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The Adventures of Batman & Robin is a Sega Mega Drive platform beat-'em-up game developed by Clockwork Tortoise and published by Sega. Based on the 1992 American television series Batman: The Animated Series (after its 1994 rename to The Adventures of Batman & Robin), it was first released in the United States and Europe in June 1995, and was brought to Australia and Brazil later that year. Released relatively late in the lifecycle of the Sega Mega Drive, the game is most notable for its extensive use of advanced graphical effects, and its dark, industrial soundtrack composed by Jesper Kyd.
The Adventures of Batman & Robin is unrelated to the identically-named Sega Game Gear and Sega Mega-CD games.
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).
Graphical effects
Most known for its extensive used of advanced Sega Mega Drive graphical effects[8][9], The Adventures of Batman & Robin is often cited as one of the system's most technically-proficient games.
List of graphical effects
- Advanced vertical and horizontal line scrolling which simulates the sides of objects appearing and disappearing from view.
- Shadow/Highlight mode usage which allows for more realistic lighting and color effects.
- Three-dimensional sprite effects which simulates movement of certain objects and enemies from a realistic perspective.
- Full-screen rotation of both the background and the separate upper and lower foregrounds.
- Vector animation which allows for certain elements to be displayed through a vector cropped into the display, notably with a later use involving a textured vector.
- Additional layers of horizontal scrolling created with cleverly-produced backgrounds and artwork.
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
Source: US manual[10]
Magazine articles
- Main article: The Adventures of Batman & Robin (Mega Drive)/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
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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References
- ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "March 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 114
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 GamePro, "August 1995" (US; 1995-xx-xx), page 62
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Mean Machines Sega, "August 1995" (UK; 1995-06-26), page 72
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Sega Magazine, "July 1995" (UK; 1995-06-15), page 74
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Computer & Video Games, "August 1995" (UK; 1995-07-12), page 52
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Games World: The Magazine, "August 1995" (UK; 1995-06-29), page 64
- ↑ Games World Magazin, "" (DE; 1995-02-17), page 74
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0S92Fs5gOg
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7b0uUEl5hc
- ↑ File:TAoBaR md us manual.pdf, page 14
- ↑ Velikiy Drakon, "xxxx xxxx" (RU; 2003-02-07), page 68
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 27
- ↑ CD Consoles, "Juillet/Août 1995" (FR; 1995-xx-xx), page 118
- ↑ Consoles +, "Juin 1995" (FR; 1995-0x-xx), page 76
- ↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 26
- ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "August 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 36
- ↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1, "" (RU; 1999-xx-xx), page 292
- ↑ Fusion, "Volume 1, Number 1: August 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 72
- ↑ GameFan, "Volume 3, Issue 7: July 1995" (US; 1995-xx-xx), page 12
- ↑ Game Players, "Vol. 8 No. 4 April 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 51
- ↑ Game Players, "Vol. 8 No. 8 August 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 52
- ↑ GamesMaster, "August 1995" (UK; 1995-07-06), page 38
- ↑ Game Informer, "July 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 8
- ↑ Joypad, "Juillet/Août 1995" (FR; 1995-0x-xx), page 64
- ↑ LeveL, "Leden 1996" (CZ; 1996-01-15), page 36
- ↑ MAN!AC, "07/95" (DE; 1995-06-14), page 56
- ↑ Mega Force, "Été 1995" (FR; 1995-0x-xx), page 90
- ↑ Mega Fun, "07/95" (DE; 1995-06-21), page 80
- ↑ Next Generation, "April 1995" (US; 1995-03-21), page 101
- ↑ Player One, "Juillet/Août 1995" (FR; 1995-0x-xx), page 92
- ↑ Play Time, "(8/9)/95" (DE; 1995-07-05), page 90
- ↑ Power Up!, "Saturday, July 22, 1995" (UK; 1995-07-22), page 1
- ↑ Sega Power, "September 1995" (UK; 1995-07-20), page 62
- ↑ Sega Pro, "August 1995" (UK; 1995-07-13), page 34
- ↑ SuperGamePower, "Agosto 1995" (BR; 1995-0x-xx), page 30
- ↑ Sega Mega Drive Review, "2" (RU; 1996-01-03), page 18
- ↑ Sonic the Comic, "21st July 1995" (UK; 1995-07-08), page 12
- ↑ Todo Sega, "Julio 1995" (ES; 1995-0x-xx), page 38
- ↑ Top Consoles, "Julliet/Août 1995" (FR; 1995-0x-xx), page 90
- ↑ Tricks, "3/95" (RU; 1995-xx-xx), page 11
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 7
- ↑ Última Generación, "Junio 1995" (ES; 1995-0x-xx), page 74
- ↑ Video Games, "7/95" (DE; 1995-06-28), page 107
- ↑ VideoGames, "August 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 76
- ↑ 45.0 45.1 The Adventures of Batman & Robin (Mega Drive)/Hidden content#Build information
