![]() ![]() So, is Batman Returns still worth a play today? Is it the perfect superhero game to get into the Christmas spirit?Īs the Caped Crusader himself, you can jump, punch, grapple, and glide through Gotham’s underbelly and the criminal scum that inhabits it. While the latter would be an arcade-style brawler developed by Konami, the Genesis version of Batman Returns is a side-scrolling action game developed by Malibu Interactive and published by SEGA. This was one of those times when games of the same name were radically different between the Genesis and its contemporary successor, the Super Nintendo. Naturally, video game adaptations were soon to follow, with the SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive version to be released before the end of that year. It also set the rather unfortunate precedent of superhero movies shoehorning multiple villains into a single movie, this time with the Caped Crusader facing off against both the Penguin and Catwoman (meee-ow!). What we’re concerned with today, however, is the movie’s sequel, Batman Returns, which landed in theaters during June of 1992.ĭespite its summer release date, Batman Returns took place during the Christmas season. The success of Tim Burton’s Batman film in 1989 had reignited mainstream interest in the Dark Knight, what followed was a marketing blitz of toys, school supplies, breakfast cereal, and every other piece of cinematic synergy that we are all used to now, but for the time, this was a novel occurrence for a superhero movie. Welcome back to Jolly Jinglings, The Splintering’s month-long celebration of all dancing sugar plums, fairy type or otherwise.
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