Fun Fact: In the movie, Batman uses his grappling hook to shoot at the wall behind the Stungun Clown and pulls a chunk out of it to knock him in the back of the head out cold. And you can do that exact same thing in this game!
Batman didn't knock that guy out, he killed him by crushing the back of his skull with that chunk of concrete. He also killed the strong man with a bomb. Burton's Batman had no qualms about taking a life.
@@johnnihil1689 no, that guy was definatley alive, Selina used tbe taser he dropped on him after Batman saved her. (She kept the taser, which was used at the end of tbe movie)
You know you're old when you understand this concept but younger games don't. Just like in games where the bosses don't have visible health bars would start to flash (the faster the flashing, the closer they are to 0HP). Man, I'm old - I never thought of someone not understand this concept.
@@AJR-zg2py I think that might also have a bit to do with how most beat-em-ups eventually followed Streets of Rage 2's lead (or it could've been Brawl Brothers' lead; both games came out in '92 and I somehow doubt Sega/Ancient and Jaleco were comparing notes), and instead of sort of 'masking' how much HP an enemy had if it went over the typical max, they just told you EXACTLY how much health was in each and every bar, and also typically gave some sort of indication as to how many bars they had left. Or in the arcades, they'd often just show a giant health bar for JUST the boss in a special section of the screen. When I start thinking about it, beat-em-ups didn't actually do that "show health bar but hide exact health value" thing for very long at all, did they?
Just a tip for boss rushes like this: if you press the L or R buttons to guard (which is really pointless), it resets Batman's standing combo chain and you can keep pummeling bad guys almost endlessly with the first two punches. The hit timing is different with bosses, though. Keep that in mind.
Beautiful graphics, satisfying thuds from combat, enemies and locations straight out of the movie and incorporating the Danny Elfman soundtrack... yeah, I loved this game.
Fun fact, the jumping Dive attack has armor. You can jump into the Organ Grinder’s bullets and they’ll bounce off, but I think they still do some damage. Obviously that’s not optimal, you’ll do way more damage with 3 punches -> grab -> 2 headbutts -> Throw / Wall Throw.
Catwoman is quite easier than you made it. Just always face her and she will use the whip, if you try to walk away from her she will close distance and kick you. You want her to use the whip often so you can dodge, close distance punch 3 times (not the full combo with the kick! Just pop, pop pop) walk into her to pick her up, let off the d-pad, punch 3 times again, and on the fourth, he'll throw. If done right, it should be a 7 hit combo with no real risk.
Did you know with the stun gun boss, if you shoot the grappling hook on the wall during the beginning, and pull back, it'll make a chunk of wall hit him and remove a decent amount of health?
This looks like it was done on Normal mode. Impressive all the same, but Mania difficulty is where you earned the best ending possible; the bosses had considerably more health, too.
I think it was done on normal mostly to simply show the bosses; games in the 90's were starting to cut off the story early for completing the game on easy - take Streets of Rage 3, after the axel clone boss - if you beat him on easy, the story ended right there
Thanks so much for this, It's 3 AM and I'm working on some images. I remember playing this at my uncles house, He had STACKS of comics and games everywhere! I remember the sounds making the attacks so gratifying, and being able to slam enemies to the wall, UGH! this was the best batman game til the gotham trilogy and I PLAYED batman FOREVER. We never made it past the circus in that. (Me and My little brother) and sometimes it was just so damn hard, Little did we know it had INFINITE difficulty scaling Unless you cut the system off to clear the data. We would run that game for hours and fail alll day. would still go back and do it though. it was funny for the most part. And we never beat this game either, but it was amazing. Also,also. This makes me miss the times when people were experimental with attack and exploding sounds, Unlike today where most games use the same type of bass to express an attack.
Stungun Clown: "Take one step closer Mr. Man Bat and I'll...!" The Strongman: "Go ahead and hit me!" Catwoman: "Did somebody say fish? I haven't been fed all day!" (I'd love to hear Grey Griffin say that) Organ Grinder: "Would you hurry up and get those kids loaded already?!"
Batfan Returns a.k.a Fatman Returns : The Return of The Big Fat Penguin ( PC ) All Bosses ( No F-Ups ) 00:42 Big Machine Gun O’Connor 01:23 Mikhail Faustin , The Transgender Strongman Who invaded Ukraine via Pripyat 02:22 Miss Fat Cat Woman 04:02 The Big Fat Penguin 05:44 The Penguin-Mobile ( 1980 Chevrolet Chevy Van in All Black with 3-Spoke Rims ) 06:53 The Grinder 08:32 The Penguin’s Limo ( 1985 Lincoln Town Car Stretched Limousine in All Black And White with Zebra Stripes on top and 5-Spoke Rims ) 09:18 The Big Fat Penguin ( 2nd & Final Form )
All bosses in batman returns. Stongun C. C.STRONGMAN. Catwowan. The penguins 1. Campain V. Thin Clown 2Tand O Grinder. Duck V. The penguins 2 fnal boss. Endings. The Ends.
@@SCTWIZ You do a punch block repeat. It keeps then locked in a hit animation, but it is taxing on the fingers. I love this game and it's fun speedrun.
*FUCKING CATWOMAN!!!* Seeing you beat her made me vicariously live through you and enjoy every second of every minute you fucking beat her to a bloody pulp.
2:22 I remember always feeling weird when fighting Catwoman as a child. I think that was the first time I had ever seen a male video game character hit a woman.
I barely remembered this game but penguins fight, seeing the others and the car chase one omfg my childhood came back, I could see myself sitting there. Now that I found this I'm searching for an old xman game, i remember gambits part and running cuz this giant spinning thing was on the left side of screen moving towards you. And also a battle with spider man and carnage...may he a demo game but anyone have clues?
Batman might have the most brutal throw out of any beat-em up. He just grabs dudes by the head and throws them to the ground. Certainly helps that there's a satisfying **THUD** when they hit the ground
@@SuperGoku14 Wait, what? That makes a lot more sense now. Also think it's funny how the henchmen are Joker themed when the main villains are Catwoman and The Penguin and the Joker is nowhere to be found, but I am sure that would probably make a lot more sense if I actually watched the movie.
@@robertwildschwein7207 I see what you mean, but Batman Returns had a different depiction of The Penguin, and those clowns came from the circus he worked at during his time as a freak show performer.
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2:29 "You wouldn't hit a lady would you Batman?"
Bats: "The hammer of justice is unisex"
Fun Fact: In the movie, Batman uses his grappling hook to shoot at the wall behind the Stungun Clown and pulls a chunk out of it to knock him in the back of the head out cold.
And you can do that exact same thing in this game!
Sean Lightowler But in this game that dude's strong like a fucking league of shadows member lol
Batman didn't knock that guy out, he killed him by crushing the back of his skull with that chunk of concrete. He also killed the strong man with a bomb. Burton's Batman had no qualms about taking a life.
@@johnnihil1689 no, that guy was definatley alive, Selina used tbe taser he dropped on him after Batman saved her. (She kept the taser, which was used at the end of tbe movie)
@@theoddronin1 nah batman was straight up killing people in Batman Returns. Parents even complained about the level of violence in the film.
@@johnnihil1689 i know, but that clown you mentioned, he did not kill him. The strongman yeah but not the one that had Selina
I've always loved the sound where Batman lands punches and kicks on the bad guys and the groans of pain from fighting the bosses.
Burr!
Bureah!
I really like the sound they make when they die.
for those of you who can't understand why the bosses health bars are different colors, its to show the monstrous amounts of HP they have.
You know you're old when you understand this concept but younger games don't. Just like in games where the bosses don't have visible health bars would start to flash (the faster the flashing, the closer they are to 0HP). Man, I'm old - I never thought of someone not understand this concept.
They did that in the Final Fight games as well. Konami usually made the bosses flash faster and faster as they got closer to death
@@AJR-zg2py I think that might also have a bit to do with how most beat-em-ups eventually followed Streets of Rage 2's lead (or it could've been Brawl Brothers' lead; both games came out in '92 and I somehow doubt Sega/Ancient and Jaleco were comparing notes), and instead of sort of 'masking' how much HP an enemy had if it went over the typical max, they just told you EXACTLY how much health was in each and every bar, and also typically gave some sort of indication as to how many bars they had left. Or in the arcades, they'd often just show a giant health bar for JUST the boss in a special section of the screen.
When I start thinking about it, beat-em-ups didn't actually do that "show health bar but hide exact health value" thing for very long at all, did they?
What's HP?
Like Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts only instead of changing colors his HP doesn't even look like it's going down.
8:40: Penguin? So you're the one behind all those giant ducks! Penguin: Yes Batman, the giant ducks are part of my evil plan to take over the world!
Just a tip for boss rushes like this: if you press the L or R buttons to guard (which is really pointless), it resets Batman's standing combo chain and you can keep pummeling bad guys almost endlessly with the first two punches. The hit timing is different with bosses, though. Keep that in mind.
You need to guard to do the test tube smart bomb (which looks cool too).
Beautiful graphics, satisfying thuds from combat, enemies and locations straight out of the movie and incorporating the Danny Elfman soundtrack... yeah, I loved this game.
Catwoman's akuma teleport should've totally been in Injustice 2 :D
Adam Gomez I hate the new video games. I miss the old ones. Nintendo is still good
Let her try and do that shit to Akuma today... Boom!
@@nintendofan6099 same
One of the best beat em ups ever.
Hmm.. Is it me, or does Batman seems to have an attack pattern that would fit right in with the Streets of Rage games?
"I'm Catwoman hear me roar" gets punched straight in the face!! 😂
Fun fact, the jumping Dive attack has armor. You can jump into the Organ Grinder’s bullets and they’ll bounce off, but I think they still do some damage. Obviously that’s not optimal, you’ll do way more damage with 3 punches -> grab -> 2 headbutts -> Throw / Wall Throw.
I tried that, didn’t work
Catwoman is quite easier than you made it. Just always face her and she will use the whip, if you try to walk away from her she will close distance and kick you. You want her to use the whip often so you can dodge, close distance punch 3 times (not the full combo with the kick! Just pop, pop pop) walk into her to pick her up, let off the d-pad, punch 3 times again, and on the fourth, he'll throw. If done right, it should be a 7 hit combo with no real risk.
The sound effect for when a boss takes damage (which I guess is supposed to represent a scream?) seems really familiar. I swear I’ve heard it before.
The music in this game is some of the best in the 16 bit era. And also of the movie to video game soundtracks
Looks like a brilliant game for its time! Love the artwork.
The artwork in the Genesis game is also great despite the rough color palette.
It is a good game but its challenging as all hell so basically its not for people who rage easily at games
Did you know with the stun gun boss, if you shoot the grappling hook on the wall during the beginning, and pull back, it'll make a chunk of wall hit him and remove a decent amount of health?
LOL! When it first came out everyone knew this.
Still remember getting this Christmas morning. What a day.
Super nes reinaba en gloria y majestad, que grandes juegos, que mejor infancia......
6:53 boss' name is "Organ Grinder".
This game is so good,great music and so....batman!!!!!!!
remember playing this on those cozy nights while kids...
"THE BAT, THE CAT, THE PENGUIN"
Am I the only one thinking this could be an intro to Three Stooges?
No you are not the only one.
"I don't kill people"
"rawr"
"I WILL USE DUCKS TO TAKE OVER THE WOOOORRRRLD"
This looks like it was done on Normal mode. Impressive all the same, but Mania difficulty is where you earned the best ending possible; the bosses had considerably more health, too.
I think it was done on normal mostly to simply show the bosses; games in the 90's were starting to cut off the story early for completing the game on easy - take Streets of Rage 3, after the axel clone boss - if you beat him on easy, the story ended right there
@Big White Duck of course it have one! Thats my default difficulty every time i played it.
I play this game every year
@Big White Duck its the same ending with a final movie shot.
You can watch it in youtube,but its better in the old fashion way.do it yourself
@Big White Duck mania mode is right after hard and before special in the options menu
@@Classixish Turtles in Time cut the ending in both easy and normal difficulty lol
2:25 I AM CATWOMAN... HEAR ME ROAR! -- (Falcon punch!) XDDD!!!
Your game play is terrific.
Thank you for uploading this video.
Thanks so much for this, It's 3 AM and I'm working on some images.
I remember playing this at my uncles house, He had STACKS of comics and games everywhere!
I remember the sounds making the attacks so gratifying, and being able to slam enemies to the wall, UGH! this was the best batman game til the gotham trilogy and I PLAYED batman FOREVER.
We never made it past the circus in that. (Me and My little brother) and sometimes it was just so damn hard, Little did we know it had INFINITE difficulty scaling Unless you cut the system off to clear the data. We would run that game for hours and fail alll day. would still go back and do it though. it was funny for the most part.
And we never beat this game either, but it was amazing.
Also,also. This makes me miss the times when people were experimental with attack and exploding sounds, Unlike today where most games use the same type of bass to express an attack.
3:59 (chaotic noises as Catwoman's landing goes awry)
Stungun Clown: "Take one step closer Mr. Man Bat and I'll...!"
The Strongman: "Go ahead and hit me!"
Catwoman: "Did somebody say fish? I haven't been fed all day!" (I'd love to hear Grey Griffin say that)
Organ Grinder: "Would you hurry up and get those kids loaded already?!"
Stungun Clown: You missed!
C'mon! Why didn't you used the Bat Grappling on the wall behind the Stungun Clown?! :-/ ... That does a huge damage to the freak.
Caramba que viciado... kkkkk imagina quantas vezes jogou pra ficar tão bom assim... muito bom..
Batfan Returns a.k.a Fatman Returns : The Return of The Big Fat Penguin ( PC ) All Bosses ( No F-Ups )
00:42 Big Machine Gun O’Connor
01:23 Mikhail Faustin , The Transgender Strongman Who invaded Ukraine via Pripyat
02:22 Miss Fat Cat Woman
04:02 The Big Fat Penguin
05:44 The Penguin-Mobile ( 1980 Chevrolet Chevy Van in All Black with 3-Spoke Rims )
06:53 The Grinder
08:32 The Penguin’s Limo ( 1985 Lincoln Town Car Stretched Limousine in All Black And White with Zebra Stripes on top and 5-Spoke Rims )
09:18 The Big Fat Penguin ( 2nd & Final Form )
One of the most awesome boss theme in the history of videogames
Catwoman has the best fight song next to The Penguin's final battle song.
Simeon Atkinson i love too this songs
All bosses in batman returns.
Stongun C.
C.STRONGMAN.
Catwowan.
The penguins 1.
Campain V.
Thin Clown 2Tand O Grinder.
Duck V.
The penguins 2 fnal boss.
Endings.
The Ends.
cant believe ive never played this game. downloading it now...
Amazing. I could never get through this game. Too difficult for me.
You get the I AM BATMAN! 🦇 achievement with those slams on the grinder lol
I still have this game over the years. 👍😆
The body slam make more damage on cat woman than kicks
Just so you know, there is a way to stunlock all boss fights except Stungun Clown, first Penguin fight, Campain, and Duck. I speedrun this game.
How? Is it with: punch, punch, block, repeat?
@@SCTWIZ You do a punch block repeat. It keeps then locked in a hit animation, but it is taxing on the fingers. I love this game and it's fun speedrun.
The Penguin is the only one for whom the generic enemy-hit SFX make sense.
amazing!!!!!!!! and without using one single test tube!
Altered Beast: Defender of the Realms boss run?
This normal difficulty i guess .catwoman in mania makes her dash more than two times every time
Yeah, in mania Catwoman forces you to use B.test Tube in order to avoid those fucking dashes
*FUCKING CATWOMAN!!!* Seeing you beat her made me vicariously live through you and enjoy every second of every minute you fucking beat her to a bloody pulp.
Batman Returns might be my favorite Batman movie 😅 I liked it 😁
I wld like to see a direct port of this game to the Genesis.
2:22 I remember always feeling weird when fighting Catwoman as a child. I think that was the first time I had ever seen a male video game character hit a woman.
You’re telling me. Even I wouldn’t dream of challenging a lady
@@disneyvillainrocket1 women are abusive
Back in the day, this was the best Batman game ever!
5:41
4:11 drew Barrymore in game form.😂
Shreck, before it became famous
You dont fool me - a performance like that, you must really be Batman!
I don't know who was the developer
But they went all out with the graphics.
Got a raise that day.
0:45
I barely remembered this game but penguins fight, seeing the others and the car chase one omfg my childhood came back, I could see myself sitting there. Now that I found this I'm searching for an old xman game, i remember gambits part and running cuz this giant spinning thing was on the left side of screen moving towards you. And also a battle with spider man and carnage...may he a demo game but anyone have clues?
1:03 Shreck's or *Shrek's?*
Man I miss these games they were so simple. Nobody screaming for politics just having fun playing video games.
Did you know that in the movie he took down the Tattoo Strongman with one of the Thin Clown's dynamite and blew him up while its detatch?
This one was WAY Better than the Sega Version
+1 like . Good job !
Cat woman boss breaks my nerve. Hard to dodge her 2 dash attack.
I love the OST vs Catwoman
I like how Penguin waddles.
also, came up a name for him.
Pain-in-the-ass-Guin
Batman beat that cannibal at the end.
Wow man play like a god, congratulations
Medievil 1 boss run if you have done that before
1:23 that battle lasted a lot longer than it did in the movie. Then again, Batman didn’t have a bomb this time.
*YOU WIN PERFECT*
Memories 😊😊😊
This is missing the second fight with Catwoman. But, great video - this is impressive.
I thought the same thing but realized the second fight with Catwoman is not a boss fight (the boss fight for level 4 is against the Penguin).
@@SCTWIZ true
You could tell the devs watched the
Movie closely.
Almost down to perfection.
Magnificent game!
That Penguin is one tough SOB!
I used to love this game as a child, however it was really scary.
So does the movie. The Penguin is nothing but a cannibal.
It was fun to play and not scary at all in my opinion
0:45 is love,0:45 is life.
Where's the 2nd fight with Catwoman? Easy mode.
Wow this looks identical to final fight 3 lol I still like final fight 3 better because of the music and different characters to choose from
Batman might have the most brutal throw out of any beat-em up. He just grabs dudes by the head and throws them to the ground. Certainly helps that there's a satisfying **THUD** when they hit the ground
The difficulty „Mania“ was damn hard.
Catwoman masters the Satsui no Hado and attempts to use the Raging Demon on Batman.
the Organ Grinder is exactly the same as Edi. E from Final Fight.
Gotta love how the shotgun clown uses a tazer instead of a shotgun.
Censorship.
You must have read that name a little too fast. It said "Stungun", not "Shotgun".
@@SuperGoku14 Wait, what?
That makes a lot more sense now.
Also think it's funny how the henchmen are Joker themed when the main villains are Catwoman and The Penguin and the Joker is nowhere to be found, but I am sure that would probably make a lot more sense if I actually watched the movie.
@@robertwildschwein7207 I see what you mean, but Batman Returns had a different depiction of The Penguin, and those clowns came from the circus he worked at during his time as a freak show performer.
I always play this in mania, it's not like this playgame....
This guy playing this game in NORMAL mode i guess
So he's lying?
Yeah it's normal mode because the ending scene is different
far more exciting than dceu batman
The first boss u can hook the wall like the movie and do hella dmg
8:35 Batman vs pato da FIESP
This was easily the best Batman game made until Rocksteady came along and blew our minds.
A duck as a boss fight?
Nice bro batman winner
Batman throws the batarangs at stun gun, who ducks. The should the hostage woman behind stungun.
The Penguin from the video game looks way stronger and skilled at combat than the one from the movie hahaha
Music went hard in this gsme
The sequel of Batman
Wow the difference between this and the Sega Mega Drives
This game easily spells out Bare Knuckle.
No lie
This game is a better final fight 2 game than the official final fight 2!
5:40 Batman watches this and does nothing
Just like the movie.
I yearn for this Konami :)
Don't you fight Catwoman twice??
you do, but the 2nd is a copy/paste round 2