![]() Battletoads is typical scrolling beat ’em up stuff. Bird receives a call from the Dark Queen, daring Rash and Zitz to come and save their friend and Princess Angelica.Īnd so the game kicks off proper as a one or two-player affair with you controlling either Rash or Zitz of the titular toads. However, Pimple and Angelica take a detour on Pimple’s flying space-car when they are kidnapped by the Dark Queen and taken to a planet called Ragnarok. Bird and the titular Battletoads, Rash, Zitz, and Pimple, are on a mission to escort Princess Angelica home on their spaceship. The plot of the game is that Professor T. Developed by Rare and published by Tradewest, Battletoads is a mix of scrolling beat ’em up/platformer and even a little vehicle action thrown in too. It was June, 1991 when the first Battletoads game was released for the NES. BattletoadsĪs previously mentioned, this is where it all started. Seeing as a new game is released today, I thought I’d do a retrospective on the entire Battletoads franchise starting with that first game, up to the latest today and everything in-between, warts and all. ![]() The brainchild of Rare founders, Tim and Chris Stamper ( read my book), Battletoads was unleashed onto the public in June, 1991. I say ‘grown up’, using that as loosely as I can, because we all know now just how puerile Battletoads was. It was the summer of 1991 when I was first introduced to Battletoads, a more ‘grown up’ parody of TMNT. Watching kids cartoons, playing kids games and so on just didn’t interest mid-teenage me then (yes I was an idiot). I mean, I was fifteen/sixteen at the time, growing up, leaving school and preparing to enter the real world. Part of the reason why TMNT had slipped away from me in 1991 was due to something similar, but with a bit more of an edge. By the time 1991 rolled around, I had pretty much forgotten all about Leo, Mikey, Don and the other one, Bob I think. I watched some of the cartoon, played a couple of the games and somewhat enjoyed the first film… and then got bored and moved on pretty quickly. ![]() The whole TMNT phenomenon didn’t really grab me. I lost interest in them pretty quickly to be honest. Those four deadly weapon wielding reptiles were hugely popular and still kind of are today, I guess. Comic books, cartoons, action figures, games and even movies. Back in the late eighties and early nineties, those pesky Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were everywhere.
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