Battletoads Arcade review - SNESdrunk

[@megagrey]

This is the most enthusiastic I've heard you in a while.

[@only257]

megagrey agreed 🎞

[@TechnicolorMammoth]

Well when you are so disappointed at the home consoles port but find the actually amazing arcade version, yeah he has every right to be happy. I actually feel bad that he actually got decent at the Nintendo version. Man, fuck that shitty game, poor SNES DRUNK.

[@kathartik]

Battletoads for the NES wasn't a port. Battletoads Arcade didn't come out until 3 years after the NES version and a year after Battlemaniacs.

[@zanegandini5350]

@@TechnicolorMammoth The Japanese version of NES Battletoads was rebalanced so it wasn't so merciless. I find that I can actually appreciate that version because of it.

[@miaouew]

What do you expect? It's Arcade 'toads ~_~

[@flexonswole]

SNESDrunk and 7AM uploads name a more iconic duo

[@zekossss]

Dude, it was uploaded on 3PM, WTF

[@ArmaBiologica35]

@@zekossss Different Time zones. Are you from Europe or Australia?

[@shane1489]

Drunk in the morning is a good start to a great day.

[@hankzane]

Minnesota work ethic

[@mrwess1927]

Baileys from an old shoe...

[@scorchfire4816]

And its worth to mention that Rash's reaction on the bosses intro its beyond hilarious.

[@SlyBeast]

See now THIS is more along the lines of what I was expecting from a new Battletoads, not that crap that was shown at E3 last year.

[@jm3756]

Was sooooo disappointed in what I saw. This arcade game is amazing though. Have it on Rare Replay.

[@manga3040]

@@jm3756 What is "Rare Replay?" EDIT: I did not hear him say it at the end there. Do you know if you can get that pack on pc if you are using windows?

[@jm3756]

manga3040 I do not know, sorry

[@olblueyes7670]

I played this for the first time on Rare Replay last week. It was so good I had to keep hitting continue so I could beat the game in one sitting. Dragged my daughter into the living room to pick up a Controller and help me out. Love everything about this game!

[@Cav_Florian]

your videos are like a cup of coffee in the morning, great work , thanks!

[@jeffcox6539]

They were in Killer Instinct and Shovel Knight. They're icons.

[@miaouew]

My favorite arcade beat-em-up as a kid, yes even more than AVP and others. Mainly it was because of Battletoads rarity. My mom got us an NES and the NES version of Battletoads sometime in the early 1990s and we would play together, always getting shut down on the turbo tunnel of course (especially since I was like 4-5 years old) About 5 years later I ran across this arcade version in a movie theater and my mind was blown...I was not expecting to find Battletoads there! Except it looked so much better and was basically Rated R. spent about 15 bucks in quarters that day on that Battletoads cabinet and still fire the game up in Retroarch at least once a month to this day. I love the violence and extra-sexy Dark Queen in this version :]

[@SrSacaninha]

I rememeber seeing this game in a Gamepro magazine during the 90's and the graphics seemed unbelievably good for the time. Never got to play it until emulators became available. Great game.

[@ProjectGenesisMusic]

I remember as a kid when I first saw this in an arcade my mind was blown and every visit after this game would be the first one I played becoming my favorite arcade game. So many people still dont know about this game which is insane! Love the music and love that not only is Zitz playable, but all 3 toads are distinct in appearance and moves which I wish would have happened in Battletoads and Double Dragon. This is the review this game has needed for years!

[@Zanctum]

Best review ever, at last someone show some love to this amazing game! excelent video! And I think the same for years, the NES battletoads is hard for all the wrong reasons.

[@alexisjohnson]

I never got the chance to see the arcade cabinet in my area, it's amazing and definitely a stable in my mame rig.

[@es-ed5ug]

aww, we didn't get a shot of the dark queen in this one. I bet she looked extra good in the arcade game.

[@justinkelley7288]

This is why I love your channel. I had no idea this game existed, and I own the rare replay collection that has it! So now I can go home and play. Thanks!

[@mrmanjumac3454]

THIS was the first arcade game I ever played in my life. I saw this cabinet and couldnt stop thinking abt it as a 5-6 year old. I was lucky enough to have an arcade near me that had both Battletoads, Metamoprhic Force, and Ninja Baseball Bat Man. I was freaking spoiled and didnt know it. I'm just glad to see someone review this game. The music is awesome, and honestly the victory jingle at the end of stages is top tier, slightly better than Mega Man, Castlevania, Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest's victory jingles

[@bes03c]

I am up late pounding out grad school work and this video popped up. The intro got me more amped than the coffee I have been chugging. Great stuff.

[@mrjotz]

Battletoads and Double Dragon was fun, too.

[@miahthorpatrick1013]

Yeah let's not forget that one. I actually thought they put a lot of care into Battletoads/Double Dragon.

[@TopsideCrisis346]

I remember actually playing this in the arcade. There was a place in Vancouver called Wunderland, where for a small admission fee, one could play all the latest games - with nickels instead of quarters! My bros and I played this one front to back, spending only about $15 total to beat it, if memory serves. Definitely one of the most solid beat-em-ups ever made. 😎

[@captainblubber]

By far my favourite Battletoads game! Thanks for featuring this!

[@cupriferouscatalyst3708]

I've never played this but I've seen it brought up here and there online, and honestly this looks like the kinda game Battletoads was always meant to be.

[@mapleblues22]

One of the best arcade beat'em-ups of all time. I played this with 3 other people at Pinballz Arcade in Austin, and it took forrrevver to beat it. So many tokens used, but it was hella fun.

[@JoJoTheOtter]

My cousin spent half a summer with us once when we were young. So many days that summer we would head over to Sav-U-Foods and grab a carton of chocolate milk, then head to the bowling alley arcade to play this game. We spent so many quarters on it but were never able to beat it. Fast forward to the mid 00’s and I found this cabinet at a nickel arcade. The better news was that the 2nd joystick was broken, so it was set to free play. Needless to say, I stood at that cabinet until I finally beat it. If only my cousin had been with me. That would have been something.

[@kikujade]

I am now drinking a sip of my beer each time you say "jeez luis"

[@storageanddisposal]

This is probably the most fun I've had at the arcade. Love this game!

[@ToastyMann]

4:31 This line aged well

[@masterlee1988]

This line surprises me since the new Battletoads game was already 1st shown in 2019(and ended up being released in 2020).

[@daakrolb]

Thank you for covering this. I have known about this but never played it. Looks like a damn good time.

[@skolnutz]

When I was a kid I went to this arcade called “Magic Mountain” in Columbus Ohio. I went there expecting to play Lazer Tag. Well I’m walking through the arcade and caught wind of this beauty. I knew of it because I played the NES version, but when I got on this I was like fuck yeah. A year later I went back to the same arcade, my parents gave me $20 and I said fuck the ticket games all my tokens went to this. And kids watched me making a crowd around me, felt badass

[@mrwess1927]

The world needs more arcades.

[@miaouew]

I had almost the same experience except it was at a Tinseltown! Never knew the game existed in the arcades before I found it there that day. I love this game so much.

[@SuperSaiyanGuyver]

My buddy Sean when I was a kid wanted the NES Battletoads to be like this. I hope he's played it. Looks amazing. No Friendly Fire is ESPECIALLY welcome. Have a great rest of your day too SNESDrunk.

[@nebuchadnezzar8683]

This used to be one of my 1st childhood games of my childhood and still relive these kind of moments now and then for the thrill of the action.

[@Mathiasvandenberge]

Wow that intense intro caught me off guard. No need for coffee now.

[@hoosierflatty6435]

I'm sticking with coffee but I found it unsettling.

[@calico5722]

Holy shit.. this looks amazing. The sprite scaling makes it look ACTUALLY 3 dimensional

[@GamemaniacosDeAyeryHoy]

Ports of this Game were in development for Gameboy and Snes.

[@kuma1388]

Battletoads on SNES is a great game. Similar to the arcade game

[@PAKA62]

There's no way the SNES could've handled this

[@GamemaniacosDeAyeryHoy]

Fake news....whatever. This was confirmed by Rare employes, the Gameboy version was actually shown.

[@Black-Rat]

Never seen it, and I've been on SNES many times, it's been over around at least 25 years ago, nothing about this game, what we got on SNES were Battletoads and Battlemaniac, or Battletoads and Double Dragon, nothing else.... No, there's no way the SNES's technology could ever make it happen on that game, forget it... But, now with this arcades it's impressive, never knew about that version of Battletoads until now, it looks definitely like a real heart-stopper, it looks funny too, great sound effects and great graphics...

[@xdistortxjapanx]

I found a Battletoads arcade cabinet in the wild at an arcade in Chicago. I spent like $10 on it. Possibly my favorite beat ‘em up.

[@FloggingMicah]

I had no idea about this. This looks amazing. It is perfectly 90s. Fits right into the barf age.

[@elbitxo5945]

Try Thunder Hoops 2:TH Strikes Back, a recently emulated obscure arcade from 1994. It also has that dark comic style and over the top violence and humor, let's describe it as a mix between Contra, Battletoads and Dragon Ball Z. It's not a game as polish Rare's, and it also requires memorization, but you will be surprised and have a blast.

[@TheLyonkoke]

I had no idea this existed !!! Looks fantastic ! I will have a great rest of my day after this. Thanks !

[@leecroft1983]

Jorge Lyon You can play this on Xbox One. It’s part of the Rare Reply collection.

[@ProjectGenesisMusic]

One of the best arcade beat em ups!

[@LobsterPuncher]

This is by far my favorite Battletoads game. It's my favorite game on the Rare Replay collection.

[@MatthewTheWolf2029]

A classic arcade game. Surprisingly a lot more violent and gruesome than the NES original.

[@TenguToshi]

Nothing gets me ready for a late shift than coffee, cookies, and SNES Drunk

[@Randomark3087]

I first played this on the Rare Replay Collection. I love how I've the top it is!

[@samuelc6834]

Ok this might be your best commentary to date! Just hilarious

[@ktak2811]

LOLd hard at today's "SNES DRUUUNK"

[@ggbetz]

You made this video super fun, Drunk!

[@benjiroberts4434]

Many many years ago when mame and kaillera were all done on mostly one of three servers, I used to start rooms for this and once or twice actually got 3p. Good times. A good beat em up even if it drags a little. Miss those 6player kof98 rooms

[@tomstorm255]

Loved playing this one on Rare Replay! I too didn't know it existed until a few years ago!

[@azuza2525]

I love this game! I, like you, didn't know this exsisted until Rate replay. Another great video SNESDrunk.

[@ZyxthePest]

This game looks like a playground legend. "DUDE, DID YOU SEE THE PIZZA PLACE HAS A BATTLETOADS GAME THAT HAS TONS OF BLOOD AND GORE?!" "...sure, Mike...sure."

[@caslaBBalsac]

Dutchman's Pizza in Northern California a ways south of San Jose, that's where I first saw it.

[@Waffletigercat]

While not a Battletoads game, the Battletoads are a secret boss fight in the PC and XBox versions of Shovel Knight. They are also playable characters in the XB1 Killer Instinct game.

[@thyownshadow]

One of the greatest multiplayers for siblings or the kids.

[@JazGalaxy]

I saw this beast in person exactly once and it was in, like, 2003. Long past it’s hey-day. It was someplace weird like a laundromat.

[@ProjectGenesisMusic]

I was lucky enough to have one in my local arcade. Would play it first every visit.

[@TheHorrorExperiment]

Try looking into the Bucky O' Hare Arcade Game

[@jaymethysell5111]

The NES game is good too.

[@shaggyturtlestudios]

I remember him covering that briefly in his arcade game series.

[@danielrecommends]

One of my new favorite beat-em-ups. It embodies everything that makes a great arcade game. I got the Rare Replays just for this game and then saw that its also on the new X-Box Game Pass subscription. I like physical media so no biggie. I really like your arcade reviews and would love one of Alien Vs Predator if you haven't done it already.

[@BabusGameRoom]

This is awesome! I agree with your opinion on the NES Battletoads...except for everything you said about the game after the 3rd or 4th level...the motorjet one? I have no idea what the game was like after that level. So Battletoads Arcade sounds right up my alley!

[@Kos4Evr]

The battle toads game we always wanted

[@brockrock8898]

This was my favorite arcade game to play. I wish they made more games like this

[@mukinha]

This channel is pure love

[@Metallizombie]

I grew up in south central PA and I can never recall seeing a battle toads at the arcade. I wonder how many they sold?

[@TheBrowncoats85]

I remember playing this at a hotel arcade as a kid. Parents immediately regretted those quarters lol

[@riggel8804]

I'm going to stick up for my Toads here. NES Battletoads is a top 10 NES game. Perfect stage design, varriety, detailed sprites and backgrounds, amazing music. When it came out it was widely popular. It remains popular to this day because it is so good... And so hard. I've beet the majority of hard nes games and Battletoads is hard but fair. The enemy patterns are predictable, there are warps to help you practice. The game is short- 30 minutes. There is a disconnect between Battletoads and today's audience. For one, today's audience gets quickly frustrated with "pick up and die games". Personally I don't mind investing 16 hours into practicing Battletoads. After all I don't mind investing 40 hours into Chrono Trigger. Another problem is that Battletoads requires VERRY precise timing. As a result you can't beat it on a flatscreen tv with a wireless controller and a emulator. Which is probably the way most people try to play it today.

[@raikohzx4323]

"As of 2020 this was the last Battletoads game ever made." Ha ha, yes, the last one, lets just forget that one reboot game that was supposed to come out last year that looks like a dumpster fire.

[@DintheAbary]

I laughed so much harder at that part of the video than I should have. The new game makes me sad smh

[@javaly78]

So what happened to that reboot last footage I saw was from August of last year. Not like I’m buying it or anything. I would prefer them to make something similar to how Rash looked in Killer Instinct

[@Skeemac]

I come from the future. The game is far worse than we could have feared.

[@15johnf]

Look great, Thanks for showing us all an old classic we didn't know nothing about 👌

[@animatrix1490]

There was a cabinet of this in the CiCi’s pizza we’d sometimes go to when I was a kid. Never played it. I think the CiCi’s got replaced by a karate or taekwondo school. Wonder what happened to it

[@TimBitten]

If only this thing had been in my local arcade as a kid!!

[@MoonSpiritChannel]

One of my favorites arcade games, and of the Battletoads franchise. We are supposed to get a new game of theirs soon, but when was the last we heard of news of it? A year or two ago?

[@RetroMoments]

SNESdrunk always delivers! I definitely need to play this!

[@pogslammer3082]

you should let fans record themselves saying "snes drunk" and randomly incorporate it into your opening here and there

[@phattjohnson]

Shit, I remember Pog slammers! Nostalgia trip: Double activated!

[@Mike14264]

Seeing this, I can now understand the disappointment of some people about the new trailer.

[@masterrserch3971]

I like those star destroyer looking things at 4:01 and so on

[@dyl_pickle16-mta48]

This is my favorite beat ‘em up game ever. I can still play it today on an online emulator.

[@spikedtrap2949]

Great Timing! I've been playing this game recently! Sucks it never got a snes port but still. The gore caught me by the leg, I didn't expect it at all!

[@danielmccormick700]

Great SNESDrunk intro this time. You can feel the contempt.

[@iamLI3]

now if only battletoads 2020 didn't exist we could all be satisfied with this review lol....

[@shdjdj7135]

I love battletoads and double dragon. Please review biker mice from mars

[@BzaafiedTheYatagarasu]

It's definitely along there between Battlemaniacs and Battletoads/Double Dragon as my favorite. I will say though if it wasn't for Rare Replay and infinite continues it might be a different story. This game is notoriously cheap at parts, perhaps even moreso than the NES version. They programmed the final boss to not take damage for two minutes just to eat quarters in arcades.

[@caslaBBalsac]

2:25 They're Flying Police Officers. A clear pun on the term "When Cops Fly"

[@Peter_1986]

People who fall through the floors on stage 3 frequently make the mistake that they try to outrun the screen and get ahead "as quickly as possible". In that area you are supposed to try to avoid making very diagonal movements, and try to make a somewhat vertical landing, and also preferably far away from the edges.

[@marlonsanchez3141]

Forgot the most iconic thing about the home version of the game..... that thumping and slick as fuck pause beat, you know?? * thumpish, thumpish, clap, clap, clap, thumpish, thumpish...*, it gets stuck in your head.

[@OVERKILL142]

Little tip: go up to general vermin (the guy that you can punch in the nuts),make sure there’re no enemies on screen just one general vermin, go up to him and grab his nuts, and punch 2 times (you punch once automatically so just press a once) and let go and repeat.You can do this infinitely and it stun locks him so give em hell. (Pro tip you can drag him around with the grab hit box

[@jcb3393]

What was the deal with the Dark Queen? Did she ever make an in-game appearance, or is she just clickbait for the cover?

[@dariusq8894]

I always use to think "If only Battletoads would drop all the ridiculously difficult vehicle / racing levels and focus on the fighting the game would be perfect". That's exactly what Battletoads Arcade is. =) Next closest runner up would be Battletoads/Double Dragon, but for sheer graphic fidelity the arcade version takes the cake.

[@buddhull]

This game was a mere hearsay legend by the time I was renting Battletoads from Video Factory in 1998. It was kind of like an odd parallel to the issue of how I kept renting Simpsons games hoping that *this* one would finally be the one I played in the arcade with my friends. But I was too dumb, young and born to a couple video game-clueless parental units to figure that out until a few years later.

[@raphaelfp]

I wonder why Battletoads in Battlemaniacs wasn't a simple port of this one, since the visuals are pretty similar - considered you would tone down the violence for SNES standards. They opted instead for something inbetween this one and the NES game, and in the end it's kind of just a regular game. This arcade looks and sounds absolutely insane

[@TheRavenwolf666]

I didn’t know there was a Battletoads arcade, also I never played Battletoads on the nes and I never got past the Turbo Tunnel on the SNES version which is really hard.

[@whispersignal1]

Yeah, SCREW the turbo tunnel! I know it is beatable, but I don't have the patience to keep playing through everything over, and over again; just to die in three seconds. I still love the game over all, and yeah, a lot of that could be nostalgia; but damn that section lol.

[@duffman18]

On the SNES battletoads I can't get past the bit where you're falling down a tunnel on hovercraft thing and the walls kill you and you're going really really fast. Even with save states I can't beat it. Maybe it's the input lag from the emulator, or maybe I'm just crap. I could slow the game speed down to 50% or something to get through it but that's not really beating it, is it, it wouldn't have the same satisfaction as actually beating it

[@TechnicolorMammoth]

I genuinely feel sorry for you. I knew the arcade first. Fuck the console ports. Half baked, half assed and with terrible level design like the turbo tunnel. Arcade Battletoads or nothing at all.

[@ProjectGenesisMusic]

@@duffman18 That spike part is actually easy when you figure out how to do it. I get stuck at the bikes in both this and the NES one. Thank god the arcade doesn't have that damn stage.

[@totalermist]

@@TechnicolorMammoth >Fuck the console ports. The consoles games weren't ports! They came first and the arcade game released *last* and was the final title of the series and came three years after the original.

[@gwgux]

I didn't know there was a Battletoads arcade either. Looks like they may have perfected the formula too.

[@samuricexful]

0:43 “Mommy, what’s he doing to that snake?”

[@face37]

I used to play this all the time at my local Pizza Hut when I was a kid. They have it at Galloping Ghost in Brookfield IL.

[@ProjectGenesisMusic]

That place has everything. It might be heaven.

[@mattmurphy2755]

A few friends, a few beers, and this game would be a fantastic time

[@travismcdowell8352]

This game looks awesome!!! never heard of it till a few years ago hearing about it on KZbin. Maybe someday I'll play it on Mame👍

[@thenostalgiafactor5023]

Buy Rare Replay on the Xbox One. It is on there.

[@chicodalianis8004]

You never played this? How does it feel to not have lived a full life?

[@travismcdowell8352]

@@chicodalianis8004 hey I own every Battle Toads game Genesis, SNES,Nes,Master System

[@leecroft1983]

Travis McDowell It’s part of the Rare Reply collection on Xbox One.

[@TechnicolorMammoth]

@@travismcdowell8352 no, you don't get it. The console ports are literal garbage in comparison to the arcade version. If you got good at the console ports it's because you felt how awesome it could be but you literally got good at playing the trash versions. Play the arcade version asap, you're living an incomplete life.

[@lennywright5655]

I never knew about this game either till I started it on Rare Replay, even at first I thought I was playing Battletoads: Battlemaniacs (SNES games usually were ports of the arcade version) I quickly realized it was something different, a very pleasant surprise :)

[@KingVVIlly]

Hey Drunk! Great video, as always. I actually just got kicked out of bed by my wife because I kept laughing (stiffled) with your sega bad cover art video. Question: what emulator would you recommend? There are so many old arcade games I want to play with my brother since we never saw them in our home country of El Salvador back in the 80s and 90s.

[@8thLife]

Bahahaha perhaps my favourite intro yet; had to rewind too many times!

[@radcow]

Is this battletoads

[@dantekyle1775]

This is the one I wanted.

[@Lastjustice]

I played this when I was around 12 years old, and just started laughing so hard when I saw the over the top animations. It was alot of fun, which as someone who had completed the original battletoads I felt right at home with the controls. You just brutally maul everything in this game.

[@Dj.D25]

I did enjoy the Battletoads arcade game. I heard of it for years, but never saw photos or video of it until more recent years. I never even saw it in arcades growing up. The game is a lot of fun, but some enemy attacks feel cheap. This also feels like a game where a second player is necessary. It's a shame Rare didn't continue making Battletoads games afterward. They could have made an N64 game I am sure. The newest Battletoads game revealed last year disappointed a lot of people with the art style.

[@GeovaneSanciniSR]

New SNES Drunk Video? Running faster than a cheetah with stomachache to watch

[@mcfeddz44]

The NES Battletoads is one of my favorite games, mostly due to the variety! You should stick to Turtles in Time.

[@Davtwan]

Last game of the series? (At least for now.) Better go all out by making the no-holds-barred game they were dreaming of. Good job, Rare. Good job.

[@TheReincarnatedDeath]

Wow! Didn't know about this. Looks awesome!

[@HighFalutinTootin]

❤Battle Toads (nes version is legendary)

[@ZBR_ProXP]

Looks awesome, I’ve never known about this one. Anyone ever seen a cabinet in the wild?

[@ZBR_ProXP]

Jim Notor lol!