Thanks to Mark Hickman for sending over these photos of a section within the GamePRO Batman Forever: The Official Players' Guide book by Corey Sandler that show some of the behind the scenes of the stunt performers and costumes that were used in the film.
The Robin one is particularly interesting as this was featured in the Genesis and SNES versions but for the PC version they actually redid Batman and Robin using the movie suits.
While I was doing some research on the game (I've got to cover it at some point) I also discovered these neat maps of all the levels. Crazy how linear they look when they are lined up like this.
For while I kept seeing this CD on eBay for an AOL* CD (*America On-Line - for those of you who don't remember this old internet provider from the 90s) that claimed it also had a making of the Acclaim video game included.
I didn't end up buying it because 1) it's an old CD from the 90s and those things are difficult to get playing on modern computers, 2) the making of video was probably the one I already owned on video tape (see this video). So I gave it a miss.
Thankfully the Daily Batman Anthology X/Twitter channel did purchase a copy and has made a video showing all the content (see below).
Along with the making of video there is also some extra content:-
Sound clips - which sound re-recorded specially for this (and possibly the now defunct batmanforever.com website)
Posters - the standard characters ones
Sound clips - which sound like re-recorded versions of lines from the film (again, these were possibly ported from the batmanforever.com website)
An animated version of the Gotham skyline with moving Bat signal (this was definitely taken from the old website).
Two versions of the theatrical trailer - these are kind of interesting curios as they don't have the Danny Elfman music but instead have Elliot Goldenthal's score.
As with most computer stuff from the 90s, the quality is quite pixelated and heavily compressed but they have these cute surrounds to make it look like you're looking at one of the batcave monitors.
Thanks so much to Daily Batman Anthology for posting these so they can be preserved. If you want to check out the individual pieces those are also posted on the same channel.
Another gaming magazine from 1995 that took a look at the lacklustre Genesis (Mega Drive) and SNES video game and a little bit at the end about the movie too.
Hoping to do some kind of review for the Genesis (Mega Drive) and SNES Batman Forever game at some point. I literally completely the other day using an emulator and save states. Anyway here's an old issue of GamePro covering the somewhat frustrating game.
