Adding to its wide range of licensed pinball games, US manufacturer Stern Pinball has developed a game based on and to coincide with the release of the latest Batman film - The Dark Knight.

Available through a partnership with Warner Bros Consumer Products, on behalf of DC Comics, Batman pinball offers exciting features including: the Joker’s Reveal Mechanism, a mechanical cylinder that rotates to reveal and fight a taunting Joker; Scarecrow’s Crane, a mechanical crane featuring a spring-attach pinball, which the player can strike with the pinball; the Batmobile Bridge, a teeter totter mechanism that races a pinball against a Hot Wheels Batmobile; an upper mini-playfield; and lots of multi-ball action.

Company owner Gary Stern said: "Batman was a great brand for us when we made games in the 90s and this new Batman game could be the best game we have ever built."

The Batman pinball machine is now available for shipping.