Gremlins 2: The New Batch (video game)

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.

Gremlins 2: The New Batch
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
ReleaseNES
  • NA: October 1990
  • JP: December 14, 1990
  • EU: February 21, 1991
Game Boy
  • JP: December 21, 1990
  • NA: January 1991
  • EU: April 23, 1992
Computer
1990 DOS
Genre(s)Platform game
Mode(s)Single-player

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 movie to make a videogame. The game had featured 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

  1. ^ "Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Commodore)".
  2. ^ "Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Amstrad CPC)".
  3. ^ "Gremlins 2: The New Batch (ZX Spectrum)".
  4. ^ "Gremlins II (DOS)".