Software:Battletoads (1991 video game)

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Short description: 1991 beat 'em up/platform video game by Rare
Battletoads
Battletoads Coverart.png
American NES cover art by Tim Stamper
Developer(s)Rare
Arc System Works (MD/GG)
Mindscape (AMI/ACD32)
Publisher(s)
  • JP: Masaya (FC/GB)
  • EU: Mindscape (AMI/ACD32)
Designer(s)Tim and Chris Stamper
Gregg Mayles
Programmer(s)Mark Betteridge
Artist(s)Kev Bayliss
Composer(s)David Wise
Hikoshi Hashimoto (MD/GG)
Mark Knight (AMI/ACD32)
SeriesBattletoads
Platform(s)NES/Famicom, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Game Boy, Game Gear, Amiga, Amiga CD32
Release
Genre(s)Beat 'em up, platformer
Mode(s)Single player, multiplayer

Battletoads is a beat 'em up/platform video game developed by Rare and published by Tradewest. It is the first installment of the Battletoads series and was originally released on 1 June 1991 for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was subsequently ported to the Mega Drive and Game Gear in 1993, to the Amiga and Amiga CD32 in 1994 (despite the former having been developed in 1992), and released with some changes for the Game Boy in 1993 in the form of Battletoads in Ragnarok's World. In the game, three space humanoid toad warriors form a group known as the Battletoads. Two of the Battletoads, Rash and Zitz, embark on a mission to defeat the evil Dark Queen on her planet and rescue their kidnapped friends: Pimple, the third member of the Battletoads, and Princess Angelica.

The game was developed in response to the interest in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. It received mostly positive reviews upon release, with critics praising the graphics and variations of gameplay; however, many critics were divided over the difficulty. It won seven awards from the 1991 Nintendo Power Awards, and has since been renowned as one of the most difficult video games ever created.[1] It was later included in Rare's 2015 Xbox One retrospective compilation, Rare Replay.

Gameplay

The "Turbo Tunnel" level in the NES version

The game is a platform scrolling beat 'em up, with varying elements of racing, climbing and vehicle-based obstacle courses. Players start with three lives each time the game is started, which get replenished every time the player continues after getting defeated. The game contains no saving system or password features.[2] The player has a maximum of six hit points that can be replenished by eating flies.[3] While the levels of Battletoads vary greatly in gameplay style, the game is generally presented as a "beat'em up", in which players progress by defeating enemies while avoiding the hazards in the environment.[4]

Throughout the game, the Toads are equipped with a regular punch[5] as well as other "Smash Hits" that can be performed against enemies: the "Turbo Thwack", "Swingin' Size Thirteen", "Jawbuster", a punch with an enlarged knuckle named "Kiss-My-Fist",[5] a headbutt attack named the "Battletoad Butt", "BT Bashing Ball" which is only used while hanging on the Turbo Cable in the second level where the toad character shape-shifts into a wrecking ball,[6] the "Take Out the Trash", where an enemy is picked up and thrown overhead,[5] a clasping of both hands to bash an enemy named "Nuclear Knuckles",[5] "the Punt" where a 'toad repeatedly kicks an enemy after he knocks one into the ground,[5] and a very powerful kick named the "Big Bad Boot".[7][5] These special moves are usually activated after three or four regular punches[8] or running at a faster pace, which is done by pressing left or right on the D-pad twice in a row followed by a B-button press that triggers the Smash Hit.[9] Due to the variety of gameplay styles between stages, all attacks are only usable in certain levels.[5]

Objects from the environment or enemies can also be used as weapons,[10] such as legs from broken-apart Walkers,[11] beaks from ravens,[6] pipes on the wall of Intruder Excluder,[12] and flagpoles from the Dark Queen's tower.[13]

Side-scrolling stages are generally presented as having an isometric perspective, while platforming stages that feature vertical progression are presented non-isometrically, which allows the player characters to crouch. Several levels in the game feature sections in the form of an obstacle course, where the players must dodge a series of obstacles with speed increasing as the level progresses.[14] Other types of level include two "tower climb" levels, a descent to a chasm while hanging from a rope, a level with underwater sections, a maze chase riding a unicycle-style vehicle, a platforming "snake maze", and a race level in which the players have to fall as quickly as possible through countless platforms to reach the bottom of a tower before an enemy does. Hidden in four of the levels are "mega warp" points, which, when reached, allow the players to automatically advance by two levels.[14][15]

Plot and levels

Professor T. Bird and the three Battletoads, Rash, Zitz, and Pimple, are escorting Princess Angelica to her home planet using their spacecraft, the Vulture, for her to meet her father, the Terran Emperor.[16] When Pimple and Angelica decide to take a leisurely trip on Pimple's flying car,[17][16] they are ambushed and captured by the Dark Queen's ship,[18][19] the Gargantua.[20] The Dark Queen and her minions have been hiding in the dark spaces between the stars following their loss to the Galactic Corporation in the battle of Canis Major.[16] Pimple then sends out a distress signal to the Vulture, alerting Professor T. Bird, Rash, and Zitz. Learning that the Gargantua is hidden beneath the surface of a nearby planet called Ragnarok's World, Professor T. Bird flies Rash and Zitz there in the Vulture to rescue them.[16] Between levels, the toads receive briefing comments from Professor T. Bird, along with teasing from the Dark Queen.

The professor drops the toads to the first level, Ragnarok Canyon, the surface of the planet guarded by axe-wielding Psyko-Pigs and Dragons that the player can fly with if taken out first;[21][22] its boss is the Tall Walker, which throws boulders the heroes must throw back at it while avoiding its lasers.[23] The toads then enter the world by descending through a downward-vertical-scrolling Impact Crater, the second level named Wookie Hole, where they face threats of ravens that can cut off the toads' Turbo Cable,[24] Retro Blasters that pop out of the wall and shoot electrical bolts,[25] Electro Zappers that form a line of 2,000 volts of energy,[25] and plants named Saturn Toadtraps that eat toads.[22][26]

Ride levels include the third stage, the Turbo Tunnel, where the players dodges stone walls while riding on a Speed Bike and having to use ramps to get across long gaps;[27][28] the fifth level, Surf City, where the player bounces on water surfaces on a "Space Board" while dodging logs, whirlpools, mines, and spiked balls;[29] the seventh stage, Volkmire's Inferno, where the 'toads fly on the Toad Plane in a fire environment going through Force Fields and dodging fireballs and rockets;[30] and level eleven, the Clinger-Wringer, where the toads ride on the stage's titular unicycles while being chased by a hypnotic energy orb, named the Buzzball.[31][32] All of them include a section of beat 'em up gameplay,[28] with Surf City being the location a boss fight with Big Blag, the chief of the Dark Queen's rat army that can squash the Battletoads with his weighty blubber slam,[33] and Buzzball also serving as Clinger-Wringer's boss.[34]

The fourth stage, the Ice Cavern, is a platform level where the player has to use snowballs and ice blocks to destroy barriers while dodging those cold elements as well as spikes and hedgehogs and facing snowball-throwing snowmen.[35] Level six, Karnath's Lair, is a set of rooms that each consist of only one exit and multiple snakes moving in varied, twisting rectangular patterns that serve as platforms, and the toads must traverse them while also dodging spikes.[28][36] Intruder Excluder, the vertical-scrolling eighth stage, is the most platform-oriented level in Battletoads; it involves several jumps on platforms, springs and through electric barriers between moving gaps of platforms, avoiding obstacles such as rolling Big Balls, Snotballs, suction valves named Suckas and poisonous gas guns named Gassers, and its only beat 'em up sections being encounters with Sentry-Drones,[37][38][39][28] The player must get from the bottom to the top of the level, where a boss fight with the Queen's genetically modified biogen Robo-Manus takes place.[40][37] Level nine, Terra Tubes, is a mixture of a platform and underwater stage, and the only instance of the toads swimming in the game; it involves the player going through a non-linear pipe entrance into the Gargantua, with sections including encounters with Mechno-Droids[11] and Steel-Beck duck creatures that guard the tubes,[41] chases from the Krazy Kog,[11] and rivers infested with spikes, sharks, electric eels named Elctra-Eels, and instant-attacking Hammerfish.[41][42]

The tenth level, the Rat Race, is one of two levels in Battletoads to be located in the Gargantua,[43] the other being the eleventh level, Clinger-Winger.[32] Rat Race is a downward-vertical-scrolling with the same hazards and enemies as Intruder Excluder.[44] In the stage, the Dark Queen sends fast rodent Giblet to activate three bombs in the ship for it to explode, and the player must self-destruct them before the rat makes it to them.[22][44] After the bombs are successfully switched off, a showdown with the Queen's least quick-witted commander, General Slaughter who only attacks with his head, ensues.[45]

The Battletoads escape the ship and, in another upward-vertical-scrolling stage named the Revolution, go to the top of the Dark Queen's Tower; the level involves the camera staying on where the toads move, thus presenting them as 2D sprites, but they and other enemies move circularly around the tower, thus making the background rotate as if it were three-dimensional.[46] In the level, a variety of platforms must be jumped on in order to progress, such as those that sink the longer the playable character is on, those that disappear and re-appear, those that move around the tower, and springs; foes include oafs named Hornheads,[25] Shadow Clouds that either harm the player with poisonous gas or blow wind to change the player's speed,[31] Spiked Balls that rotate around the tower,[39] and Swellcheeks where the only way for the player to avoid being blown away by its wind power is hanging on the flag poles.[13][25]

Once the Queen is defeated, she claims it will not be the last they would see from her, turns into a whirlwind and flies into space,[47] "retreating into the shadowy margins of the galaxy to recoup her losses".[48] With Pimple and Princess Angelica rescued, the four are brought back into the Vulture and fly away from the planet.[49]

Development

It was a typical example of Rare's looking at what was popular and then putting our spin on it.

Gregg Mayles in a retrospective interview[4]

The game was developed by Rare and published by Tradewest. Rare founders Tim and Chris Stamper created the series in response to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles craze of the early 1990s.[50] To create a contrast to the popular media franchise and other beat 'em ups of the time, Rare added extra mechanics in the game to help separate it from these genres, such as racing stages and climbing courses.[2] Rare decided early to take the game's art style and tone in a cartoony direction, both to distance Battletoads further from other beat 'em up franchises and to comply with Nintendo's restrictions on violence in games.[51]:55

According to Rare artist Kevin Bayliss, the characters of Battletoads were conceived in order to "produce merchandise" on a mass scale, in a similar vein to Tim Burton's Batman.[4] Bayliss claims that he did most of the work on sketching the game's characters while Tim Stamper was largely responsible for translating the sketches and artwork into sprites.[51]:55 Rare attempted to create variation through shifts in gameplay between levels, and intentionally made Battletoads "crazy hard" in order to increase its longevity. Bayliss frequently heard the team's programmer Mark Betteridge scream in anger after failing to complete levels he had assembled himself.[51]:56 Despite their own difficulties, the team's consensus was that Battletoads was possible to complete with practice and skill.[51]:57

The game underwent changes through early stages of development, and at one point was originally titled Amphibianz. Bayliss originally designed Battletoads as a Disney-themed video game, however as the game gradually became more violent, Bayliss took extra liberties to tone it down and restrict all usage of weapons in the game, whilst creating a sense of uniqueness for the characters.[4] According to Bayliss, the box art was designed by him but airbrushed and produced by Tim Stamper. Bayliss' initial design for the box art was rejected as the team felt that it failed to attract customers' attention, but the team was satisfied with their second and final revision.[51]:56–57

Release and promotion

Battletoads was presented at the 1991 winter Consumer Electronics Show; an article about the event from Electronic Gaming Monthly claimed it to be "highly innovative."[52]

A few months after the initial North American release in June 1991 for the NES, Battletoads got a Japanese-localized release for the Famicom, getting distributed in Japan by NCS, as opposed to Tradewest.[53] This release featured several gameplay tweaks, which resulted in a marginally easier experience.[14]

Initial reception

Reception
Review scores
PublicationScore
AmigaNESSega GenesisSGG
AllGameN/A4.5/5 stars[54]3.5/5 stars[55]N/A
CVGN/A91%[15]86/100[60]60/100[59]
DragonN/A5/5 stars[61]N/AN/A
EGMN/A9/10[62]7.5/10[lower-alpha 2]7.25/10[lower-alpha 1]
FamitsuN/A30/40[65]26/40[67]24/40[66]
GameFanN/AN/A94.25%[lower-alpha 3]N/A
GamesMasterN/AN/A78%[70]N/A
GameZoneN/A93/100[5]90/100[72]68%[71]
JoypadN/AN/AN/A80%[69]
ONMN/A85%[28]N/AN/A

Battletoads started at number 26 on Nintendo Power's July 1991 Top 30 list of NES games for Players' Picks only with 464 points,[80] rising to number 13 the following issue with 858 points.[81] In September 1991, it premiered on the actual Top 30 list at number 11 with 3,219 points, landing in the top ten of both respective lists for Players' Pick (number seven) and Pros' Picks (number six).[82] In the October 1991 issue, the game skyrocketed to the number-three spot on the overall list with 6,008 points,[83] remaining in that position in the November issue with 6,397 points.[84] By January 1992, the issue Nintendo Power turned the Top 30 list into a Top 20 list (as they added Top 20 rankings for games of other consoles), Battletoads budged to number two with 6,140 points that month,[85] staying in that ranking for three more consecutive issues but remaining out of the top spot due to having significantly less points than the long-lasting Super Mario Bros. 3 (1990).[86][87][88] Afterwards, the game remained in the top ten for 17 more consecutive months,[lower-alpha 4] and eleven times in the top five.[lower-alpha 5] The game still charted when the Top 20 NES list ended in November 1994, and most of the game's final eleven months on the chart were in the bottom half,[lower-alpha 6] with only one of those months in February 1994 being in a top ten spot.[116]

Battletoads was greeted with mostly enthusiastic reviews upon release, with critics calling it one of the best all-time video games,[62] one of the best games of 1991,[117] one of the best all-time NES games,[73][61][15] and the greatest NES game of 1991.[62] The "innovative and fun"[118] presentation was frequently praised, particularly when it came to the cutscenes,[15][73] the cartoon style of the characters and attacks,[118][73][15][77][61][117] the music and sound,[15][61][28] multi-layer scrolling,[15][118][77][28] variety of colors,[73][117] humor,[5] and the first level gimmick of the Big Walker boss being from the perspective of the boss.[77][118][15] Only minor complaints were made, such as towards the sprites being too small,[73] the attacks looking too non-aggressive,[119] some backgrounds being a "bit bland on occasions,"[28] and flickering.[77]

Gameplay-wise, Battletoads was praised for its diverse gameplay styles,[73][28] addictiveness,[73][15][5] and motivating challenge level.[73][28] Rob Bright of Nintendo Magazine System explained that "progress isn't slow, but then it isn't a breeze,"[28] and Julian Rignall of Mean Machines wrote that it's "brilliantly designed to allow you to get just a little bit further each time you play, and give experts the potential to hone their skills and rack up enormous amount of bonus points."[73] Chris Bieniek appreciated the simplicity of the controls of its multiple speciality moves, particularly how attacks triggered by the B button change between levels.[77] The platforming bits, however, were criticized for having poor collision detection that result in cheap deaths;[28][73] reviewers from Sega Force also noted this problem in the Mega Drive port and called the game a "run-of-the-mill" platformer with unresponsive controls, "random" difficulty between levels, very little surprises, and "menial" objectives.[120]

Battletoads was nominated for the 1991 Nintendo Power Awards in nine categories, winning the first place in the categories: Graphics and Sound (NES), Theme and Fun (NES), Best Play Control (NES) and Best Multi-Player or Simultaneous (NES), it was also given the title of the Overall Best Game for NES of 1991.[121]

Later years

AllGame acclaimed Battletoads as a mixture of a "great sense of humor (especially in the two-player mode) with a surprisingly good storyline and near-perfect gameplay," also praising its "smooth and responsive" controls "fluid" character animation, and the stages being "huge, gorgeously rendered and full of surprises."[54] In a negative retrospective review, Spike ranked the game's ending as the sixth biggest letdown in video game history.[122]

In 1997, Nintendo Power ranked the NES version as the 89th best game on any Nintendo platform.[123] In 2010, UGO included it on their "Top 25 games that need sequels"[124] also featuring the Arctic Cavern level on the list of "coolest ice levels".[125] Topless Robot ranked Battletoads as the number one "least terrible Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles rip-off" in 2008,[126] also naming it as one of ten best beat-'em-ups of all time in 2010[127] and as one of ten video games that should have gotten toys in 2011.[128] In 2012, it was also listed among ten "classic videos games that deserve an HD remake" by Yahoo! News.[129] GamesRadar ranked it the 18th best NES game ever made, stating that "it was a fun game but its most notable element was its difficulty".[130] Jeremy Dunham of IGN listed Battletoads as the 40th best NES game of all time.[131]

Difficulty

Battletoads has been noted by critics for its extreme difficulty.[126][132][133] The game has even been included on numerous occasions among the hardest games ever made, including the number one spot according to GameTrailers.[134][135][136][137] A reviewer of Destructoid stated that despite the game's "brutal and unbalanced" difficulty, it was often remembered as one of the most "beloved titles" of the eight-bit generation.[138] A consumer guide named The Winner's Guide to Nintendo (1991), published upon the game's release, admitted the Turbo Tunnel level to be "one of the toughest challenges of any NES game."[139] In 2012, Yahoo! Games stated that the game was still widely recognised as one of the most difficult games ever made, particularly noting the chance of players accidentally killing their partner in two-player mode.[140] Nerdist remarks that Battletoads's sudden difficulty spike was intended to combat the video game rental industry; if the game was more difficult, then it would take longer to complete, and consumers would be more likely to purchase a retail cartridge instead of renting one.[141]

Hardcore Gaming 101 writer Eric Provenza analyzed Battletoads to be unlike other video games known for their difficulty, such as Ninja Gaiden (1989) and Adventure Island, in that it does not get harder gradually; there are different mechanics, enemies, and obstacles for each section, with no opportunities for players to familiarize themselves with them due to limited continues and lives and the absence of a password system or save feature. The game starts as "a quirky beat-em-up before rapidly shifting into high-speed obstacle courses and manic action platforming with very little cohesion."[142] Game Players explained that while most of the game's challenges involved patterns that could be memorized by playing the game several times, it had long section lengths and very few continues; he also noted the two-player involving both players having to start over a stage if only one player loses all of his lives.[117]

Legacy

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The game's initial success led to Rare developing various sequels which would later become part of the Battletoads franchise. A spin-off game for the Game Boy, also titled Battletoads, was first released in November 1991.[143] Despite having the same box art and title as the NES release, Battletoads for the Game Boy is a separate game in the series, featuring different levels and mechanics from the original.[144]

Two direct sequels, Battletoads in Battlemaniacs and Battletoads & Double Dragon, were both released for various consoles in 1993,[145] with the latter being placed number 76 on IGN's "Top 100 NES Games of All Time" list.[146] Battletoads Arcade was released in 1994 to mediocre sales.[147]

A pilot episode for a Battletoads TV series was also produced by Canadian DIC Entertainment, in an attempt to capitalise on the popularity of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The pilot originally aired in syndication in the United States on the weekend of Thanksgiving 1992, but it was never picked up as a full series.[148]

In July 2020, Megalopolis Toys announced a partnership with Interplay to release a line of six-inch action figures based on the games.[149]

Ports

A screenshot from the final boss fight in the Mega Drive version

Due to the extreme difficulty of the original NES Battletoads, almost all subsequent ports of the game went to varying measures to tone it down, in an attempt to make the game more accessible to casual players. This caused some of the more demanding levels to be modified, and some of them even removed altogether in certain versions of the game.[14]

Later, in 1992 it was ported to the Amiga home computers by Mindscape, though the Amiga version went on unreleased until 1994. A Mega Drive version developed by Arc System Works and a Game Gear version were released by Sega (in Europe and Japan) and Tradewest (in North America) during 1993.[150] The Mega Drive version features toned-down difficulty, as well as providing higher definition and more colourful graphics than the NES version.[14][151] The Game Gear port features downscaled graphics, also removing three levels and the two-player mode.[144] While the Genesis port was appreciated by critics for keeping the gameplay and humorous animations of the NES title, its presentation was criticized as not improved enough from its 8-bit predecessor,[152][64] with GamePro suggesting it lacked "soaring stereo orchestration," digitized voices, or even "one croak" to significantly differentiate it.[153]

Also in 1993, a Game Boy version of the game was released, titled Battletoads in Ragnarok's World. This version was missing several levels and featured single-player support only.[154] Tim Chaney, European CEO of Virgin Interactive, purchased the Master System rights for Battletoads from Tradewest after the game found popularity in the United States and had planned to release that version also in 1993, but it never materialised.[155][156] In 1994 Mindscape brought the game to the Amiga CD32 and released it together with the previously unreleased Amiga version. It had also planned ports for PC DOS and the Atari ST back for the originally intended 1992 release of the computer versions, but these two were never released.[157][144] A port for the Atari Lynx was also announced and planned to be published by Telegames, but it was never released.[158][159]

During E3 2015 it was announced that the NES version of Battletoads would be coming to the Xbox One as part of Rare Replay, a retrospective collection of 30 emulated classic games from Rare.[160] Rare Replay was released on August 4, 2015,[161] featuring a fix to a bug in the original game that made the eleventh level unplayable for player 2.[162]

Notes

  1. ↑ In Electronic Gaming Monthly's review of the Game Gear version, two critics gave it an 8/10, one a 7/10, and another a 6/10.[63]
  2. ↑ In Electronic Gaming Monthly's review of the Genesis version, two critics gave it an 8/10 and two others a 7/10.[64]
  3. ↑ In GameFan's review of the Mega Drive/Genesis port, four critics each gave the game different scores: 92%, 96%, 94%, and 95%.[68]
  4. ↑ [89][90][91][92][93][94] including another stay at number two in July 1992[95]
  5. ↑ [96][97][98][99][100][101][102][103][104][105]
  6. ↑ [106][107][108][109][110][111][112][113][114][115]

References

Citations

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  • "Battletoads". Nintendo Power 25: 8–43. June 1991. 

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