Spirou

For the unreleased Sega Game Gear version, see Spirou (Game Gear).

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Spirou
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Infogrames
Developer: Infogrames
Distributor: Ecofilmes (PT), Datart International (CZ)
Licensor: Éditions Dupuis S.A., TF1, CinéGroupe
Sound driver: GEMS
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1
Official in-game languages: Français English Deutsch Español
Release Date RRP Code EU 1995-09 T-151026-50 NL 1995 T-151026-55 PT 199x UK 1995-09 T-151026-50 CZ 199x
Non-Sega versions Game Boy IBM PC Super Game Boy Super NES Windows PC

Spirou is a 1995 action game for the Sega Mega Drive and Super NES by Infogrames based on the Spirou & Fantasio comic book series. It was only released in Europe.

Story

Spirou, a journalist who wears a bell boy's uniform, and his friend Fantasio visit New York for an international conference of scientific research. When the pair arrives at the conference, Count Champignac, their long-time friend and one of the inventors at the conference, has disappeared. It turns out that Cyanida, a maverick "gynoid" robot, has kidnapped the count. With Count Champignac's inventions, Cyanida's intention is to make robots rule the earth and make all humans into slaves. While Spirou tries to save Champignac and stop Cyanida, Fantasio gathers intel in order to help Spirou.

Gameplay

The game is a platformer played as Spirou, who is accompanied by his pet squirrel Spip. The goal of each level is to make it to the exit at the end. Spip occasionally points Spirou in the right direction or indicates important objects. Spirou walks with or and runs by holding . He can push objects by walking into them or pick up some items with . He ducks with while standing or slides with when running. He jumps with and leaps extra high with +. He enters doorways with and climbs ladders with and . He grabs the corners of ledges and high wires automatically (and jumps off with or pulls himself up to a platform with ).

After the third level, Spirou meets with Fantasio, who gives him a Micropulser, a gun resembling a hairdryer that shoots enemies to microscopic size. Spirou shoots the Micropulser with . The Micropulser can only be used when standing, not when ducking or jumping, but it can be aimed in diagonal directions with the D-Pad. He can shoot while on a ladder; he normally shoots away from the ladder, but he can shoot in a specific direction with + or +.

Spirou has a health bar, shown as bars behind his portrait in the top-left of the screen, which allows him to take six hits before he loses a life. If the player has extra lives left when losing a life, the level restarts completely; there are no checkpoints. If there are no extra lives left, the game is over.

The game has three difficulty levels (Easy, Medium, and Hard). It has a password system, but there is only one valid password (for halfway through the game).

Items

Platforming

	Hat
	Collect 50 for an extra life.
	Heart
	Restores one health point to Spirou.
	1 Up
	Gives the player an extra life.

Special

These are special items that appear in some levels.

	Snuffletrump
	An unusual creature sent by Count Champignac and Fantasio to deliver items to Spirou in the Mountain and Jungle levels.
	Zipline Pulley
	Allows Spirou to use a zipline. Dropped by flying robots after they are destroyed. Found in the Roofs level.
	Sandotron
	Turns a stone door into sand. Found in the Mountain level.
	Eye
	Opens a door when two eyes are placed in a stone face. Found in the Catacombs level.
	Bomb
	Blows up a platform or a door. Found in the Cave level.
	Phials of Zzi
	Causes a plant to grow very quickly. Found in the Jungle level.

Flying

These items are found in the Chase level.

	Flying Fish Robot
	Shoot down to release an item.
	Fuel
	Refuels Spirou's flying machine.

Levels

	The Street
	Spirou sets off in pursuit of Cyanida after she kidnaps Count Champignac.
	Toyshop 1
	Spirou catches up to Cyanida, but she shoots him with one of Count Champignac's inventions and shrinks him to ten centimeters tall. Spirou can hang on to the balloons released by some of the toys and ride on the toy airplanes.
	Toyshop 2
	The Subway
	Fantasio restores Spirou to normal size with a antidote he found in the Count's bedroom. Fantasio also gives Spirou a Micropulser gun that he found and tells him that Cyanida is building an army of robots in an abandoned factory in the north of the city.
	The Factory
	The Roofs
	Spirou must acquire pulley hooks from the flying robots to use the ziplines. At the end of the level, he faces Cyanida in a robotic contraption.
	The Chase
	Password:
	Spirou defeats Cyanida and recovers Count Champignac, but she escapes. Spirou gives chase in one of the Count's inventions. This level plays like a side-scrolling shoot-'em-up. Spirou moves in any direction using the D-Pad and shoots with , , or . The flying machine uses fuel as it flies, and it crashes if it runs out of fuel, but Spirou can collect fuel pick-ups. It also crashes if it collides with terrain (regardless of how much health Spirou has remaining).
	The Mountain
	Spirou crash-lands in the mountains. He does not have the Micropulser for this level. He must acquire the Sandotron from a Snuffletrump, a fantastic creature sent by Fantasio to aid him. The Sandotron, which resembles an umbrella, allows Spirou to transform stone into sand. He uses the Sandotron with .
	The Catacombs
	Spirou must place the eyes in the stone faces to open doors. He grabs an eye with and puts it in place with .
	The Cave
	Spirou swims using the D-Pad and . He has a limited amount of air underwater and drowns if he runs out. Some robots drop bombs that are used to collapse a platform and blow open a door. Spirou can also bait submarines into blowing up a door with their missiles.
	The Swamp
	The Jungle
	With Spirou stuck in the jungle, the Count sends another Snuffletrump to deliver phials of Zzi, a superstrength fertilizer. Spirou must place the phial by a plant (indicated by Spip) with and shoot it with the Micropulser to make the plant grow.
	The Secret Base
	After destroying the energy source in the base, Spirou has 60 seconds to leave.
	The Final Fight
	Spirou fights Cyanida.

Production credits

• Programmed by: Frédéric Bibet, Lionel Laissus, Frederic O'Rourke
• Tools programmers: Yannic Turbé, Vincent Pourieux
• Graphics: Pascal Casolari, Frédéric Jaquemoud, David Hamblin, Laurence Billon, Céline Fillon, Delphine Personnaz, Etranges Libellules
• Sound & Music: Frédéric Mentzen, Thierry Caron
• Design: Rodolphe Furykiewicz
• Executive Producer: Edith Protière
• Production: Bruno Bonnel
• Thanks to : Patrick Pinchard, Stéphane Donnet et les Editions Dupuis, Stéphane Baudet, Nicolas Pothier, Nadège de Bergevin, Olivier Robin, Sylvain Branchu and all the testing department.

Source:

EU manual

Magazine articles

Main article: Spirou/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

File:Power Pegasus TV advert PL 1996.mp4

Power Pegasus + Spirou as a prize in the quiz show PL

File:Power Pegasus TV advert PL 1996.mp4

Physical scans

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Publication Version Score 1700 igr dlya Sega (RU) 40 Consoles + (FR) PAL 85 Hobby Consolas (ES) 77 Joypad (FR) PAL 74 Mega Force (FR) PAL 87 Mega Fun (DE) PAL 65 Player One (FR) PAL 85 Sega Magazin (DE) 80 Sega Magazine (UK) PAL 56 Sega Pro (UK) PAL 69 Sega Megazone (AU) 59 Super Juegos (ES) 80 Todo Sega (ES) 85 Top Consoles (FR) PAL 70 Top Secret (PL) 100 Tricks 16 bit (RU) 83 Video Games (DE) PAL 69

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Spirou

Mega Drive, EU
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Mega Drive, EU (Re-Issue)
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Mega Drive, NL
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Mega Drive, PT
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Mega Drive, CZ (Datart)
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Technical information

Main article: Spirou/Technical information.

References

Spirou games for Sega systems
	Spirou (1995)
	Spirou (unreleased)
	Spirou (unreleased)