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Gremlins 2: The New Batch (video game)

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Gremlins 2: The New Batch
North American NES box art
DevelopersSunsoft
Riedel Software Productions
Motivetime
Topo Soft
PublishersSunsoft
Hi-Tech Expressions
Elite Systems
Topo Soft
DesignerYoshiaki Iwata
ProgrammersKeiichi Suzuki
Hideyuki Udagawa
ComposerNaoki Kodaka
PlatformsNES, Game Boy, Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, MSX, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum
ReleaseNES
  • NA: October 1990
  • JP: December 14, 1990
  • EU: February 21, 1991
Game Boy
  • JP: December 21, 1990[1]
  • NA: January 1991
  • EU: April 23, 1992
Amiga, C64, CPC, MS-DOS, MSX, Spectrum, ST
1990
GenrePlatform
ModeSingle-player

Gremlins 2: The New Batch is a platform game developed and published by Sunsoft for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Game Boy in 1990. The game was released in conjunction with the film from Warner Bros. and Amblin Entertainment.

Gameplay

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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

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The Spanish company Topo Soft and Motivetime developed a sidescrolling Gremlins 2: The New Batch video game for Amiga,[2] Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, MSX, Amstrad CPC[3] and the ZX Spectrum,[4] 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 version for multiple computers in 1990.[citation needed]

Reception

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References

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  1. ^ a b Famibo, Tofuya; Mizuno, Tenchou; Morishita, Mariko; Taco X (January 11, 1991). "新作ゲーム クロスレビュー" [New Games Cross Review]. Famicom Tsūshin (in Japanese). No. 119. ASCII Corporation. p. 22.
  2. ^ "Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Commodore)".
  3. ^ "Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Amstrad CPC)".
  4. ^ "Gremlins 2: The New Batch (ZX Spectrum)".
  5. ^ Harris, Steve; Semrad, Ed; Alessi, Martin; Sushi-X (January 1991). "Review Crew". Electronic Gaming Monthly. Vol. 4, no. 18. Sendai Publishing. p. 26. Retrieved October 9, 2025 – via Video Game History Foundation.
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