Batman (taglined “A Legend Has Returned,” usually called Batman: The Movie) on the Commodore 64 is an action game based on Tim Burton’s 1989 film, split into five different stages that each play like a separate mini-game. You start with a side-scrolling platform level in the Axis Chemical Plant, using batarangs and a grapple gun to fight henchmen, swing across gaps, and knock Jack Napier into the vat that creates the Joker. Later stages put you behind the wheel of the Batmobile racing through Gotham’s streets, then into a Batcave “Smilex” puzzle where you deduce which consumer products are poisoned, followed by a Batwing shoot-’em-up slicing the parade balloons’ cables, and finally a tough climb up Gotham Cathedral for a last showdown with the Joker. All the while a timer and a health gauge (Batman’s face slowly morphing into the Joker’s) keep the pressure on, making it a tightly paced, very film-faithful C64 tie-in.