Gremlins 2: The New Batch (video game)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch | |
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North American NES box art | |
Developer(s) | Sunsoft Riedel Software Productions Motivetime Topo Soft |
Publisher(s) | Sunsoft Hi-Tech Expressions Elite Systems Topo Soft |
Designer(s) | Yoshiaki Iwata |
Programmer(s) | Keiichi Suzuki Hideyuki Udagawa |
Composer(s) | Naoki Kodaka |
Platform(s) | NES, Game Boy, Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, MSX, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum |
Release | NES Game Boy Computer 1990 DOS
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Genre(s) | Platform game |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Gremlins 2: The New Batch is a platform video game developed and published by Sunsoft for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Game Boy video game systems in 1990. The game was released in conjunction with the film from Warner Bros. and Amblin Entertainment.
Gameplay
[edit]In the NES game, the player controls Gizmo through various levels in the building, armed with weapons ranging from the genetically modified super tomato in the laboratory to the new matchstick-firing bow in the later sections. The goal of the game is to reach the Gremlin Control Center to wipe out all Gremlins inside. The Game Boy version was a side-scroller also featuring Gizmo.
Other versions
[edit]The Spanish company Topo Soft and Motivetime developed a sidescrolling Gremlins 2: The New Batch video game for Amiga,[1] Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, MSX, Amstrad CPC[2] and the ZX Spectrum,[3] distributed by Erbe Software and Topo Soft in Spain and by Elite abroad, being the first time a Spanish videogame company got an exclusive license from a Hollywood film to make a videogame. The game features Billy Peltzer using a wide variety of weapons (flashlights, tomatoes, Frisbees and the like) to dispatch of Gremlin adversaries. The goal in each of the five levels is to locate a specific item required to see the game's good ending.
Hi Tech Expressions also released a DOS game[4] in 1991, but it was poorly received.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- 1990 video games
- Commodore 64 games
- Elite Systems games
- Game Boy games
- Gremlins (franchise)
- Hi Tech Expressions games
- MotiveTime games
- Nintendo Entertainment System games
- Platformers
- Single-player video games
- Sunsoft games
- Topo Soft games
- Video game sequels
- Video games based on films
- Video games developed in Japan
- Video games scored by Naoki Kodaka
- Riedel Software Productions games
- Platform game stubs