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Battletoads is a genre-defying tale of two toads' quest to rescue their kidnapped friends from the clenches of the Dark Queen. Where Frogger brought frogs to the forefront of videogaming, Battletoads taught children that toads weren't frogs and were here to kick some ass.
Overview
As the video game market slowly turned towards the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Genesis, Rare Ltd released this game which can be considered one of the best looking games on the NES. The game begins aboard the space ship ‘The Vulture’ where Battletoads Rash, Zitz, and Pimple (all disgustingly named after skin diseases) are escorting Princes Angelica back to her home planet. Pimple and Princes Angelica go cruisin’ and get intercepted by the game’s villain, the Dark Queen of Ragnarok. Both are kidnapped and taken back to Ragnarok. The Professor (captain of The Vulture) takes Rash and Zitz to ‘rumble’ with the Dark Queen on Ragnarok and ‘get the Princess and Pimple back.’ The remainder of the game takes place on planet Ragnarok where Rash and Zitz set off to save their friend Pimple and Princess Angelica.The games levels vary between two distinct types, 3D and 2D side-scroller. The main objective of each level is to defeat as many enemies and overcome as many obstacles as possible and reach the endpoint. General strategy is to simply memorize these obstacles to reach the end a rely on quick reflex’s to defeat enemies. The entire game rounds up to two difficult levels where you climb a tower and, at the end, reach the Dark Queen.
The most memorable aspect of this game is the absurd difficulty. Not only did it employ a decent amount of memorization but reflexes had to be fast, fast even for vet gamers. Another memorable moment for this game would be the humorous way enemies were finished off, be it by using a football helmet or sprouting horns and ramming the enemy off screen.
Internet Meme
Once on a popular internet imageboard dedicated to video games, someone (most likely a troll) posted a screen of the game Battletoads for the NES, and asked board users what the name of the game was. Because users felt the answer should be obvious to anyone active on the board, this act incited swarms of rage, and stayed in the collective memory of many of the board's most active. Users would eventually come to mimic the happening entirely in attempts at humor. At the times when a user presents a screen of a game and asks for the name, it became common for users to reply with "Battletoads" in reference to said event.Stemming from this meme, pranksters would take it upon themselves to demand "Battletoads" from local Gamestop stores. Humor would result from employee frustration at the request of this obscure, NES-era title. These pranks would often result in great hardship on this store since hundreds of pranksters would call at once, all requesting "Battletoads."
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