Gremlins 2: The New Batch (video game)

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
Release	NES 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 NA: 1991
Genre(s)	Platform game
Mode(s)	Single-player

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.

Gameplay

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

The Spanish company Topo Soft and Motivetime 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 and Topo Soft in Spain and by Elite abroad, being the first time a Spanish videogame company got an exclusive license from a Hollywood film to make a videogame. The game features 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.