Captain Planet and the Planeteers

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Captain Planet and the Planeteers
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Sega
Developer:
Licensor: TBS Productions, DiC Enterprises
Sound driver: GEMS
Genre: Action

















Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code
Sega Mega Drive
EU 		1031
Sega Mega Drive
PT
Sega Mega Drive
UK 		£39.9939.99[2][3] 1031
Sega Mega Drive
AU
Sega Mega Drive
BR 		042550
Sega Mega Drive
AS 		1031-40

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Captain Planet and the Planeteers is a 1992 platformer for the Sega Mega Drive by Sega based on the Captain Planet and the Planeteers television series. The game has a total of 5 stages. The first 4 are played with a randomly chosen Planeteer, the last stage is played with Captain Planet.

Game design is very basic in design, with hit detection issues and sometimes unavoidable enemy attacks.

Gameplay

C jumps, B fires a weak shot, A fires a strong shot. As planet power is limited, one has to use it sparingly. When running out of planet power, shots can only be fired at a very low rate, similar to Rolling Thunder 2 Defeated enemies sometimes drop health items or planet power.

Each of the 4 first stages has it's own mission:

  • Destroy all computers
  • close all valves
  • Destroy the mining devices
  • Reach the end of the stage

A boss awaits at the end of each mission

The final stage is an extended boss fight. C button has no function as Captain Planet can levitate and is controlled with the arrow keys.

Rather than featuring a limited amount of continues, the game has an overall time limit. Remaining time is added to the total score at the end of the game.

Versions

The PAL version displays health and planet power through numbers, while the NTSC-U version uses symbols.

Production credits

Source:
In-game credits


Magazine articles

Main article: Captain Planet and the Planeteers/Magazine articles.

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
53 [4]
27 [5]
30 [6]
30 №11, p58-59
58 №10, p52
30 №2, p25
78 [7]
31 [8]
56 №33, p98
44 [9]
59 №21, p67
45 [10]
Sega Mega Drive
 45
Based on
12 reviews
Mega Drive, EU
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Cover
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Cart
Captain Planet MD EU Manual.pdf
Manual
Mega Drive, FR

Captain Planet and the Planeteers MD FR Manual.pdf
Manual
Mega Drive, PT
CaptainPlanet MD PT cover.jpg
Cover
Mega Drive, AU
CaptainPlanet MD AU back.jpgNospine.pngCaptainPlanet MD AU cover.jpg
Cover
Mega Drive, BR
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Cover
CPatP MD BR Cart.jpg
Cart
Mega Drive, Asia
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Cover
CaptainPlanet MD AS Cart back.jpgCaptainPlanet MD AS cart.jpg
Cart
CaptainPlanet MD AS Manual english.jpg
Manual
CaptainPlanet MD AS Manual chinese.jpg
Chinese Manual
MD AS EpilepsyWarning.pdf
Epilepsy Warning

Technical information

ROM dump status

System Hash Size Build Date Source Comments
Sega Mega Drive
✔
CRC32 7672efa5
MD5 4f95573c08f905466e01cf8e1bc59a73
SHA-1 b048f922db83802a4a78d1e8197a5ec52b73a89f
512kB 1992-11 Cartridge (EU)
Sega Mega Drive
 ?
CRC32 bf2cbd3a
MD5 0edcef2bc04f338a5c7362f3007be037
SHA-1 750770bb43a2d1310b9011f7588cc91e0476826b
512kB 1992-12 Page

References

  1. ↑ GamesMaster, "February 1993" (UK; 1993-01-21), page 16
  2. ↑ Sega Force Mega, "August 1993" (UK; 1993-06-24), page 55
  3. ↑ Mega, "July 1993" (UK; 1993-06-17), page 52
  4. ↑ Consoles +, "Avril 1993" (FR; 1993-0x-xx), page 108-109 (108)
  5. ↑ Computer & Video Games, "July 1993" (UK; 1993-06-15), page 83
  6. ↑ Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide, "" (UK; 1993-11-18), page 30
  7. ↑ Mega Force, "Mars 1993" (FR; 1993-0x-xx), page 100-101 (100)
  8. ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "July 1993" (UK; 1993-05-25), page 88-90 (88)
  9. ↑ Sega Power, "September 1993" (UK; 1993-08-05), page 56-57 (56)
  10. ↑ Sega Force Mega, "August 1993" (UK; 1993-06-24), page 54-55 (54)
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