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[suikodan]

I remember reading about this TMNT-killer in Nintendo Power back in 1990 and I got curious about the game until my parents bought it in Boston when we were on vacation.

Like most of the players at the time, I had (and hopefully still have) the NP issue with the full walkthrought of the game and was able to finish it, a near-impossible task if you don't have it. The game was a perfect combination of a beat'em up, puzzle and an action game.

I was happy to have a sequel on the SNES 3 years later. I liked the art for the characters, they were big, had character and their finishing moves were funny. Alas, the game was more of a missed remake even though it was "fun".

I once stumbled into a BT arcade game distributed by... EA (with the old logo)! This version was more like a TMNT game where you punch your way through the game. I found shocking that it was violent, lots of blood and gore!

I guess their last appearance was in BattleToads and Double Dragon. I was expecting the game since it combined two of my favorite franchises but the game sucked, except for the intro music which remains in my list.

I would love to see another BT game. Is Rare holding the license or it's lost somewhere along with Tradewest?

 

[jenov4]

Yes all of the Battletoads games rock so damn much. But they were so fucking difficult! Friggin' sadists at Rare.

 

[SonicMegaDrive]

Battletoads. What a great game.

Unquestionably, one of the hardest NES games ever made, but also one of the most fun.

This combination led me to many countless hours spent trying to finish the damn game. It's one of those rare games that, no matter how many times you fail to beat it, you still clamour to come back and try again.

Yeah, I lost countless lives, but I never got frustrated. I guess it was because it was such a blast just going through the games' many stages.


Great sound, great gameplay, and some of the finest graphics to grace an 8-bit system.

A classic.

Also, Battletoads/Double Dragon was awesome as well. Not as hard, but just as fun.

 

[jett]

Ah, Battletoads. One of my favorite games during the 8bit era, so awesome and original. I still remember inventing "mini-games" with my friends in 2-player mode. Stuff like playing baseball with the enemies and shit.

Too bad none of the sequels were as good as the original...especially Battlemaniacs, that game sucked shit. I don't care for half-assed pseudo remakes, and this literally was half-assed. Just 5 levels? Sorry, but I remember playing 13 in BT1. BT&DD wasn't too bad, at least it was more in the spirit of the original.

*hums the theme song*

P.S.: I don't want another BT game, as it would most assuredly suck ass.

 

[Ironclad]

Agreed. Battletoads on the NES was my favorite. It was good, but a bit overrated. Still, I had a lot of fun with the series, and I would kill for an update.

 

[Dr. Strangelove]

The level where you had to ride around on the giant snakes used to piss me off so bad.

 

[ToyMachine228]

Battletoads was easily one of my favorite NES games as a kid. Then the Battle Toads/Double Dragon cross over they made...Man those were the days. Rare developed Battletoads too, and they've talked that it's possible that it could make a comeback someday, but it most likely never will. I wouldn't want it to. It's legacy doesn't need to be touched.

 

[Drakken]

Yep, Battletoads on the NES was a lot of fun. Especially two-player, although my brother and I would inevitably end up hitting each other a lot in the 2nd level (the one where you drop down the shaft on ropes). That level is so frustrating...

I never finished it. Perhaps I should try again sometime...

 

[Kleegamefan]

Battletoad ROXXORZ

I luv the Arcade Battletoads too (funny, funny stuff)....anyone play that one??

 

[Ironclad]

Battletoad ROXXORZ

I luv the Arcade Battletoads too (funny, funny stuff)....anyone play that one??

There was a pizza place near my house way back when that had this and Sonic the Fighters right next to each other. My friends and I would feed both of these machines quarters for hours on end. Good times. Some of the sprites were hillarious.

 

[Mallrat83]

Just get a Revolution and own the whole collection.

 

[Nester]

I bought the Arcade machine for $75 a couple years ago. It's sitting in a garage at my parents house now. I'll move it to my house eventually once I get a little more room.

It's a lot cruder humor too. Grabbing the testicles of enemies and punching them, great stuff! :lol

 

[Sanjuro]

If Rygar could get a new game so can Battletoads.

 

[dicklaurent]

Just get a Revolution and own the whole collection.

If only..

 

[FortNinety]

If Rygar could get a new game so can Battletoads.

But Rygar actually deserved it.

OHHH BURN!!!



I wanted to like the game but that fucking speeder bike level was just way too fucking hard.

 

[CO_Andy]

I'm playing Battletoads currently (the lesser known Genesis remake) with my friend (who has had little exposure to classics). The ice level iz a true fiend!

I wanted to like the game but that fucking speeder bike level was just way too fucking hard.

I said that when i was kid (and that was back in the 80s). Perhaps you should try again.

 

[Sanjuro]

But Rygar actually deserved it.

OHHH BURN!!!

Rygar did deserve it absolutley. But if you take a handfull kids from the early 90's Battletoads was always more a household name and regonizable.

 

[RunWhiteBoyRun]

The funky pause music is forever burned in my head.

 

[Dezcom]

I wanted to like the game but that fucking speeder bike level was just way too fucking hard.

You too? That level was so damn hard for me when I was a kid, I ended up swearing off the game forever. :lol

 

[GDGF]

Just get a Revolution and own the whole collection.

It'd be nice. Does Rare still own the license? Does Tradewest still exist even? If they're not a problem, I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft stuck the games on the Revo. They do like money.

 

[Mega Man's Electric Sheep]

The farthest I ever made it was 2/3 of the way up the Dark Queen's tower in the last level. My friend always bragged about how he beat it, then 10 years later admitted that he never made it past the clinger wingers in the second last level, he just used a Game Genie to beat it! 10 years the bastard pretended he was better at Battletoads than me! :lol

The turbo tunnel is just memorization. Not remotely hard compared to later levels. Snake level with 2 people = hilarity.

 

[demi]

They aren't that special.

 

[samusx]

I used to play this game with a good friend of mine when I was really young. It is a hard game but we did beat it once. I was playing it a week or so ago again, and it was kicking my ass. Then on the net, I came across a speed run of this game, and I had to watch it. The guy that played it, made the game look easy. Anyway, I do wish that they would make another game in the series, that would be neat.

 

[djtiesto]

I loved this game back in the day. Remember being so excited when my aunt bought it for me for my 8th (or was it 9th) birthday. The graphics were awesome for the time, I used to love the animations. But the game was so damn hard. The farthest I've ever made it was to where you needed to race the rat guy down the tower to disarm the bomb. Cheated once with Game Genie and beat the game tho.

 

[Sapiens]

this was the first time I saw parallax scrolling on a NES game. Colour me impressed by what Rare was able to do with their NES games.

First level was fun. Hilarious even. Went to shit after the difficulty became too extreme.

Anyone play the genesis version? Better? Worse?

 

[epmode]

<--- Beat NES Battletoads.

In related news, NES Battletoads still has the best pause music ever.

 

[..pakbeka..]

I always wondered why the folks at 4chan think battletoads is so funny

 

[dark10x]

this was the first time I saw parallax scrolling on a NES game.

Ha ha, I was about to say the same thing.

BT was one of the first games on the NES to actually pull off parallax scrolling. I was really impressed. The Gameboy version of BT (which is a different game) ALSO had parallax scrolling.

Rare knew what was up.

 

[FirstInHell]

They aren't that special.

Yet another stellar contribution to the forums.

Battletoads stands as the NES game that I played the most. No matter how many times I died, I played it over and over and over again.

There was nothing else on the NES that could touch the graphics and sound of this game.

 

[Diomedeskun]

I loved battletoads, but, as much as I loved the creativity of the later levels, I preferred the style of the first two levels where you didn't go back to a checkpoint every time you died. I had to use a game genie at first, but after some time, I found that I could get just as far with or without one: the Turbo Tunnels. The levels up through Intruder Excluder were tough, but fair, and the speed bikes, which were impossible at first, became fairly easy after practicing enough, but even using the game genie with infinite lives and the ability to start on any level, I was unable to get anywhere in any of the later levels. I was stuck at the evil rubber duck floating in the Turbo Tunnels who would kill me instantly with his monstrous beak.

Still, those first 8 levels were awesome, and it was far and away my most played NES game in the latter days.

I much preferred Battletoads/Double Dragon for NES. It was challenging, but winnable, and the second player was not so much of a hindrance as in the original game (anyone ever try the speeder bikes with two players in the first game?) Plus I loved the Asteroids/Solar Jetman space pod level. The Super NES version of BTDD had nicer graphics and a cool opening, but I didn't like the controls, which felt way too floaty.

 

[The Guivre]

I have to say one of my favorite points in the game were times when you could beat something senseless and then ride it around.

I seem to recall they ran a comic in Nintendo Power right around it's release. Something about the Toads actually being guys trapped in a VR world or some craziness like that.

Anyway. The update certainly deserves to happen. Though I wonder how they'd re-do the toads' attitudes.