The ending is a bit on the thin side, but it’s still fitting and has a bit more meat on the bones compared to many NES games of the time. Rare spent a lot of time on the intro, which is ’90s cheese at its best, as are all of the scenes between each stage. Bird who insulted you when you died and a femme fatale villain who antagonized and insulted you at every chance. It was also full of attitude, with Professor T. Presentation: Battletoads was initially released on the NES in 1991 and slightly later the same year on the Genesis, and it was full of style and was a graphical tour de force when it was released. Despite not finishing the NES original, I have seen enough of it and know the ending so I give an unbiased comparison of the two games. I have received a lot of requests from all of you here at Sega-16 for a Side-by-Side article that indicated that I was probably the only one on the site who knew both versions so well, as not many here can even come near to finishing the Genesis version. That being said, I will conquer this Godzilla-sized mountain of a game, and I will do it soon. I can blaze through the Genesis port without using continues, but I still haven’t been able to conquer the last stage of the NES version, though I can make it all the way there fairly regularly. Despite this, it keeps me coming back for more, even after twenty years of play.Īs of this writing, I’m still not able to finish the NES Battletoads in its entirety. It was twelve crazy stages full of twitch reactions and blindingly fast speeds and memorization. Despite the difficulty, you have to give to Rare for the sheer amount of variety that it put into the original Battletoads game on the NES.

Personally, I happen to truly love all of the titles in the series (well maybe not those Amiga duds). That being said, Battletoads has to be one of the most polarizing games ever made. When it comes to gamers’ opinions this classic, it’s truly a love/hate relationship. Rare has to be responsible for some of the most infamously difficult games of all time. Note: This article is strictly using the American NTSC NES version and will not apply to the PAL or NTSC-J Japanese Famicom versions, as they are vastly different and would require separate comparisons on their own.

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