Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Watch how these characters move and you can probably guess the secret before I say it out loud. Batman Forever on the Super Nintendo was built on the Mortal Kombat II engine. Not inspired by it, not merely similar to it, actually built on top of it. Acclaim published the Mortal Kombat console ports, so they already owned the technology, and they dropped Batman and Robin straight into it.
That one decision explains everything else about this game. The sprites are digitized photographs of real actors. The controls run on fighting game input strings rather than plain button presses, with the box promising over a hundred and twenty five attacks. Even the grappling hook demands an awkward sequence, pressing up slightly before select, which is not something any human being would work out unaided.
It landed on September 7, 1995, published by Acclaim with the console versions built at their London studio, the outfit that had spent years operating as Probe Entertainment. And it carries one of the strangest quirks on the whole system. This is a cartridge game that stops to load. The Super Nintendo version flashes HOLD ON at you between sections, on a format whose entire selling point against discs was that it never had to do that.
Here is what people always forget, though. There is a second game hiding in the menu. Training mode is a proper versus fighter where you can play as Batman, Robin, or literally any enemy in the game, against the computer or a friend on the couch. There is even a code that unlocks the Riddler as playable. Two separate co-op modes exist as well, one where Batman and Robin cannot hurt each other and one where they absolutely can, which started more arguments in living rooms than any of the actual bosses managed.
One last detail that catches people off guard. The music was written by Tim Follin, alongside Geoff Follin and Andrew Brock. Tim Follin is one of the most respected composers who ever worked on these machines, a man whose soundtracks people still pull apart today, quietly employed here on a movie tie-in the critics tore into. Famitsu's four reviewers each handed it five out of ten, while Spanish magazine HobbyConsolas gave the Super Nintendo version ninety out of a hundred. Opinions were not exactly unanimous. So where do you land on this one?
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Watch how these characters move and you can probably guess the secret before I say it out loud. Batman Forever on the Super Nintendo was built on the Mortal Kombat II engine. Not inspired by it, not merely similar to it, actually built on top of it. Acclaim published the Mortal Kombat console ports, so they already owned the technology, and they dropped Batman and Robin straight into it.
That one decision explains everything else about this game. The sprites are digitized photographs of real actors. The controls run on fighting game input strings rather than plain button presses, with the box promising over a hundred and twenty five attacks. Even the grappling hook demands an awkward sequence, pressing up slightly before select, which is not something any human being would work out unaided.
It landed on September 7, 1995, published by Acclaim with the console versions built at their London studio, the outfit that had spent years operating as Probe Entertainment. And it carries one of the strangest quirks on the whole system. This is a cartridge game that stops to load. The Super Nintendo version flashes HOLD ON at you between sections, on a format whose entire selling point against discs was that it never had to do that.
Here is what people always forget, though. There is a second game hiding in the menu. Training mode is a proper versus fighter where you can play as Batman, Robin, or literally any enemy in the game, against the computer or a friend on the couch. There is even a code that unlocks the Riddler as playable. Two separate co-op modes exist as well, one where Batman and Robin cannot hurt each other and one where they absolutely can, which started more arguments in living rooms than any of the actual bosses managed.
One last detail that catches people off guard. The music was written by Tim Follin, alongside Geoff Follin and Andrew Brock. Tim Follin is one of the most respected composers who ever worked on these machines, a man whose soundtracks people still pull apart today, quietly employed here on a movie tie-in the critics tore into. Famitsu's four reviewers each handed it five out of ten, while Spanish magazine HobbyConsolas gave the Super Nintendo version ninety out of a hundred. Opinions were not exactly unanimous. So where do you land on this one?
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#batmanforever #batman #snes #supernintendo #acclaim #mortalkombat2 #timfollin #beatemup #dccomics #retrogaming #retrogames #90sgaming #gamingnostalgia #1995 #gameforestgf #youtubeshorts #gaming
