Batman 1989

Is it still worth playing?

Ocean Software's 1986 isometric action adventure for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, MSX and Amstrad PCW, designed by Jon Ritman and Bernie Drummond. Batman has to rescue Robin by collecting the seven parts of the Batcraft hovercraft, which are scattered around the Batcave. The Batcave is a three dimensional isometric world. Losing all your lives does not send you back to the beginning, because collecting an item called a Batstone sets an intermediate restart point, an early example of such a system. It is described as the first Batman game, and Ritman and Drummond developed its isometric approach further for Head Over Heels in 1987. A restart that keeps your progress still makes the search for the next part easy to resume after a failure.