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system that allows players to restart from an intermediate point in the game on the loss of all lives rather than returning all the way to the start (in this case the point at which Batman collects a "Batstone").
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gave it five stars and rated it as a "classic". The game reached the number one position in the Amstrad, ZX Spectrum and All-Format charts in the same week in May 1986.
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game developed. The game received favourable reviews. An unrelated Batman game was released two years later, titled
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was received well by the computer game press at the time.
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Index


Publisher(s)
Ocean Software
Designer(s)
Jon Ritman
Platform(s)
ZX Spectrum
Amstrad CPC
MSX
Amstrad PCW
Genre(s)
Action-adventure
Single-player
isometric
action-adventure game
Ocean Software
Amstrad PCW
Amstrad CPC
ZX Spectrum
MSX
Batman
Batman: The Caped Crusader

Robin
hovercraft
Batcave
Head Over Heels
save game
Crash
Computer and Video Games

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