The player has a choice of five playable characters: Billy and Jimmy Lee from Double Dragon, and Zitz, Pimple and Rash from Battletoads. The final two stages are boss battles with the Shadow Boss (stage six) and the Dark Queen (stage seven). Although the ship is successfully destroyed, the Dark Queen and the Shadow Boss survive by escaping in a missile hull, thus making the fifth level's goal to board it. The fourth level is where the beat 'em up game turns into a shooter, and the Dark Queen throws asteroids, mines, and UFOs at the spacecraft controlled by the player. The first level of the seven-level game takes place on the tail of Colossus, the second on the interior corridors of the ship in level two, the third in the ship's base, and the fourth where the player attempts to destroy the ship from the outside while on a small space craft. The brothers agree, and all five immediately take off for the Colossus in a mission to stop this two-pronged threat. Deciding to even the odds, the Battletoads get in contact with Billy and Jimmy Lee and ask them for their help. Apparently, the Dark Queen is back with another plan to dominate the galaxy, and she has allied herself with the Shadow Warriors (from the Double Dragon series) to supplement her forces. However, one day the Earth's military is neutralized and a giant spaceship called Colossus emerges from the moon. Īfter being defeated by the Battletoads, the evil Dark Queen flees to the outer reaches of the universe and the 'Toads and their mentor get on with their lives. Since the 16-bit ports are identical in gameplay to their NES counterparts, attacks and jumping are triggered by two buttons on their respective controllers. Like the prior Battletoads installment, there are only three continues and no password system, and in the two-player modes, if one player loses all lives, both players have to start a level over.

It uses the engine of the original Battletoads game, and its gameplay sides more with the Rare-developed product than Double Dragon. A gameplay screenshot of the SNES version, showing the Battletoad Pimple fighting against the Double Dragon boss character Roper (Willy)īattletoads/Double Dragon consists of three play modes: a single-player, a '2 Players A' mode where the players can hit each other, and a '2 Players B' that doesn't have that.

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