I realize I'm not saying anything that hasn't been said before, but I gotta say, this is one of the most original and inventive games ever made. The fact that they were able to be so clever with the mechanics as well as create such a uniquely weird camp-slapstick-sci-fi universe within the first couple minutes of the game is just incredible
One of the coolest soundtracks of all time. And frankly the greatest "pause" music ever. My sister and I played 2 player . The game is insanely hard , but 2 player is 1000 tiers harder lol... Took me about 15 years to finally beat the game. Good job Arcus!
Man, the fact that you can beat this game at any speed qualifies you as a highly skilled retro gamer… that you can do the tunnel sections while interacting with chat is just legendary.
There's a lot of memorization involved, so that part would be relatively easy to practice with save states. But generally, yeah, the game is difficult because no one really wants to put that much effort in to it.
The bike part was SUPER impressive! I only way I was about to get past it was because I was lucky enough to have a Nintendo Power subscription and one of the issues showed the layout. My brother would read out the next move as I went.
In the past a friend and I rented this game, we played it non stop for 10 hours and couldn't beat it, I can speed run Contra and Mario Bros but Battletoads defeated me, props to you!
Your calmness and cool hand demeanor when youre doing the hover bike segment kills my childhood! It's funny because I remember playing some of these levels, but not all of the levels and then I remembered that I typically warped to the end, and never actually beat the race levels. I never actually did beat the game, either...
in high school I revisited Battletoads and could get to the elevator level (after previously never beating the hover bikes). I realized then that most levels after the hover bike are even harder, especially the airplane level (15:50) as well as the ones I couldn't even get to without an emulator. The game is ridiculous
@@ewoknroll I kind of get why games of that era were so hard at times; replay value and limited options. They wanted you to get the most out of your money, which is fine. But damn, Battletoads was over the top in that regard.
This game still amazes me-probably one of the funnest games to watch ever-between the sight-gags (space invaders stealing life), wacky villains (evil snowmen, POV Boss Walker with Terminator vision), and crazy sound affects a’ la 1960s Batman -this game is pure cartoon comedy.
It's hard to put into words what gaming was like when this came out, you had three options- the Game Genie, Magazines with the level layout and the dreaded 900 numbers that cost $$.I had the Game Genie and it didn't do much to propel me farther into the game. Got this for Christmas in 91' and got so burnt out trying to beat the first speed bike stage I just put it down and never played it again. There were few people that could beat that level! So I tip my hat to you Arcus, this is one hard ass game.
Battletoads is such an amazing game. Not extremely hard but very challenging. Seeing the play through brings me memories when I used to play this game over and over. I dare to say I would had been a good contender for these speed runs, was this done in the early 90’s. Also, no need to back before double tapping for big punch/kick. Don’t remember any time I’ve missed the enemy but I can see one running over it.
I love Watching Arcus and I love that I can watch his videos with my kids. Other runners are fun as well, but a lot of them have a tendency to use language I would rather not expose my 8 and 11 year old to.
I don't know if its just me, but I've always thought that Karnath's Lair, Intruder Excluder, Terra Tubes, Rat Races, and Clinger Winger (stages 6, 8, 9, 10, and 11) all seemed way too long. They all seemed to just drag on and on... Like they were all supposed to end at a certain point, but devs lengthened them to mess with renters at the time.
This game is beyond technical masterpiece and also has great presentation in its story as well, but it's ruthlessly brutal level of difficulty (though not right away) makes it really hard to get through.
Hardest game I've ever played and you just demolished it! Kudos! I never could make it past the Gargantua Ducts, and I played this game A LOT and had Nintendo Power on it. Nintendo needs to buy Rare and bring this franchise back!
TMR (The Mexican Runner) would be proud of this run. It's a solid time of a very hard game. It's the 8th best time in the world (35:09) TMR's record for this category is 28:34. TMR is a god at this game though. TMR's achievements of thing game include (record times aside) - first ever zero damage run - first ever one handed run - first ever blindfolded turbo tunnel
man I remember how much I though this was an obvious rip off of ninja turtles, pretty much everything was back in the early nineties. That said, this is definitely the most endearing of them
Arcus- what ya think of a mega man battle with other excellent players live on stream? Retro Entertainment TV on facebook holds head to head matches. It be fun to see ya come hang out. its all for fun and the fans.
This dude is playing the hardest games while rocking side to side on a chair,whispering,singing the game's songs,saying smash and completely relaxed 🤣🤣...I think I grew some gray and green hairs when I was a kid playing these type of games
I like watching this whenever I wake up really early. Jaust jaust jaust. Especially when I had to get up early everyday to go to the methadone clinic back when I was taking it. Jaust jaust jaust!
You lose a lot of time during the boss fights when you get stomped. It is possible to do those better, they are all basically the same thing, and you’d be sub 35 easy.
I never got past the speed runner stage I remember the ramp sections would always fuck me up auggggghhhhh even as a lil dude After a few hours was like FUCK THIS GAME!!!!!!!
This is such a wierd game that it doesn't look hard watching it, until you play it and realize just fighting the guys in stage 1 is harder then a usual game.
Ok folks usually I'm not impressed with gamer skills. I'm impressed with skills like woodworking, cooking, welding, singing, instruments, and such. But I've played this game before and it whipped my ass to no end so I'm ranking this guy up there with Pavarotti and Jimmy Hendrix
After I beat battle toads imma beat contra in record time again 🥱friggem arcus da man!... Btw 17:39 he looks like he's one one of those kiddy rides where you put a quarter in lol 🤣
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I realize I'm not saying anything that hasn't been said before, but I gotta say, this is one of the most original and inventive games ever made. The fact that they were able to be so clever with the mechanics as well as create such a uniquely weird camp-slapstick-sci-fi universe within the first couple minutes of the game is just incredible
They pulled off some damn amazing effects for the time and technical limitations. This game STILL doesn't look half bad!
It’s July 8 2021, and I have owned this game since for over 30 years…….today is the first time I’ve ever seen the snow level….
lol
I was thinking the same thing but I think I broke mines trying to get past the bike stage during a rage quit 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That hovercraft scene is the most ludicrous thing in a video game I've ever seen.
The hovercraft part is legit re tarded
One of the coolest soundtracks of all time.
And frankly the greatest "pause" music ever.
My sister and I played 2 player .
The game is insanely hard , but 2 player is 1000 tiers harder lol...
Took me about 15 years to finally beat the game.
Good job Arcus!
Ok cowboy..you just reached mythical status.. This thing is IMPOSSIBLE and you clunked it to tarnation and back!
Although it's not a WR, this game is so ridiculous hard that anything even vaguely approaching that time is a serious achievement...
@MaltLiquorBlimp sounds hard to me.
The last few levels are crazy difficult! This is one of those games I was never able to beat no matter how many times I played it.
Even vaguely approaching to beat this game regardless of time is a serious achievement
Man, the fact that you can beat this game at any speed qualifies you as a highly skilled retro gamer… that you can do the tunnel sections while interacting with chat is just legendary.
You are the "Bob Ross" of retro gaming
I remember thinking this game had some of the best graphics on NES back when it came out.
I hope everyone realizes how hard it is to get this good at this game. Ruthless.
Everyone always remembers the hoverbike stage but honestly I forgot how insane the snake level is.
It's much easier to get good at this when you have speed running the game in mind.
Casually the game is a nightmare.
There's a lot of memorization involved, so that part would be relatively easy to practice with save states. But generally, yeah, the game is difficult because no one really wants to put that much effort in to it.
As a kid this game tricked me into thinking it was just another beat em up, then....😲
Then you get to the second level .
I never made it past it without game genie
I never managed to get past Stage 3 as a kid. So seeing the rest of the game and how hard it is was amazing.
The bike part was SUPER impressive! I only way I was about to get past it was because I was lucky enough to have a Nintendo Power subscription and one of the issues showed the layout. My brother would read out the next move as I went.
In the past a friend and I rented this game, we played it non stop for 10 hours and couldn't beat it, I can speed run Contra and Mario Bros but Battletoads defeated me, props to you!
It´s one of the hardest games ever and this guy plays it like a baby game. So fast … man you are the game master 🧎🏼♂️🙏🏻
New Arcus video. Today is a good day
Impressive, man! That was a damn good run!
Gold and white snake 🤣🤣😂
The fact you can even beat this game is impressive by itself, let alone doing a speed run, and not losing lives
He did lose a life @ 10:07.
@@DarthMohammedRules yup, you’re right.
Mind boggling to me
This game is so easy you guys are noob.
Jk hardest game ever 🥱🤣
And cracking jokes!
One of the most insane games. You are a freaking master!
Impressive run of one of the hardest NES games that exists
Thanks Arcus, everytime I watch you dominate another NES classic I get nostalgia of my childhood. Thanks again.
Your calmness and cool hand demeanor when youre doing the hover bike segment kills my childhood!
It's funny because I remember playing some of these levels, but not all of the levels and then I remembered that I typically warped to the end, and never actually beat the race levels. I never actually did beat the game, either...
in high school I revisited Battletoads and could get to the elevator level (after previously never beating the hover bikes). I realized then that most levels after the hover bike are even harder, especially the airplane level (15:50) as well as the ones I couldn't even get to without an emulator. The game is ridiculous
@@ewoknroll I kind of get why games of that era were so hard at times; replay value and limited options. They wanted you to get the most out of your money, which is fine. But damn, Battletoads was over the top in that regard.
@@boedye completely agree
This game still amazes me-probably one of the funnest games to watch ever-between the sight-gags (space invaders stealing life), wacky villains (evil snowmen, POV Boss Walker with Terminator vision), and crazy sound affects a’ la 1960s Batman -this game is pure cartoon comedy.
It's hard to put into words what gaming was like when this came out, you had three options- the Game Genie, Magazines with the level layout and the dreaded 900 numbers that cost $$.I had the Game Genie and it didn't do much to propel me farther into the game. Got this for Christmas in 91' and got so burnt out trying to beat the first speed bike stage I just put it down and never played it again. There were few people that could beat that level! So I tip my hat to you Arcus, this is one hard ass game.
Game still looks great today. Genius programmers at Rare
Unreal athleticism displayed by Arcus.
Battletoads is such an amazing game. Not extremely hard but very challenging. Seeing the play through brings me memories when I used to play this game over and over. I dare to say I would had been a good contender for these speed runs, was this done in the early 90’s.
Also, no need to back before double tapping for big punch/kick. Don’t remember any time I’ve missed the enemy but I can see one running over it.
Guys, he's going for it. Arcus Battletoads WR is gonna happen.
In my 20 years of playing this, I think I've only made it passed the bike part like...twice.
Gold and white snake. You're genius.
I love Watching Arcus and I love that I can watch his videos with my kids. Other runners are fun as well, but a lot of them have a tendency to use language I would rather not expose my 8 and 11 year old to.
This game is waaaaay too Battletoads. Thanks for playing Arcus!
I couldn't play this game as a kid without my Game Genie
I know right and it was still hard to get through certain portions of the game but it gave you the opportunity to practice to your hearts content.
Doing the bike section while reading chat! Unbelievable! G.O.A.T.
The key to success was hoarding those 1-ups on level 2. I still think Lemmings on NES was the hardest game I ever played.
I don't know if its just me, but I've always thought that Karnath's Lair, Intruder Excluder, Terra Tubes, Rat Races, and Clinger Winger (stages 6, 8, 9, 10, and 11) all seemed way too long. They all seemed to just drag on and on... Like they were all supposed to end at a certain point, but devs lengthened them to mess with renters at the time.
Love watching you play Arcus.
Well done man! The soundtrack on this game rocks! I want to play now.
This game is beyond technical masterpiece and also has great presentation in its story as well, but it's ruthlessly brutal level of difficulty (though not right away) makes it really hard to get through.
Hardest game I've ever played and you just demolished it! Kudos! I never could make it past the Gargantua Ducts, and I played this game A LOT and had Nintendo Power on it. Nintendo needs to buy Rare and bring this franchise back!
Well watching you play this brings out my anxiety big time but in all honesty great job and a great run as usual
Заснуть, конечно, можно с таким спидраном, но посмотрел с удовольствием и ностальгией
Wow, you made the speedrunner level look way way WAY too easy. There was a whole generation of kids that never got past that....myself among them.
That's as far as I ever got. I may revisit this game now that I have an emulator.
That Dark Queen reminds me of my ex. Constantly moving around and forever ruining world records.
TMR (The Mexican Runner) would be proud of this run. It's a solid time of a very hard game. It's the 8th best time in the world (35:09)
TMR's record for this category is 28:34.
TMR is a god at this game though. TMR's achievements of thing game include (record times aside)
- first ever zero damage run
- first ever one handed run
- first ever blindfolded turbo tunnel
The last 2 achievements are insane!
man I remember how much I though this was an obvious rip off of ninja turtles, pretty much everything was back in the early nineties. That said, this is definitely the most endearing of them
Arcus- what ya think of a mega man battle with other excellent players live on stream? Retro Entertainment TV on facebook holds head to head matches. It be fun to see ya come hang out. its all for fun and the fans.
This dude is playing the hardest games while rocking side to side on a chair,whispering,singing the game's songs,saying smash and completely relaxed 🤣🤣...I think I grew some gray and green hairs when I was a kid playing these type of games
I like watching this whenever I wake up really early. Jaust jaust jaust. Especially when I had to get up early everyday to go to the methadone clinic back when I was taking it. Jaust jaust jaust!
Arcus show your YT fans some love..
TOP Global Speedrun
I never had Battletoads as a kid. Neither did my friends or cousins. It looks awesome!
4:25 - 6:23 you are great Arcus. Id love to eat a spicy burrito
You lose a lot of time during the boss fights when you get stomped. It is possible to do those better, they are all basically the same thing, and you’d be sub 35 easy.
If there is a game, there is a speedrun of it on youtube. Kind of like a rule 34 type situation going on there.
Post speed bike stage, into the unknown...
I never imagined anyone could finish level three so easily… or had ever done it at all.
thank you sire... you are an eternalll child of my heart
I just have no words...
I didn't know Toblerone Thursday was a thing
i remembered that one time i played battletoads. it was fun
happy valentines arcus lets do some mashing !
I never got past the speed runner stage I remember the ramp sections would always fuck me up auggggghhhhh even as a lil dude After a few hours was like FUCK THIS GAME!!!!!!!
GG and beautiful moustache
Never able to finish the turbo tunnel. It goes on forever and demands perfection
Never got past the bike level as a kid
The good turkey gobble and the good sigh got me rolling lol
This fucking game. Holy shit.
This game was designed for people today to do a speed run. I could never get past the damn car jumping part!!
Playing NES at this guys house back in the day waiting for your turn 😢
This game is so much fun you just want to keep playing it.
Admit it.
You came to see Level 3.
Interesting. The moving logs aren't in the European version.
You're a damn machine! Love watching your videos, pal! Clunk!
I always found stage 12 to be the most enjoyable to play. It’s such a slog to get to that stage though
Awesome run
Gold and white? Is that a reference to the dress color that went around a few years ago?
14:25 wait, that snake is gold and white? I see it blue and black
Bout time Arcus plays an actually challenging game
My best time at this game is 1999 to whenever i finally beat it .
Good videos, dude. Like it. Thanks.
What a tough game. Arcus wizardry.
The clunk man finishes second all time to the mexican runner not bad👌
This game is........brutal
Awesome! King Arcus!
This is such a wierd game that it doesn't look hard watching it, until you play it and realize just fighting the guys in stage 1 is harder then a usual game.
U need to be in guiseness world record #1 speedrunner of nes games
Nice logs.
We demand farmer Rudy
good gob . . . this is game is really hard but you're great ;)
Absolutely fuck that underground speeder level though, I spent so many hours as a kid trying to get past that.
Это моя самая любимая игра.
For a nes game the graphics are impressive
This man has skill. Tough game.
Ok folks usually I'm not impressed with gamer skills. I'm impressed with skills like woodworking, cooking, welding, singing, instruments, and such. But I've played this game before and it whipped my ass to no end so I'm ranking this guy up there with Pavarotti and Jimmy Hendrix
Do Bucky o’hare!
This man is a champion end of story. This game is hard is shit and he beats it like nothing hahahahaha I love it!
Думаю машинки ненавидят все. Больше чем змеек=)
After I beat battle toads imma beat contra in record time again 🥱friggem arcus da man!... Btw 17:39 he looks like he's one one of those kiddy rides where you put a quarter in lol 🤣