This is by far my favorite version of Battletoads. It's violent, fast-paced and straight up fun entirely except the last stage which was a on-rails shooting level but still I rather play this over than the SNES version.
I played the arcade cabinet a couple of years ago and thought it was great. Until then I had no idea it existed. Also, I feel like Dark Queen played a huge role in shaping my taste in women.
The Dark Queen was probably my favorite video game villain of all time. Evil, emperor and a total babe. Charismatic and funny, she made a great villain for the themes of Battletoads. But so many games didn’t make use of her in an actual, well executed conflict. Even in the arcade, you fight a robot with her projection in the background. I think maybe only the original game had a fight that did her power justice
@@falconeshield TMNT already had their own group of fighting mutant amphibians. Genghis Frog, Atilla the Frog, Napoleon Bonafrog, and Rasputin the Mad Frog.
Nah. In the original, she was a bit on the easy side, although she could land cheap shots. In the Double Dragon crossover? Yeah, that one gives her justice.
I honesty consider Battletoads Arcade to be the best of the series... but it is extremely difficult. I've beaten every Battletoads game except Battletoads on Battlemaniacs.
@@commandervile394 IKR? The Dark Queen is supposed to be like the love-child of Movie Macabre's Elvira and Men in Black II's Serleena; but instead RARE now downgraded her into looking and sounding like Emma Watson going goth. On top of that, the animation, humor, and style ripped off Nickelodeon's Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!
Those idiot game testers whoever they were rating it low didn't help im sure. Probably scared off by the difficulty even tho its pretty much a staple of the series
Arcade beat 'em ups were a dying genre at the time, and Rare's DKC series was a success, so they focused on these. No matter how great a game is, it will be put to the side if it doesn't gain enough profit. That, and while first Battletoads infamous difficulty was accepted, since it was a novelty, the later games keeping a frustrating and unfair difficulty level just narrowed down the potential fanbase, especially wirh more and more beat 'em ups with a better balanced gameplay kept popping up.
I've never seen this as the franchise killer, but as the grand finale that went out with a bang. to me, Battletoads Arcade aka Super Battletoads is by far the best game in the entire Battletoads franchise. 1994 was a great year for Rare's games since I see Battletoads Arcade, Killer Instinct, & Donkey Kong Country as the Holy Trinity.
My heart feels for that poor pilot minding his own damn business watching in horror while a pair of enraged mutant toads wail and smash his poor plane while he's trapped inside it.
Never played the Arcade version. But it looks wild, insane, and fun. Seeing the classic game go for a more mature edition, I like the idea. It is gutsy, awesome, and something to take a chance on.
👍. I played at LOTS of arcades growing up.... I only ever saw this at one arcade! Spawn: In the Demon's Hand was also quite rare & this same arcade had that one, too!
Actually IF the Arcade KILLED the franchise, then the reboot technically isn't a Battletoads game. What is actually true, because it doesn't resemble the Battletoads ;D
I used to play Battletoads arcade when I was a kid at an arcade called Celebration Station. I loved the blood and gore. Awesome beat ‘em up. I rank it all the way up there with tmnt simpsons and X-men.
A local laundry mat that my mom frequented during my childhood had this game. I played it every single time we were there! I don’t recall the blood being in the game aside from battle damage to bosses. I’m sure the owners had the blood turned off. I never made it past the third level. I also had the VHS of that pilot episode. I took it to elementary school one day. Someone stole the tape and replaced it with an episode of the Super Mario Bro 3 cartoon. At the time it didn’t bother me as much because I liked the Super Mario Bros 3 cartoon. But as time went on I was more bummed about it. Now learning that the pilot episode was the only episode, and not having come across it on streaming services, I’m more bummed that the tape was stolen. I’m a collector so I still have some VHS tapes. That would have been among them.
I liked the Battletoads Arcade it was so different from the NES version, when I saw it I never knew Battletoads had an Arcade version. The game was OK my only complain is the ENDING. I HATE open ending video games.
Exactly. Unlike previous Battletoad games, there's no direct showdown with the Dark Queen. She's not even involved in the final levels of Battletoads Arcade, which made the game feel incomplete.
Developers ran out of time/money. Had to make several cuts, removed a few bosses, a stage (might have been two), heavily modified the final stage as a result, and threw the ending together at the last second.
What's open about it? The toads survive the crash because they're the heroes and have to, they zap back home via mysterious unseen "transporters", mission accomplished, galaxy saved. Seems pretty clear-cut to me.
How would this had killed the franchise? I didn't know of its existence until playing it at Galloping Ghost Arcade - meaning I didn't see it in the wild back then. The game is ridiculously hard yes.
It didn't, after this game Rare left for Nintendo which is why the series didn't get a new game until the Xbox era. When they're with Nintendo they mostly focus on first party titles and titles Nintendo made them create like Diddy Kong Racing, GoldenEye 007, and Killer Instinct. Also the arcade game is different cause it was published by EA instead of Tradewest.
I didn't have an xbox when the new game was announced but, I was pretty hyped even though the art style sucked- it seemed entirely designed by a Twitter marketing team. Years pass, I forgot about it (since there wasn't any chatter after the release) finally played it.... I didn't expect it to be soo lifeless
@@TexasHollowEarth The Dark Queen isn't the only bombshell one who has fallen victim into becoming Tumblrized. Companies like M$ actually do censorships for... You guessed it! *Money* Because if no one is going to listen to Woke-activists (which some like Naughty Dog may listen), bribing will buy their cooperation. But it will backfire on M$ because they won't make a profit from sales.
It's also pretty distinctly unfinished. You never fight The Dark Queen (final boss is Robo Manus, one of her usual henchmen), and there's portraits of the bosses on the wall during the next to last stage that includes Admiral Oink, who isn't in it. He was apparently supposed to be the boss of the snow stage, which explains Karnov's bizarre appearance. Professor T Bird and Angelica also never show up, though they have unused sprites in the game's code.
Karnath was going to be the boss of stage 4, The Cave Pit, which does not have a boss in the final version of the game. He was re-purposed to the second stage after they removed the Christmas-themed Oink. I remember reading an interview somewhere where one of the developer stated that they simply ran out of time, which is why the final stage took the form that it did and why the ending was so lackluster.
almightycinder / Breakfast - Thanks, that actually explains quite a bit. Dangit, I _wondered_ who the heck "Oink" was supposed to be! I thought it was just some inside joke at Rare. And yeah, Karnath fits the fourth stage _much_ more than the second. "Ran out of time"? Since when are arcade games subject to Christmas Rush? I'd _really_ like to hear the story on that.
This game was amazing. I think the latest game killed the series. They swapped the styles of rash and zitz. And Rash being my favorite since 1 I was disappointed he didn’t focus on his footwork as his trademark attack style
I played through this game on mame. It was like a playable comic from Heavy Metal magazine. The art is amazing, the music was catchy. It was one of my favorite arcade games of all time.
I actually like this game a lot more than any of the other Battletoads games. It is not as challenging as the original but it is very fun and creative. You can actually play multiplayer and still win unlike the first game.
This is still my favorite Battletoads game, and I loved all their games. I wanted more games in this vein and was disappointed to never get them. But I will always treasure this one for giving me (and my family) lots of fun times.
I remember lusting after the chick in this game back when this dropped in arcades... ... Maybe she was the one that was getting us all ready for Lady D 🤔
Agreed, the arcade game didn't kill Battletoads. By this point Battletoads and Double Dragon and Battletoads in Battlemaniacs had done that already. The arcade game, while extremely difficult, is pretty fun and a throwback to the fun early levels of the NES game but a commercial failure due to Battletoads already being dead. But a quick correction: Battletoads weren't created in response to Ninja Turtles. In fact, their creator hadn't heard of the "Hero Turtles" yet. He had designed them when he was doodling back in high school and brought the notebooks out because Rare was looking for a corporate mascot (a la Bubsy, Sonic, or Mario). Of course, Rare saw them as the perfect answer to the Turtles, so that much is spot on.
I really enjoyed the Battletoads arcade I don't think it killed the franchise but you didn't see it for a long time until they brought it back also one of those games is Double Dragon Battletoads
Imagine being a British school child and one day you have a substitute teacher, when the classroom door opens it's TopHatGamingMan and he's carrying a Mega Drive under one arm.
I have based various lessons around the ZX Spectrum. It fits into the British Primary curriculum as pupils must learn about British Inventors. So who better than Sir Clive Sinclair!
@MAME MANIA It came after cause it's a different game. Battletoads on NES, Game Gear, and Sega Genesis are the same game, Battletoads Battlemaniacs on SNES is a different game which also had a SMS port. The Game Boy had both the NES port and a sequel. The arcade game is another sequel.
The Battletoads Arcade game was quite good. IMO it was seriously hampered by having EA as the publisher. EA was well known at the time as a home computer and Genesis/Mega Drive game publisher but not at all in the arcade space. Also the game being a beat em up title released in December of 1994 (so basically 1995) also worked against it. For over 2 years one on one fighting games dominated the arcades at that point. Also, the Playstation & Saturn with their 3D polygon based graphics were coming soon and were being heavily pushed in the gaming press as the future of gaming. In 1995 if you wanted to be competitive in the arcades you either had to be a well known arcade publisher (Sega, Capcom, Midway, SNK, etc.,) or a one on one fighting game or use 3D graphics. The Battletoads arcade game had none of those things going for it.
I was in the boy scouts for a very short time. Weebalos I think. But we went to Caesarland. Which was a little Caesars pizza themed arcade for a all nighter unlimited tokens and pizza. I saw this machine and it spoke to child me. "Beat me" so that was my absolute goal for the night. I spent about 8 hours bumming tokens off of anyone I could as I took this challenge on because I had to leave the machine to get tokens and that was no option! I did manage to complete this task and several years later I was reading a game informer magazine where it brought up how scarce the machines actually were. 2 in all of America one in some California arcade and the other at ceasarland in Warren Michigan. Blew my mind.
This is what I had hoped Battletoads 2020 would be more like. THAT game killed the franchise, not this one. The art style in BT 2020 is absolutely hideous.
Saw this in a bowling alley. Got quite a bit of action. Although it was repetitive in spots and killing the enemies one by one by one could get frustrating (much like Crime Fighters, you _really_ needed to embrace the hit-em-while-they're-down mechanic to get anywhere), I've always had a special fondness for this for two reasons. One, it's almost unheard of for a series to go from console to arcade and always awesome when it happens. And two, the toads actually **did what they were supposed to be doing, FIGHTING!** (C'mon, It's right there in the name!) None of this speeder bike wrecking, getting caught by the aggravating orb, racing the way-too-fast rat, bouncing across bizarrely turning snakes, flying through 2,000 obstacles, avoiding 2,000,000 spikes crap. It was beatings, blood, gore, severed heads, and bodies flying into the foreground from start to... almost the finish, where it switched to a fast-paced shootout. This was the Battletoads that _had_ to be made. Yeah, it could get expensive. Welcome to arcade games.
Is this really “obscure”? I thought it was pretty well known among arcade fans... Regardless, it’s an awesome game, and the fact that it can be beaten makes it the best game in the series
I agree with this, though if you want a beatable Battletoads game, I recommend Battletoads on Game Boy. Its really hard as well, but its MUCH more playable.
I remember playing this at a local arcade. Going from the NES to this, I was not prepared for the blood and gore. For a while, it felt like a fever dream.
The arcade version of battletoads is absolutely my favourite version of battletoads everything it has, the violence, the comedy, the gameplay, the music , the way the game works everything about it as an amazing combo that makes it one of my favourite thing to come out of the battle toads series
yesss the definitive badass BATTLETOADS game!! its a crime it never got ported to any consoles back in the days. wish the series continued on after this one. it was epic ride. ya the reboot new battletoads is a disgrace to this and classics battletoads. totally ruined it. just like KI. rare has fallen. want this awesome battletoads back!! :(
Bro this arcade version of BT was the pinnacle of the franchise. No other BT game can rival it. The new recent BT game that came out was a huge disappointment.
I must say the latest Battletoads art style is horrible. Who thought a bright and cute style was a good update to the original? It looks like a bad parody by comparison. The Dark Queen also looks laughable, like she should be a Dexter's Labatory character.
Battletoads Arcade was ignored because arcade owners weren’t investing in three player machines anymore. Also the franchise became diluted with all the various cameos in other games and consoles. It’s was a great game that didn’t stand a chance during its release….
I'd be so happy if there was an r-rated animated movie/show adaptation of Battletoads that take place in LA and then eventually go to space or something
I'm very to see you making videos on one of my favorite video game franchises again! Honestly I wouldn't say this game "killed" the franchise, (Because I think this game is probably one of the best ones in the series) I just think the Battletoads series didn't really fit the feel of the kind of games Rare was starting to develop, mainly the N64 games.
Wow i just completed this arcade version last month on my super console x Pro and i really really enjoyed playing this game for the 1st time and it is awesome in my opinion and the moniker of Amphibians sounds better than Battletoads personally 👌👍✌.
The aracade version of Battletoads was way better than the console versions . No Turbo tunnel or that annoying snake level. I know people who owen the NES and SNES versions naever made it past 3rd stage (not counting the bonus level in the Battlemaniacs). That's why itvwas included on the Rare Replay and why Rash was in Xbox One's Killer Instinct.
I didn't even know this existed! I'm a Battletoads fan. Own the NES, SNES Battlemaniacs, and Genesis BT&DD. I haven't tried the newest one yet.. the animation style threw me off. But I'm gonna have to grab that arcade rom if possible!
If it wouldn't be one of the most unforgiving difficulty game in it's consoles and arcades, it wouldn't be Battletoads... Impossible to forget this game, especially with Dark Queen and her cronies such as Robo Manus and Big Blag... So many ways to get hit by a one turn kill attack in that game, like the turbo tunnel...
As a kid I didn't find Battletoads all that hard of a game, the Ninja Turtle game was unplayably hard to me however. But many years later I realized why...I played the game solo. On solo mode its not that hard, but when you try to have a second player it hinders a great deal of the game mechanics to the point of being detrimental to the players.
I haven't played through all of the arcade game, but I appreciate the fact you can pump virtual quarters in because: Battletoads. Though, it doesn't seem nearly as hard without the race sequences.
Of all the places that i found this game, it was at my local walmart by the entrance when i was in 6th grade. The violence was unexpected, but welcoming, b/c i had already played the first 3 mk games in other arcades. I enjoyed it until they replaced it with some bass fishing game a month or so later.
It wasn’t the Arcade that “killed” the series, but rather this supposed Animated Series that they tried to make in the early 90’s is what really sank the Franchise. Of all the cartoons I saw while growing up, the Battletoads pilot was considered one of the WORST things that fans have ever seen, and it completely hurt Rare in the long run. Overall, the Arcade was the last chance for Rare to keep Battletoads going, and even though it was successful, it wasn’t enough to save the actual franchise, thus they went into Limbo. Yet, the way how some things are being either Rebooted or Reintroduced, there’s still a chance for Battletoads to make a comeback, through Netflix or Hulu, and also make a Much Better Series.
IMO the difficulty was what made Battletoads so divisive. I think it might have gotten more fans if it was either a straight up beat-em-up (as in, no crazy gimmick stages) or if all the vehicle stages and whatnot weren't crazy hard.
This is by far my favorite version of Battletoads. It's violent, fast-paced and straight up fun entirely except the last stage which was a on-rails shooting level but still I rather play this over than the SNES version.
the super nes game killed this arcade mess
@@jamieoiler5690 No
RARE should've also made a Battletoads 64,
where the gameplay is like Fighting Force and Crash Bandicoot combined into one 3D platformer/beat 'em up.
fighting force was awesome
I know right?? They should have, idk why there were no battletoads games on n64, I just played Rampage 1 and 2 as replacements.
I played the arcade cabinet a couple of years ago and thought it was great. Until then I had no idea it existed. Also, I feel like Dark Queen played a huge role in shaping my taste in women.
The Dark Queen was probably my favorite video game villain of all time. Evil, emperor and a total babe. Charismatic and funny, she made a great villain for the themes of Battletoads. But so many games didn’t make use of her in an actual, well executed conflict. Even in the arcade, you fight a robot with her projection in the background. I think maybe only the original game had a fight that did her power justice
How did we never have a crossover with 80s TMNT. Just imagine Shredder simping for TDQ
@@falconeshield TMNT already had their own group of fighting mutant amphibians. Genghis Frog, Atilla the Frog, Napoleon Bonafrog, and Rasputin the Mad Frog.
it's not her projection, she was killed in the first game, she's a specter now
Nah. In the original, she was a bit on the easy side, although she could land cheap shots.
In the Double Dragon crossover? Yeah, that one gives her justice.
I honesty consider Battletoads Arcade to be the best of the series... but it is extremely difficult. I've beaten every Battletoads game except Battletoads on Battlemaniacs.
I beat every battletoads games except the Nintendo version!🤯
If this game killed the franchise, the new one (2020) just closed the franchise for good, it was sooooooo bad.
The nerfed the Dark Queen, she looks nothing like how she used to. Just like everything nowadays, all nerfed and watered down.
@@commandervile394
IKR? The Dark Queen is supposed to be like the love-child of Movie Macabre's Elvira and Men in Black II's Serleena;
but instead RARE now downgraded her into looking and sounding like Emma Watson going goth.
On top of that, the animation, humor, and style ripped off Nickelodeon's Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!
You read my mind
This game didn't killed the franchise, it was just the last Battletoads game Rare made before they went to work exclusively with Nintendo.
@@VOAN Yeah, Battletoads was basically already dead. This game was just the last nail in the coffin.
One of the greatest arcade games ever... How they didn't build on it with a Sequel is criminally insane
Beat em ups were a dying genre at the time. People wanted more SFII and Mortal Kombat clones
Those idiot game testers whoever they were rating it low didn't help im sure. Probably scared off by the difficulty even tho its pretty much a staple of the series
Arcade beat 'em ups were a dying genre at the time, and Rare's DKC series was a success, so they focused on these.
No matter how great a game is, it will be put to the side if it doesn't gain enough profit. That, and while first Battletoads infamous difficulty was accepted, since it was a novelty, the later games keeping a frustrating and unfair difficulty level just narrowed down the potential fanbase, especially wirh more and more beat 'em ups with a better balanced gameplay kept popping up.
We're all masters of the first level of the OG Battletoads.
I've never seen this as the franchise killer, but as the grand finale that went out with a bang. to me, Battletoads Arcade aka Super Battletoads is by far the best game in the entire Battletoads franchise. 1994 was a great year for Rare's games since I see Battletoads Arcade, Killer Instinct, & Donkey Kong Country as the Holy Trinity.
My heart feels for that poor pilot minding his own damn business watching in horror while a pair of enraged mutant toads wail and smash his poor plane while he's trapped inside it.
Never played the Arcade version. But it looks wild, insane, and fun. Seeing the classic game go for a more mature edition, I like the idea. It is gutsy, awesome, and something to take a chance on.
Hands down this was the best version of Battletoads. Best music, gameplay and graphics.
This thumbnail is LEGENDARY! Love your culturally relevant, thumbnails THGM!
This game is a lot of fun and actually pretty rare. The cabinet was a custom just for this game and really rare to find. The boards too.
👍. I played at LOTS of arcades growing up.... I only ever saw this at one arcade! Spawn: In the Demon's Hand was also quite rare & this same arcade had that one, too!
You know that company who makes the mini arcade machines? It'd be really nice if they made it.
It was not the arcade that ruined it.. it was that piece of s*** reboot!! RIP
Actually IF the Arcade KILLED the franchise, then the reboot technically isn't a Battletoads game. What is actually true, because it doesn't resemble the Battletoads ;D
As someone that played the hell outta the original...the blood and gore was what made me want to play it...and man that experience was dope.
I used to play Battletoads arcade when I was a kid at an arcade called Celebration Station. I loved the blood and gore. Awesome beat ‘em up. I rank it all the way up there with tmnt simpsons and X-men.
Easily one of the best arcade beat 'em ups... Only thing that holds is back is it ends quite abruptly. I could have used another stage or two.
This game was great. Hands down my favorite in the series.
This new reboot garbage is what's going to kill the franchise
Best version of the series!
A local laundry mat that my mom frequented during my childhood had this game. I played it every single time we were there! I don’t recall the blood being in the game aside from battle damage to bosses. I’m sure the owners had the blood turned off. I never made it past the third level.
I also had the VHS of that pilot episode. I took it to elementary school one day. Someone stole the tape and replaced it with an episode of the Super Mario Bro 3 cartoon. At the time it didn’t bother me as much because I liked the Super Mario Bros 3 cartoon. But as time went on I was more bummed about it. Now learning that the pilot episode was the only episode, and not having come across it on streaming services, I’m more bummed that the tape was stolen. I’m a collector so I still have some VHS tapes. That would have been among them.
I used to play this game at Big Lots when i was a kid. God, I loved that arcade machine.
This game disappeared from our Lubbock K-mart after only a few weeks. It was awesome to play, and better than SNES Battlemaniacs.
Thank you for finally reviewing Battletoads Arcade, Richard!
I liked the Battletoads Arcade it was so different from the NES version, when I saw it I never knew Battletoads had an Arcade version. The game was OK my only complain is the ENDING. I HATE open ending video games.
Exactly. Unlike previous Battletoad games, there's no direct showdown with the Dark Queen. She's not even involved in the final levels of Battletoads Arcade, which made the game feel incomplete.
Developers ran out of time/money. Had to make several cuts, removed a few bosses, a stage (might have been two), heavily modified the final stage as a result, and threw the ending together at the last second.
What's open about it? The toads survive the crash because they're the heroes and have to, they zap back home via mysterious unseen "transporters", mission accomplished, galaxy saved. Seems pretty clear-cut to me.
How would this had killed the franchise? I didn't know of its existence until playing it at Galloping Ghost Arcade - meaning I didn't see it in the wild back then. The game is ridiculously hard yes.
Galloping Ghost in Brookfield IL?
@@noskoolikeoldskool yes.
It didn't, after this game Rare left for Nintendo which is why the series didn't get a new game until the Xbox era. When they're with Nintendo they mostly focus on first party titles and titles Nintendo made them create like Diddy Kong Racing, GoldenEye 007, and Killer Instinct. Also the arcade game is different cause it was published by EA instead of Tradewest.
Hard but fun. Was lucky to have numerous places have this arcade game
It's a BS clickbait title
I think utter neglect did a lot more to kill this franchise
I didn't have an xbox when the new game was announced but, I was pretty hyped even though the art style sucked- it seemed entirely designed by a Twitter marketing team.
Years pass, I forgot about it (since there wasn't any chatter after the release) finally played it.... I didn't expect it to be soo lifeless
I think the real thing that killed off the franchise was RARE being bought by Microsoft
Most especially the uninspired 2020 reboot.
Man, the Dark Queen re-design was TOO far! Yet xbots act like M$ isn't into censorship.
@@TexasHollowEarth
The Dark Queen isn't the only bombshell one who has fallen victim into becoming Tumblrized.
Companies like M$ actually do censorships for... You guessed it! *Money* Because if no one is going to listen to Woke-activists (which some like Naughty Dog may listen), bribing will buy their cooperation. But it will backfire on M$ because they won't make a profit from sales.
This is definitely the big reason
It's also pretty distinctly unfinished. You never fight The Dark Queen (final boss is Robo Manus, one of her usual henchmen), and there's portraits of the bosses on the wall during the next to last stage that includes Admiral Oink, who isn't in it. He was apparently supposed to be the boss of the snow stage, which explains Karnov's bizarre appearance. Professor T Bird and Angelica also never show up, though they have unused sprites in the game's code.
Where did you find the unused sprites? I've never heard of them before. Is it on emuland?
@@jeremiahnapier2516 Website. The Cutting Room Floor.
Karnath was going to be the boss of stage 4, The Cave Pit, which does not have a boss in the final version of the game. He was re-purposed to the second stage after they removed the Christmas-themed Oink. I remember reading an interview somewhere where one of the developer stated that they simply ran out of time, which is why the final stage took the form that it did and why the ending was so lackluster.
almightycinder / Breakfast - Thanks, that actually explains quite a bit. Dangit, I _wondered_ who the heck "Oink" was supposed to be! I thought it was just some inside joke at Rare. And yeah, Karnath fits the fourth stage _much_ more than the second.
"Ran out of time"? Since when are arcade games subject to Christmas Rush? I'd _really_ like to hear the story on that.
This game was amazing. I think the latest game killed the series. They swapped the styles of rash and zitz. And Rash being my favorite since 1 I was disappointed he didn’t focus on his footwork as his trademark attack style
Battletoads is a legendary series. I never even knew about the arcade version up until a few years ago. Not sure how I missed it???
this one is the best battletoads, i wish it didn't sell so terribly
I played through this game on mame. It was like a playable comic from Heavy Metal magazine. The art is amazing, the music was catchy. It was one of my favorite arcade games of all time.
I actually like this game a lot more than any of the other Battletoads games. It is not as challenging as the original but it is very fun and creative. You can actually play multiplayer and still win unlike the first game.
This is still my favorite Battletoads game, and I loved all their games. I wanted more games in this vein and was disappointed to never get them. But I will always treasure this one for giving me (and my family) lots of fun times.
In addition to the blood and decapitations the Battletoads had a move where they would grab an enemy by their dick then wail away.
In No Way The Arcade Version Killed The Franchise 😡 I Just Wished We Got An Arcade Version Before We Got The Console Games
I remember lusting after the chick in this game back when this dropped in arcades...
... Maybe she was the one that was getting us all ready for Lady D 🤔
I miss that Dark Queen from your thumbnail.
Agreed, the arcade game didn't kill Battletoads. By this point Battletoads and Double Dragon and Battletoads in Battlemaniacs had done that already. The arcade game, while extremely difficult, is pretty fun and a throwback to the fun early levels of the NES game but a commercial failure due to Battletoads already being dead.
But a quick correction: Battletoads weren't created in response to Ninja Turtles. In fact, their creator hadn't heard of the "Hero Turtles" yet. He had designed them when he was doodling back in high school and brought the notebooks out because Rare was looking for a corporate mascot (a la Bubsy, Sonic, or Mario). Of course, Rare saw them as the perfect answer to the Turtles, so that much is spot on.
I got the arcade version on my MAME emulator
What the reboot did to the Dark Queen... CRINGE.
I really enjoyed the Battletoads arcade I don't think it killed the franchise but you didn't see it for a long time until they brought it back also one of those games is Double Dragon Battletoads
Imagine being a British school child and one day you have a substitute teacher, when the classroom door opens it's TopHatGamingMan and he's carrying a Mega Drive under one arm.
I have based various lessons around the ZX Spectrum. It fits into the British Primary curriculum as pupils must learn about British Inventors. So who better than Sir Clive Sinclair!
Yum, Darkqueen.
I had no idea that the arcade game came later than the console games. Playing this on MAME is a blast.
@MAME MANIA It came after cause it's a different game. Battletoads on NES, Game Gear, and Sega Genesis are the same game, Battletoads Battlemaniacs on SNES is a different game which also had a SMS port. The Game Boy had both the NES port and a sequel. The arcade game is another sequel.
Hey, Top Hat Gaming Man. Can you please do a review of Battle Circuit? It was Capcom's last beat 'em up game they released for the arcade.
I loved the arcade version. I played it whenever I had the chance.
I remember playing this game at my local arcade. This was such a great game, I was wishing they would have done a home version.
The Battletoads Arcade game was quite good. IMO it was seriously hampered by having EA as the publisher. EA was well known at the time as a home computer and Genesis/Mega Drive game publisher but not at all in the arcade space. Also the game being a beat em up title released in December of 1994 (so basically 1995) also worked against it. For over 2 years one on one fighting games dominated the arcades at that point. Also, the Playstation & Saturn with their 3D polygon based graphics were coming soon and were being heavily pushed in the gaming press as the future of gaming.
In 1995 if you wanted to be competitive in the arcades you either had to be a well known arcade publisher (Sega, Capcom, Midway, SNK, etc.,) or a one on one fighting game or use 3D graphics. The Battletoads arcade game had none of those things going for it.
This is my favorite retro brawler, easily ... super underrated.
I absolutely love this game, and will play it at any arcade I ever find it at!
I was in the boy scouts for a very short time. Weebalos I think. But we went to Caesarland. Which was a little Caesars pizza themed arcade for a all nighter unlimited tokens and pizza. I saw this machine and it spoke to child me. "Beat me" so that was my absolute goal for the night. I spent about 8 hours bumming tokens off of anyone I could as I took this challenge on because I had to leave the machine to get tokens and that was no option! I did manage to complete this task and several years later I was reading a game informer magazine where it brought up how scarce the machines actually were. 2 in all of America one in some California arcade and the other at ceasarland in Warren Michigan. Blew my mind.
This is what I had hoped Battletoads 2020 would be more like. THAT game killed the franchise, not this one. The art style in BT 2020 is absolutely hideous.
Not to mention the out of place gameplay and story.
Unfortunately we live in an age where masculinity and sexiness is not allowed, which is why the Battletoads reboot became what it was.
Saw this in a bowling alley. Got quite a bit of action.
Although it was repetitive in spots and killing the enemies one by one by one could get frustrating (much like Crime Fighters, you _really_ needed to embrace the hit-em-while-they're-down mechanic to get anywhere), I've always had a special fondness for this for two reasons. One, it's almost unheard of for a series to go from console to arcade and always awesome when it happens. And two, the toads actually **did what they were supposed to be doing, FIGHTING!** (C'mon, It's right there in the name!) None of this speeder bike wrecking, getting caught by the aggravating orb, racing the way-too-fast rat, bouncing across bizarrely turning snakes, flying through 2,000 obstacles, avoiding 2,000,000 spikes crap. It was beatings, blood, gore, severed heads, and bodies flying into the foreground from start to... almost the finish, where it switched to a fast-paced shootout. This was the Battletoads that _had_ to be made.
Yeah, it could get expensive. Welcome to arcade games.
I loved the Battletoads Arcade version one of my favorite arcades growing up.
Is this really “obscure”? I thought it was pretty well known among arcade fans...
Regardless, it’s an awesome game, and the fact that it can be beaten makes it the best game in the series
I agree with this, though if you want a beatable Battletoads game, I recommend Battletoads on Game Boy. Its really hard as well, but its MUCH more playable.
It's quite well know NOW, but back when it was released, it was not widely circulated.
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Do you remember that Video game that's called "Toxic Crusaders" that had remind me of Battle Toads...
I remember playing this at a local arcade. Going from the NES to this, I was not prepared for the blood and gore. For a while, it felt like a fever dream.
The arcade version of battletoads is absolutely my favourite version of battletoads everything it has, the violence, the comedy, the gameplay, the music , the way the game works everything about it as an amazing combo that makes it one of my favourite thing to come out of the battle toads series
Nah, the latest Battletoads game on the Xbox One was the nail in the coffin. It was downright insulting.
This.
One of my favorite beat em ups ever. Was lucky enough to have this near me as a kid
Yes you are that damn good! From a humble American.
At least I could beat this version, unlike the NES game
Better than that kiddy crap with the trendy style of crappy artwork that they released on XB1 lol
yesss the definitive badass BATTLETOADS game!!
its a crime it never got ported to any consoles back in the days.
wish the series continued on after this one. it was epic ride.
ya the reboot new battletoads is a disgrace to this and classics battletoads.
totally ruined it. just like KI. rare has fallen. want this awesome battletoads back!! :(
Bro this arcade version of BT was the pinnacle of the franchise. No other BT game can rival it. The new recent BT game that came out was a huge disappointment.
I must say the latest Battletoads art style is horrible. Who thought a bright and cute style was a good update to the original? It looks like a bad parody by comparison. The Dark Queen also looks laughable, like she should be a Dexter's Labatory character.
I had Battletoads on gameboy as a kid. I replayed it recently and it still holds up.
Battletoads Arcade was ignored because arcade owners weren’t investing in three player machines anymore. Also the franchise became diluted with all the various cameos in other games and consoles.
It’s was a great game that didn’t stand a chance during its release….
I'd be so happy if there was an r-rated animated movie/show adaptation of Battletoads that take place in LA and then eventually go to space or something
I'm very to see you making videos on one of my favorite video game franchises again! Honestly I wouldn't say this game "killed" the franchise, (Because I think this game is probably one of the best ones in the series) I just think the Battletoads series didn't really fit the feel of the kind of games Rare was starting to develop, mainly the N64 games.
Once the Battletoads tasted blood and guns, they probably would've gotten along with Conker.
@@autobotstarscream765 I guess you're right, it probably just was the game not performing all that well
Wow i just completed this arcade version last month on my super console x Pro and i really really enjoyed playing this game for the 1st time and it is awesome in my opinion and the moniker of Amphibians sounds better than Battletoads personally 👌👍✌.
Played it on Rare Replay...I consider it the Definitive Version.
The aracade version of Battletoads was way better than the console versions . No Turbo tunnel or that annoying snake level. I know people who owen the NES and SNES versions naever made it past 3rd stage (not counting the bonus level in the Battlemaniacs). That's why itvwas included on the Rare Replay and why Rash was in Xbox One's Killer Instinct.
I didn't even know this existed! I'm a Battletoads fan. Own the NES, SNES Battlemaniacs, and Genesis BT&DD. I haven't tried the newest one yet.. the animation style threw me off. But I'm gonna have to grab that arcade rom if possible!
I have the rare replay collection and didn't realize the arcade version was there!
I just remember the first time I went up to a tall enemy and did a, ahem, "grapple" attack. ME: "...WOW."
If it wouldn't be one of the most unforgiving difficulty game in it's consoles and arcades, it wouldn't be Battletoads...
Impossible to forget this game, especially with Dark Queen and her cronies such as Robo Manus and Big Blag...
So many ways to get hit by a one turn kill attack in that game, like the turbo tunnel...
This is one of the 3 games in the Arcade1Up Killer Instinct cab that recently, dropped 👍! It's only a 2 player cab, though 😕
not to mention that david wise the composer of the famous donkey kong country soundtrack did the music and sounds for battletoads arcade
As a kid I didn't find Battletoads all that hard of a game, the Ninja Turtle game was unplayably hard to me however. But many years later I realized why...I played the game solo. On solo mode its not that hard, but when you try to have a second player it hinders a great deal of the game mechanics to the point of being detrimental to the players.
Totally rad dude!
No that would be the new battletoads. Bland and boring.
the 8:30 ship was one of the first uses Rare five to their shiny new SGI hardware, later used in DKC
What Killed the franchise was putting the Dark Queen into that HORRIBLE outfit in that reboot video game.
This is the BEST GAME I'VE NEVER PLAYED. Once i get set up for MAME ima emulate this beast....been anticipating this one for YEARS....
I haven't played through all of the arcade game, but I appreciate the fact you can pump virtual quarters in because: Battletoads. Though, it doesn't seem nearly as hard without the race sequences.
Battletoads Arcade was absolutely awesome. Best Battletoads game BY FAR! I am biased towards arcade games and especially arcade beat em ups though.
Richard, are you ever going to review the Asterix & Obelix beat 'em up from '92? It was made by that pachinko company... what was their name again?
CON-ami?
Always loved this game. Certainly obviously not finished. But still fun.
Did anyone else receive that yellow VHS tape in 1994(or around that time) that introduced us to DK Country for the SNES?
Played this years back. It's 1 of the better versions which I put up there with Battletoads & Double Dragon
Of all the places that i found this game, it was at my local walmart by the entrance when i was in 6th grade. The violence was unexpected, but welcoming, b/c i had already played the first 3 mk games in other arcades. I enjoyed it until they replaced it with some bass fishing game a month or so later.
It wasn’t the Arcade that “killed” the series, but rather this supposed Animated Series that they tried to make in the early 90’s is what really sank the Franchise.
Of all the cartoons I saw while growing up, the Battletoads pilot was considered one of the WORST things that fans have ever seen, and it completely hurt Rare in the long run.
Overall, the Arcade was the last chance for Rare to keep Battletoads going, and even though it was successful, it wasn’t enough to save the actual franchise, thus they went into Limbo.
Yet, the way how some things are being either Rebooted or Reintroduced, there’s still a chance for Battletoads to make a comeback, through Netflix or Hulu, and also make a Much Better Series.
No, another poster was right on the money when he said...neglect killed this franchise
Thumbnail got me
Me too.
Me too
IMO the difficulty was what made Battletoads so divisive. I think it might have gotten more fans if it was either a straight up beat-em-up (as in, no crazy gimmick stages) or if all the vehicle stages and whatnot weren't crazy hard.
It looks absolutely godly.
Origin of the art of the girl in the thumbnail icon please?
I wonder if Winky fro. DONKEY Kong Country might make an appearance in future Battletoads games