Exactly! The driving/flying sections, the epic sprite-scaling and the awesome music blew my mind in 1993. I rarely played the platform sections, which were basically the MegaDrive game bolted on.
I still have this game in my closet. This game is what convinced me to buy a Sega CD. And I'm glad I did to this day, because that system has my favorite RPG series of all time (Lunar).
Holy Shit brother yes Lunar for Sega CD is one of my all time favorite games too, also gotta say that the Complete Version for PlayStation was actually worse in my opinion, I love the original so much more, the music in that game too OMG, especially Ghaleon's and especially when shit goes down like when he kills Quark, rather than caging him in that "Complete" version which I hated when that happens in that version, it ruins the power and emotion of that scene, anyway thanks for making my day with that reference, another great rpg not too well known I don't think that I loved was "VAY"
@blue red Yep...no way to play it directly since my setup only supports HDMI and displayport (no support for analog video or audio). But I did rip the disk and it's super easy to play on an emulator.
You handled that game like a boss. I sucked at the side scrolling stages and only played the driving portions as a kid. I never got past the sewer level. Masterfully done, mang.
You know, something I appreciate about this game is that they didn't use fmv for the cutscenes, but instead used sprites. I wish more Sega CD games did that!
What a game this was!! Totally underrated in it's time, the variety of game play as each level progressed was just amazing and in my humble opinion was streets ahead of all the other games that came out during the early 90's
What was so good about the Sega CD version of "Batman Returns" was the kick ass soundtrack. Used to play/listen to this all the time back in day. *McGrin*
I love this game. It was so hard as a kid, but I managed to beat it a few times with some patience. Still own it and my SEGA CD.. might have to fire it up again. Side note: Imagine ALL SEGA CD titles had been of this caliber? The Genesis really could have had something special down the line if the CD had been a bit cheaper and every title was as good as this or Sonic CD. Way ahead of it's time.
For sure man I was like 8 years old when it came out i was amazed playing it why I had to check it out on TH-cam cause it was on my mind brought back some good memories
Sonic CD, Formula 1 Beyond the Limit, Silpheed, Snatcher, Heart of the Alien... To be quite honest, about the games that "Used the Sega CD properly" and were good... most of the cases, what made they really good was the use of the extra raw power the Sega CD had, and not the CD storage. Cut the cutscenes and CD soundtrack and all most those games could still fit a cartridge. Thing is, having like, I dunno, 64mbs for a home game at that time would be a dream, you could have storage for a lot of stuff. 600 mbs was overkill. Unless you were doing full motion video games (which 9 in 10 were crap), you really didn't have use for so much storage. You could add flavour like FMV cutscenes or spoken dialogue but none of this really made a game *good*.
This took so long but I finally just beat this game. That first driving scene is intense with the stupid firemen on the sides and that Jet Ski boat level was also intense!
The Batskiboat levels were pretty tough on this one, took some serious precision, but sure was fun! Obviously all efforts went into the driving stages and new music for SEGA CD ver, as the platform stages were from the Genesis cart. Those stages aren't bad, though a very "artsy" interpretation of Batman Returns XD. Music was awesome, some tracks really stand out, but not too Batsy :D ... SNES was very close/true to the movie and had the Danny Elfman music, but nowhere near the depth of gameplay of this one.
I still like the driving levels, and the platform levels aren't as bad as people say. Some elements (like the cityscape or the buildings etc) show that the designers used actual reference from the film's design. Nothing groundbreaking except the scaling effect, but Sega put together a pretty nice game (unlike, say, Acclaim with Batman Forever).
When this game came out, it had the same graphical impact as Arkham had when it was released years later. On the old CRT TV's this was simply stunning as the blending was "better" than the ultra high resolution we can see today. Soundtrack was tied for second with Sonic CD only below Hook (its John Williams, c'mon). SEGA CD still my favorite game system of all time. The leap in sound and introducing video (although grainy) and some 3D scaling was hypnotic and addicting for 14 year old me. There is no system I have spent more time on than SEGA CD because of games like this.
Heard that the newest Arkham instalment's going to have the Batmobile in it. If we're going to be using it, I say that some of the music from this game should at least be in it!
The music sounds way ahead of its time, like from something released a decade later. It's cool how you can alternate between driving the batmobile and playing batman.
No, this is way beyond Road Rash, as it used hardware sprite scaling (Road Rash used redrawn sprites). The road is a textured scaling plane, while the sprites are all scaled and rotated. Whereas other Mega-CD games which used the sprite scaling had a limited colour palette, Batman Returns doubled it. It baffles me Sega never ported Galaxy Force, Space Harrier, etc, to Mega-CD.
It's that this version of the Sega CD of this game Batman Returns does got no Invincibility game genie for the full game especially for the Batmoblie and the Batskiboat or for Batman.
Eles podiam explorar um pouco mais o audio na questão do dialogo. A trilha sonora está perfeita, só pecou na falta de dialogo. E o CD tinha espaço de sobra pra por falas entre os personagens, jogos de Sega CD não ocupavam tanto espaço em midia.
Despite what was said, I think it is very worth it to get a Sega CD. The Sega CD had a lot of good games. There are several youtube videos on this & you have a Sega Genesis by default plus you can get a Sega 32X for a little more. I have the whole set up (Sega Genesis/Sega CD/32X) and it is a great system to have. I also have an Xbox 360 & Wii but there is something about the old Sega games that make them fun to play. Just make sure you get all the cables and power cords.
loved it, sick sound track at the time, i made loads of strange game music tapes as a kid,this music was included, ridge racer, wipe-out and all sorts, I thought they were cool back then, as i did curtains for a hair cut. anyway my favorite level was the sewer one in the bat boat ...SICK
If there's one thing this game is known for besides showing off the Sega CD's scaling capabilities, and having an awesome soundtrack, it was the notoriously frustrating difficulty.
+Eien no Yami That was only in the first movie. In the second movie the browning machineguns weren't even shown. He had some kind of disc launcher he used to take out people in Batman Returns.
Exactly, my opinion. And I still do have my Sega CD. "Out of this World" & "Heart of the Alien" as well as "Wing Commander" was some of my favorite Sega CD Games. Hell, I even had "Night Trap". Damn, I'm old now, Ha Ha.
The non-driving parts seems to be just the original Sega Mega Drive version of the game, was the Mega Drive version meant to be this but couldn't be due to lack of processing power?
If more developers had focused on using the sprite scaling and rotation instead of mucking about with FMV nonsense, the Mega-CD could have realised its full potential. Sega were mad not to have ported Space Harrier, Outrun, Galaxy Force, etc to the Mega-CD.
From what i remember i barely played this because i found it difficult. Even though the Mega/Sega CD flopped it did have some great games at least, one being Final Fight CD which was a great game and had amazing music, never managed to beat that either as i still think it's a damn hard game even today.
Spanish/español. Sega que hiciste repetir batman returns para mega CD solo poner niveles del batmobil sin mejorar nada mas English/ ingles. Sega that you did repeat batman returns for mega CD only put batmobil levels without improving anything else.
One of the few games that took advantage of the Sega CD's power. Using the extra cpu and scaling chips in some ways it could scale sprites even better than the 3do.Few games even used the Cd's extra chips just for storage and sound letting Genesis run the game.While this games decant its a mindless racing game.A small glimpse of what could have been. Sega CD was wasted potential it mainly just received ports or lazy fmv games.
I remember wanting to get the Sega Mega CD so bad at the time but could not afford it being a poor college student at the time. Batman Returns seems like a cool game.
The options menu let you select just driving, just platforms, or both. I always disabled the platform side and just played it as a driving game. Loved this one for that! :)
That's why I would've switched it to Platform Only, because I'm plenty familiar with the Genesis version being ONLY the Platform mode. And the driving missions wouldn't be so difficult if that DAMN TIMER WASN'T SO STRICT. It's not a goddamn arcade game meant to suck quarters, why is it so low?
There should be separate longplays for this version since there are different endings depending on what mode you choose. I want to see the drive mode only.
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The soundtrack is spectacular. Back in the day I used to listen to the CD directly more than actually play the game.
Sane here. Spent hours and hours just listening the soundtrack
I still do .
I was 15 and had this. Back then, the game was really hard - music was okay I suppose...
The game was hard in a badly written way. The music was phenomenonal.
I'm mesmerized by the driving sequences. They look difficult, but wonderfully animated.
That was awesome.
look my video about NES version of this game
I wasn't even born when this game was made and I still think it looks fantastic.
Nor were the "My Littles" from which you derive your name from.
it does with crt royale shader
The music is just awesome. Imagine this in 93....
Exactly! The driving/flying sections, the epic sprite-scaling and the awesome music blew my mind in 1993.
I rarely played the platform sections, which were basically the MegaDrive game bolted on.
Back then it still felt flat. CD Audio and full motion video felt like a novelty if the gameplay was boring.
the song is awesome, but the one from the SNES Konami Batman Returns recalls better the movie's soundtrack...
This because it's composed by Spencer Nilsen (the guy who wrote the Sonic CD US Soundtrack in 1993)
I prefer the Genesis's soundtrack, although with less technical quality
I still have this game in my closet. This game is what convinced me to buy a Sega CD. And I'm glad I did to this day, because that system has my favorite RPG series of all time (Lunar).
I DIDN'T THINK ANYONE BOUGHT THE MEGA CD OR THE 32X!!!!!!!!! I DID WANT THE 32X AT THE TIME, BUT COULDN'T HAVE AFFORDED IT, AND THE SATURN.
Used to have this at my cos house good game but painful
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Holy Shit brother yes Lunar for Sega CD is one of my all time favorite games too, also gotta say that the Complete Version for PlayStation was actually worse in my opinion, I love the original so much more, the music in that game too OMG, especially Ghaleon's and especially when shit goes down like when he kills Quark, rather than caging him in that "Complete" version which I hated when that happens in that version, it ruins the power and emotion of that scene, anyway thanks for making my day with that reference, another great rpg not too well known I don't think that I loved was "VAY"
@blue red Yep...no way to play it directly since my setup only supports HDMI and displayport (no support for analog video or audio). But I did rip the disk and it's super easy to play on an emulator.
At the time, this was way cooler than you thought anything could be
This game got stunning songs.
You handled that game like a boss. I sucked at the side scrolling stages and only played the driving portions as a kid. I never got past the sewer level. Masterfully done, mang.
This was my favorite Batman film. Game wasn't too bad either.
I Seen the Gameplay For The Genesis But the Sega CD version Back In the Day Looks Okay
You know, something I appreciate about this game is that they didn't use fmv for the cutscenes, but instead used sprites. I wish more Sega CD games did that!
What a game this was!! Totally underrated in it's time, the variety of game play as each level progressed was just amazing and in my humble opinion was streets ahead of all the other games that came out during the early 90's
high quality soundtrack!
Awesome soundtrack
I love the ending theme
this is one of the better Batman games from the 16 bit era thx alot for the vid
What was so good about the Sega CD version of "Batman Returns" was the kick ass soundtrack.
Used to play/listen to this all the time back in day. *McGrin*
I love this game. It was so hard as a kid, but I managed to beat it a few times with some patience. Still own it and my SEGA CD.. might have to fire it up again.
Side note: Imagine ALL SEGA CD titles had been of this caliber? The Genesis really could have had something special down the line if the CD had been a bit cheaper and every title was as good as this or Sonic CD. Way ahead of it's time.
For sure man I was like 8 years old when it came out i was amazed playing it why I had to check it out on TH-cam cause it was on my mind brought back some good memories
Imagine if they had skipped cartridges and just gone straight to cd
Sonic CD, Formula 1 Beyond the Limit, Silpheed, Snatcher, Heart of the Alien...
To be quite honest, about the games that "Used the Sega CD properly" and were good... most of the cases, what made they really good was the use of the extra raw power the Sega CD had, and not the CD storage. Cut the cutscenes and CD soundtrack and all most those games could still fit a cartridge.
Thing is, having like, I dunno, 64mbs for a home game at that time would be a dream, you could have storage for a lot of stuff.
600 mbs was overkill. Unless you were doing full motion video games (which 9 in 10 were crap), you really didn't have use for so much storage. You could add flavour like FMV cutscenes or spoken dialogue but none of this really made a game *good*.
This took so long but I finally just beat this game. That first driving scene is intense with the stupid firemen on the sides and that Jet Ski boat level was also intense!
A truly fun and amazing game for it's time.
The music is a work of art l
one of the only games to fully show of the Mega-CD hardware.
Games like this are very rare today,games that give u a real challenge.
This is what the mega cd was capable of... not crappy fmv junk
....at a glance the side scrolling parts look like a re-skin of Spider-man vs the Kingpin
I can't tell if the game looks fun or not. It seems stiff. But that soundtrack!! Guitar riffs galore! Its heaven. 55:58
The stage in the sewers...utter madness. Modern Videogames are a piece of cake in comparison to the old stuff
I agree with you.
The game started and I was like, "This music sounds like American Sonic CD.." Got to the credits and realized it was the same composer. Hahaha
The Bat-Ski Boat section begins at 44:44.
Switch to driving stages only and enjoy one of the most fun and challenging driving games ever made.
The Quality of Mega CD - In 1990 Final Fight and Batman Returns was very good and I still play them today - 2017
The Batskiboat levels were pretty tough on this one, took some serious precision, but sure was fun! Obviously all efforts went into the driving stages and new music for SEGA CD ver, as the platform stages were from the Genesis cart. Those stages aren't bad, though a very "artsy" interpretation of Batman Returns XD. Music was awesome, some tracks really stand out, but not too Batsy :D ... SNES was very close/true to the movie and had the Danny Elfman music, but nowhere near the depth of gameplay of this one.
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The SNES one was great however the soundtrack and driving levels in this blow the SNES out the water I need to download this.
This game rocks 😎 never played it tho.....
I still like the driving levels, and the platform levels aren't as bad as people say. Some elements (like the cityscape or the buildings etc) show that the designers used actual reference from the film's design. Nothing groundbreaking except the scaling effect, but Sega put together a pretty nice game (unlike, say, Acclaim with Batman Forever).
When this game came out, it had the same graphical impact as Arkham had when it was released years later. On the old CRT TV's this was simply stunning as the blending was "better" than the ultra high resolution we can see today. Soundtrack was tied for second with Sonic CD only below Hook (its John Williams, c'mon). SEGA CD still my favorite game system of all time. The leap in sound and introducing video (although grainy) and some 3D scaling was hypnotic and addicting for 14 year old me. There is no system I have spent more time on than SEGA CD because of games like this.
Outstanding electric guitar work in this game. Do you have the full soundtrack?
This should be called batman: race for justice.
7 years later
Batwoman: Racial Justice
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ahh 90s... the 90s was a good time.. music. movies..games.. games now adays dont got music like this.
this music is so cool!
The Super NES version blows this game away. It even had better music...you know, like the actual movie soundtrack, instead of elavator music.
Elevators would be a whole lot more exciting if they had this music!
Heard that the newest Arkham instalment's going to have the Batmobile in it. If we're going to be using it, I say that some of the music from this game should at least be in it!
If its not I'm playing this soundtrack.
Driving was great back then and the music of course!
this game is badass
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Such a cool soundtrack. Really nice.
it's no doubt that this version blows the snes & genesis versions of batman returns miles miles away out of the water!!!
The music sounds way ahead of its time, like from something released a decade later. It's cool how you can alternate between driving the batmobile and playing batman.
No, this is way beyond Road Rash, as it used hardware sprite scaling (Road Rash used redrawn sprites). The road is a textured scaling plane, while the sprites are all scaled and rotated. Whereas other Mega-CD games which used the sprite scaling had a limited colour palette, Batman Returns doubled it.
It baffles me Sega never ported Galaxy Force, Space Harrier, etc, to Mega-CD.
Wow, this is the most 90's game I have ever seen.
The sewer driving level reminds me of what Battletoads' Turbo Tunnel and Volkmire's Inferno would look like in pseudo 3D.
Batman looks like he giving the middle finger
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I wonder how Outrun would have looked on the MegaCD hardware. Probably pretty close to Arcade perfect with some loss of colours :).
Great music and very nice graphics. Love the mode 7 scaling, puts snes to shame. Too bad there weren't more games like this on the sega cd.
It's that this version of the Sega CD of this game Batman Returns does got no Invincibility game genie for the full game especially for the Batmoblie and the Batskiboat or for Batman.
Eles podiam explorar um pouco mais o audio na questão do dialogo. A trilha sonora está perfeita, só pecou na falta de dialogo. E o CD tinha espaço de sobra pra por falas entre os personagens, jogos de Sega CD não ocupavam tanto espaço em midia.
Despite what was said, I think it is very worth it to get a Sega CD. The Sega CD had a lot of good games. There are several youtube videos on this & you have a Sega Genesis by default plus you can get a Sega 32X for a little more. I have the whole set up (Sega Genesis/Sega CD/32X) and it is a great system to have. I also have an Xbox 360 & Wii but there is something about the old Sega games that make them fun to play. Just make sure you get all the cables and power cords.
I actually like this game very much it is so cool and also it is based on the greatest Batman movie of all time
loved it, sick sound track at the time, i made loads of strange game music tapes as a kid,this music was included, ridge racer, wipe-out and all sorts, I thought they were cool back then, as i did curtains for a hair cut. anyway my favorite level was the sewer one in the bat boat ...SICK
GREAT MEGA -CD LONGPLAY [058] BATMAN RETURNS SEGA GENESIS 1992 !!!!
Snatcher and Sonic CD are awesome, but that's about it
If there's one thing this game is known for besides showing off the Sega CD's scaling capabilities, and having an awesome soundtrack, it was the notoriously frustrating difficulty.
Why is the car shooting discs? In the movies it was armed with twin .30 caliber Browning machineguns.
+Eien no Yami That was only in the first movie. In the second movie the browning machineguns weren't even shown. He had some kind of disc launcher he used to take out people in Batman Returns.
Those damn Skeleton bikers.
Really enjoyed.thanks for the skill°c z and the share
Exactly, my opinion.
And I still do have my Sega CD.
"Out of this World" & "Heart of the Alien" as well as "Wing Commander" was some of my favorite Sega CD Games. Hell, I even had "Night Trap". Damn, I'm old now, Ha Ha.
Batman Returns is Legendary and Absolutely Awesome on mega cd with an outstanding graphics and Absolutely Awesome soundtrack 😘😘😘
The music in this game was so amazing
The non-driving parts seems to be just the original Sega Mega Drive version of the game, was the Mega Drive version meant to be this but couldn't be due to lack of processing power?
If more developers had focused on using the sprite scaling and rotation instead of mucking about with FMV nonsense, the Mega-CD could have realised its full potential.
Sega were mad not to have ported Space Harrier, Outrun, Galaxy Force, etc to the Mega-CD.
Also scaling side strollers games like final fight.
From what i remember i barely played this because i found it difficult.
Even though the Mega/Sega CD flopped it did have some great games at least, one being Final Fight CD which was a great game and had amazing music, never managed to beat that either as i still think it's a damn hard game even today.
This game seems ahead of its time.
I was born on a Christmas Eve 1992 6 months after Batman returns the movie premiered
You were flawless in the sewers! WOW
the music sounds similar to the tracks in the mega cd terminator that was done by tommy tallarico did he do this one as well??
I've been looking for the OST to this game. I think I'm going to buy the disc again and convert like I did Soulstar
Wow those people in the game still stuck in this game after all these years same way we are stuck in this world.
probabley my favourite game soundrack of all time along with streets of rage and revenge of shinobi
Beautiful batman fmv driving scene. I wish the graphics was 3D like that
What a game for it's time! Still fun to play.
Penguin really does look like a turkey when he jumps up like that.
lol @ 1:29 batman looks like someone stole his sunoco rewards card
was mechanics gameplay improved, or is the same as genesis batman returns? i think hit detection is a little weird in the genesis version....
Kega Fusion's probably better for emulation of Sega CD. Gens tends to have graphical issues and some of the sound effects don't always play properly.
Spanish/español. Sega que hiciste repetir batman returns para mega CD solo poner niveles del batmobil sin mejorar nada mas
English/ ingles. Sega that you did repeat batman returns for mega CD only put batmobil levels without improving anything else.
My god the memories from the title screen alone...
One of the few games that took advantage of the Sega CD's power.
Using the extra cpu and scaling chips in some ways it could scale sprites even better than the 3do.Few games even used the Cd's extra chips just for storage and sound letting Genesis run the game.While this games decant its a mindless racing game.A small glimpse of what could have been.
Sega CD was wasted potential it mainly just received ports or lazy fmv games.
Music is fantastic!
I remember wanting to get the Sega Mega CD so bad at the time but could not afford it being a poor college student at the time. Batman Returns seems like a cool game.
at the 9-minute mark the music really starts to sound like Batman Beyond.
I can't believe that AVGN didn't make it past the first driving level. He really didn't give this one a chance at all!
The options menu let you select just driving, just platforms, or both. I always disabled the platform side and just played it as a driving game. Loved this one for that! :)
I had this game when I was around 5 and I remember playing it so much, yet I never beat the first car sequence... Lol
That's why I would've switched it to Platform Only, because I'm plenty familiar with the Genesis version being ONLY the Platform mode. And the driving missions wouldn't be so difficult if that DAMN TIMER WASN'T SO STRICT. It's not a goddamn arcade game meant to suck quarters, why is it so low?
If you want a more action packed version of a game like outrun on the sega cd you can't go wrong with this one. Check it out!
That boat level is what I call true gamer skills.
could never beat this as a kid....stuck at the sewers on batman speedboad stage 17 yrs ago... >.>
becouse batman is fabulous
Batman and automatic armored vehicles..... HELLZ YEAH!!!
Neat perspective
Sega genesis has really a fast dma with those fast racing and big sprites on screen
You would think the thugs from the circus would be Jokers henchmen...
I could care less of this game. Still, the music is amazing!
this game has a great soundtrack!
There should be separate longplays for this version since there are different endings depending on what mode you choose. I want to see the drive mode only.