{"id":1688,"date":"2014-11-11T08:48:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T08:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2014-11-11T17:37:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T17:37:27","slug":"batman-1989-video-game-action-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/batman-1989-video-game-action-figure\/","title":{"rendered":"Gotham Knows Batman But Do They Know His Purple Side?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/neca-batman-nes-figure.jpg\" rel=\"prettyphoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/neca-batman-nes-figure.jpg\" alt=\"Batman\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/neca-batman-nes-figure.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/neca-batman-nes-figure-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/neca-batman-nes-figure-150x90.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Bat is back in purple and blue! This beautifully detailed <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/q.entertainmentearth.com\/?l=qs5f6\" target=\"_blank\">1989 Batman Video Game 7-Inch Action Figure<\/a><\/strong> is finally here, just in time for the holidays!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?theme=Batman&#038;id=EN-407186506\" target=\"_blank\">Batman<\/a> stands 7-inches tall, with over 25 points of articulation for great poses. His bright purple color palette speaks to the 8-bit game that inspired him, while his blue skin emphasizes the colorful design. This action figures includes a removable fabric cape, Batarang, and Spear Gun accessories. The paint deco takes a stylized approach to reproduce the game&#8217;s original cel-shaded look! This limited edition figure comes in special vintage-style window box packaging with opening flap to re-create the look and feel of the classic 1989 video game packaging.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 15px 15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Batman_NES_gameplay.png\" alt=\"Batman_(NES)_gameplay\" width=\"256\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9241\" \/>The NES 1989 Batman is the 6th in NECA&#8217;s highly successful line of classic 8-bit video game tributes. This action figure takes after the definitive <b>Batman: The Movie<\/b> and the Dark Knight&#8217;s iconic portrayal by Michael Keaton. Following that film classic was a side-scrolling game for the insanely popular 8-bit home console. As a new style of game, these <em>Batman<\/em> versions were extremely well received by the gaming community.<\/p>\n<p>Much like the caped crusader himself, the 1989 <em>Batman<\/em> game skyrocketed in popularity. It was number one in the Spectrum sales chart during February 1990 and won the Game of the Year 1989 award in Crash magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss out on this epic Batman action figure, <a href=\"http:\/\/q.entertainmentearth.com\/?l=qs5f6\" target=\"_blank\">currently in stock at Entertainment Earth<\/a>!<\/p>\n<h4>&raquo; <a href=\"http:\/\/q.entertainmentearth.com\/?l=qs5f6\" target=\"_blank\">Order Batman 1989 Video Game 7-Inch Action Figure<\/a><\/h4>\n[justified_image_grid preset=1 ids=&#8221;1698,1699,1700&#8243; thumbs_spacing=5 row_height=200 height_deviation=30 caption=off overlay=hovered overlay_color=#111111 overlay_opacity=0.4 outer_border_width=2 outer_border_color=#cccccc lightbox=prettyphoto margin=&#8221;10px 0&#8243; mobile_caption=off mobile_overlay=off]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bat is back in purple and blue! This beautifully detailed 1989 Batman Video Game 7-Inch Action Figure is finally here, just in time for the holidays! Batman stands 7-inches tall, with over 25 points of articulation for great poses. His bright purple color palette speaks to the 8-bit game that inspired him, while his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":1961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[115,158,1],"tags":[271,118,270,272,196,34],"yst_prominent_words":[7828,13524,13527,13523,13526,13522,9376,5954,6107,6230,5979,13525,13521,13519,13528,6485,7789,13520,13518,13517],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}