The Adventures of Batman & Robin

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The Adventures of Batman & Robin
Companies Clockwork Tortoise, Inc, Sega
First release date May 1995
Original platform(s) Genesis

Run & gun platformer

The Adventures of Batman & Robin
There were four different games with this title released 1994-1995, all based on the hit Warner Bros. series. This Genesis title is the best of them, and is one of only two games ever made by Clockwork Tortoise, alongside Batman & Robin for Sega CD. Incredibly slick, incredibly difficult run & gunner demands Clock King-like pattern memorization of its many bosses to stand a chance. Colored powerups can either grant a new throwing weapon (Batarangs, shuriken, or bolas) or upgrade the type equipped, and choosing wisely or poorly can make encounters trivial or impossible. As powerups are lost on death, dying during a boss fight can cause an irreversible feedback loop, each death leaving you less adequately equipped to fight until you run out of lives. A two player coop mode can even the odds, or can hinder the better player as the other rapidly drains your shared pool of precious continues. A technical tour-de-force, featuring some of the best sprite animation on any 16-bit console, and evokes the show's style and character well. The techno soundtrack doesn't exactly resemble Danny Elfman, but is excellent in its own strange right, and demoscene programmers have used every trick, hack, and exploit available to create amazing quasi-3D effects that put most genuine SNES Mode 7 effects to shame.
Key people Jesper Kyd