The Adventures of Batman & Robin (Mega Drive)

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The Adventures of Batman & Robin
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Sega
Developer: Clockwork Tortoise
Licensor: DC Comics
Sound driver: Zyrinx/Jesper Kyd sound driver
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1-2
Release Date RRP Code US 1995-06 $59.9959.99 1535 EU 1995-06 1535-50 DE 1995 DM 139.00139.00 1535-50 UK 1995-06 £44.9944.99 1535-50 AU 1995 FBAT15SMC BR 1995 046390 AS 199x

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The Adventures of Batman & Robin for the Sega Mega Drive is a beat-'em-up game inspired by the cartoon series of the same name. Despite having an identical name it is completely different to the Sega Game Gear and Sega Mega-CD versions.

Gameplay

The Adventures of Batman & Robin is a 2D beat-'em-up game. Attacks are determined by proximity rather than button input, similar to the Shinobi series. Attacking close to an opponent results in punches or kicks, while attacking from afar results in a projectile attack. Shooting and walking at the same time is not possible. Not firing a projectile for a certain time charges up a super shot.

Being a relatively late Mega Drive game, Adventures of Batman & Robin uses a number of programming tricks to achieve graphical effects not thought possible on the console at the time, including simulate transparency (through the highlight/shadow mode), pseudo-3D flight stages and the tilting and rotating of sprites in software (unlike the hardware scaling and rotation capabilities added by the Sega Mega-CD).

Production credits

• Producer: Bert Schroeder
• Product Manager: Jaime Wojick
• Developer: Tortoise Clockwork, Inc.
• Game Designers: John O'Brien, James Maxwell, Stephen Thomson
• Programmer: John O'Brien
• Lead Artist: Stephen Thomson
• Artwork by: Steven Thomson, Chris George
• Additional Artwork by: Robert Hemphill, Noel Hines
• Clockwork Producer: James Maxwell
• Level Layout & Triggering by: James Maxwell, Allen Fernandez
• Batman & Robin Line Art: Tokyo Movie Shinsha
• Music & SFX Creator: Scavenger
• Music & SFX Composer: Jesper Kyd
• Sound Programmer: Jens Albertsen
• Lead Tester: Chrisi Albertson
• Assistant Leads: Mark Subotnick, Don Carmichael, Noah Mackenzie
• Testers: Rachael Bristol, David Dodge, Chris Lucich, Phil Co, Dana Green, Aaron Loichinger, Randy Norfleet, Lloyd Kinoshita, Aaron Bandur, Steve Bourdet, Maria Tuzzo, Sam Saliba, Joel Breton
• Special Thanks to: Holly Stein, Catherine Sollecito, France Tantiado, Clint Dyer, Nemer Velasquez, Sara Holihan, Trish Dunne, Christine Bertoglio, Wayne Leonard, Scott Compton
• Manual by: Carol Ann & Neil Hanshaw

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US manual

Magazine articles

Main article: The Adventures of Batman & Robin (Mega Drive)/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

File:The Adventures of Batman & Robin MD US TVAdvert.mp4

US TV Advert

File:The Adventures of Batman & Robin MD US TVAdvert.mp4

Print advert in Game Players (US) #0807: "Vol. 8 No. 7 July 1995" (1995-0x-xx)

Print advert in Velikiy Drakon (RU) #60: "xxxx xxxx" (2002-09-05)

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Sega Retro Average

Publication Version Score 1700 igr dlya Sega (RU) 70 CD Consoles (FR) 68 Consoles + (FR) 78 Cool Gamer (RU) 70 Computer & Video Games (UK) 78 Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U 69 Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1 (RU) 70 Fusion (US) 58 GameFan (US) NTSC-U 79 Game Players (US) NTSC-U 43 Game Players (US) NTSC-U 66 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 65 GamesMaster (UK) PAL 63 Games World: The Magazine (UK) PAL 80 Game Informer (US) NTSC-U 75 Joypad (FR) 85 LeveL (CZ) 50 MAN!AC (DE) PAL 68 Mega Force (FR) PAL 81 Mega Fun (DE) PAL 65 Mean Machines Sega (UK) PAL 87 Next Generation (US) NTSC-U 0 Player One (FR) 87 Play Time (DE) 67 Power Up! (UK) 85 Sega Magazine (UK) PAL 82 Sega Power (UK) PAL 79 Sega Pro (UK) PAL 75 SuperGamePower (BR) 70 Sega Mega Drive Review (RU) 66 Sonic the Comic (UK) PAL 82 Todo Sega (ES) 86 Top Consoles (FR) 85 Tricks (RU) 70 Tricks 16 bit (RU) 78 Última Generación (ES) 86 Video Games (DE) PAL 85 VideoGames (US) NTSC-U 70

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The Adventures of Batman & Robin (Mega Drive)

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Technical information

ROM dump status

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References

Batman games for Sega systems / published by Sega
	Batman (1990) | Batman: Revenge of The Joker (1992) | Batman Returns (1992) | The Adventures of Batman & Robin (1995) | Justice League Task Force (1995) | Batman Forever (1995)
	Batman Returns (1992) | The Adventures of Batman & Robin (1995) | Batman Forever (1995)
	Batman Returns (1993)
	Batman Returns (1993) | The Adventures of Batman & Robin (1995)
	Batman (1991) | Batman Forever (1995)
	Batman Forever (1996) | Batman & Robin (unreleased)
	Gotham Knights (2022) | Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League (2024)