Designer(s) Yoshiaki Iwata Initial release date October 1990 Publisher SunSoft, Inc. | Developer SunSoft, Inc. | |
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Programmer(s) Keiichi SuzukiHideyuki Udagawa Release date(s) NESNA: October 1990JP: December 14, 1990EU: February 21, 1991Game BoyJP: December 21, 1990NA: January 1991EU: April 23, 1992 Similar SunSoft - Inc games, Platform games | ||
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 Gremlins 2: The New Batch film from Amblin Entertainment.
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 Centre to wipe out all Gremlins inside. The Game Boy version was a side-scroller also featuring Gizmo.
Other versions
The Spanish company Topo Soft developed a sidescrolling Gremlins 2: The New Batch video game for Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, MSX, Amstrad CPC and the ZX Spectrum, distributed by Erbe Software 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 in 1991, but it was poorly received.
