BATTLETOADS DOUBLE DRAGON - History of the Crazy Game NO ONE ASKED FOR !?
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Today, Top Hat Gaming Man discusses the history Battletoads Double Dragon, the crazy cross over game between Technos Japan and British company Rare than no one asked for or saw coming!
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No one asked for it... but we still wanted it!
This was everything I wanted the original Battletoads to be: half straight brawler, half wacky gimmick levels, and toned down difficulty so that mere mortals could beat it.
Just a shame the production values weren't as high as the original Battletoads. If they could have gotten that level, it would have easily been a top 5 or 10 NES game.
The odd thing is that Bootsy from Bootsy Beats on Cinemassacre (The Silver Surfer vid) considers this harder than either Battletoads or Silver Surfer.
Not sure why, as like you said, it’s a much more approachable game. The Asteroids shump level can be tough though, and the final Dark Queen boss is a lot tougher than in the original nes game.
In which you just wait for her to stop spinning and pummel her 2-4 times each cycle. Takes time, but a far easier fight than in this game, in which you have to carefully watch where she will appear from in the ground and similar.
@@osurpless this games easier though
This game is easier. Not challenging easy but doable tough
This game needs a sequel
Battletoads x Streets of Rage
@@strtfghtr88 final fight x streets of rage
Double Dragon x Final Fight
2 girls x 1 cup
This was and still is an excellent game. I actually like it more than some of the stand-alone Double Dragon and BattleToads games.
Yep
@@bsx121 DD 3 on NES is my all time favourite though
Significantly better than battletoads on nes.
There is No way this game is bad. It has it's fans especially the fans of the original battletoads and double dragon NES games. I think the critics have became bias so far. They're also bias about bubsy by giving the genesis version of the original bubsy game a 5 out of 5, and awarded bubsy as "best new character of 1993" like, what the actual F***!? I don't know what were they smoking when they praised a bad game like bubsy.
I'm surprised how colorful and nice the Genesis version is. Usually western developers didn't use the Genesis color palette properly. but this one looks great.
Maybe Western developed games from 1991-1992. Western developers later in the Genesis lifecycle did an incredible job.
Music is nice too. Sounds like a custom sound driver over gems.
This game confused me as a kid because I think it was the first time I ever saw two different game franchises from different companies team up.
As far as I'm able to tell, this may have been the very first video game crossover between IPs from separate companies. (beating X-Men Vs. Street Fighter by three years)
@@seanmyster6 Still love X-Men VS Streetfighter! Still one of My all time favorites! :)
The music in this game still bangs
This crossover is what the home market needed. It is so sweet seeing these two series combine forces, on an awesome adventure. Wild how in depth it could go beyond the regular entries. Totally agree this crossover deserves a sequel
This was one of my favorite games to play as a kid
Strange how the weirdest crossover game was the best sequel to both franchises.
They should've done a crossover with the turtles and the roads..with extended levels...that's would've really been good
Can confirm.
Double Dragon II would like a word with you
This is the best game ever hands down i grew up on it. As a kid i knew nothing about any of the characters or any of the franchises or anything i was just happy to play the game and i loved it
13:42 I love the shadow of the boss lurking in the background 😂
I notice that throughout the game footage, the player kept hanging from the edge to knock off enemies whenever one popped up. You don't have to do that. I can stand above them and stomp on the hands and make them drop off.
The NES version was easily one of the best beat em ups of all time.
@Channel X cute
I loved this game as a kid. My friend and I would die laughing during the weird turning into a wrecking ball portion cause it was so easy to accidentally knock one another off the wall or while swinging and it was hysterical to us for some reason lol
This is the best Battletoads game imo, and the fact that it’s a crossover with Double Dragon makes even more amazing
Y'know I've never actually played Battletoads or the arcade original Double Dragon. These videos have made me want to rectify that.
This is one of my favorite games. It warms me to know that someone else appreciates its greatness
Finally beat this game on my Gameboy Color. The music has stayed with me forever. Whenever I’m having a rough day or just in the zone at work getting stuff done, the theme plays in my head. It’s so badass..
Congratulations 👏🎉 🍰
Oddly enough, I played this before I played any of the other Battletoads or Double Dragon games. Never beat it as a kid because those rocket flames snatched up all the lives I would accumulate, and didn't realize until after the fact that you need to hang on the lampshades that you can stupidly destroy to avoid the Shadow Master's spikeball attack.
To my surprise I was playing the best entry out of either franchise right out of the gate.
My favorite game on the NES. Oh, the memories...
Me and my cousin used to love this game. So unique. We play it sometimes even nowadays.
This game was awesome as a kid!
It made me rage so hard. I couldn't get past the space ship stage
Was wondering when you'd FINALLY get to this one!
Very underrated crossover the music was amazing!
Never could beat this game. Played it co-op with my best friend and the best I could do was help him get near the end before I ran out of continues.
Still sad a battletoad didn't make it into smash!
There's a cheat code for level select and more lives.
I like the callback from the Dark Queen with her ship Colossus, since her ship in the first game was the Gargantua.
i get back to this game every now and them for 30 years now.... music in first 3 levels is unreal
This is a game I was hoping you'd cover at some point.
My babysitters son had this game on SNES and all of us kids played it non stop. Fast forward to 2021 I went into a retro game store and saw this game unopened in its original SNES box for like $200.
This game was awesome but as a kid, I never got past the 3rd level!
Me and my brother loved this particular title and I would definitely play it again but those hover bike stages were tough 💪😵🤦🏾♂️
Cannot wait for your Battletoads Arcade review Richard!
Funny in hindsight that that one journalist thought that Double Dragon was in the past while Battletoads was the new hotness, considering that Battletoads was about to have its last entry (an unfinished arcade game that wasn't widely released at that) for 26 years after this game, while Double Dragon would have a cartoon series and a live action movie in 1994, two (or three) one on one fighting games, a GBA remake, an XBox 360 remake, a widely known fan-game starring Abobo, and new entries in the series on PS3 and PS4.
The only thing that always bugged me about Battletoads games was the fact that the Dark Queen never had more than 3 frames of animation lol
It's funny that after all these times of pounding Abobo into mush, the Lees still do a wild take when they see him. LOL. Maybe they're just surprised he somehow followed them to space.
The only Battletoads game I actually liked.
Idk they were all pretty good compared to the brand new one
@@jtmarlin1739 The original NES Battletoads game is so fucking hard I gave up after *almost* finsishing that stupid level where you drive a vehical in god knows where
Joey Wyatt Ah, my kids enjoyed the new Battletoads because it was essentially a playable Cartoon but that's the only reedeming factor of the game: My kids enjoyed it.
Try the arcade game
This one and the more obscure Battletoads for Arcade :)
So suggestion for future coverage, if I may:
The fighting game based on the cartoon that was an adaptation of a beat-em-up series--Double Dragon 5: The Shadow Falls. I'd played it on the SNES back in the day and almost forgot about it.
Until I tried to Google it to get the name right, I was also unaware there was a *different* DD fighting game BASED ON THE LIVE-ACTION MOVIE! 😳
Kind of a mash-up of Fighting Game Thursdays and Mad History (of Beat-Em-Ups).
This game is probably the first of its kind and the best crossover beat em up/platforming and mix genre game for its unique creativity and less difficult than previous games.
I wanted this game so much because I was a big fan of each game and i played it for years after and its still a favorite of mine
Never played much of the Double Dragon games. I had never even heard of Battletoads until I bought a SNES from a neighbor in the early 2000s. I ended up with both Battlemaniacs and Battletoads/Double Dragon. Both pretty fun games, I never got super far though since theyre pretty difficult. The crossover actually makes a ton of sense, put together 2 fairly popular beat'em up franchises. I wouldn't have ever even thought of the idea. Cross overs are always cool when they're done at least some what well. Also, until this video, i had no idea there was a NES version of the game
YES! My favorite game of all time! The first game I've ever played in the SNES.
I loved it so much that it's the only game I actually attempted speedruns, and got a good time back then.
If some day I find a copy of this game in a flea market, I'll buy an snes and play the hell of it
I wasn't too convinced Double Dragon fit with Battletoads at the time. Then I played Double Dragon Neon.
To this day one of my all time favorites.
I only played the NES version of DD 2&3 and Battletoads in the early to mid 90's. Then towards the end of the decade, my brothers went overseas on a vacation and brought home a burned CD. And it contained arcade games (X-men CotA, etc.) and some hentai games( I was a sneaky bastard even as a kid). One of them was this gem, and I can't tell enough how much fun I had and confused I was because I had the same reaction thinking a crossover like this would've been unlikely.
I've played the Sega Genesis one a billion times and the snes version maybe twice, so it was cool seeing all of them mixed in. It's one of my my top 10 favorites just bc it's such a great co op and good variety for people who don't game often. I've used it for that reason several times.
Battletords and double dragon ultimate team my personal favorite crossover game by rare on the SNES my childhood game is so awesome
Super Double Dragon is my personal favorite, but Battletoads/Double Dragon was fun.
Speaking on things no one asked for.... I often spout on UA-cam vids and gamer threads, that the three BEST NES BEAT EM UPS are
1) Double Dragon II,
2) River City Ransom, and
3).... well... with third place, I go back and forth between TMNT3 and Battletoads & Double Dragon. It sure as hell isn't Mighty Final Fight... but I lean towards Battletoads & Double Dragon. If there were a 4th and 5th place, it would be TMNT3 and the first Double Dragon.
Thank you Top Hat Gamer for another great vid!
Didn't expect to hear the name Bruce Hart here....
My friends and I played this game so much as teenagers. We played it every day for like 3 weeks and finally beat it.
I enjoyed the game. My family got it as a Christmas gift. Me and my brothers played the heck out of it
Such an awesome game, of course being a very late gen game with the SNES era fully in swing extremely overlooked. The SNES version was just a strait port of the NES version with slightly better graphics so it was never going to stand out, the NES version was absolutely stellar and would probably be considered a top game in the NES library if it had come out some years earlier
Can you look at Yoshi's Safari🦖
Please do a video on scott pilgrim vs the world game,since the complete edition has been announced for holidays 2020 on ps4/xbox 1/switch
I own all versions except the GB one and I can tell that the Genesis version has a little more responsive control while the SNES one has the better presentation. The SNES one is the way to go but all versions are worth your time.
Fun mix of whacky/cool moves, responsive gameplay, memorable soundtrack, lots of gratuitous violence. It was everything a prepubescent kid could have asked for. Rented the SNES version countless times. Never finished it, but it was a blast.
Had the Genesis version and it's still one of my favorite beat em ups of all time
Game needs a remake for next generation console. I still play this game. I remember bringing this game to my friends house years ago and double dragon quikly got switched out.
This is the first time you could play all 3 toads in a console game, but they were all playable in the original Battletoads arcade game. People forget that arcade exists.
No asked for it because nobody though about it but thank God somebody did. This was one of best additions to 2 of very successful franchises.
Got this game on the snes and still plays great to this day
Top Hat Gaming Man, here is my suggested Beat 'em Up and Fighting games you should cover in future videos.
Beat 'em Ups:
River City Ransom
Battletoads Arcade
Die Hard Arcade (known as Dynamite Deka in Japan)
The King of Dragons
Knights of the Round
64th Street: A Detective Story
Undercover Cops
Urban Reign
SpikeOut
Scott Pilgrim vs The World: The Game
Marvel Super Heroes in War of the Gems
River City Girls
Fighting games:
Mortal Kombat (original)
Guilty Gear X
The King of Fighters '95
Art of Fighting 2
Tekken (original)
Bloody Roar
Primal Rage
X-Men: Children of the Atom
Marvel Super Heroes (Arcade)
Sonic the Fighters (known as Sonic Championship in North America and Europe)
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
Power Stone 2
Tech Romancer
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai
I lost my shit when I saw double dragon and battle toads on that funcoland games list news paper. Grew up with both, loved double dragon on nes and battletoads
Owned this for SNES as a kid! Crazy but the music stuck with me for 25 years +. As for the game, holy crap was way too hard, but I was a glutton for punishment.
This was the first game i played that had Battletoads in there. The only experience i had with Double Dragon at the time was the NeoGeo fighting game so i didnt know what to expect from Double Dragon's inclusion, but i heard of this game for a long time and wanted to try it. Honestly, this game is a MASTERPIECE. Great visuals, good soundtrack, nice attention to details in regards to the comabt (Like grabbing that woman's hair while punching her in the face or hammering guys with a pipe) All 3 ports are worth it (Excluding the Gameboy port). With the Gameboy Advance pretty much being a portable SNES i was surprised it didnt receive a port of this game in it's library.
One of the greatest beat em ups and crossovers in gaming imo. This game was like mvc2 for me as a kid
Liking these DD videos so far, THGM, but I shudder at what might be coming up; will it be the two NeoGeo DD fighting games, or is _Double Dragon V - The Shadow Falls_ the next one?
NotABot55 Maybe Neon after that, probably the best Double Dragon game ever.
I preferred playing as one of the Lee Brothers, because no matter which toad I used, I would always get waxed!
This game was basically Battletoads Lite...which is not a bad thing, as Battletoads was very challenging and Battlemaniacs was just brutal!
I ADORED this game as a kid! It was ABSOLUTELY hilarious as well as difficult AF !!!!! :D
I remember playing this game on a Polish bootleg Nintendo console, in the early nineties. It was one of my favorites :)
Hey Mr. Top Hat Gaming Man! Are you at Fun Spot in New Hampshire in this video? That’s one of my favorite places! I have been going there for 30 years, I’m from Massachusetts and I try and get there at least twice a year. Take care!
Game Pro disappointed in the NES graphics? This game has some of the best graphics on the console. No wonder I never bought Game Pro magazine. The Watch Moho of their day.
This game is truer to the spirit of Double Dragon than either of the standalone Double Dragon games on SNES.
This is what I have been waiting for. My favorite crossover
I still remember when I purchased this game, it was on my 7/8th birthday (January 1st) and it was between this game on Genesis or Felix the Cat on NES, I chose this game due to my love for the Battletoads franchise which I had not owned a single game for. I believe the game was 59.99 at AMES.,at least I still own and love the game
Did Akklaim do as the makers (Atari 2600) of E.T. when faced with extra copies of the cartridge and bury the 500.000 extra "Double Dragon 3" NES carts 6 feet deep like the 2600 ET cartridges in the 1980s? Great videos you make man. Kind regards from Washington DC! Peace!
I thought this was so cool when it first came out! Wish I still had it. Excellent vid!
I remember when I was in kindergarten I had a backpack of the double dragon/battletoads crossover. At the time I just knew double dragon as a cartoon on tv I didn’t know it was a video game 😂
🎶 Fight for right, the might of THE DRAGON...with the mark, the mark...of THE DRAGON 🎶
Bruce Hart of the Lee family LOL 😂 love it!!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Double dragon neo geo fighting game next?
I still play the nes version of this game!
It's funny how none of the DD bosses, minus Abobo, actually had the right names. Roper is actually Willy for example.
6:19 For a moment there I thought they were talking about Killer Instinct on Xbox.
what we needed was a TMNT/ Battletoads crossover
A simple question - What the HELL happened to The Dark Queen in the new Battletoads game for PC/XBONE? Where's my evil pin-up tart?
This game is the bomb!!! The SNES version surprisingly is more difficult than the NES. The Gameboy version is almost identical to the NES version gameplay-wise. All of the versions are worth trying. The NES version is however the most astonishing of the bunch for reasons already mentionednon this video and probably the best in gameplay. Higly recommended!!!
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Maybe you should invest in a better microphone?
Hey, Top Hat Gaming Man. Can you please do a video on The Bouncer for the PlayStation 2?
This was the last beat'em up Double Dragon until the Game Boy Advance remake ten years later.After it we had the awful Double Dragon V,the arcade fighting game by Technos and the unnoficial Rage of the Dragons (that for trademark reasons had to change the Lee brothers to Lewis brothers).
This game was ahead of its time.
Battletoads/Double Dragon was the point where Battletoads got good. The game was not in any way comparable to the Double Dragon series, but the inclusion of those elements definitely strengthened the game.
I liked the game - particularly on the SNES.
Ahhh....BIMMY AND JILLY, THE DOBLE DRAGON STUNTMEN! Yeaaahhhhh🤣🤣🤣
I feel like I had this game but I'm not sure. It's like deja vu or some dream where imagination and memory collide.
Double Dragon III for nes was dope
Man I just got through this on snes & genesis recently, the trade offs are really interesting between the two. I also committed to getting through it on NES & Gameboy, so they’ll be brutal, I’m sure of it.
Is a great game because is fun to play, the bgm is awesome too. Maybe the only thing that really don't like me is the controls in the spaceship stage, my brother and I always died in that part xdD
Been waiting for this video thanks.
I was excited by this ultimate team and bought it
I would go war with an Giant frog at my side any day! I am actually really sad I don't have a Giant Toad for a friend....