Battletoads (Game Boy) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- A playthrough of Tradewest's 1991 beat 'em up for the Nintendo Game Boy, Battletoads.
This is a different game from the "port" of the NES version, confusingly named "Battletoads in Ragnarok World". I personally much prefer this version on the old green-and-grey handheld though.
The original(ish) stages are great and the music is awesome. Not that there's anything wrong with the NES tracks downmixed to the GB sound hardware in Ragnarok World, but the original tunes in this one are no joke! It's probably my favorite of all of the Battletoads soundtracks. The graphics are also pretty awesome, with some huge sprites that dwarf the typical Game Boy fare.
It's a very impressive title for the Game Boy, but having been developed by Rare, should anyone actually be surprised by that?
This is also a MUCH easier game than just about any other Battletoads game out there. It is still fairly stiff for the Game Boy (especially the stages with the brain chase and the rocket pack), but really, it's not hard at all if you can ace the NES version.
Recorded using Retroarch's DMG shader to mimic the look of the original Game Boy screen.
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This is easily my favorite of the Battletoads games on the handheld. This one's toned-down difficulty and amazing music really make it worth the play.
I honestly feel this is the best Battletoads game.
Quite short, but totally awesome
@@kabutops87 I think it's time we all just admit this. It's better than the NES game because it's not total dogshit with the difficulty.
@@BryanX64 Yep pretty much. That and the music sounds mostly better.
When I was 9 in 1993, my parents took me on a cruise ship and my dad gave me this game when we got to our room and I remember playing the shit out of it, not just during the cruise but for months afterwards. I liked it more than the NES version.
The year I was born! That's a cool story. Mine is that my brother's friend gave him gave him a gameboy with games (around 1999) and one of the games was Battletoads and I couldn't get past the in-coming bars on the second level (As an adult I can't get past the rock tunnel!) Then around that time we went to siblings basketball tournament across the state and in the hotel they happened to have Battletoads Arcade. How lucky was I! Didn't play the NES version until 15 years later and played it like crazy when I did. Interesting journey with the Battletoads IP!
I couldn’t get past the rock tunnel either.
Have to say it's amazing how much they packed into such a small cartridge! A lot of varied gameplay. There's much to be said about all who developed this game in working with such limited hardware!
It's only a 20 minute game though. They polished up the graphics pretty good to make up for the length.
Leave it to Rare to pull off parralax scrolling on a friggin' Gameboy.
That’s sooo true and now am thinking of it, i wonder why rareware didn’t add paralax scrolling in donkeykong country on gameboycolor,it could,ve be done.
@@johneygd Better yet the Donkey Kong Land games. DKC on GBC was kinda rubbish
The only Battletoads game I can beat!
I could never get past level 5 with the Boulder. I don’t know how they did. Even after watching this I can’t figure out why they could do it and I couldn’t
@@michaelsteinberg205 Lots of practice and memorization, lol. Iirc, there is a way to jump over the boulder, but it's very specific and difficult to pull off.
The mine's Battletoads & Double Dragon (NES) with Billy Lee.
You sure about that?
I've only beaten Battletoads Arcade
My go to game on my Game Boy, and the only Battletoads game I could beat. The crazy thing is how I still find myself whistling some of these tunes (especially the jet ski stage) and had completely forgotten that it was from this game until I watched this video.
Old video game music was amazing. Sometimes when I work I put on long loops of mega man music in the background but gems like the jet ski stage aren’t as widely known and are of equal quality
A lot of people say the gameboy is black and white but really it’s more like 4 Shad’s of green
Amazing work they did on this.. really pushed the gameboy hardware. They rearranged and improved some of the soundtrack from the nes version and added stereo. You can see early donkie kong country gameplay with the vine swinging and treehouse level..
Nice presentation!And I love the music!I didn't know this game even existed I played the Ragnarok World port for gameboy and I made nice memories with it instead!
Hey did you guys know that the Arcade game actually had the Brain Chase level removed, it has pre-rendered rolling brain sprites, level layout and even an entire track
Oh man, this looks _sweet!_ Toadally awesome, dude.
And oh my goodness, the music. The 'Toads on Game Boy may be downsized somewhat, but the toadal carnage is not!
...And the Dark Queen is still toadally hot!
BRAVO! I never did beat this game as a child! So frustrating!
i fell you lol
Amazing soundtrack. Even for music in general of the era, it was just amazing in the same vein the Streets of Rage was on Megadrive. NES version was great too but something about listening to this one in stereo on headphones, immersion in the world, it was awesome then as a kid and still sounds great today!
Must be one Gamestop employee who gave you 1 dislike
Hahaha yeah if my life sucked that hard, I'd be pissed at the world too.
@@NintendoComplete hahahahaha
😂😂😂😂
@@adammaria9741 😅😂😆🤣
This one felt a bit more beat' em up-focused (with few different gameplay styles)
I miss this game
It bothers me that almost every game on the Battletoads consoles is, for the most part, just dodge obstacles and enemies with an absurd difficulty! At this point I think their best game is the Arcade version, since it does not only consist in deflecting obstacles, have a reasonable difficulty and you can play well with a friend without wanting to kill him for not being able to go through an obstacle.
The Gameboy and NES Battletoads games are good in their own right. But those games are more of a complicated decathlon than a Beat 'em up. The Arcade version really brought that out and it felt like what Battletoads was meant to be.
I used to get frustrated with games like that too. However, when I got older, I found that games were too easy, like on the Wii and the Nintendo DS. That made them much less fun. It got to the point where I was blowing through games after just a few hours and then I got bored because I beat them. There was no challenge. The only games I was able to play around 2008-09 were either puzzle or strategy games because everything else was way too easy and boring.
I was 11 years old when I got this game for christmas
Basically this is Battletoads Lite
Easy by the first game's standards but challenging?
Great game , good times indeed
I've had this game since I was a lad. Now I'm 37 and still CANNOT beat the brain maze. "Toned down difficulty" perhaps, except we're on a handheld console that suffers from slowdown.
Mine's Vermin Stage.. :'(
I know what is everybody thinking: what a very much easy version!!!
It’s not that much easier; it’s still very hard.
Trip the dark fantastic
Wow! Great game and awesome GB-dmg like look. it's perfect! How did you get that nice, low-pixel green screen view?
You can get this image with retroarch, and apply shader/handheld/and choose one of those (dont remember wich one...but looks great), need a computer to push the graphics, because it needs some power
@@lordferdinand85 Thanks, bro :)
That giant brain kinda reminds me of the Buzzball (or "Hypno Orb" as Nintendo Power called it) in the second Gargantua stage (Clinger-Winger, the 11th stage) of the NES Battletoads.
Nostálgico e clássico!
Hello, how did you manage to get the Nintendo logo to Scroll down on start up ? Nice videos!!
If I remember correctly, I thought they had a level for the Game Boy where you had to dodge all those “mattress” looking things and go off the jumps…
As a kid I couldn't get bast the in-coming spiky bars on the space blaster level. As an adults I can't get past rock tunnel level. A few dozen more tries through than maybe!
14:50 That stage is IMPOSSIBLE!!! (°0°)/
Is that an emulator with a filter (for the dot matrix effect) or recorded from an actual Gameboy?
I'm using a Retroarch shader
@@NintendoComplete Ah ok, thanks.
Tapeworm tunnel with the brain rock seems to be impossible on the Super Game boy.
Here me out, stage 1 on the GameBoy edition is more of a beatemup, unlike the NES' Battletoads' first stage.
I heard that this game was cancelled, and some one finished it.
17:10 jet rocket Zitz hold button
This is how they all should have been. The others were too difficult and not fun past the first two or three levels
Zitz turbo fire 🔥 kidnapped Rash and Pimple
Difficult game
Menuda banda sonora
The droning intro 😢
Am I the only one feeling sick when I play this game ?
Never made it past the flying toad spiked wall shit. Looks so easy now. It was more difficult back then with dad trying to spank me in the back seat while I was getting frustrated and this annoying soundtrack!
For higher difficulty, try Battletoads in ragnarock world.
Unfortunately sound card of GB/gbc is too dated. In fact, It hurts my ears...
Curiously enough, NES sound card sounds great even to this days...
It's not the sound chip that matters, it's how the composers use it.
The GameBoy and NES sound capabilities are incredibly similar. The real big differences is that the GameBoy had a more advanced WAV channel instead of the NES's triangle channel. The normal GameBoy also didn't have a separate DPCM sampling channel like the NES did.