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Battletoads is a pretty fun arcade style beat-em-up game. The music was always very cool. The coolest thing about the graphics in Battletoads game, and its number one claim to fame, is the addition of huge body parts at the end of certain combos. The very last hit of almost all of the combos resulted in your fist or foot growing very large and then hitting your enemy with it. This was actually a huge craze at the time. The backgrounds looked good as well.
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Battletoads & Double Dragon was a crossover game by Rare, released in 1993 for various platforms. The game is very much like a Battletoads beat 'em up, except it includes Billy and Jimmy Lee. The heroes journey through space, pound on palette swaps, struggle with cheap repeated knockdowns and one-hit kills, and even defeat the Dark Queen while they're at it.
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All Battletoads games owe something to the original arcade version of Double Dragon. The fighting moves and techniques are similar. This similarity led to Battletoads/Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team which was released for the Super Nintendo, the Sega Genesis, the NES, and the Game Boy. ~ Brett Alan Weiss, All Game Guide
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The Battletoads game consists of three moves: a punch, a kick and a head-butt. Items include a rod that can be used to hit people and a robot head for throwing. Also, the whole game isn't just the standard “walk left and right and punch people” style. Most of the levels are like that, but 4 of them consist of “vehicles” (is a surfboard a vehicle?) that you ride around dodging obstacles or escaping enemies. 3 of the levels have you climb up or down a narrow shaft. There are ... a couple one-of-a-kind stages.
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Battletoads was never released on the SNES. Rare developed a different game with a different storyline for the SNES called Battletoads in Battlemaniacs (1993). It's differs from the Game Boy game as well as from the NES/Genesis game.
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Due to its innovative gameplay and (for the NES) superior graphics, the original Battletoads was almost universally well-received by gaming critics. However, it has remained somewhat maligned in the eyes of more casual gamers, due mostly to its high and frequently arbitrary-seeming difficulty.
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