It was released on 11 September 1989[2] for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum with Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, MS-DOS and MSX versions following soon after.

The levels have varying gameplay: Commodore UK reached an agreement with Ocean Software to bundle the game with Amiga 500 computers.

[4] Between October 1989 and September 1990, A500 machines were sold in the United Kingdom in Batman-themed boxes containing the game and The NewZealand Story, as well as F/A-18 Interceptor and Deluxe Paint II, both contributed by Electronic Arts.

[5] Batman received a host of awards, including Crash Smash, YS Megagame, SU Classic and C+VG Hit.

[9] Computer Gaming World recommended the Amiga version to action fans, but reported that the Commodore 64 version was too buggy,[10] but was well received by Commodore Format magazine and was seen as one of the best movie tie-in games released for the platform.