Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Konami cut this ad like a movie trailer, and honestly they earned the right to. Batman Returns on the Super Nintendo is one of the very few movie tie in games from that whole era that people still defend today. GamePro handed it a perfect score. Electronic Gaming Monthly gave Batman Returns its Best Licensed Game award. Nintendo Power put it at number eight on the best SNES games of 1993.
Here is the part most people never clock. There was no single Batman Returns game. Warner sold the rights off platform by platform, so Konami got the Nintendo machines and built a Final Fight style brawler. Sega published their own console versions and made a platformer instead. Atari did a Lynx version. And the PC got turned into a full detective adventure game where you sit in the Batcave analyzing clues. Same title, same movie, same year, and completely different games depending on what console was under your TV.
The Super Nintendo one is the version that stuck. Konami secured Danny Elfman's actual film score, built enormous sprites, and lit the whole thing in that Burton gothic blue with snow falling over Gotham. You can throw clowns straight through Christmas shop windows. You can grab one thug, walk into a second, and smash their heads together, and that move was so good Rocksteady put it back into Batman Arkham City nearly two decades later.
Scene 5 is the one everyone remembers. The brawling stops cold and drops you behind the wheel of the Batmobile on a Mode 7 road, machine gunning circus bikers through the city. Seven scenes total, boss fights against Catwoman and the Penguin, and no co-op mode at all, because there is only one Batman.
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Konami cut this ad like a movie trailer, and honestly they earned the right to. Batman Returns on the Super Nintendo is one of the very few movie tie in games from that whole era that people still defend today. GamePro handed it a perfect score. Electronic Gaming Monthly gave Batman Returns its Best Licensed Game award. Nintendo Power put it at number eight on the best SNES games of 1993.
Here is the part most people never clock. There was no single Batman Returns game. Warner sold the rights off platform by platform, so Konami got the Nintendo machines and built a Final Fight style brawler. Sega published their own console versions and made a platformer instead. Atari did a Lynx version. And the PC got turned into a full detective adventure game where you sit in the Batcave analyzing clues. Same title, same movie, same year, and completely different games depending on what console was under your TV.
The Super Nintendo one is the version that stuck. Konami secured Danny Elfman's actual film score, built enormous sprites, and lit the whole thing in that Burton gothic blue with snow falling over Gotham. You can throw clowns straight through Christmas shop windows. You can grab one thug, walk into a second, and smash their heads together, and that move was so good Rocksteady put it back into Batman Arkham City nearly two decades later.
Scene 5 is the one everyone remembers. The brawling stops cold and drops you behind the wheel of the Batmobile on a Mode 7 road, machine gunning circus bikers through the city. Seven scenes total, boss fights against Catwoman and the Penguin, and no co-op mode at all, because there is only one Batman.
Were you a Konami Batman kid or a Sega Batman kid? Subscribe to Game Forest GF for retro gaming content every single day.
#batmanreturns #batman #snes #supernintendo #konami #beatemup #catwoman #thepenguin #batmobile #mode7 #retrocommercial #vintagead #90sgaming #retrogaming #gameforestgf #youtubeshorts #gaming
