I couldn't finish this game in my childhood. It was so difficult. But after 18 years I finished this game in the emulator. It felt good to have it completed.

Like many of Rare's best games, it looks, sounds, and plays phenomenally, and requires absolute perfection to stand a chance to beat it. It's a fantastic title that really pushed the NES, but it really forces you to focus and master it for any satisfaction. It's not a casual game by any means!

Mad props to whoever did the music for this game

I’ve always loved how you can see so many ideas and concepts in this game that would later materialize in Donkey Kong Country. The music, the ahead-of-its-time graphics and gameplay, and even the riding of animals, it’s all here, in an early format!

One of the great NES classics! The colors and designs still look visually impressive even by today's standards! Devs truly did an amazing job. This was one of my childhood favorites 👍

Is it safe to say a lot of us never passed the bike level

I wonder how many times I raged quit this game as a kid. The racer part of the game always made my controller jump out of my hands and against the wall lol

These levels are a mystery to me. The game was too difficult for a 13-yr-old at the time.

I was so happy when I saw you slam into the wall on the bike stage. 1) it was hilarious and 2.) it reminds us that you are human and can make mistakes. That’s one of the things I love about your playthroughs. You may mess up but you still clear it. 😁

Dang, as a kid I only ever made it to arctic caverns, never even came close to beating it. Kinda glad, it would have taken years of practice go beat the whole game!

The one thing that kills you the most in this game is that a double tap causes your toad to run uncontrollably for a headbutt, and many times you need to move in very tiny and very quick increments only to see your toad dash into spikes, pits, etc.

As a kid this was the one game on the NES that I was never able to complete. Many hours playing and on a good day could maybe could get as far as the second last level. But so many parts of this game required absolute perfection with no room for error, so it was one of those games only got close to the end a handful of times. Finally I've seen the last level and what i missed!

Battletoads on nes is a very good game. Very Good Music, Very Good Graphics, Very Good though hard Gameplay on Beat 'em up, Platforming etc.!

i beat this game a couple years ago...but i can't tell you how many times i died swimming in the water. between that and the racer part towards the end where you have to press the right direction at exactly the right time...may have shaved a couple years off my life haha. great vids btw!

what kinds of performance enhancing drugs did you use to complete this?

This game is the sole reason for hate, pain and conflict in this world, you sir are the most patient person in the world... God speed

Back in the day as a kiddo, I had the Sega Genesis version of this. I took that Warp in Turbo Tunnel every time once I discovered it & avoided Level 4 like the plague... & here, you make Level 4 look frickin easy... O_0

Damn man you rival Bootsy from old Cinemassacre, awesome skills dude! Turbo tunnels gave me anxiety just watching! lol

Just watching you play some of these levels my heart sinks into my stomach especially rat race! Holy hell they don’t make ‘em like this anymore! The puzzles, mazes, and memorization skills are off ten charts. Well done. Seems they took a lot a lot of concepts from TMNT games such as the hoverboards, surfboards, and falling through platforms quickly while avoiding instant death from walls closing in and improved upon it so much , without lagging which always dragged out the fun of TMNt NeS releases. also the falling through platforms thing is done in Mega Man but never quite as intense as rat race). You’d think the NES had blast processing like the SEGA lol.

I feel so bad for the many gamer kids that inhabited our planet back then. If only they got to see the rest of the game past level 3, which I assume most never did, they'd be in for something even more sadistic than level 3 itself. I've already beaten this game 7 times in the last two weeks since I first beat it, so I'm quite happy to be able to say that I've conquered one of the NES library's top 5 most toughest games ever made. Now on to playing a game that is an illusion and is a trap devisut by Satan......

Before KZfaq, it would be like, "If you can't make it far in a game, you wouldn't know what you're missing."

Very nice job there, especially at last checkpoint of Terra Tubes and Rat Races. You also pulled a lot of risky moves lol, I even got nervous by watching it.

I’m working on making a Dark Queen costume. I have the wig, the bandeau/strapless leotard, the gloves, and the cape. I just need the boots and the staff.

Well done man. I could never beat this game.

Hardest game ever made, Jesus Christ

I managed to beat it only once on the actual console, way back in the 90s... not many modern games can compare to this one in terms of difficulty. Battletoads & Double Dragon was a much easier game for sure. ;) Would love to see more NES/FC longplays of difficult games like this one, makes for a good show!

Battletoads is sort of an extended Double Dragon with personality!

Awesome channel! Just discovered this cuz I randomly wanted to see a life force playthrough (well done BTW). This game was sooo hard, I don't recall if I ever beat it, I remember getting pretty frustrated at the 'Volkmire"s Inferno" level... Where I'm currently paused. I guess I'll see if the levels after this refresh my memory... Seriously though, I just browse through some of your playlists and the amount of content is unbelievable. Respect

I really did beat the turbo tunnel once!! I was about out of lives and hit game over in the surf level. You kinda get into a rhythm with the music, and that part where you jump without a ramp was the trickiest for me.

Great playing you did when you get to the boss in the "Rat Race" Awsome 👏👏👏

Great game play and sorry to point this out but you missed my favorite part of the game at 10:10 where you were supposed to run into that pole that has that glowing at the base. The warp speed would have taken you one level ahead . That was always my favorite part to try ❤

I never got passed the snake pit. Loved this game so much. I still have the cartridge.

That rat race stage increased your hand-Eye coordination as a kid. Thanks to this game.

I've never made it past the turbo tunnels without warping.

I was surprised it was NES game, it looks like 16bit, crazy.

Turbo Tunnel was a nightmare. I will try again, after so many years, to beat it.

One of the most difficult 8-bit games to play, especially the Turbo Tunnel.

The pause menu music in this game is best.

Is nobody going to talk about how the ship in the intro scales like it's on an SNES!?!?

Follow up from my comment last year-- 1) Volkmire's Inferno (Level 7) was the Level that caused me the most Game Overs (2nd was probably Rat Race--Level 10). I had to use the Warp in Karnath's Lair (Level 6) to skip THAT headache. You must've REALLY got your A-Game on in this playthrough! 2) In Terra Tubes (Level 9) how are you able to approach the robots without them blowing up on you?! Every time I got too close, they'd self-destruct and OHKO me!

Arctic caverns stage reminds of Ghouls'n'Ghosts level a lot.

15:54 I would die like that intentionally just because it was so hilarious.

Holy crap! I loved this game!

The dark queen could capture me any day

Why can't NES Classic have that?

My favourite & only NES game that I ever owned other than SMB & Duck Hunt which came with the NES, every other game I ever beat were rentals. I chose wisely ☺ They did this game dirty with that animated pilot though 😂 I feel that the top score of 999,999 should jump to 1 million when the game is completed because you can achieve that top score well before the end. Great game, NES GOAT as far as I'm concerned.

Was so into this game as a kid having seen it in Nintendo Power. I remember getting it for my birthday, thinking the first stage was OK, and everything going downhill from there. The second stage was a total departure, and the third...I must have spent weeks trying to clear the Turbo Tunnel stage, even trying to memorize the layout from the maps in NP. I kind of feel like Battletoads and Cuphead are similar: a great idea that was ruined by an insane difficulty level, and the need to deviate from what people (or at least I) wanted: a straight forward side-scrolling platformer/beat-em up. I can never understand why developers shove multiple genres into a single title and force it on the player. To those that finished this game (I only got to the water stage), I applaud you!

Hardest level for me it was Gargantua Ducts,congrats for playing this game like a pro !

I’d like to have a conversation with the developers of many of the 8-bit games. How were we as kids supposed to beat these things? I loved my Nintendo but the developers of the era had a really messed up idea of what makes a game good.

that's make or break it for harder levels. Like surf city is worth playing to get the 3+ lives or something like that.

I made it to level 11 with the spiral wheel thing then I die and gave up. I think this is quite an achievement for me

Cheers to you bro. Watching this reminds me how infuriatingly hard this game is.

Rat Race blows my anxiety through the roof. XD

According to a comparison vid I saw a while ago. 1 out of 15 beat this game. That's 6.667%

Omg. The nostalgia

My hat's off to you you make this look so easy one of my favorite games is kid growing up but it was tough... when I finally completed it I thought I Ruled the World LOL

The Clinger was easy to beat 1 vs 1. And it was so gratifying. After he killed me 1000+ times.

Ooooh jamas pensé qué volvería a ver este juego .. lo juguemos cuando tenia como 3,4,5 años.. y jamas super como se llamaba.. hasta hoy

Amazing game play.

I guess quarantine has been rough for this guy.

I was never able to pass those speed bikes. Damn them!

screw that wheel chase, much more nerve racking than the hover bike part

The Bike stage is absolutely brutal, up to there i was following thinking, sure i could get this far, then............

I could never get thru that third area with the jet bike when I was a kid 😂

Just checking to see what Level 4 actually looked like as I never managed to beat the jet ski level...lol

20:04: I probably died 1000 times there.

Never got past the turbo tunel in my childhood, at least I get to see the rest of the game...

Jogo top, achava muito difícil pra época, mais sempre que podia arriscava ums play

Incredible.

10:38 sounds like a Digger T. Rock music level to me. Cool!

Counting all the 1ups on the 2nd level on 2 player was fun.

I'd like to hear someone recreate this song live, with all the necessary instrumentation.

I wasn't ever able to get past jet skis lol karnaths lair though?!?!? Holy crap lol

Amazing graphics for a 1991 nes game !

Even to this day, I can't even pass the fucking Motocycles. Fornately, in Japan is illegal to rent games.

I never played this as a kid but I want to now, I like challenges and hate em at the same time😂😂

One of the games I love, but can't help rage quit so much. XD

This brought back a lot of childhood trauma. For some reason I didn’t recognize anything past the snake pit! Well done!

no. no! YOU DIDN'T NEED TO DO THIS! NOT FOR US!

Cool video

33:22 Si le pegas antes de que caiga al suelo, el juego se buguea y te salta el combate con el General Slaughter. Pasas directamente la fase :3

I beat the turbo tunnel level and that was good enough for me.

I can’t believe someone actually beat this game

Theme song sounds like The Young Ones theme.

I beat this game without warps on my 4th or 5th full game attempt, honestly I thought it would be way harder tbh. Great nes game though!

Fun to play, Torturous to beat.

Has Anyone else noticed the attribute clash in this game like at 0:47 (around circle), 1:33 (Arms) and 17:43 (Around grey spikes). Now that I've seen it, it's really annoying me. Slightly better design could've of negated it to an extent. The NES is not the ZX Spectrum (although with the Speccy, the attribute clash is part of it's personality). Haven't played it though so if I play it, I will be able to filter out the attribute clash (if I have fun that is)

This video just shows one way to beat these evil things. The queens tower was almost impossible.

Only once did I ever beat the game without cheats or warping (by cheats I mean the Game Genie--I still use the Extra Lives secret, but I don't see anything wrong with that), so I agree that this game is TOUGH!

My only gripe about this game was despite the title there more platforming and less 'battle' going on. Ironically Battletoads/Double Dragon is my favorite in this franchise because it fixed that problem.

Hi! Is it possible to beat the game on an emulator? Also, what controller would you suggest?

7:57 And then, the tutorial is over and the real game begins

Amazing 😱😱😱😱

There's so much rng in 9 it can be annoying but rare put lives in the right places.

This game was so hard it pissed me off

The hardest game in human history lol

Damn I never made it past the bike part Also what a lame ending after beating such a difficult game

wow good

Esto si era dificulta injusta pero se podía pasar.

I love the music I love the game but the difficulty is crap