Battletoads & Double Dragon

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148K plays 1993 #Action#Platform#Fighting

Battletoads/Double Dragon (fully titled Battletoads & Double Dragon - The Ultimate Team) is a 1993 beat 'em up developed by Rare and published by Tradewest. It was originally released for the Nintendo Entertainment System and later ported to the Mega Drive/Genesis, Super NES, and Game Boy. The SNES version was released on the Nintendo Classics service in September 2024; it was the game's first re-release as it was not released on the Rare Replay collection.

The Ultimate Team is a crossover of Technos Japan's Double Dragon and Rare's Battletoads game franchises, although Technos had little or no credited involvement in production beyond providing the Double Dragon license. The game features the characters from the Double Dragon series, Billy and Jimmy Lee, two young martial arts experts; also included are the three humanoid toad protagonists from the Battletoads game. It is also the first Battletoads game to feature all three toads as playable characters. The game's engine and design are directly based upon the Battletoads series.

From Wikipedia's article Battletoads/Double Dragon, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Keyboard controls

GenesisPlayer 1Player 2
D-pad↑↓←→IKJL
AZN
BXM
CC,
XAY
YSU
ZDO
ModeShiftB
StartEnterSpace

Hotkeys

  • 1 Quick save state
  • 2 Quick load state
  • 3 Change save slot

X, Y and Z are for six-button games such as Street Fighter II.

Gamepads are detected when you press a button. Remap any key from the emulator’s Controls menu (gear icon).

Emulator help & troubleshooting

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Keyboard controls

GenesisPlayer 1Player 2
D-pad↑↓←→IKJL
AZN
BXM
CC,
XAY
YSU
ZDO
ModeShiftB
StartEnterSpace

Hotkeys

  • 1 Quick save state
  • 2 Quick load state
  • 3 Change save slot

X, Y and Z are for six-button games such as Street Fighter II.

Gamepads are detected when you press a button. Remap any key from the emulator’s Controls menu (gear icon).

Emulator help & troubleshooting

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Pixel Verdict

Battletoads & Double DragonGenesis

3.0 Good job

VGCE 7/10 · 1 review

What the reviews talk about

Key wordsunfairsmoothplayablehecticcheaphumorous

What the critics said

  • Nintendo Power asserted that the game has confusing depth perception, but "great action, graphics and theme make this one of the strongest titles this year", and is better than Battletoads in Battlemaniacs (1993).

    — Nintendo Power, 1993

  • He said, "You'll see parts of the spaceship moving and it just looks so fluid/smooth that I can't believe that it's 8 bit!"

    — Hardcore Gaming 101

  • The Video Game Critic called the stages "fully interactive and full of surprises".

    — The Video Game Critic

  • Electronic Gaming Monthly's Steve Harris, reviewing the NES version, loved its "side-scrolling techniques", "nice" attack combos, and combination of game licenses, but found the graphics too average even for 8-bit technology and the controls "slightly haphazard".

    — Electronic Gaming Monthly, 1993 (Steve Harris)· about another version

  • An AllGame critic, Brett Alan Weiss, was harsh on the SNES version, calling it "an unnecessary creation, except to line the pockets of the companies involved", and too similar in looks and gameplay to its 8-bit counterpart, thus not taking enough advantage of the 16-bit console's capabilities.

    — AllGame· about another version

From the Reception section of Wikipedia's Battletoads/Double Dragon article, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The words are the critics'; their full reviews are on the publishers' pages.

Scores

  • Giant Bomb true
  • AllGame 4.5/5; 2.5/5 (other versions)
  • Consoles + 79% (other versions)
  • Electronic Gaming Monthly 1993 7.25/10; 8.2/10 (other versions)
  • GameFan 77.5% (other versions)
  • GamePro 1993 3.75/5; 3.5/5 (other versions)
  • GameSpy 8/10 (other versions)
  • Mega Fun 1994 59% (other versions)
  • Nintendo Power 1993 3.25/5; 3.58/5; 3.38/5 (other versions)
  • Official Nintendo Magazine 1993 82/100 (other versions)
  • Super Play 37% (other versions)
  • Total! 1993 90% (other versions)
  • VideoGames & Computer Entertainment 1993 44/50; 7/10

From the review table of Wikipedia's article. The face takes, first that applies: the Metascore for this platform, GameRankings' archived average, our average of the critics (one number per publication, a panel averaged), one review alone, the players' rating. Critics and players are never mixed.

Players' rating: 75/100 · 564 votes

Full reviews

Face key

  1. 1.00+
  2. 1.540+
  3. 2.050+
  4. 2.560+
  5. 3.068+
  6. 3.575+
  7. 4.080+
  8. 4.585+
  9. 5.090+

5.0 Outstanding! · 4.0 Great job! · 3.0 Good job · 2.0 Could be better · 1.0 Wake me up when it's over · A thumbs-up adds half a point. Our own drawings, in the spirit of the faces GamePro magazine used in the '90s.

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