BATMAN
VARIOUS, 1989
The success of its Platoon and RoboCop games was the springboard that Gary Bracey and Ocean needed to ramp up its movie licensing. And at the end of the Eighties, there was no bigger movie than Batman. Obscenely overhyped and anticipated, obtaining the licence for a homecomputer game inevitably cost Ocean compared to RoboCop and Platoon – but it was worth it. The game closely follows the movie as Batman swings around its platform locations, charges down the streets in the Batmobile and takes to the skies in the Batwing. Each version plays smoothly and, together with Ocean’s trademark excellent presentation, it amounted to another smash hit. Even the Spectrum version, coded by the RoboCop team of Mike Lamb and Dawn Drake, delivers a Batcave full of entertainment.