Gremlins 2: The New Batch (video game)
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 NES North American box art of Gremlins 2: The New Batch | |
| Developer(s) | Sunsoft |
| Publisher(s) | Sunsoft |
| Composer(s) | Naoki Kodaka |
| Platform(s) | NES,[1] Game Boy[2] |
| Release date(s) | Famicom/NES Game Boy |
| Genre(s) | Puzzle; Shooter; Platformer |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Gremlins 2: The New Batch - also known as Gremlins 2: Shinshu Tanjou (グレムリン2 新種誕生 lit. "Gremlins 2: Birth of a New Species") in Japan - is a video game developed and published by Sunsoft in conjunction with the movie Gremlins 2: The New Batch.
Sunsoft released versions for the Nintendo Entertainment System[3] and Game Boy in 1990. 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. You can gain items such as a bow and arrow and matches after each level to aid you. Hazards include spiders, electrified wires, ground-mounted hazards, and a boss at the end of each level. The Game Boy game 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,[4] Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, MSX, Amstrad CPC[5] and the ZX Spectrum,[6] 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[7] in 1991, but it was poorly received. The game had Billy roaming the floors of Clamp Centre hunting down the Gremlins.
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