Top 14 Batman Arcade Games You Should Play Before You Die

Hi there Bat fans and welcome to my blog. Today I have a very special thing for you. I'm going to talk about 14 Batman games released on tArcade system. Some of them you already know, others you forgot about it and some of them you never heard of. I have picked a wide range of titles from the past, present and future? Only for Batfans with lots of love. So let´s take a look at this top 14.

Number 14 - BATMAN (1990) 

Based on the Tim Burton movie

Batman Arcade Cabinet from 1990

I come across with this jewel not long ago after being a massive fan of Batman The movie for the Spectrum and Amiga ports. This is an excellent example of a game based on a film that actually remains loyal to the plot with a variety of different levels making it very innovative when it was released. I am talking about the levels where you drive the batmobile or fly in the Batwing but, we will get there.

In this release, you have the opportunity to hear lots of digitalized voices from the movie and a few cool cut scenes that will wrap you I this adventure back to the year of 1989 - if you were born or raised in the 80's you will know exactly what I'm on about. The graphics are the average for an arcade game from that era, and by average I don't mean it in a bad way but rather in a standard way.

Here's a screenshot of Batman Level 01 gameplay. The poster on the wall makes me giggle "DENT FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY"

So about the game, you start as Batman in a 2D horizontal Side scrolling, feat Jack Napier changing hid life forever when he falls down in that chemical bath and becoming The Joke. you also ga=have the Guggenheim museum where you have to pick Vicky Vale, the drive her to the Batcave to give her the codes of the Joker's toxin More Platform then a Batwing |Level where you have to collect the balloons with Jokers poisonous gas and finally the Gotham cathedral just like the movie. If you are a fan of the 89 movie you will love this game
you have the Axis Chemical bit in a platform gameplay style where you

13 Batman Forever: The Arcade Game

Wish I have this cabinet! Is just Awesome

Released for the very first time in November 1996 in North America, this game is based on the movie Batman Forever and is a 2D Horizontal Side Scrolling beat' em up game.

You can play as Batman or Robin, and yes, There is an option for two players :).

His first released in November 1996 in North America

Batman Forever Arcade - Screenshot of Level 01 Gameplay

Developed by Iguana Entertainment

Published by Acclaim Entertainment and Acclaim Japan

Distributed by Warner Bros. Interactive

Also available for Sega Saturn, PC (Microsoft Windows) and PlayStation

12 - Batman Pinball by Stern

Batman Pinball by Stern

11-  Batman Data East Pinball

Batman Data East Pinball

10 - Batman Forever Pinball by SEGA

Batman Forever Pinball by SEGA

9 - Batman Wacker

Batman Wacker

8 - Batman Classic TV Series

This is Aristocrat’s first game released in the new “Wonder Wheels” format, which is Aristocrat’s answer to the movie-style presentation used by the company’s main game designer, Joe Kaminkow, when Kaminkow worked at another “bat-channel.”
But where the Batman theme was the subject of two major slot games, those were based on the modern-day Caped Crusader, in the form of The Dark Knight. This new Aristocrat game uses the Wonder Wheels format—two individual slots in front of a giant bonus display with three separate wheels (one main wheel and a “Villain Wheel” for each slot), along with a surround-sound “iChair”—to recreate the campy 1960s Batman TV series, complete with all the comic-book sound balloons (“Bam!” Pow!”) and the cavalcade of top stars of the day who did guest shots on that series, which starred Adam West and Burt Ward.
The base game is a five-reel, 25-line video slot with a multi-site progressive jackpot resetting at $250,000. The bonuses are lifted directly from the popular show. The main “Dynamic Duo Wonder Wheels” feature spins the central bonus wheel as a display shows Batman and Robin climbing up the side of a building.
“Catwoman: The Purr-fect Crime” is a picking bonus featuring the classic Catwoman character as portrayed by Julie Newmar. The player picks Catwoman icons to collect credits before getting captured by Batman and Robin.
The “Riddle Me This” feature includes clips of Frank Gorshin’s unmatched performance as the Riddler in a free-game round. When the free games are awarded, with every spin two random reels will stop to display “The Riddler Box,” from which a player picks to win credit prizes, free games, multipliers, wild reels or a “Wild Slide” feature that awards additional wild symbols.
In “The Joker is Wild,” Cesar Romero’s Joker plays host to eight free games with a “Reel Ka-Power” game
layout featuring a unique 4x4x3x3x3 reel configuration with 432 ways to win.
Additionally, there are random mini-features including “Batmobile Wilds” or “Bat Signal Wilds,” which add wild symbols to the spin; and the “Villain Wheel,” in which three scattered bonus symbols spin the wheel to a credit amount associated with one of the TV series’ famous villains, or one of the show’s main characters.
Manufacturer: Aristocrat Technologies
Platform: Wonder Wheels
Format: Five-reel, 25-line video slot
Denomination: .01, .02, .05
Max Bet: 250
Top Award: Progressive; $250,000 reset
Hit Frequency: Approximately 50%
Theoretical Hold: 11.56%, 11.57%

7 - Batman Defend Gotham

6 - The Cobblebot Caper

Gameplay Menu where Batman Swings on a rope

Real gameplay screenshot of Batman fighting The Kabuki Twins in Level 02.

You can play this Batman game here in this link

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1 - Batman Arcade

2013 Batman Arcade Cabinet

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Batman
Developer(s) Specular Interactive
Publisher(s) Raw Thrills
Platform(s) Arcade
Release date(s) December 2013
Genre(s) Vehicular combat
Mode(s) Single-player
Cabinet Sit-down
Batman is a 2013 arcade Vehicular combat game developed by Specular Interactive and released by Raw Thrills. The game can be single-player or multi-player (if there is a linked cabinet).

Contents
1 Gameplay
2 Cabinet
3 Development
4 References
5 External links
Gameplay
In Batman, players can choose one of ten different Batmobile models from different versions of the character. The game consists of vehicular combat missions against The Joker, Bane, Mr. Freeze and their respective goons across Gotham City. One mission in each story sees the player fly The Bat from The Dark Knight Rises. The game features upgradable weapons such as Sky Drone, Batarangs and Battering Ram.

The game has a profile system for players to save their game progress and resume at a later time.

Cabinet
The arcade cabinet for Batman consists of over 500 color shifting LED's, a Batman-styled seat and steering wheel with force feedback, as well as a large glowing Bat emblem above the cabinet. Different on-screen action will trigger the various lighting effects and patterns of the cabinet.

Development
Development for Batman started in 2011 at Specular Interactive and they worked with Warner Brothers to build all of the Batmobiles and the Gotham City environment. According to Steve Ranck, the Specular Interactive team spent a lot of time building Gotham City, which in this game "is nearly 10 square miles of various suburbs, unique neighborhoods, elevation changes, tunnels, bridges, hills, dirt roads, jumps, secret paths, etc.

Also according to Steve Ranck, the game contains 20 characters "with nearly 1,000 lines of spoken dialog, 3 fully animated boss characters" and 36 missions over 6 stages.

Batman uses licensed visibility software, Umbra 3, to handle the occlusion culling in its game. The system has been developed by Umbra Software.[5]

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