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| Developer(s) | Buena Vista Interactive |
| Publisher(s) | Buena Vista Interactive |
| Composer(s) | Michael Giacchino Patrick J. Collins |
| Engine | Proprietary |
| Platform(s) | Sega Genesis |
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| Genre(s) | Platformer |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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| Media/distribution | 24-megabit cartridge |
Gargoyles is a platform game released for the Sega Genesis, based on the cartoon of the same name, developed and published by Buena Vista Interactive. A Super Nintendo version was also planned for release, but was cancelled.
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In the game, players control Goliath, leader of the Manhattan Clan of gargoyles, in the years 1994 and 1995, as he seeks to put an end to a magical, corrupted talisman, the Eye of Odin, which can transform whoever comes to possess it.
The game loosely follows the plot of the show, although only two characters are identified in any substantial fashion—Goliath, the protagonist, and Demona, who ultimately becomes the main antagonist and the most recent owner of the Eye. No other characters from the show are identified.
Throughout the game, Goliath will contend with the Vikings who ransacked Castle Wyvern in the past, as well as new, robotic foes who attack him in the present across various venues, such as Manhattan rooftops and a subway. His arsenal of attacks to defend himself include various strikes with his fists, grapples, throws, and leaping maneuvers. Furthermore, he can pump his wings once to increase his jumping distance, as well as climb along walls and ceilings with his claws. The game contains eighteen levels bookended by short cinematics which explain the story thus far, each level concluding with a boss encounter.
Gargoyles boasts a hand-drawn appearance to Goliath, Demona and the Viking antagonists, not unlike Virgin Interactive's Aladdin also for the Genesis, but also a CGI-modeled look for the robots encountered in the present.
The game is programmed to take advantage of a bug in the original Genesis hardware's memory controller. This bug was fixed with the release of the Genesis 3. Consequently, the game will not run correctly on that console.
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