The Game Gear and Master System version has a high difficulty level.
The game features a high difficulty level and Batman has a single life to complete the game. Gameplay consists of side-scrolling combat.
The Atari Lynx version, which was also a pack-in game for the Lynx II system, was developed by Atari Corporation.
The Amiga version was developed by Liverpool-based Denton Designs and is a five level platform game with beat 'em up and shoot 'em up elements.
There are eight different versions of the game in total.
These games, based on the film, were created by a number of developers and vary in both quality and genre.
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The game won the award for Game Of The Year 1989 in Crash magazine.
The game was number one in the Spectrum sales chart for the month of February 1990.
Batman became the bundled game with the Amiga.
The 16-bit versions are similar to the 8-bit versions, but the extra memory, processor power, and graphic capabilities were put to use in the second and fourth levels, creating a full 3D effect instead of the side-scrolling subgames present in the 8-bit versions.
When the Batman games were released in 1989, this style was relatively new, and the game was well received by the video gaming press.
Ocean were now noted for producing a wide range of film-licensed games that consisted largely of a series of sub-games.
It was coded by and released by Ocean Software.
Also known as Batman: The Movie, the game is loosely based on the 1989 Batman film.