Aero the Acro-Bat

Aero the Acro-Bat
North American box art for the Sega Genesis
Developer(s)Iguana Entertainment
Publisher(s)
Sunsoft
  • Game Boy Advance
  • NS, PS, XB
    • WW: Ratalaika Games
Director(s)Nigel Cook
Producer(s)David Siller
Jeff Spangenberg
Jay Moon
Designer(s)David Siller
Nigel Cook
Team Aero
Programmer(s)Richard Cowie
Carl Wade
Jeff Spangenberg
Darrin Stubbington
David Brevik
David Crummack
Composer(s)Rick Fox (as Fox Productions)
Platform(s)Sega Genesis
Super NES
Game Boy Advance
Nintendo Switch
PlayStation 4
PlayStation 5
Xbox One
Xbox Series X/S
Release
October 1993
  • Genesis
    • NA: October 1993
    • EU: July 1994
    Super NES
    • NA: October 1993
    • UK: December 1993
    • PAL: November 1993
    Game Boy Advance
    • NA: June 21, 2002
    • JP: December 20, 2002
    • PAL: April 2002
    Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Series X/S
    • WW: August 2, 2024 (Super NES version)
    • WW: November 1, 2024 (Game Boy Advance version)
Genre(s)Platform
Mode(s)Single-player

Aero the Acro-Bat is a 1993 video game developed by Iguana Entertainment and published by Sunsoft. It was released for both the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Genesis. Aero the Acro-Bat, a red anthropomorphic bat, was created by David Siller. In 2002, Metro 3D released a version of the game for the Game Boy Advance, with a battery back-up (which the original versions lacked). The GBA version was titled Aero The Acro-Bat - Rascal Rival Revenge in Europe and Acrobat Kid in Japan. The Super NES version of the game was released on the Wii's Virtual Console in the PAL region and North America in July 2010. In 2024, the Super NES version was re-released in August for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S, alongside a new localization in Japanese made by Shinyuden as Aero: Acrobat Kid for the Nintendo Switch users in Japan, while the GBA version was re-released for the same platforms in November.

A sequel, Aero the Acro-Bat 2, was released in 1994, followed by the spin-off Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel.