The Adventures of Batman and Robin (Genesis)

The Adventures of Batman and Robin is a video game developed for Sega Genesis by Clockwork Tortoise and published by Sega in 1994. Not to be confused with the SNES version.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) You have an endless supply of batarang to fight enemies, making the game a sort of Bat-Contra.
 * 2) Very good graphics.
 * 3) Interesting soundtrack choice. The music is composed by dark techno tunes by Jesper Kyd.
 * 4) You can play as Robin, although he plays exactly like Batman. The only difference is the sprite. The game has also multiplayer.
 * 5) Interesting plot choices. The main antagonist of the game is Mr. Freeze and the Joker does only a single appearance at the end of the first stage as a boss.
 * 6) You can have up to six continues to finish the game.
 * 7) Three types of batarang avaible, that can be easily identified by the colour: blue, red and green, and that can be upgraded up to seven times by collecting icons of the same colour of the batarang you are using.
 * 8) In a long section of the second stage, you get to control the Bat-Plane, instead of Batman or Robin.
 * 9) The games is very difficult, in such a way that, if you'll manage to complete it, you will feel a great sense of accomplishment.
 * 10) In a time when "A Winner Is You" endings were very frequent, this game has a very long and detailed ending movie. It contains an error, though.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The graphics, despite being very good, don't catch the feeling of the cartoons the game is based on; a thing that can really disappoint fans of the TV series. This can be said regarding the music, too.
 * 2) The game's difficult is often irritating and unfair, speaking of that, the third stage is for the most part hellish and can prevent many players to ever see the end of the game.
 * 3) The weapon system is debatable. The red batarang is a decent three-shots-spray weapon, but the blue batarang seems just a weaker version of the red one and hardly damage enemies even if it is fully upgraded. The green batarang, on the other hand is very big and deals huge damage even if it is not fully upgrade; when fully upgrade, it can take down enemies or even bosses with relative ease. For this reason, it can be seen as a game breaking weapon, though others can see it as a way to lower the game's frustrating difficult.
 * 4) A game breaking bug, which cannot be explained in detail to avoid spoilers, is present in the first boss fight of the third stage. The only way to get past this bug is resetting the console. Giving that it can happen at a very advanced point in the game, this can be really annoying. It is also easy to avoid, though, once you know what to do. Another bug can appear at the end of Joker's boss fight, in which Joker is stuck in his soon-to-be defeated animation; again, resetting the console is the only option.
 * 5) Mr. Freeze, who is the last boss, is way easier than the boss before him, the Mad Hatter, and pretty easy overall. This can be seen as disappointing by some players.

Reception
The reception of this game is quite particular since it has received poor reviews from critics at the time of its release. Generally, the graphics were praised, but the Gameplay, music and levels were deemed respectively repetitive and overly-difficult. It was also crticized for not successfully recreating the TV show. Critics still give the game average reviews, citing unbalanced difficult.

Many gamers, on the other hand, liked and still like the game, praising it for graphics, music and extreme difficult, and even claim it is better than the SNES version. Currently, it has a 4.04 rating on gamefaqs.com.

Trivia
The manual states that in the third stage you have to rescue commissioner Gordon from the Mad Hatter. Once you successfully defeated him, however, Gordon doesn't appear at all, like one would expect, and you simply move to the next level.