I couldn’t decide which comic to do so I did both! Yay who needs sleep?
OK I have to admit not having played Battletoads much, it always seemed to hard for me and I thought it was a weird Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles rip off. But it seems kind of fun!
And for some reason I own a Battletoads toy. Why did I buy this back in the day? I mean LOOK AT THIS THING:
I had way too much disposable cash when I was a kid.
Did you know there was an Arcade version of Battletoads? And it was published by Electronic Arts? Neither did I! That was weird. Battletoads was a weird franchise. I mean what other game had a cross over with Double Dragon for no apparent reason.
Oh by the way YES I know Battletoads came out in 1991 not 1992 but there were so many versions of the game that came out between 1991 and 1993 that I think I can get away with it in 2012 🙂
Update: I’ve since been notified that the toy is not a Battletoads toy and is, in fact, a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toy. WHOOPS!
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I am fairly certain that’s a TMNT toy. Genghis Frog, I think it’s name was.
I should have totally gotten a job naming dodgy spin-off characters, that’s awesome, thanks!
Battletoads was hard as nails, especially the driving section, which you basically had to have memorised 100% in advance to have any chance at a 1CC. Ideal for an arcade whose job is to pump as many coins out of you as it can, but frustrating as heck for anyone who actually bought the home games.
The fighting was only average too, the TMNT and of course the amazing Golden Axe did the side scroller hack and slashy thing better, the dropping in a hole fighting was kind of unique and for a while fun, but Gunstar Heroes about a year later did that much better too