The Adventures of Batman & Robin (Game Gear)

For other games with the same name, see The Adventures of Batman & Robin.

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The Adventures of Batman & Robin
System(s): Sega Game Gear
Publisher: Sega (US,EU) Tec Toy (BR)
Developer: Novotrade
Distributor: Tec Toy (BR)
Licensor: DC Comics
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code US 1995-06 $39.9939.99 2552 EU 1995 2552-50 FR 1995 UK 1995 2552-50 BR 1995-10 077240

The Adventures of Batman & Robin is a Sega Game Gear action platform game developed by Novotrade. Based on the 1992 television show Batman: The Animated Series (after its retitling to The Adventures of Batman & Robin), it was first published in the United States and Europe by Sega in mid-1995, and was later brought to Brazil by Tec Toy the following October. It is unrelated to the identically-named Sega Mega Drive and Sega Mega-CD games.

Story

The Joker has assembled a gang of old Batman foes and kidnapped Robin, and Batman has to go save him.

Gameplay

Batman's rogues gallery

The game is an action platformer. There are four different levels, each with two or three stages, where Batman runs around beating up thugs and jumping between platforms before taking on a boss. Each stage ends with a boss encounter, culminating in a fight with a classic Batman villain at the final stage of the level. The four levels take 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 moves with and and crouches with . He jumps with and jumps down from platforms with +. Pressing the jump button twice does a double jump. He enters doorways and elevators with .

Batman typically fights with projectile attacks; he throws a weapon with . He has an unlimited supply of Batarangs, but can pick up other weapons with limited supply in small item boxes along the way, all of which are more powerful than the Batarangs. Pressing  START  brings up a menu that lets Batman change his weapon and shows his ammunition levels. Once Batman gets close to an enemy, he switches to melee attacks, which deal more damage than the projectiles. When close to an enemy, he punches with , does a sweep kick with +, and does a jumping kick with +. Batman can throw projectiles from jumping and crouching positions.

Batman starts out with 9 extra lives; he respawns where he died after losing one, with a full health bar, all ammunition intact, and all inflicted damage and defeated enemies accounted for. There are also multiple extra lives and life bar refill items spread through the stages. The game has infinite continues and a password system, allowing the player to start over from any previously reached stage. The only punishment for having to continue is that the player's score is reset to zero.

Weapons

Pause menu

	Batarang
	The standard weapon. Weak but unlimited ammunition.
	Bat Bolo
	Explosives
	Throwing Star
	Electric Star

Items

	Bat
	Replenishes Batman's health bar to full.
	Life
	Awards the player an extra life.
	Bat Bolos
	Provides additional ammunition for the Bat Bolos weapon.
	Explosives
	Provides additional ammunition for the Explosives weapon.
	Throwing Stars
	Provides additional ammunition for the Throwing Stars weapon.
	Electric Stars
	Provides additional ammunition for the Electric Stars weapon.

Stages

The health bar and score persistently flicker to simulate transparency, so only one is shown at a time in screen shots, though both appear visible simultaneously in gameplay.

	Streets of Gotham City
	Studio Scaffolding
	The Wonderland Set
	Boss: The Mad Hatter
	Gothcorp Interior
	Gothcorp Exterior
	Boss: Mr. Freeze
	Nightmare Prison
	Nightmare Cemetery
	Boss: The Scarecrow
	Amusement Park Entrance
	Harley Quinn Battle
	Boss: Harley Quinn
	The Joker's Lair
	Boss: The Joker

Production credits

• Executive Producer: Bert Schroeder
• Producer: John Pedigo
• Developer: Novotrade Interactive
• Original Design: Josh Gordon
• Director: Laszlo Mero
• Project Director: Don Walters
• Software Director: Attila Bus
• Art Director: Eszter Paris
• Main Programmer: Ballazs Papai
• Programming Aid: Gyongyi Mezei
• Hardware Support: Lajos Szabo
• Main Artist: Csaba Horvath
• Artists: Gabor Matheika, Bori Paris, Edit Matis
• Music: Laszlo Fazekas, Gabor Foltan, Csaba Gigor, Karoly Kovacs
• Lead Tester: Joel Breton
• Assistant Leads: Jeff Hedges, Sean McInnes, Rob Prideaux
• Testers: Mark Subotnick, David Wood, Roger Sommerville, Todd Slepian, Mark Pentek, Eugene Valenzuela, Leonard Sayers, Craig Drummand, Doug Leslie, Frank Coles, Sako Bezdjian, Scott Snyder, Mike Borg, Arnold Feener, Chris Colon, Michael McCollum, Benjamin Briones
• Marketing: Lisa Wilson, Lori Von Rueden, Ami Blaire
• Manual: Carol Ann & Neil Hanshaw
• Special Thanks: Andrea Eszterhai, Don Walters, Al Baker & Associates, Big Ed, Catherine Sollecito, Clint Dyer

Source:

US manual

Magazine articles

Main article: The Adventures of Batman & Robin (Game Gear)/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

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

Print advert in (ES) #46: "Julio 1995" (1995-xx-xx)

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average
Publication Score Source

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Sega Retro Average
Publication Version Score (US) NTSC-U 64 (US) NTSC-U 53 (US) NTSC-U 78 (ES) 75 (FR) 82 (FR) PAL 78 (FR) 82 (DE) PAL 73 (ES) 75

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The Adventures of Batman & Robin (Game Gear)

Game Gear, US
Cover
Cart Manual

Game Gear, EU
Cover
Cart Manual

Game Gear, FR (Blister pack)
Cover

Game Gear, BR
Cover
Cart

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
?	CRC32 bb4f23ff MD5 a684cba5f11c4e4e3e6cb71a0d73c702 SHA-1 50e8726be1b26d066ea9e2e2b5cd7407c356187e	512kB		Cartridge (US/EU)

External links

• Sega of America webpage: Game Gear

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)