The Adventures of Batman & Robin (Game Gear)
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- For other games with the same name, see The Adventures of Batman & Robin.
The Adventures of Batman & Robin | ||||||||||||||||||||
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System(s): Sega Game Gear | ||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: Sega (US,EU) Tec Toy (BR) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Developer: Novotrade | ||||||||||||||||||||
Licensor: DC Comics | ||||||||||||||||||||
Genre: Action[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
Number of players: 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
The Adventures of Batman & Robin is unrelated to the identically-named Sega Mega Drive and Sega Mega-CD games.
Contents
Story
The Joker has assembled a gang of old Batman foes and kidnapped Robin, and the Batman has to go save him.
Gameplay
There are four different levels, each with 2 or 3 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 takes 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 typically fights with projectile attacks. He attacks with . He has an unlimited supply of batarangs, but can pick up other weapons with limited ammunition in small item boxes along the way, all of which are more powerful than the batarangs. Once Batman gets close to an enemy, he will switch to melee attacks, which deal more damage than the projectiles.
Batman can jump with . He can make several types of jumps, both upwards and sideways. Pressing the jump button twice does a double jump. Batman starts out with 9 extra lives, and instantly 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 around on 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, encouraging full playthroughs without continuing.
Villains
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 | |
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Studio Scaffolding | |
The Wonderland Set | |
Batman fights the Mad Hatter. | |
Gothcorp Interior | |
Gothcorp Exterior | |
Batman fights Mr. Freeze. | |
Nightmare Prison | |
Nightmare Cemetery | |
Batman fights the Scarecrow. | |
Amusement Park Entrance | |
Harley Quinn Battle | |
Batman fights Harley Quinn. | |
The Joker's Lair | |
Batman fights the Joker. |
Weapons
Batarang | |
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Bat Bolo | |
Explosives | |
Throwing Star | |
Electric Star | |
Items
Bat | |
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Replenishes Batman's health bar to full. | |
Life | |
Awards the player an extra life. | |
Bat Bolos | |
Additional ammunition for the Bat Bolos weapon. | |
Explosives | |
Additional ammunition for the Explosives weapon. | |
Throwing Stars | |
Additional ammunition for the Throwing Stars weapon. | |
Electric Stars | |
Additional ammunition for the Electric Stars weapon. |
Magazine articles
Promotional material
Physical scans
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Technical information
ROM dump status
System | Hash | Size | Build Date | Source | Comments | |||||||||
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512kB | Cartridge (US/EU) |
External links
- Sega of America webpage: Game Gear
References
- ↑ File:TAoBaR GG EU Box Back.jpg
- ↑ VideoGames, "June 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 65
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 GamePro, "August 1995" (US; 1995-xx-xx), page 91
- ↑ SuperGamePower, "Outubro 1995" (BR; 1995-xx-xx), page 13
- ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "August 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 40
- ↑ Hobby Consolas, "Agosto 1995" (ES; 1995-xx-xx), page 95
- ↑ Joypad, "Octobre 1995" (FR; 1995-xx-xx), page 44
- ↑ Mega Force, "Octobre 1995" (FR; 1995-xx-xx), page 90
- ↑ Player One, "Octobre 1995" (FR; 1995-xx-xx), page 130
- ↑ Sega Magazin, "September 1995" (DE; 1995-08-16), page 32
- ↑ Todo Sega, "Septiembre 1995" (ES; 1995-0x-xx), page 50
The Adventures of Batman & Robin (Game Gear) | |
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Main page | Magazine articles | Reception |
Batman games for Sega systems / published by Sega | |
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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 Forever (1995) | |
Batman Forever (1996) | Batman & Robin (unreleased) | |
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