This pretty much is the pinnacle of what the NES was capable. Some of the most detailed sprites I've seen, good amount of colors on-screen, fluid and well-balanced gameplay and probably the best when it comes to music. Speaking of which, you can even hear every instrument clearly, the composition is fantastic and all done with the limitations of the console. Fantastic game.
@@waynecuff3140 I think what makes the mapper particularly impressive is its ability to switch sub-banks of the CHR-ROM so a segment of memory can for instance be dedicated to the Batman sprite or the parallax sky effect.
I remember being super impressed with the graphics in this game. Was towards the end of the NES era when they pretty much had pushed 8 bit graphics to the limit.
Not only pushed the system to its limit, but the cartridge had a powerful enhancement chip on board (FME-7) and a lot of ROM. Moore's Law helped make this one happen too (by driving costs of both of those things down). This game might have been technically-feasible-but-prohibitively-expensive when the Famicom came out in 1983!
Yes it was , this game blew my mind back in the day, this game is in my list of most favorite games on the nes. The only problem, that it was too easy.
graphically Megadrive version is far superior, just worse sound/music and very hard (which might be a benefit or drawback, depends if one likes hard games or not).
I have never seen Batman fire so many projectile like he's doing in this game. Don't even look like a Batman Type of a game. it looks like they just wanted to make a game and couldn't figure out who they were gonna use for their game and at the last minute decided to throw Batman in and make it Batman game.
Backgrounds are much darker than most NES games. Almost %50 of them are just shadows especially in the first stage. I think this not only give the game a much better look, but it also helped them reserve memory space since the black areas are just empty spaces
It also helps with the NES's color limitations, because each tile has to share the same background color, they just made the background color black, so that BG tiles have 3 extra unique colors.
You DO realize that although you keep jumping to hit higher targets.... In THIS game you can ACTUALLY aim Batman's weapon/s UP so you don't have to jump unnecessarily
Man, I loved this game. I used to remember every nook and cranny of Return of The Joker but now I don't remember a damn thing. This playthrough is still pretty cool and nostalgic.
+KrisFrosz133 Me too. I used to play this game when I was like 5 or 6 years old. It amazed me how little I actually remembered of it. I don't even know why I was thinking about this game right now. Guess I was bored at work and wanted to remember simpler days, when I didn't have to worry about the bills and the job.
incredible this game looks way the fuck better than the unreleased SNES and the Sega Genesis version. The use of heavy black just gave it a solid inked comic book look.
Answering a six year old comment? Of course. The SNES version was definetly just a proof of concept, since the assets don't even have appropiate palettes assigned to them.
man, this brings so many memories. Everytime I reached stage 3-1 i felt relief since i know i can finish the game with no worries for some strange reason
The faux parallax scrolling on the train is amazing. It’s not all that hard to figure out how they did it within NES limitations, but it’s still damn impressive.
Really impressive stuff for the NES. It's too bad the Genesis version is hot garbage made by different developers. The Snes version never got released, but judging by the prototype, that's probably for the best.
I own this game. It's the only Batman game I have but this is like, brilliantly written by real pro's concerning it's just NES game. Excellent graphics and sound. FX and music goes fit it perfectly. No blurs, round corners smooth etc.
Loved this one as a lad! Didn't even have problems completing the game back then. Nowadays level 3 just annihilates me. Edit: Oh man I'd completely forgotten about that last stage with dodging those flyin' things, and the mech-Joker final boss. And that last level and ending music.. So nostalgic.
"With looks as hot as 16bit" I remember reading that exact quote From a 1992 Nintendo power. I was dumb founded because this game debuted around the 16 bit wars.
This game plays like Contra more than anything. And while the Batmobile and Batwing designs are clearly those of the Burton films, Batman and Joker appear more like those from the comics. Weird.
this game along with Felix The Cat and Kirby's Adventure pushed so far the NES. This game looks insane for a nes title and has 16-bit quality graphics!!
SÍ, SEÑOR !! EXCELENTE JUEGO !! menuda nostalgia, madre mía... aún me acuerdo cuando jugaba de niño, jamás conseguí pasarmelo sin ayuda de mis dos hermanos mayores y ahora veo que este pavo se lo pasa en 20 minutos jajaja muy bueno todo, sí señor !! una sensación orgásmica para mí escuchar de nuevo después de tanto tiempo las ÉPICAS melodías de la primera pantalla del juego y de los créditos.... joder, qué tiempos aquellos, dios !! jaja en definitiva, gracias men, por subir éste juego un abrazo !!
Wonderful playthrough! You made this hard-as-fuck game look ridiculously easy. Honestly, a part of me thinks that this wasn't originally a Batman game due to the sci-fi atmosphere of the entire game, and that Sunsoft stuck Batman and Joker in this game before they lost the DC Comics license.
It is not that hard i used to beat it all the time when i was like 6. Hint* use canon against the wall and beat the joker in no time. Still one of my all time.favourites
@Adrian Roldan: You must kick ass at this game then. I would dare say I had an easier time with the prequel, Batman: The Video Game, although I never beat that one, either.
Loader2K1 you know, now that you say it I also think there's a good chance it wasn't a batman game originally, seeing as at the beginning of every boss battle batman charges up his gun with lightning, he was probably going to have been some mad scientist at first but they changed his sprite to batman and the title of the game so that it would get better recognition.
I remember beating this game when i was a kid and i was so impress about the music that i just leave the game running to hear it out loud in my house :)
Just beat this, second to the last boss is definitely the hardest part of the game. While it does have lots of areas with cheap hits like so many Sunsoft games, the challenge is pretty balanced and I liked it a lot more than Journey to Silius.
The sequel to Sunsoft’s popular 1989 Batman: The Video Game, which was based on the Tim Burton film, Batman: Return of the Joker expanded upon the original’s side-scrolling action by tossing in additional Contra-style weapon power-ups, a Mega Man 3-inspired sliding move, horizontal shooting jetpack sublevels, challenging boss fights with a new life gauge system, and extra adrenaline-fueled objectives such as taking on a heavily-armed zeppelin and outrunning a charging tank.
One of the best looking games for NES. Still have the cartridge somewhere in my parents' house attic. I was laughing for the new Castlevania release on PS4. Only 26 years later on the monstrous vs NES system and still can't beat it.
Its a Shame, we only got the Batman the Return of Joker the Video game but not *Batman the return of Joker the Movie* in 1995. Instead we got the flop Batman Forever Movie. smh...
I beat this game multiple times. It didn't feel like a Batman game, but it was still an awesome game and a worthy addition to the franchise. It really was a huge step, it was the same kind of bridge between 8 bit and 16 bit that Donkey Kong Country was between 16 bit and the 64.
This game will turn your nes into a 16bit system(!)with graphics & sound that are hot as 16bit systems like the sega genesis,with amezing paralax scrolling effects here and there and you also can hide behind some backgrounds, it greatly uses the 1bit dpcm soundchannel for some pumping drum beats. Genesis does what nintendon't? Wait a minute nintendo had the mmc chipsets with software tricks to it's slaves to make nes games being possibly on pair with genesis games.
@@justforviews3802 I don't really think so.. the graphics look kinda putrid in the 16-bit versions and the music isn't really too great in either of them. The 16-bit versions are overall lacking the polish of Sunsoft's work.
@@opaopa86 no offence brother but I think you need to check your eyes ... the genesis was more colorful compared to this vomit looking color and graphics
@@opaopa86 color , music , sounds , background , details looks much better than the NES & yes I played both maybe NES was easier than Genesis I guess that's why ppl prefer NES
Great video! The final Joker can be killed in seconds with ‘C’ weapon rapidly shot against the right wall while crouching. Level 3 always took me forever.
I played this game so much as a kid that I was annoyed watching this gameplay. It's not really anyone else's fault, but it just reminded me of the old days of watching my younger brother play and watching him make mistakes that I would "never" make 😅
Remember, kids, for all intents and purposes this is not stock NES hardware. This game pulls off its graphics by some good programming, yes, but mostly by a custom chip in the cartridge.
I had to reattach my jaw after playing this for the first time, it really feels like it would have been an advanced Super Nintendo game. Sunsoft really made games the way god intended.
7:21-7:23.; I agree with The Angry Video Game Nerd, there when he said the following during his review of this game: "That doesn't even follow the laws of physics!?".
I had the NES _Return of the Joker_ as a kid. Great game. Though, as I grew older, I developed the theory that it didn't start out life as a Batman game, but was an unrelated game turned into a _Batman_ game partway through production so it could be released before Sunsoft lost the _Batman_ license. The levels are not what I think of when I think of Gotham City. Caves, snowy mountains, that tropical island at the end. And the enemies seem to be mercenaries or robots, which isn't typically the type of enemy you'd expect Batman to fight. The stages and enemies feel more _Contra_ than _Batman_. And those tornado throwing wizards feel out of place with all the other enemies you fight. The two Joker fights have him pilot war machines, as though he was some mad scientist and not a mad clown. And then there's the fact that Batman shoots energy projectiles from a wrist mounted weapon. All this makes me think that Batman and Joker were put into another game late in development and the game then became what we know as _Batman: Return of the Joker._
i first remember when my older brother rented this from blockbuster... omg he tried so hard to beat it in three days and made it!!! lol but stage 3-1 always pissed him off though.
Una obra de arte al igual que batman returns cuando se enfrenta a gatubela y el pinguino, son juegos totalmente adelantados a su época, que sin duda nos hacen volver a nuestra infancia.....
Even though they probably didn't intend it to be, I do consider this game to be a sequel to the first Sunsoft Batman game, especially with it using the Burton utility belt, Batmobile, & Batwing as assets, & with it called *"Return* of the Joker". (What or where would he be returning from if it wasn't a sequel?) I personally like to think that in the timeline of the NES Batman games, the night the Joker died in the first game, the Joker that died was actually a decoy sent by the real Joker who snuck off to his Island & began working on his nefarious new plan, as seen in this game.
One of avgn's quotes: "Once you get to the boss, the music sounds incredibly familiar. -listens to CrashMan stage in MegaMan 2- MegaMan. Yeah, it does sounds like it, it's a lot faster, that's all.
![NES Longplay [055] Batman](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Qr0RSz-HPIw/mqdefault.jpg)
![Batman Longplay (Arcade) [4K]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/dD5YTh8B5cM/mqdefault.jpg)
This pretty much is the pinnacle of what the NES was capable. Some of the most detailed sprites I've seen, good amount of colors on-screen, fluid and well-balanced gameplay and probably the best when it comes to music. Speaking of which, you can even hear every instrument clearly, the composition is fantastic and all done with the limitations of the console.
Fantastic game.
Batman shouldn't be in the rainforest tho.
Excellent use of colors, smooth animations, and scrollings. Even the music is great for an 8-bits console. This game could pass for a 16-bit game!
lol I thought I was watching SNES game at first!
This game uses a mapper chip in the cartridge to give the Nes more juice:) that's why I looks so good 👍
@@waynecuff3140 I think what makes the mapper particularly impressive is its ability to switch sub-banks of the CHR-ROM so a segment of memory can for instance be dedicated to the Batman sprite or the parallax sky effect.
Even the way his cape moves when he comes to a stop is incredible minute detail for a NES game
Todo, TODO este juego es increíble. Sus gráficos, su música, su oscuridad... Es sin duda una obra de arte.
Los gráficos son tan complejos que se nota que a la consola le costaba
Y esta versión de Nes hace quedar en vergüenza a la de SEGA génesis de 16bit
totalmente es arte puro y hermoso!!!
Y difícil pero pasable comparado con el otro juego de batman, se me hace más difícil el otro 😂
In English?
I remember being super impressed with the graphics in this game. Was towards the end of the NES era when they pretty much had pushed 8 bit graphics to the limit.
Not only pushed the system to its limit, but the cartridge had a powerful enhancement chip on board (FME-7) and a lot of ROM. Moore's Law helped make this one happen too (by driving costs of both of those things down). This game might have been technically-feasible-but-prohibitively-expensive when the Famicom came out in 1983!
It looks good for today with the detailed backgrounds and sprites
@@TheBilly also: this game is the ONLY ONE NES game in US to use a third-party chip
I remember the graphics were good enough to make up for the weaker level design.
Due to the design of the NES however expansion audio wasn't supported.
Almost 16 bit graphics. Really great looking game for NES. And the typical great Sunsoft sound effects / music.
Yes it was , this game blew my mind back in the day, this game is in my list of most favorite games on the nes. The only problem, that it was too easy.
Daniel Ramponi easy?? There is nothing wasy about it when I tried it.
This was actually better than the same game released in 16 bit. Shows you what a difference a developer can make.
malcolmar Agreed
Stephen Andrano lol
looks better than many 16 bit games
looks better than its 16bit version
That Megadrive version is REALLY bad port with horrible sound effects!
It's bad because it wasn't developed by Sunsoft.
graphically Megadrive version is far superior, just worse sound/music and very hard (which might be a benefit or drawback, depends if one likes hard games or not).
I have never seen Batman fire so many projectile like he's doing in this game. Don't even look like a Batman Type of a game. it looks like they just wanted to make a game and couldn't figure out who they were gonna use for their game and at the last minute decided to throw Batman in and make it Batman game.
Wow this game has great music
Since i played this game like 25 years ago, i liked those songs... Just came here to hear them lol...
U got that right! Check out 16min.ost. It allways amazes me. Especially end credits music!
That's not JUST music, that's what a "born in the 80s & grew up in the 90s" OST sounds like
@Frank Martinez Avgn gave it some spotlight on his show.
Its a unforgettable soundtrack, they dont make them like this anymore, now its all generic/boring orchestrals
Backgrounds are much darker than most NES games. Almost %50 of them are just shadows especially in the first stage. I think this not only give the game a much better look, but it also helped them reserve memory space since the black areas are just empty spaces
+Ongan-San Very impressive game, I LOVE THE MUSIC THOUGH!
Pay attention not to the number of black spaces, but to the number of repeating patterns, as they are usually compressed to save memory.
It also helps with the NES's color limitations, because each tile has to share the same background color, they just made the background color black, so that BG tiles have 3 extra unique colors.
Still am amazed at how far they pushed the graphics and sound with this game.
Yeah. This game always made me feel that the NES would have to run a supercharger for the game to fully work.
Yes, we went from mario brothers where the textures are the same but recolored to a thing that doesnt even look like a nes game
You DO realize that although you keep jumping to hit higher targets....
In THIS game you can ACTUALLY aim Batman's weapon/s UP so you don't have to jump unnecessarily
I always considered this one of the best NES games, graphically amazing and really fun gameplay.
Man, I loved this game. I used to remember every nook and cranny of Return of The Joker but now I don't remember a damn thing. This playthrough is still pretty cool and nostalgic.
+KrisFrosz133 Me too. I used to play this game when I was like 5 or 6 years old. It amazed me how little I actually remembered of it. I don't even know why I was thinking about this game right now. Guess I was bored at work and wanted to remember simpler days, when I didn't have to worry about the bills and the job.
yeah, came out nearing the end of games released, reasonably good graphics.
I remember walking right thru the game feeling like a Batgod
I do remember how much I hated the third level
The ice/ snow level was the most important to remember the traps
I enjoyed this game as well. The idea of Batman having all those upgrades was real cool. Is it me or is the joker acting like dr. wily? LOL!
incredible this game looks way the fuck better than the unreleased SNES and the Sega Genesis version. The use of heavy black just gave it a solid inked comic book look.
Answering a six year old comment? Of course. The SNES version was definetly just a proof of concept, since the assets don't even have appropiate palettes assigned to them.
man, this brings so many memories. Everytime I reached stage 3-1 i felt relief since i know i can finish the game with no worries for some strange reason
The faux parallax scrolling on the train is amazing. It’s not all that hard to figure out how they did it within NES limitations, but it’s still damn impressive.
Impactado con este juego, llevó la tarjeta gráfica de la NES al límite, excelente juego.
Batman Return of the Joker is ABSOLUTELY AWESOME and STUNNINGLY AMAZING
All-round badass game. Top notch graphics and catchy original sountrack. That sampled bass is particularly astounding.
Really impressive stuff for the NES. It's too bad the Genesis version is hot garbage made by different developers. The Snes version never got released, but judging by the prototype, that's probably for the best.
Agree
Looks like Contra
I own this game. It's the only Batman game I have but this is like, brilliantly written by real pro's concerning it's just NES game. Excellent graphics and sound. FX and music goes fit it perfectly. No blurs, round corners smooth etc.
In my opinion, the Best game of Batman in the 90's....and what about the music? Awesome...my memories brings me to this...sniff
Loved this one as a lad! Didn't even have problems completing the game back then. Nowadays level 3 just annihilates me. Edit: Oh man I'd completely forgotten about that last stage with dodging those flyin' things, and the mech-Joker final boss. And that last level and ending music.. So nostalgic.
"With looks as hot as 16bit" I remember reading that exact quote
From a 1992 Nintendo power.
I was dumb founded because this game debuted around the 16 bit wars.
Yes we al totally agree... best graphics on the NES.... so sad it came when the system was nearly finished
What are you talking about? System is still the best on the market ;)
Still 100% better than every console out today.
@@Wheels8504 Nah dude, the Switch took over as the best console ever.
@@13Gangland I agree. The Switch didn't exist when I posted my comment.
Guess y’all forgot about the SNES and Genesis.
This is arguably the best playing, best playing, best sounding NES game ever made.
This game plays like Contra more than anything. And while the Batmobile and Batwing designs are clearly those of the Burton films, Batman and Joker appear more like those from the comics. Weird.
GPZT 😎 password to Joker. I Will never forget that.
Ohhh Yes!!!
Good memory 🤡
A huevo hermano
Really had forgotten the password, u genius.
this game along with Felix The Cat and Kirby's Adventure pushed so far the NES. This game looks insane for a nes title and has 16-bit quality graphics!!
The music is awesome !
Batmanvania.
Looks like an incredible game.
Incredible graphics for a 1983 machine.
El mejor video juegó. De la época me trae mucha nostalgia. Recuerdo que lo rescaté en 1993 cuándo tenía 9 años. ¡Inolvidable!
SÍ, SEÑOR !!
EXCELENTE JUEGO !!
menuda nostalgia, madre mía... aún me acuerdo cuando jugaba de niño, jamás conseguí pasarmelo sin ayuda de mis dos hermanos mayores y ahora veo que este pavo se lo pasa en 20 minutos jajaja
muy bueno todo, sí señor !!
una sensación orgásmica para mí escuchar de nuevo después de tanto tiempo las ÉPICAS melodías de la primera pantalla del juego y de los créditos.... joder, qué tiempos aquellos, dios !!
jaja
en definitiva, gracias men, por subir éste juego
un abrazo !!
demasiado bueno diria yo
Un juego EXCELENTE y adelantado a su tiempo. Nótese que el primer jefe atacaba con drones cuando los drones ni existían.
Hot damn, this is one looking game. With nice shading.
+Quinn The Quartz don't you know any other batman game, very simmilar to this? but with different stages? I remember playing it with my family game
Juani Porta
It was called Batman: The Video Game
One looking indeed.
Also, a certain Sunsoft chip, plus the ability to shift between certain characters in ROM to create parallax and other effects.
Wonderful playthrough! You made this hard-as-fuck game look ridiculously easy. Honestly, a part of me thinks that this wasn't originally a Batman game due to the sci-fi atmosphere of the entire game, and that Sunsoft stuck Batman and Joker in this game before they lost the DC Comics license.
Loader2K1 , I think you're spot on with that comment. Notice how there is no story/plot. Just insert characters here.
Loader2K1 yeah it was a weird choice making a batman run and gun game
It is not that hard i used to beat it all the time when i was like 6. Hint* use canon against the wall and beat the joker in no time. Still one of my all time.favourites
@Adrian Roldan: You must kick ass at this game then. I would dare say I had an easier time with the prequel, Batman: The Video Game, although I never beat that one, either.
Loader2K1 you know, now that you say it I also think there's a good chance it wasn't a batman game originally, seeing as at the beginning of every boss battle batman charges up his gun with lightning, he was probably going to have been some mad scientist at first but they changed his sprite to batman and the title of the game so that it would get better recognition.
I remember beating this game when i was a kid and i was so impress about the music that i just leave the game running to hear it out loud in my house :)
Es en realidad el MEJOR BATMAN QUE JUGUÉ EN TODA MI VIDA!!!!! Excelente videojuego!!!!
Imagine every NES games had quality like this.
i remember when i finished this game when i was kid. took me aback because i never really finished many games pre-saving. good times, i hate my life.
-yo escucho su OST para recordar mi infancia. Sobre los 10-11 años cuando lo jugué. LA música es absolutamente genial.
Just beat this, second to the last boss is definitely the hardest part of the game. While it does have lots of areas with cheap hits like so many Sunsoft games, the challenge is pretty balanced and I liked it a lot more than Journey to Silius.
I just love the Soundtrack!
This game was super fun, it had its challenges and the ending was so awesome and had its mystic. Very fun game.
This looks like it was suppose to be a sequel to the Batman 1989 one. It started in the cathedral where the last one left off.
Un juegazo. Avanzado para su tiempo y te enganchaba con su gráfica, detalles, jugabilidad. Creo que es de los mejores en su género.
I remember getting this game new for Christmas when it came out. Was my must have... Loved it
Mark Fitch me too same story
The sequel to Sunsoft’s popular 1989 Batman: The Video Game, which was based on the Tim Burton film, Batman: Return of the Joker expanded upon the original’s side-scrolling action by tossing in additional Contra-style weapon power-ups, a Mega Man 3-inspired
sliding move, horizontal shooting jetpack sublevels, challenging boss fights with a new life gauge system, and extra adrenaline-fueled objectives such as taking on a heavily-armed zeppelin and outrunning a charging tank.
One of the best looking games for NES. Still have the cartridge somewhere in my parents' house attic. I was laughing for the new Castlevania release on PS4. Only 26 years later on the monstrous vs NES system and still can't beat it.
Wow, I can't believe I slept on this back in the day. This looks amazing.
Its a Shame, we only got the Batman the Return of Joker the Video game but not *Batman the return of Joker the Movie* in 1995. Instead we got the flop Batman Forever Movie. smh...
I beat this game multiple times. It didn't feel like a Batman game, but it was still an awesome game and a worthy addition to the franchise. It really was a huge step, it was the same kind of bridge between 8 bit and 16 bit that Donkey Kong Country was between 16 bit and the 64.
More like 16 and 32-ish for DKC. It was a 2D game at heart. lol
God these games have epic sound tracks. Miss my childhood
the game with the best graphics of the nes history.
The best soundtrack of the entire NES catalog... AWESOME!
love this fkn game. Great music, great art, great everything.
After all these years, I never got why AVGN had trouble with this game, it looks sweet!
This one plays, sounds, and look much better than the 16 bit versions!!
La musica de este juego es muy elaborada para la época y se disfruta también jugarlo...
This may be one of the greatest nes games graphics and sound wise ever. Defiantly rate it in the top 20 overall in the Nes library.
I still have this game!! Need to get my NES working again.. 😁 bring back old memorys!! Love it.. endbosses ruled.
wow! this looks so insane for a 1983 8-bit game console!!
This game is impressive for the NES, namely the iconic Sunsoft bass and SEGA sized sprites (Mega Drive sprites are typically 32x40 pixels).
This game will turn your nes into a 16bit system(!)with graphics & sound that are hot as 16bit systems like the sega genesis,with amezing paralax scrolling effects here and there and you also can hide behind some backgrounds, it greatly uses the 1bit dpcm soundchannel for some pumping drum beats.
Genesis does what nintendon't? Wait a minute nintendo had the mmc chipsets with software tricks to it's slaves to make nes games being possibly on pair with genesis games.
This should have been an advertisement for Lagrange Point on the Famicom.
The batman games were amongst the pinnacle of NES technical prowess and artistry. Ofcourse, made by the gods in Japan!
The NES version both looks and sounds better than both the SNES and Genesis ports; NES version makes much better use of it's own hardware.
Genesis was much better
@@justforviews3802 I don't really think so.. the graphics look kinda putrid in the 16-bit versions and the music isn't really too great in either of them. The 16-bit versions are overall lacking the polish of Sunsoft's work.
@@opaopa86 no offence brother but I think you need to check your eyes ... the genesis was more colorful compared to this vomit looking color and graphics
@@justforviews3802 More colors doesn't necessarily mean better.
@@opaopa86 color , music , sounds , background , details looks much better than the NES & yes I played both maybe NES was easier than Genesis I guess that's why ppl prefer NES
This right here was my childhood...this game was just too tight.
Great video! The final Joker can be killed in seconds with ‘C’ weapon rapidly shot against the right wall while crouching. Level 3 always took me forever.
The music on this game was the best for a 8 bit console. Miss my childhood.
Esta versão é, de longe, muito melhor que a versão do SNES, embora seja de um console de geração anterior. Muito bom, já joguei muito!
One of the greatest NES games ever.
I played this game.via emulation on my phone a couple years ago and god damn it's one challenging bastard
I always wronlgy remembered this as a SNES game until I saw AVGN episodes and was shocked that I played this on NES and not SNES.
I played this game so much as a kid that I was annoyed watching this gameplay. It's not really anyone else's fault, but it just reminded me of the old days of watching my younger brother play and watching him make mistakes that I would "never" make 😅
Perfect game! Fantastic sound, good color pallete, awesome art design!! Better than any other Batman sidescrolling game.
Remember, kids, for all intents and purposes this is not stock NES hardware. This game pulls off its graphics by some good programming, yes, but mostly by a custom chip in the cartridge.
I had to reattach my jaw after playing this for the first time, it really feels like it would have been an advanced Super Nintendo game. Sunsoft really made games the way god intended.
7:21-7:23.; I agree with The Angry Video Game Nerd, there when he said the following during his review of this game:
"That doesn't even follow the laws of physics!?".
Woah, the animation are graphics are AMAZING!
I had the NES _Return of the Joker_ as a kid. Great game. Though, as I grew older, I developed the theory that it didn't start out life as a Batman game, but was an unrelated game turned into a _Batman_ game partway through production so it could be released before Sunsoft lost the _Batman_ license. The levels are not what I think of when I think of Gotham City. Caves, snowy mountains, that tropical island at the end. And the enemies seem to be mercenaries or robots, which isn't typically the type of enemy you'd expect Batman to fight. The stages and enemies feel more _Contra_ than _Batman_. And those tornado throwing wizards feel out of place with all the other enemies you fight. The two Joker fights have him pilot war machines, as though he was some mad scientist and not a mad clown. And then there's the fact that Batman shoots energy projectiles from a wrist mounted weapon. All this makes me think that Batman and Joker were put into another game late in development and the game then became what we know as _Batman: Return of the Joker._
The ending of this game is "GOLD"!
The player couldn't resist to make Batman dance to this AWESOME MUSIC
the music, the graphics, omg
i first remember when my older brother rented this from blockbuster... omg he tried so hard to beat it in three days and made it!!! lol but stage 3-1 always pissed him off though.
oh my goodness, look at that parallax scrolling on the clouds.
magic
The graphics and soundtrack in this game are godlike
갓게임, NES 세대에 태어나게 해준걸 감사하게 생각합니다
Sunsoft really had a knack for making the NES look good.
Omg. You brought me back good memories. Thank you!
Grandes recuerdos con este juego
Y la música de intro es genial
Una obra de arte al igual que batman returns cuando se enfrenta a gatubela y el pinguino, son juegos totalmente adelantados a su época, que sin duda nos hacen volver a nuestra infancia.....
Even though they probably didn't intend it to be, I do consider this game to be a sequel to the first Sunsoft Batman game, especially with it using the Burton utility belt, Batmobile, & Batwing as assets, & with it called *"Return* of the Joker". (What or where would he be returning from if it wasn't a sequel?)
I personally like to think that in the timeline of the NES Batman games, the night the Joker died in the first game, the Joker that died was actually a decoy sent by the real Joker who snuck off to his Island & began working on his nefarious new plan, as seen in this game.
I prefer the first Batman game... this one felt like a completely different game with a Batman skin layered onto it.
one of the best of NES. Soundtrack Fabulous!
I’m quite surprised there isn’t more talk about this game. The graphics are outstanding. Actually I’ve never heard about this game until now.
This game looks more like a Contra and Megaman game combined, rather an actual Batman game, but it still looks really good..=)
Batman Returns and this game were SICK
The music in this one... Sounds very much like in Super Spy Hunter. Awesome.
One of avgn's quotes: "Once you get to the boss, the music sounds incredibly familiar. -listens to CrashMan stage in MegaMan 2- MegaMan. Yeah, it does sounds like it, it's a lot faster, that's all.
Turbo botton classic memories 😿
Excelent gameplay bro 😎
I’ve never seen or heard of this game, but it looks amazing still