The Queen of Darkness attacked and kidnapped your best friend Pimple the toad and the most beautiful girl Princess Angelica! So what will you do? Cry? Whine? Hide? Call Starcops? NO! Because you are a fighting toad! Toads don't cry, hide, or ask for help! And they certainly don't whimper! They only know how to get angry! So grab your blaster, hop on the Toadster and go blast them!

You will control the fighting toad all 13 levels. There is a boss at the end of each level. Some levels may have a mini-boss.

Battletoads is a video game created by Rare Ltd. to compete with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games. The first game was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1991 and has since been ported to a number of other systems. Possibly one of the most graphically advanced NES video games at a time when the video game market was turning to the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

The game features two humanoid toads named after skin diseases (Rash and Zitz) who have to save their friends Pimple and Princess Angelica from the Dark Queen, the ruler of the planet Ragnarok. They will do this with the help of Professor T. Byrd and his spaceship Vulture. A backstory for Battletoads, written by Rare employee Guy Miller, was also published in a Nintendo Power comic. The Battletoads storyline in Battlemaniacs is loosely based on this backstory.

Different levels have very different playstyles, so you will need to use different tactics to complete. There are several pseudo-3D and traditional 2D beat-'em-up levels in which the player progresses by taking out enemies, but even these levels tend to have many deadly obstacles. The most difficult are the races at levels where the character must overcome a series of obstacles while flying at high speed, or get ahead of the enemy, who can instantly kill the player. These levels generally require the player to memorize a sequence of obstacles along the way and to react extremely quickly. Other levels include climbing and jumping: a "serpent maze", an underwater level with deadly rubber ducks and dangerous monsters, and two difficult climbs, including the final climb to the Dark Queen's tower.

The game stands out for its unusual ways of destroying enemies. Thanks to the acquired mutations, battle toads have the ability to transform their body, thanks to which they can inflict more serious damage to the enemy in hand-to-hand combat: 1) a headbutt from a running start, in which the toad instantly grows ram's horns, 2) a blow with a huge swollen fist, 3) hammering the enemy into the ground with two hands, 4) a blow with a huge swollen leg that takes the form of a boot, 5) when moving vertically on a rope, you can turn into a huge rounded weight that knocks down enemies in its path.

Battletoads proved to be a real hit and so several sequels were released over the following years:
1). "Battletoads" (Game Boy). Despite the same packaging design and title as the NES release, "Battletoads" for the Game Boy is a completely different game with new levels.
2). "Battletoads & Double Dragon". Crossover with characters from the Double Dragon series. The Queen of Darkness and Shadow Boss act as a team, and five heroes (the toads plus the Lee brothers) try to stop them. The game was released in 1993 for the NES, Game Boy, Sega Genesis and SNES.
3). "Battletoads in Battlemaniacs". It was released in 1993 for the SNES and in 1994 for the Sega Master System. The characters are now much larger, the graphics look even better. Zitz and the daughter of the CEO of Psicon Industries have been captured, and Rash and Pimple try to rescue them.
4). "Battletoads (Arcade)". An arcade game released in 1994. Unlike other games, it received voice acting and a number of other features (for example, increased levels of violence, players can decapitate some of their enemies during special attacks by spilling their blood). In addition, during the movement of vehicles, more emphasis is placed on fighting enemies than on overcoming obstacles.

So, Battletoads is just phenomenal in every aspect, be it graphics, music or gameplay. In 2005, the NES version of the game was ranked #98 on IGN's list of the 100 best games of all time. Be sure to play this true masterpiece!