Batplane

Then he falls into the vat and becomes the Joker.

After that, it's a Batmobile chase, uh, through Gotham, a one-minute Smylex puzzle in the Batcave, a Batwing level cutting carnival balloons, and a cathedral climb to the roof.

Five games for the price of one is classic Ocean, Lee, and that Batmobile bit where you fire a cable round a lamppost to swing the corner still looks mental.

Uh, be honest though, how far did you actually get before the chemicals level chewed you up?

How did the 64 and the Amiga compare once the pictures started moving?

The sixty-four looked solid, and Zzap rated it highly, but the Amiga was the show-off.

Zzap called the Batmobile, uh, and Batwing sections out of this world, and you can see why, because the roads and the balloons have a depth the eight bits couldn't manage.

Amiga Format still only gave the whole game ninety, so they weren't completely hypnotized, but for pure spectacle, the Amiga wins.

the side of a mountain.

And two, parked right outside of it is the Batplane-

[laughs]

... just, like, in the grass, [laughs] like t- 10 feet away from this cave [laughs] wall.

All right.

Luckily, Batman has taken a mentograph of their brainwaves and he can track them anywhere in the universe now, which they do in the Batplane universe.

Uh, if he can get close enough, he can bring them down with the bat beam.

But Superman says, no need.

I have stuff to do.

And I know Adam pointed out that the corrosion caused by the acid was so bad it's taking out the Batplane, but it doesn't harm Batman.

But to be fair, okay, I was looking and read through it again.

It's galvanic corrosion, which is pretty much just metal.

um and i think i gotta say i mean i i love the the bat plane in this i love the thing of it flying up against the moon to make the bat symbol that's pretty cool you know like that's that's a lot of fun

that was cool that was cool that was the that scene was the scene that like like stretched incredulity most because because maybe you can explain this to me i didn't see A motivation for Batman to get in his Batplane to begin with.

Oh, it's because of the

balloons that were shooting the gas.

July 1939, DC number 29, Batman gets his utility belt, which looks like a fanny pack for a key grip that moonlights as a ninja.

The Bat-Orion comes around, get it, in December in DC-31, along with his first Bat transportation, the Batplane, not the Batmobile, because yeah, he looks fly in that whip, but fuck you, he's rich.

He's going plane first.

That's how the 1% lives, mortals.

Wow, Robin goes, Washington and Lincoln, stick-up artists.

And Batman promises to look into it, so they take their Batplane to Washington, D.C., where, within an hour, they're standing in front of the White House.

The Batplane can go really fast, though, so we really don't know quite how far they are from Washington, D.C. Now that they're there, they do their usual thing and just kind of run around looking for crimes.

We join them as they pass the Smithsonian, one of the greatest museums in the world.

And they also have the biggest collection of the Adventures of Superman stuff.

And I was just thinking, you know, maybe I'm not trying, I shouldn't, far be it for me to rewrite Danny O'Neill, but just to make it more urgent, maybe a phone call from Daphne where she's cut off.

would have been more of a reason for Bruce to hop on the Batplane and go there.

Again, I think the letter is more of the trope.

It's the gothic romance thing of getting the letter.