Batman game that was a pack-in with a board game?

[Edmond Dantes]

So someone commented in my blog recently that he had played a Batman game he claims was for the NES, that was packed in with a board game.

Here's his actual comment:


It was obscure, I’ll say that. You had to climb these ladders (like in Donkey Kong) and throw batarangs at what I think was an army of Jokers. It was very bizzare, I don’t have too much memory on the NES game, but the board game was similar to that. The NES game was based on it, I think. Anyhow, the board game was very much like a cheap version of shoots and ladders, only with awful artwork and a misleading instruction manule.

We went from that, to Batman:Arkham City. Very interesting.

Ummm yeah. Pretty sure if there were a Batman game like that for the NES, of all things, I would've heard about it. I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt and assuming he actually means the Atari VCS/2600 or some other console, but still.

Has anyone here ever heard of such a game?

[tom]

No Batman game on VCS

[FrankSerpico]

I know there was a Gargoyles VHS that came with a board game that allowed you to sort of play along with the footage onscreen. Could there have been something similar involving the early '90s Batman: TAS? Just a shot in the dark

[Parodius Duh!]

http://s15.postimg.org/95rin183v/batgame.jpg

It definitely did not come with any sort of video game. I still have a sealed copy that my parents bought for me in 1989 and I thought the game looked so terrible It just sat in my parents basement sealed, where it still sits.

Theres multiple Batman boardgames from the 60s-late 90s. This one is the only one that would fit into the NES time period and his description of it being like Shoots and ladders and an Army of Jokers (theres like 20 enemy pieces that are all the Joker just different colors), this is it.

Hes probably confused by his childhood mind. He probably received the boardgame AND the NES videogame for like Christmas or something and the memory has bled together. It happens.



Heres a better shot of the cheesy artwork:
http://s10.postimg.org/u97bjihk9/The_Batman_Game.jpg

[Gameguy]

I know there was a Gargoyles VHS that came with a board game that allowed you to sort of play along with the footage onscreen.
I actually have that, though I've never actually played the board game included with it.

[Edmond Dantes]

How did that gargoyles game work, anyway? Did you just watch the movie in the background while playing the game or did it integrate with the game somehow?

[Gameguy]

How did that gargoyles game work, anyway? Did you just watch the movie in the background while playing the game or did it integrate with the game somehow?
I think after the movie there was another video which relates to the board game. I'd have to look at it again to check, the main video was the first three episodes of the show edited together into a movie and that's all I watched.

I'll try to find this when I have a chance, I haven't exactly watched it recently.

[bacteria]

Well, if there was that game made, perhaps you can ask him to take a YouTube video of it and post the result?

[Edmond Dantes]

Well, if there was that game made, perhaps you can ask him to take a YouTube video of it and post the result?

He didn't say he still had it, just that he remembered one.

I think what dude's suggested earlier--that he's simply misremembering--is likely accurate.

[Rickstilwell1]

http://s15.postimg.org/95rin183v/batgame.jpg

It definitely did not come with any sort of video game. I still have a sealed copy that my parents bought for me in 1989 and I thought the game looked so terrible It just sat in my parents basement sealed, where it still sits.

Theres multiple Batman boardgames from the 60s-late 90s. This one is the only one that would fit into the NES time period and his description of it being like Shoots and ladders and an Army of Jokers (theres like 20 enemy pieces that are all the Joker just different colors), this is it.

Hes probably confused by his childhood mind. He probably received the boardgame AND the NES videogame for like Christmas or something and the memory has bled together. It happens.



Heres a better shot of the cheesy artwork:
http://s10.postimg.org/u97bjihk9/The_Batman_Game.jpg


Even more probable that his parents opened the board game box and stuck the NES Batman The Video Game in the box for double the surprise factor. Some people will hide gifts within gifts just to get excitement out of people who think they only got one present to open.

[Daltone]

I think after the movie there was another video which relates to the board game. I'd have to look at it again to check, the main video was the first three episodes of the show edited together into a movie and that's all I watched.

I'll try to find this when I have a chance, I haven't exactly watched it recently.

Was it not a bit like atmosphere?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w5n3VGwM-k