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1994 video game

The Adventures of Batman & Robin
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Packaging for the Super NES version.
Developer(south)
  • Konami (SNES)
  • Clockwork Tortoise (Sega CD, Genesis)
  • Novotrade (Game Gear)
Publisher(due south)
  • Konami (SNES)
  • Sega (Sega Versions)
Director(s) Shiro Murata, Katsuyoshi Endō, Shigeki Morihira, Yoichi Yoshimoto (SNES)
László Mérő (Game Gear)
Producer(southward) James Maxwell, Alan Fernandez (MD/GEN, Sega CD)
John Pedigo, Bert Schroeder (Game Gear)
Designer(s) John O'Brien, James Maxwell, Stephen Thomson (MD/GEN)
JG Laidley (Game Gear)
Developer(s) Shiro Murata, Katsuyoshi Endō, Shigeki Morihira, Makoto Sato (SNES)
John O'Brien (Doc/GEN)
Andrew Green, John O'Brien (Sega CD)
Sándor Michaletzky, Balázs Pápai, Gyöngyi Mezei (Game Gear)
Artist(s) Yoichi Yoshimoto, Tetsurou Eguchi, Satoshi Yoshioka, Sachiko Hanasaki, Terue Hayashi, Hirotaka Sugiyama (SNES)
Stephen Thomson, Christopher George, Robert Hemphill, Noel Hines (MD/GEN)
Robert Hemphill, Noel Hines, Christopher George (Sega CD)
Eszter Páris, Csaba Horváth, Gábor Matheika, Bori Páris, Edit Matis (Game Gear)
Writer(s) Paul Dini (Sega CD)
Composer(due south)
  • Jun Funahashi, Masanari Iwata, Masahiko Kimura, Kayo Fujitani, Harumi Ueko, Masahiro Ikariko, Kazuhiko Uehara (SNES)
  • Shush Trieschmann (Sega CD)
  • Jesper Kyd (Genesis)
  • László Fazekas, Gábor Foltán, Csaba Gigor, Károly Kovács (Game Gear)
Platform(s) SNES, Sega CD, Sega Genesis, Game Gear
Release
  • Super Nintendo Amusement Arrangement
    • NA: 1994
  • Sega CD/Mega-CD
    • NA: 1995
    • BR: October 1995
    • Eu: December 1995
  • Sega Genesis/Mega Drive
    • NA: August ii, 1995
  • Sega Game Gear
    • NA: June 1995
    • BR: Oct 1995
    • Eu: 1995
Genre(south)
  • Activeness, platformer (SNES, Game Gear)
  • Vehicular combat (Sega CD)
  • Run and gun (Genesis)
Mode(south) Single-role player, multiplayer

The Adventures of Batman & Robin is a series of video game adaptations released between 1994 and 1995 featuring the DC Comics characters Batman and Robin based on Batman: The Animated Series (which had been retitled The Adventures of Batman and Robin for its second season). The games were released for numerous platforms, with the Genesis, Game Gear, and Sega CD versions published by Sega while the Super NES version was published by Konami (who also produced an earlier Game Boy video game based on the testify).

Super NES version [edit]

The Super NES version is developed and published by Konami. Each level consists of an episode that is loosely based on those from the animated series, taking Batman to an amusement park and other places where supercriminals do their work. Despite the title, Batman is the only playable character, equally the game was adult before the show's title change, but Robin still appears in the game every bit a non-playable marry during certain conversation sequences.

The soundtrack was written past Konami Kukeiha Society members Kazuhiko Uehara, Harumi Ueko, Jun Funahashi, Masanari Iwata, Masahiko Kimura, Kayo Fujitani, and Masahiro Ikariko.

The Joker is the first villain in the SNES version of The Adventures of Batman & Robin.

Gameplay [edit]

For the most part, it is an action-adventure platformer in which the player controls Batman, and follows him to the finish of each phase, where a villain is set to appear.

Some of the more common features in the game is the possibility to equip with dissimilar gadgets, such every bit bombs and x-ray lenses. The gadgets are in some cases essential to complete some stages. The player can return to the Batcave in society to re-equip the gadgets and restart a phase with all the lives accumulated up to that point (in case the player had lost lives).

The game features passwords, which leaves the player in the last played stage. The passwords also take count of the number of lives remaining and the continues used. Passwords cannot be used in hard difficulty, which means that the game must exist completed from the beginning and straight forward. Completion of the difficult mode rewards the thespian with a special ending.

Genesis version [edit]

The Genesis version, developed by Clockwork Tortoise and published past Sega, is a run 'n' gun where both Batman and Robin must end Mr. Freeze, who plans to freeze Gotham Urban center. In gild to keep the duo busy, he also frees the Joker, Two-Confront and the Mad Hatter, each one with their own agenda. The Joker celebrates his birthday wreaking havoc in Gotham and stealing diamonds, 2-Face up tries to take over the city from above, and Mad Hatter is creating a robot ground forces in his surreal lair.

The game can be played by two players simultaneously; one role player with Batman, and the other with Robin. Both characters are identical in terms of playability, and both use batarangs, bolas, or shuriken in long-range attacks, while using melee attacks at short range. There are iv levels consisting of several stages, mostly of a direct left-to-right traverse to the terminate where the boss awaits. In some levels the game switches to a side-scrolling shooter, in which the players must control the Batwings.

The Genesis version of the game was released on August 2, 1995. The game features a dark electronica-styled soundtrack by Jesper Kyd.

Sega CD version [edit]

The Sega CD version, also developed past Clockwork Tortoise and published by Sega, consists of chase screens with the Batmobile and Batplane. Between levels, the story advances through animated cutscenes that were created specifically for the game. The animated cutscenes were produced by Warner Bros. Blitheness (with blitheness by Tokyo Film Shinsha, which besides animated some of the episodes of the original cartoon). Kevin Conroy (Batman), Loren Lester (Robin), Robert Hastings (Commissioner James Gordon), Robert Costanzo (Harvey Bullock), Diane Pershing (Poison Ivy), John Glover (the Riddler), Arleen Sorkin (Harley Quinn), Mark Hamill (the Joker), John Vernon (Rupert Thorne) and Ron Perlman (Clayface) all reprised their roles from the animated series. The animated segments (about seventeen minutes in total) in the video game for the Sega CD are sometimes referred to every bit "The Lost Episode" of the series.

Game Gear version [edit]

The Game Gear version was developed past Novotrade and published past Sega. The Joker has assembled a gang of old Batman foes and kidnapped Robin, and the Batman has to go save him. There are 4 dissimilar levels, each with 2 or three stages, where Batman runs around beating upwardly thugs and jumping betwixt platforms before taking on a dominate. Each phase ends with a boss encounter - some generic machine or thug in the early on stages, and a classic Batman villain at the final stage of the level. The four levels takes Batman through a theater where he takes on the Mad Hatter, a frozen office building where he takes on Mr. Freeze, a graveyard where he takes on the Scarecrow, and finally an amusement park where he takes on Harley and the Joker.

Batman typically fights with projectile attacks - he has an unlimited supply of batarangs, but can choice upwards other weapons with limited ammunition in small particular boxes along the mode. They're all more powerful than the batarangs. One time Batman gets close to an enemy, he will switch to melee attacks, which bargain more harm than the projectiles. Batman can brand several types of jumps, both upwards and sideways. Pressing the jump button twice does a double jump. Batman starts out with 9 extra lives, and instantly respawns where he died afterwards losing one, with a full wellness bar, all ammunition intact, and all inflicted harm and defeated enemies accounted for. There are besides multiple extra lives and life bar refill items spread around on the stages. The game has infinite continues and a password arrangement, allowing the thespian to start over from any previously reached phase. The but punishment for having to continue is that the player'southward score is reset to zippo, encouraging full playthroughs without continuing.

Reception [edit]

Reviewing the Super NES version, GamePro 'due south Bacon praised the game'southward often brain-teasing challenges, stiff graphics and sound effects, and "eerie atmosphere". Though he criticized the fact that Robin appears simply in cutscenes, the "vapid" dialogue, and the poor graphics and controls of the Batmobile stages, he ended "The tame fighting and intricate challenges in The Adventures of Batman and Robin should please thoughtful action/adventure fans. Just its beautiful graphics and supernatural sounds volition impress anyone."[12] Nintendo Power also criticised the game for not giving Robin a more agile role (although the game was actually under development earlier the series was retitled between seasons[35] [36]). Adjacent Generation reviewed the SNES version of the game, rating information technology iii stars out of v, and stated that "Unfortunately, the game'due south diverse play is flawed by a boring-moving character that tin arrive hard to pull off quick jumps or attacks. In addition, the wildly varying difficulty levels often leave the game way too easy or frustratingly hard."[26]

A reviewer for Next Generation gave the Genesis version 1 out of five stars, citing its generic side-scrolling platform gameplay and failure to recreate the await of the TV prove.[24] Scary Larry of GamePro called the Genesis version "a standard side-scrolling platform game with great backgrounds from the show but mediocre activeness", citing dull and overly difficult level design, unresponsive controls, poor character visuals, and repetitive music.[9] The four reviewers of Electronic Gaming Monthly gave it a 6.875 out of ten, remarking that the graphics and sounds are excellent, only the action is simplistic, repetitive, and overly difficult due to the big numbers of enemies attacking all at once.[4]

While noting that it has a more various option of weapons than the Genesis version, Scary Larry said that the Game Gear version is likewise "predictable side-scrolling action." He besides criticized the music equally "annoying and repetitive."[11] The iv reviewers of Electronic Gaming Monthly gave it a 6.375 out of 10. They said information technology has good cartoon-style graphics and level design, but that the screen blurs when moving and enemies ofttimes burn bullets from off-screen which the player has no time to react to, both of which make the game unfairly difficult. Al Manuel went then far as to say that it was "probably the hardest game I have e'er played."[6]

The 4 reviewers of Electronic Gaming Monthly commented that while the FMV cutscenes in the Sega CD version are entertaining, the gameplay is repetitive and frustrating due to trees and other objects blocking the player's view of the road. 1 of them summarized the game as "a CD full of cartoon episodes with a and then-so driving game included to pause upwardly the animated sequences."[v] Tommy Glide of GamePro especially criticized the lack of variety in the gameplay, commenting that "This barely boilerplate driving game should be called The Adventures of the Batmobile".[x] A reviewer for Next Generation likewise regarded the rudimentary and repetitive gameplay to exist the game'south main flaw. Calling it "a journeying into sheer tedium, slow still frustrating at the aforementioned fourth dimension", he scored it two out of five stars.[25] IGN ranked the game #94 on its "Top 100 SNES Games of All Time".[37] In 2018, Complex listed the game 45th in their "The All-time Super Nintendo Games of All Time." They praised the game that information technology did the cartoon justice and called the game superb.[38]

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External links [edit]

  • Adventures of Batman & Robin (SEGA CD) at MobyGames
  • Adventures of Batman & Robin (Genesis) at MobyGames
  • Adventures of Batman & Robin (SNES) at MobyGames

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