Battletoads
is a platformer video game created by Tim and Chris Stamper and
developed by Rare as the first installment of the Battletoads series. It
was originally released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1991
and subsequently ported to numerous other platforms. In the game, two
space mutant warriors known as the Battletoads, Rash and Zitz, embark on
a mission to defeat the evil Dark Queen on her planet and to rescue
their kidnapped friends: fellow Battletoad Pimple and Princess Angelica.
Battletoads is arguably one of the most graphically advanced video
games ever released for the NES, at a time when the video game market
was moving on to 16-bit consoles. The game became famous for its extreme
difficulty and humorous ways of beating enemies, as during finishing
attacks, the main characters' body parts transform into oversized
appendages for devastating and comical attacks.
Professor T. Bird and the three Battletoads, Rash, Zitz, and Pimple,
are escorting Princess Angelica to her home planet using their
spacecraft, the Vulture. Pimple and Angelica decide to take a leisurely
trip on Pimple's flying car. They are ambushed and captured by the Dark
Queen's ship, the Gargantua. Pimple sends out a distress signal to the
Vulture, alerting Professor T. Bird, Rash, and Zitz that himself and
Angelica had been captured. 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.
Between levels, the toads receive briefing comments from professor T.
Bird, along with teasing from the Dark Queen. During the game's 13
levels, the Battletoads are faced with Dark Queen's minions Big Blag,
Robo Manus and Major Slaughter as bosses, ultimately facing the Dark
Queen herself at the top of the Dark Tower, the game's final level. Once
the Queen is defeated, she claims it will not be the last they woud see
from her, later turning into some sort of tornado and flying into
space, 'retreating into to the shadowy margins of the galaxy to recoup
her losses'. With Pimple and Princess Angelica rescued, the four are
brought back into the Vulture and the game ends.
Players start with three lives each time the game is started, and get
replenished every time the player continues after reaching game over.
While, the levels of Battletoads vary greatly in gameplay style, the
game is generally presented as 'beat-em-up' in which the players
progress by defeating enemies while avoiding the hazards in the
environment. The players can finish off enemies in special ways, such as
punching or kicking with an enlarged fist or boot, head-butting with
huge ram horns, or by transforming into a wrecking ball.
Side-scrolling stages are generally presented as having an isometric
perspective, while platforming stages that feature vertical progression
are presented with no depth, which allows the player characters to
crouch. Several levels in the game feature sections in the form of an
obstacle course, where the character rides a vehicle and must dodge a
series of obstacles with speed increasing as the level progresses. Other
types of level include two 'tower climb' levels, a descent to a chasm
while hanging from a rope, an underwater level populated by lethal
spikes and dangerous creatures, a maze chase riding a unicycle-like
vehicle trying to escape from a deadly orb, a climbing/jumping 'snake
maze', and a race level in which the player has to fall as quickly as
possible through countless platforms to reach the bottom of a tower
before an opposing rat does. Hidden in four of the levels are 'mega
warp' points, which, when found, allow the player to automatically
advance by two levels.
More details about this game can be found on
Wikipedia.org.
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6 different online emulators are available for Battletoads. These
emulators differ not only in the technology they use to emulate old
games, but also in support of various game controllers,
multiplayer mode, mobile phone touchscreen, emulation speed, absence or
presence of embedded ads and in many other parameters. For
maximum gaming enjoyment, it's important to choose the right
emulator, because on each PC and in different Internet browsers, the
individual emulators behave differently. The basic
features of each emulator available for this game Battletoads are
summarized in the following table:
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