Batman The Movie 1989 game. Hoax?

[Coolhand]

To me, the level gfx look identical to the released Batman, only the colours are washed out through it being a scan of a photograph in a magazine. The bricks, pipes, floor, ladders and characters are all the same bitmaps as the released version no?

The only difference to me is the Status Bar?

possibly its simply an earlier version with a different status bar.

[Coolhand]

Future Publishing are alive and well.
You could drop them an e-mail and ask them for permission?

http://www.futureplc.com

probably costing the company more wasting the employees time dealing with the request.

Future, iirc, of course not above stealing others stuff themselves, like supposedly republishing articles they didn't have permission for with a fake name.