Let's Create a Canon for 1986

I nominate BATMAN for ZX SPECTRUM and it better be accepted because I might die if one of my Bat-submissions is rejected once again.

And yes I have played it recently. The game has been binned to my Windows taskbar for over 3 years now. This game is important to me and should be important to humanity as well because it is beautiful.


Cropped map of the game’s Batcave. Mapping credit goes to “Sherwin”. Thank you for your service, Sherwin.


This is what one of the rooms looks like, close up, on screen. Lots of spikes and eyeballs and platforms and the most chibis, lovable of all Batmen. He is very weak, he dies if he so much as stubs his toe, he moves very slowly and his jump height is maybe 1/10th of Mario’s He is the ideal video game protagonist. Also I think he is an alcoholic. The goal of the game is to find the 7 missing pieces of the Batmobile. Batman woke up in the Batcave, and all the pieces were missing. There’s no note, no archvillain claiming responsibility for this crime. Shit’s just missing and this weak ass dude with more surveillance tech than God doesn’t know what happened. Methinks Brucie has a problem.

Drunks make great game protagonists. Kinda odd there aren’t more of them.

I once streamed the fan-made remake of this game for over 24 hours straight. I set the speedrun world record for it. It was not acknowledged by the fatcats on speedrun.com. They fear power such as mine. I do not have footage of me playing the original. I am not even sure this is a video of the remake because youtube doesn’t work for me anymore. It’s just named “I’m Batman” and it’s in my bookmarks. I really hope it’s not something lewd. I’ll record a video of the original if I have to but I trust you will accept that I am an expert and that this game is canon. I have to go to the doctor now otherwise I would write more words. Thank you for your time.

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