VOTD: The Dark Knight NES Video Game

If The Dark Knight came out 20 years ago, and Warner Bros Licensed a video game adaptation of the movie for the Nintendo Entertainment System, it might look a little something like this video found by our brothers at /Gamer. El Macbee created this retro animation with original Music by Vic Sagerquist. But forget about the sweet looking cut scenes and 80’s style flash effects, I want to see what the game play looks like.

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  • I spent the bulk of this video going, "Will somebody, please, for the love of Nintendo, JUST PUSH START ALREADY?!!"

    Well done.
  • Wow that looks really cool. I wish we would have gotten some game play footage.
  • Yeah, but first they'd have to come up with a plot.
  • That's what I was thinking too.
  • Someone needs to make this.
  • Someone already made a movie about it. It was okay.
  • Slashfan
    I want to go to there
  • OMG kick-ass!

    I wanna play.
  • that brings back, nice, fond memories of playing in arcades in the early 1990s =)
  • Haha! That was great, brought me back to the good old days of the old 'Batman Returns' game on my super nintendo...
  • Ed P.
    That's freekin awesome! Definitely takes me back to the days of the NES grind. Could probably incorporate the gun and gyrobot for this one.
  • Totally. That movie was probably better than the Dark Knight, though. And that's why they made a game after it.
  • Oi Vey
    I'm not going into the debate in which 'movie is better' but I don't know where you got your conclusions from. No offense.

    EA was making the Dark Knight game, and they canceled it for quality control (or perhaps financially problems). Warner Bros. Interactive stepped in and now they're making 'Arkham Asylmn' instead.
  • Oi Vey
    haha. nevermind. I saw your blog, Robin. I see.
  • DKizzle
    Fresh!
  • Have you all forgotten what games on the NES actually LOOKED like? These graphics were too good for the NES... should be labeled SNES or Genesis!

    Still, good and fun stuff :)
  • HBKDinobot
    I was just going to point this out. No way NES graphics ever looked this good.
  • PRESS START!!!!!!!!!!
  • matt b
    Love it, Where do i get it lol :)
  • WOW. The graphics look JUST like the special effects in TDK.
  • Fir3Wolf
    Really brought back some memories for sure, now only if I can get a copy and dust off my NES.
  • Palmer
    If this ever was a real product...I wouldn't get it. Now if said fictional product was for the Sega Genesis than most likely I would or the SNES. Whatever. It's still awesome.
  • Ah the good ol 8-bit days.
  • DO WANT
  • solid
    Commodore 64's the real stuff, kiddies
  • I come from the Gameboy days. :)
  • That was amazing and very well made. Makes me really want to play the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers : The Movie Game right about now. Oh, nostalgia.
  • LOAD "*", 8,1
  • tobor68
    RUN
  • Ender
    Press Play On Tape
  • skippy
    I would use Atari 2600 and Sega Genesis controllers with my Commodore 64. they used the same type of connection!
  • just great! i wanna see the gameplay
  • Makes me wanna get out my nintendo and play Kung Fu..
  • Ahh now i need to go get the dust off my NES...its lying around in the shed somehwere....
  • THE FOOL ON THE HILL
    Awesome! I would totally buy it.
  • yeah if it was made right now id tottaly buy it
  • Don Vito
    simplemente excelente! Felicitaciones desde Argentina.
  • HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH OMG that was great. oh the memories of my childhood hahahahaha.
  • haha damn Nostalgia hit me hard after watching this.
  • Perfectly done! They even captured the nostalgia that it would have brought today. Fantastic VOTD.
  • Evil
    Looks like it was done with an old Castlevania engine. Still pretty cool though.
  • I saw this on /Gamer a few days back, and it really does capture the beauty of old-school SNES games, brings back some good old nostalgic memories.
  • matt
    funny video! but the 8 bit graphics couldn't produce pictures that good. The presentation of the video was awesome, a total throw back!
  • yah this is hilarious i thought it was too good looking but who is complaining haha
  • my inner-nerd wants to point out that this game wouldn't have played on the NES, proper colour photos on the NES were reproduced much more poorly and the sound is a little too advanced (check out the Wayne World game for an accurate representation of photo reproduction on the NES.) This is obviously an SNES port!
  • i love the music and the trademark graphics. it does bring memories back. i still have my red and white nintendo from way back.

    sidenote: i totally appreciate the use of the hong kong scene in the beginning. very good choice.
  • People are saying this "look like 16-bit" thing only due to YouTube's video compression. Take a look at those hi-quality screenshots to see that the images are just multi-layered 3-color sprites like the ones from many NES games (Gremlins2, Batman Return of The Joker, etc etc):

    <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kh2KZjdgKWc/SXHwPNb_D2I/AAAAAAAAABg/oTS9_8D_QfM/s1600-h/The+Dark+Knight+8-bit+www.elmacbee.blogspot.com+01.jpg"target="_blank">http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kh2KZjdgKWc/SXHwPNb_D2I..." target="_blank">www.elmacbee.blogspot.com+01.jpg
    <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kh2KZjdgKWc/SXHwPdxI6nI/AAAAAAAAABo/XEgIJIRl2wg/s1600-h/The+Dark+Knight+8-bit+www.elmacbee.blogspot.com+02.jpg"target="_blank">http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kh2KZjdgKWc/SXHwPdxI6nI..." target="_blank">www.elmacbee.blogspot.com+02.jpg
    <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kh2KZjdgKWc/SXHwPQU4ZlI/AAAAAAAAABw/alMqQMJcONc/s1600-h/The+Dark+Knight+8-bit+www.elmacbee.blogspot.com+03.jpg"target="_blank">http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kh2KZjdgKWc/SXHwPQU4ZlI..." target="_blank">www.elmacbee.blogspot.com+03.jpg
    <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kh2KZjdgKWc/SXHxpyRS2OI/AAAAAAAAAB4/4WkPM5O6yO8/s1600-h/The+Dark+Knight+8-bit+www.elmacbee.blogspot.com+04.jpg"target="_blank">http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kh2KZjdgKWc/SXHxpyRS2OI...
  • It's all part of the plan...

    gave me chills. hahah
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