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Batman Begins is the only one of the three Christopher Nolan directed Batman movies to receive a video game tie-in for all major console formats. It’s probably not a bad thing in the end, as Batman Begins can only be described as middling at best. The only standout part of the game is the Batmobile levels, which share technology with Burnout 3.

Another World is a landmark game from the early 90s, best remembered for its blend of cinematic action and puzzles. The US release was called Out of this World, and has some ghastly ass box art.

Alone in the Dark is widely heralded as the game that established the modern survival horror genre, and was Infogrames most popular original series. Unfortunately, the sequels were never really as good as the original, and the brand really suffered in the 2000s with the awful Uwe Boll film and the problematic 2008 game.

WWF Rage in the Cage was the third of Acclaim and Sculptured Software’s 16-bit WWF games. It’s very similar to Royal Rumble, which released around the same time, but trades the battle royal for a steel cage match, introductions by Howard Finkel and a bunch of postage stamp sized FMV sequences. It also boasts a few exclusive wrestlers – The Nasty Boyz (Brian Knobbs and Jerry Sags) and the Headshrinkers (Fatu and Samu).

There are two Flintstones games on the NES – the infamous Surprise at Dinosaur Peak, a late rental-exclusive release in the US which tends to fetch a ton of money, and the relatively common The Rescue of Dino and Hoppy, which gets relatively no attention despite being one of the better licensed platformers on the NES.

Air Combat is the first game in what came to be known as the Ace Combat series. It’s a bit rougher than its successors, and certainly more arcadey – given that it was an arcade game first!

Quantum Redshift was basically Microsoft’s attempt at taking on F-Zero and Wipeout. It’s pretty consistent in quality with the rest of Microsoft’s early non-Halo first party Xbox efforts.

Remember when Grand Slam Tennis came out for the Wii and EA Sports put out a big hooplah about how it was their first tennis game? Well they were full of shit, because they released IMG International Tour Tennis for the Mega Drive in 1994. You can’t blame them for forgetting because IMG is kinda bad.

Rampage is one of Midway’s best arcade games from the late 1980s. Its popularity resulted in it being a hot license when it came to producing home versions, which is why it’s on every console and computer format of the era. This particular ad is for the Atari 7800 version, which is not very good.

Three Dirty Dwarves is a game from Sega’s short lived SegaSoft division, a part of the company which developed original software for the PC and Saturn. It’s a pretty decent beat ’em up that tends to be overlooked.