It’s been a long while since we’ve had a legitimately good Batman videogame. The most recent one I could think of wasThe Adventures of Batman & Robinback on the Genesis and SNES, and that game came out fifteen years ago.
As forThe Dark Knight, atie-in videogamewasunofficially (and apparently, inadvertently) revealedby Gary Oldman (aka Commissioner Gordon) in an interview with G4 last July, shortly after the film’s release. EAlater confirmedthat Pandemic Studios had indeed been working on such a game, but it looks like that was shelved — perhaps because the awfulBatman Beginsgame only sold 587,000 copies.
So it is with immense glee that I present to you one YouTuber’s idea of what aDark Knightvideogame could have looked like — on the NES. The user absolutely nailed the “cutscenes” that slowly moved across the screen back in those days; there’s some suitably 8-bit menu music; and the game was “developed” by Sunsoft, which is appropriate — after all, they were the people behind the NESBatmanandBatman: Return of the Jokergames (as well as the vauntedBlaster Masterseries, of course).
Am I the only one looking for a “Start” key to push on my keyboard?
