The front of the box doesn't tell me very much, but the back of the box boasts a SIM CITY view of Gotham, at least one platforming stage, and a lot of digitized cut scenes. There's an old adage about 'not judging a book by it's cover', which I'm sure is a great lesson to apply when you're at a library, but I'm a consumer and packaging is very important to me. Whoever/wherever you are odino, props to you. While I couldn't find the actual manual that came with the game, I did find a nifty Batman Returns DOS FAQ written by odino. I was able to dig up this game thanks to the magic of DOSBox and the power of google searching. I also have vague memories of the SNES Batman Returns and the SEGA Batman Returns console games being near identical, so I may have just dismissed the DOS version as just another port of the beat-em up version that was available on the home console systems. I can't even remember if my family had a home PC in 1992). Released by Konami in December of 1992, I'm sure this game completely slid under my radar because I only had an Intel 386 computer (actually. So, with that long-winded opening, I have no clue how I completely missed this game the first time:įront and back of Batman Returns DOS game packaging.
Rather than delve into my reasons why (I'll save that for another day), I'll just tell you that this 11 year-old had more spending money in his pockets and could actively chase down/purchase Batman Returns paraphernalia in a more reckless manner than his 1989 self was able to do for the first Burton Batman film. While it was THE movie of my youth and I will fight anyone to the death who tells me Heath Ledger is a better Joker, I've always liked 1992's Batman Returns more. THE movie of MY youth was Tim Burton's 1989 Batman starring Micheal Keaton and Jack Nicholson. Maybe a few notable ones, but there's always THE movie. When you finally got a chance to see it, it was a HUGE event and it lived up to (and possibly exceeded) your expectations. (For reference here, I'm saying 'youth' is anywhere from 6 to 13 years old.) It was the movie that all of your friends talked about for months beforehand, it was being advertised EVERYWHERE, and it generated a lot of hype for several weeks/months leading up to it. 'THE movie of your youth' was the one that had the GREATEST profound effect on you.
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