Gargoyles

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Gargoyles
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Buena Vista Interactive
Developer:
Licensor: The Walt Disney Company
Sound driver: GEMS
Genre: Action

















Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code
Sega Mega Drive
US 		T-239056
ESRB: Kids to Adults
Sega Mega Drive
BR 		047200
Tectoy: Todas as Idades

Gargoyles is an action game for the Sega Mega Drive made in 1995 by Buena Vista Interactive made to tie in with the Gargoyles television series created by Buena Vista for Disney (though the Disney name is nowhere to be found on the actual game).

Story

The game loosely follows the plot of the show. The player controls the protagonist Goliath as he seeks to put an end to the Eye of Odin, a corrupted magical talisman that can transform whoever comes to possess it. Demona, the most recent owner of the Eye, ultimately becomes the main antagonist.

Gameplay

The game is an action platformer in which the player controls Goliath, leader of the Manhattan Clan of Gargoyles. He moves with Left and Right and ducks with Down. He jumps with C. He is able to pump his wings once to increase his jumping distance by pressing C again while in mid-air. He can climb walls and ceilings with his claws and automatically grabs them when he jumps onto them.

He swipes enemies with his claws with B, which can be repeated two or three times to perform combo moves. He can also grab weaker enemies that are within reach with A and then slam them into the ground with A again. He can perform a shoulder roll to attack enemies or break through doors and weak walls by pressing B while running. He can also dive into the ground with A to attack enemies or break through skylights and weak floors.

Goliath's health is indicated by a meter in the lower-left of the screen. It goes down as he takes damage from enemies. When it flashes red, he is close to death. The number of lives he has is shown as a Roman numeral next to his health meter. If the player runs out of lives, the game ends unless the player has found an Enchanted Gargoyle Totem item to earn a continue.

Items

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 Shield
Temporarily makes Goliath invulnerable.
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 Hammer
Temporarily gives Goliath one-hit kills.
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 Chalice
Restores a small portion of Goliath's health meter.
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 Goblet
Fully restores Goliath's health meter.
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 Gargoyle Totem
Gives the player an extra life.
Enchanted Gargoyle Totem
Gives the player a continue.

Levels

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  • Gargoyles, Stage 1-3.png

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Evil Awakens

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Siege of the Rookery

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Stone and Steel

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Subterranean Terror

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The Forge

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The Final Fury

History

Development

The game uses the Motorola 68000's tas (test and set) opcode to do condition-related things (exactly what is unknown; TODO). tas runs in a different way from other CPUs, and for some unknown reason the Genesis is wired differently (what exactly is going on is unknown; TODO). The designers of the Genesis 3 overlooked this, and for some unknown reason, the game will not run on this model, making it the only game not to run on the Genesis 3 due to something other than additional hardware not being supported.

Programmer Chris Shrigley has released the source code to the game on his web site.

In September 2022, game journalist Max Nasikan released an extensive interview with a dozen of the game's creators, showing many of the unreleased material. Also in January of that year, issue 229 of Retro Gamer magazine featured his article on the creation of the Gargoyles based on these interviews.

Versions

A Super NES version was in development but canceled.[2]

Production credits

  • Programmer: Chris Shrigley
  • Senior Producer: Patrick Gilmore
  • Assistant Producer: David Bergantino
  • Lead Artist: Thom Ang
  • Lead Level Design: Joel Goodsell
  • Backgrounds: Katherine Murta Adams, Tom Barlow, Tom Breeden, Jody C. McMurrian, Roddy Navarro, Mark Lorenzen
  • Additional Art and Animation: Shelli L. Droe, Kurt Dumas, Raymond Fung, Tamara Holcomb, Brian Horton, Hugh Jamieson, Ruby Lee, Paige Pooler, Nancy O. Ramirez, Matthew Smith, Oliver Wade, Brent Whittington
  • Art Support: Arden Ishimaru, Dao Le, Toby Espiritu
  • 3-D Art and Animation: Spencer Hale, Ed Trillo, J.P. Asperin
  • Music Composition: Michael Giacchino
  • Audio Engineering and Sound Design: Patrick Collins
  • Project Manager: Bob Rademacher
  • Production Administrator: James Mellott
  • Asset Management: Jayne Shrigley
Creative Capers Entertainment
  • Animation Producer: G. Sue Shakespeare
  • Animation Directors: Terry Shakespeare, David Molina
  • Directing Animator: Greg Tiernan
  • Character Poses: Adam van Wyk
  • Production Manager: Darci Ernst
  • Production Accountant: Patrice Monis
  • Animation: Connor Flynn, Ron M. Friedman, Michael Kiely, Dermot O'Connor, Adam van Wyk, Ron Zorman
  • Clean-Up Artists: Adam Burke, Richard Draper, Aidan Flynn, Ron M. Friedman, Tom Higgins, Shannon Murphy, Sandra Ryan, Richard Smitheman, Janice Tolentino, Monica Zorman
  • Animation Checkers: Penelope Sevier, Carla Washburn
  • Camera Manager: Robert Rose
  • Test Camera: Brendan Harris, Tony Quinn, Arantxa Rodriguez
  • Asst. Prod. Coordinator: Kathy Burton
  • Production Assistants: James Arnold, Leanne Howard, Bobbi Swartzendruber
Renegade Animation
  • Director: Darrell van Citters
  • Producer: Ashley Quinn
  • Lead Animator: Dean Wellins
  • Additional Animation: Lee McCaulla
  • Assistant Animation: Heidi Daven, Diana Dixon, Sandy Henkin, Karenia Kaminski, Mark Cote, Cristi Lyon, Bill Mims, Randy Myers, Jennifer Stillwell, Calvin Suggs, Vicki Woodside
  • Product Evaluation Supervisor: Jeff Blattner
  • Lead Testers: Kevin Ocampo, Shane Cleavelin, Aki Kim
  • Game Testers: Brian Adriano, Roger Bray, John Castro, Daryl David, Jerry Gillett, Matthew Montgomery, Wilfredo Panganiban, Luigi Priore, and Marcus Pregent
Source:
In-game credits
Gargoyles MD credits.pdf
[3]

Magazine articles

Main article: Gargoyles/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

US print advert

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
{{{{{icon}}}|L}} Division by zero.
Based on
0 review
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)
90
[4]
Ação Games (BR)
75
[5]
Cool Gamer (RU)
80
[6]
Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U
58
[7]
Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1 (RU)
70
[8]
Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 3 (RU)
80
[9]
Freak (IL)
79
[10]
GameFan (US) NTSC-U
90
[11]
Game Players (US) NTSC-U
85
[12]
GamePro (US) NTSC-U
88
[13]
Game Informer (US) NTSC-U
83
[14]
Igry Sega Luchshiye iz luchshikh. Vypusk 2 (RU)
56
[15]
MAN!AC (DE) NTSC-U
72
[16]
Mega Force (FR) NTSC-U
84
[17]
Tricks (RU)
85
[18]
Tricks 16 bit (RU)
84
[19]
Sega Mega Drive
 79
Based on
16 reviews

Gargoyles

Mega Drive, US
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Cover
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Cart
Gargoyles MD US Manual.pdf
Manual
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Poster
Mega Drive, BR
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Cover
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Cart
Gargoyles MD BR Manual.pdf
Manual

Technical information

ROM dump status

System Hash Size Build Date Source Comments
Sega Mega Drive
✔
CRC32 2d965364
MD5 182b253e376b3ed4c51be1f87a95aa29
SHA-1 2b76764ca1e5a26e406e42c5f8dbd5b8df915522
3MB 1995-09 Cartridge (US)

References

  1. ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "December 1995" (US; 1995-xx-xx), page 100
  2. ↑ http://shrigley.com/source_code_archive/
  3. ↑ File:Gargoyles MD credits.pdf
  4. ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 85
  5. ↑ Ação Games, "Fevereiro 1997" (BR; 1997-xx-xx), page 30
  6. ↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 89
  7. ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "January 1996" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 40
  8. ↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1, "" (RU; 1999-xx-xx), page 317
  9. ↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 3, "" (RU; 2000-xx-xx), page 59
  10. ↑ Freak, "2/96" (IL; 1996-xx-xx), page 1
  11. ↑ GameFan, "Volume 4, Issue 1: January 1996" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 22
  12. ↑ Game Players, "Vol. 9 No. 1 January 1996" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 58
  13. ↑ GamePro, "February 1996" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 70
  14. ↑ Game Informer, "November 1995" (US; 1995-1x-xx), page 25
  15. ↑ Igry Sega Luchshiye iz luchshikh. Vypusk 2, "" (RU; 2001-08-27), page 154
  16. ↑ MAN!AC, "03/96" (DE; 1996-02-14), page 48
  17. ↑ Mega Force, "Mai 1996" (FR; 1996-0x-xx), page 64
  18. ↑ Tricks, "Vypusk 7" (RU; 1996-xx-xx), page 27
  19. ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 78


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