Metal Violence I like the music in both versions

[@tatsumaru12345]

I'm with ya there. The SNES game, like many others, have that 'underwater' sound. So everything blends in and gets bland quickly. Whereas the NES had some catchy beats. Plus, doesn't hurt I'm nostalgic as crap to the nes version. Then with how hard the bosses are, that boss music always brought fear to me. Nothing compares to the Mega CD version music though xD

[@tatsumaru12345]

alxxpspqr A low pass filter wouldn't typically increase the quality in sound. All that does, is cut off higher frequencies you don't want played. So say you don't have a tweeter on your speaker, its good to cut off with a low pass filter around 12khz or so. I'll agree though! All those games have great soundtracks. But they all also have this 'underwater' disctinct sound to them too. Some games like mario world don't have it at all. Others like batman returns, I dunno. It drives me nuts nowadays xD May not bother anyone else

[@sainttrunks1982]

The original batman nes was better than this.

[@anastasiavelonagoshudnaya7455]

All BOSSES fight - 6:38 - 14:46 - 24:14 - 34:40 - 50:56 ( Final Boss )

[@sergeik1750]

OMG great soundtrack.

[@dariusthegreat6971]

loved this game,climate and difficulty

[@Omar-ok7gd]

I remember back in the 90's when my uncle bought me a nes with batman returns... seeing batman in the intro scared me at first .. but I got used to it

[@liamwebster3862]

Oddly enough, there is a pirated cart of this. It's called Batman III and I don't know where it was sold, But it's just this game with an edited title screen, no story demo and missing its Konami license.

[@zanegandini5350]

+KirbyFan101 It was most likely of Chinese origin, since they made many bootleg NES cartridges even after the system was discontinued.

[@dwartbg1]

Bron-Yr-Aur House I had it as a child. It was one of my first NES cartridges ever. The first logo at start up isnt the Konami but 1993 written, also it has the story demo and everything else is the same. My cartridge had the Batman Forever movie poster on it with Batman 3 written on top.

[@thiagosoares6526]

I remember me as a kid when my father came back from a trip (he was a truck driver) and he bring this game to me and than I start playing but it was so hard for me that time. Than my uncle start playing the game with me and helped me , but we never passed from Cat Woman. God old times!

[@MatthewBenson321]

I never knew there was a NES version made. It's fantastic!! Kind of like a Batman-themed Ninja Turtles The Arcade Game sequel.

[@KeyleeTamirian]

So you don't know about TMNT 3 on NES, if you mention TMNT 2 the Arcade Game, rather than TMNT 3.

[@Shadowsinger001]

I never knew there was a NES version of this game.. Played the shit outta the SNES version.. such an awesome game

[@sachincs5533]

When I was a child..I couldn't pass the first boss...just came here to full fill my childhood curiosity

[@stefanos64]

I couldn't too but I used boomerang back then, almost all my life and made it😄😄😄

[@sachincs5533]

@@stefanos64 those days man...these games were fun... graphics never mattered.

[@sainttrunks1982]

Glad to finally CatWoman as a boss in a batman game. #AboutTime

[@realevostevo]

Kinda reminds me of Battletoads how the enemy goes flying with the final hit.

[@martinalejandroluboszyc5658]

uno de los mejores juegos de batman lejos y que decir el soundtrack hermoso

[@lildiscostu]

on of the best games ever mede for nes

[@TheKiller92272]

The Angry Video Game Nerd left this out in The Batman episode

[@maurogabrielsilva]

The Song!!!!!!!! :3

[@Pur3Ownag3for3v3r]

I didnt own this game as a kid but i got it today from my nes dealer and i gotta say its awesome!

[@RosaMunwalker]

entire sountrack of this game sounds like a megaman´s game

[@Fargusno7930]

Well, the composer is the same composer of Megaman 2, Takashi Tateishi. No wonder it sounds familiar Also, some tracks are composed by guitarist and sound programmer Shigemasa Matsuo, who's part of the guitar circle Night and Day

[@VGMStudios33]

To me it sounds like tmnt.

[@OfficialTruDru]

True!

[@m.a.packer5450]

Batman punches like a damned mantis shrimp. Pow

[@doodledangernoodle2517]

M. A. Packer underrated comment

[@andrzejdymek5563]

Pamiętam, super gierka na pegazusa co wyszła, to były czasy i fajne gry.

[@taffer33]

I had played Batman games (this one and the first part from Sunsoft) before I watched movies and it was shock for me when I saw Burton's Batmans... I was like "wtf, the same things were in the game" :D And this is what I love about NES games based on movies, they didn't change the plot, for me it was great to play Batman, Robocop, Terminator, etc and then to look for similiarities and references

[@chenjinguo]

This, Return of the Joker and the unlicensed Batman and Flash one are only three NES Batman games that I came across to play em. 2-1 and 5-1 stages theme are ma favourite. I personally enjoyed this game a little more than Ninja Turtles NES game series(those are great too👍) A great played by Valis77 and memorable NES Batman Returns video from World of Longplays youtuber 👍.

[@LodovicoAriosto1]

I remember this game was quite hard in later stages. After so many years I still recall the circus organ player boss fight because I died so many times.

[@MetalSEGAKid1990]

great game with a great soundtrack

[@TheKiller92272]

This game looks fuckin awesome

[@kolchakov96]

Now this is called nostalgia !

[@IvanIvanov-ms4to]

Best OST EVER

[@axelwulf6220]

Remember when there were video game tie-ins for every major movie that came out?

[@TRJ2241987]

If you pause the game at the fight in front of the Christmas tree, the tree will continue to twinkle and you can enjoy it as long as you like

[@BridgeIsSky]

crazy times life was just so different from nowadays

[@johannordin6534]

Music sounds like a mix between turtles 1, Castlevania games and tiny toon adventures ^^

[@peterpitcard]

damn, i remember those "cutscenes" scared the shit out of me as a kid, but the game was amazing!

[@gclcreativedesigner2611]

I'm so proud i have this game.

[@Spazbo4]

hmm, wow, i cant believe i missed this game when i was doing batman longplays for this website

[@michaelmenshikov2770]

Game style beautiful

[@chadking1938]

I wonder what would the game look like if it was made by Sunsoft. If only there was an 89 video game for SNES.

[@luelaify]

just look at the sega version of Batman; return of the joker

[@gabrielsylvestre3708]

I know this game had some secret rooms because I found them by accident. Doesn't anyone remember them? I forgot how to find them. Just like Separation Anxiety / Maximum Carnage (Genesis)

[@horror_fam0847]

Man I remember playing this a kid memory's

[@NicolasMartinez-dn4yy]

I swear to good that I was always afraid to beat Catwoman because of how the Penguin appears outta nowhere, that cutscene traumated me for life

[@TheChronoTiger]

When i played this game as a kid i was scared from the game over screen and pretty much most of the things in the game :D idk why

[@leonelmenanatareno5629]

I used to have this game!! Awesome!!! Brings back memories!! 😎😎😎😎😎😎

[@acore2012]

Batman happens to be my favorite DC Hero.

[@MRJxPmosh]

i never knew this game existed

[@eljuli1003]

I never could defeat CATWOMAN... :(

[@shader12]

Loved this game

[@bineshkapali]

13:33 LOL my whole childhood I thought I was supposed to just dodge that bombs, I used to think no matter what i do, the bomb falls on whole ground. There was no internet at that time to know how to complete that stage. I am laughing like hell😂😂😂I never passed that stage

[@BigPhatMan]

AVGN somehow overlooked this one. Maybe he didn't have it.

[@renualdo]

+Big Fat Man Yeah. He also missed The Adventures of Batman and Robin for the Sega Genesis.

[@BigPhatMan]

+renualdo He did. But he talked about it very briefly.

[@Mar-O899]

+Big Fat Man There are a number of Batman games not included in his video. (same with the Spiderman one, both characters have a lot of games)

[@zanegandini5350]

+Big Fat Man He didn't cover the NES Batman games too much, because his goal is to talk about _shitty games that suck ass._ This game isn't shitty nor does it suck ass.

[@alvaroalas2450]

big fat man,because this game was good unlike the return of the joker,batman forever and batman for the commodore 64

[@amerk6601]

Not a bad game. It feels sort of reminiscent of a Double Dragon adventure. I especially thought the arcade-style shooter level added a unique flair to this. However, the game only seemed to cover about 3/4 the story, which is surprising. At the time the game was released, a typical NES game was capable of providing more detail, that an additional level or two shouldn't have been difficult. There was no follow up to Catwoman's or Max's character, which made this game feel incomplete.

[@CleaveTheDragon]

19:44 Little too late to start recording when the conversation is over, batman

[@garretmangio9756]

12:22 I'm not sure how well known it is, but those cats (at random intervals) actually have a chemical weapon that makes the fight with Catwoman a lot easier (much like the movie)

[@Alexey65536]

Gotta point out that you missed collectibles on stage 2-2. They're in cat eyes and can be obtained with grappling hook.

[@Donscottmusic]

Konami did a great job with "Batman Returns" on the NES and SNES. Too bad I can't say the same for SEGA. Awful unplayable gameplay,completely ruined that version.

[@Pasty206]

El batman de Master system es mejor juego que este de nes.

[@Donscottmusic]

David Vazquez Speak English

[@Carlos36]

I speak spanish and he said that the Sega Master System version of Batman Returns is better than the one for NES. Which I totally disagree

[@leszekch.3642]

SNES version was bad as f**k. They made only good graphics. Playable and music much worse than NES version.

[@ezehogan]

I can’t understand how SEGA screwed up their version so badly.

[@cronoesify]

So who else feels that stage 1 theme just makes you want to play some hockey with Wayne Gretzky?

[@LoganOldschool]

One of the best beat'em up on NES.

[@Chriskros1984]

Really glad i had the snes version .

[@sixshooter500]

While it looks interesting and potentially good, it also kinda looks like one of the TMNT games, just re-skinned. The gameplay seems to be almost exactly like TMNT 2 & TMNT 3

[@SomeOrangeCat]

It was a good formula.

[@MrBossyful]

Yeah, same engine and all... but it is actually quite entertaining. Beat it twice back in the day. Not a bad game.

[@COMBOY]

13:30 So that's how I have to kill the missile dropping drone? Now I feel dumb AF! How would I know that the Bat Rope was also a weapon?

[@magentapurpleyap5566]

Back when Batman wasn't a goof with nipples and with a bat credit cards.

[@kimmolaine8069]

I wonder why I never played this. I guess Ithought it would be shit but it looks like a decent Final Fight type of game, and the soundtrack is killer as well. I was a fan of the original NES Batman but never bothered with the rest. Gotta change that in the near future. Better follow that Duck Vehicle, Batman!

[@kimmolaine8069]

Now I get it. This was a late release.

[@sebastiann.8088]

Kimmo Laine yep

[@NicholasWingoldenkiwi2095]

I would definitely recommend a good music score like this kind yet a real symphony orchestra could get inspired by something just like this and a true Batman movie in Live-action will have to feature good music like from this video game yet any composer could conduct this beautiful music and make it sound so real to craft a lot of perfection that will go to making a true motion picture score that will fit in the soundtrack for real

[@ferrum7703]

How strange that the Joker did not take clowns as enemies then

[@arcticfox04]

Never got a chance to play this at a kid. I had the SNES version instead. Though the talking Penguin at the end of this game makes me wish I had a chance to play it even more.