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And does!

Zitz, Rash and Pimple... the BATTLETOADS!

When the evil Dark Queen kidnaps your best buddy, Pimple, and the best looking Pincess, this side of the Mazallion Star Cluster - what are you gonna do about it? Are you gonna cry? Hide? Call the Starcops? No way! Because you`re a BATTLETOAD and BATTLETOADS don`t cry, hide or call for help. BATTLETOADS get real MAD - and then they get EVEN!

So strap on your Blaster, power-up the Toadster and take a flying leap to the Dark Queen`s planet - but, watch out `toad - the lady`s bad and she`s got a whole mess of nasty surprises lined up for you - like the Psyko Pigs, the Mutant Ratpack, Robo-Manus and the Saturn Toadtrap to name a few.

You`re gonna need all your fighting skills to defeat her - the Battletoad Butt, the Big Bad Boot and Nuclear Knuckles, if you`re gonna rescue your freinds and get the frog outta there with your green skin intact!

So let`s get bad and crazy! Let`s get mad, `toad! And then get EVEN!

A personal review on this game...

Now, this game could`ve been brilliant on the Amiga CD32, but due to Mindscape getting information about the CD32 from a pimply, Saturday only, PC (or SNES) owner who works at that famous electrical retail outlet that ryhmes with `clicksons`, they were mis-informed about the CD32 controller having only 1 fire button - yes, we ALL KNOW that it has (hang on..) 7 fire buttons - which can increase upto 12 if the fire button is used as a `shift key` button.

But -oh no!- Mindscape just could not be arsed* to find out for themselves!
A quick bit from the all important instruction manual....

The control pad moves you around the screen and gives you the following capabilities:

To run faster, give the direction control two pushes in rapid
succession in the direction you wish to run.

To carry out the Battletoad Butt, press fire whilst running fast.

While moving, hit the Fire button to jump.

To attack, hit the Fire button!

To pick up an item, stand over it and hit the fire button.

To eat the flies(!) stand still and hit the Fire button when one flies past!

So, as you`ve read, it is impossible to move AND punch at the same time - you HAVE to release control of the Toad, then press fire to punch the enemy - by this time, you`re dead!

If I remember, ths game got a very low score from the Amiga mags, and so it should.

The Amiga programmers should have been shot for not giving their names to this game.
Rare should`ve at least play tested it before putting their own RARE logo on the game.
Mindscape know better than to release poor qualiy games.
Ain`t I glad I didn`t pay full price for this game!
If Midscape had done their homework, us Amiga owners could`ve been playing Solar Jetman, Wizzards and Warriors or even Donkey Kong Country - custom written for -and making use of the Amiga harware!
OK, we are now, `cause we`ve got NES and SNES emulators and some game ROM images, but if RARE actually wrote some titles....
A wasted chance!

Now, if Mindscape or Rare could get the programmers to give us some game patches/updates to get the controllers working properly - To make the game work on a A1200 with CD drive It would make me a very happy man!

...and another thing... It is very hard to read yellow writing on a bright pink background!

* - Could not be bothered. Help mode for all the people who call Petrol, Gas.