I beat it once. It took me 5 long agonizing months of playing it everyday and on occasion 2 times a day which I documented in my battletoads updates that I put out monthly a few years back

I can’t even emphasize on how fun this game can be with it’s variety. I’ve beaten it 6 times, 3 times with warps and 3 times warpless. Great review!

It's my favorite NES title followed by Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse. I don't think it's likely THE hardest but there's a good reason why it's up there. The Turbo Tunnels isn't the only difficult section either.

I beat the Turbo Tunnel level!!! I beat it!! Finally!!🎉 That was one of the most triumphant yes! screams I ever gave for beating a level. It almost felt like beating a tough video game, that is tough but a lot less tough than Battletoads😅 Level 4 was really fun. I think I got like halfway and that was it. Now I have a new challenge to overcome.😮

Most of kids I knew back then never actually passed the turbo tunnel level, and they would always react with shock when I told them that after hundreds of tries, I would often go through it on my very first try (and ramping up lives at it), only to get pummeled by the much tougher stages later in the game. As a kid, the rat race was my final straw, and I gave up on Battletoads after actually smashing my control against the wall in a moment of pure frustration/rage (didn't have the cartridge, and my mom's patience to rent it was growing thinner). I only revisited the game to finally beat like 15 years later hahaha.

Battletoads is a game I'd like to beat one day, but I just don't have the time to tackle this now. I never owned it as a kid, and I don't own it now. UCanBeatVideoGames put a video out on it, and it has some great pointers, so maybe I will try it and see where I get with it. Games I thought were hard? NES Ghosts n Goblins. That game was brutal... I don't even think I have a desire to beat this one. There is hard, and then there is... we REALLY want to break your spirits, and not in a way that keeps you coming back for more.

It's so funny, man. I've always loved this game and I've never beat the turbo tunnel. I played it recently and had the same old result and my love for this game is still unchanged.

I beat battletoads this past thursday! What a satisfying game to beat.

I loved NES Battletoads up until the turbo tunnel. The already brutal difficulty combined with only 3 continues was enough for me. As a kid I loved hard games but in the case of Battletoads it just took all the fun away.

Everything you are saying is hitting the nail on the head.

Oh battletoads. God I love these games. I didn't play a ton of NES growing up as everyone seemed to have a SNES so I played a TONNNN of Super Battle toads. I still played this one quite a bit but I was a kid so of course have never beat it. I played the one on rare replay and beat it though

Playing this on 2 player mode and beating each other up (mostly accidentally) was so satisfying. Even if it was downright near impossible to pass through the turbo tunnel in 2-player mode (required too much synchronization and was too damn distracting).

Thank goodness for save states

I usually check out after the Ice Cavern level. That's one is my favorite level.

The hardest ever? Short answer, no. Everything can seem hard a first but practice practice practice and you will succeed. The key is to rack up as many 1ups as you can early on in the game. A hard game is not a bad thing either. Other games like Ninja Gaiden and Ghost n' Goblins are memorable because of their difficulty.

I beat BattleToads for the first time ever last week. Clinger Wringer to me is the hardest level on the NES. One wrong input and you’re caught.

Probably took me a month to beat. It's a lot about memorization. Of the later levels I found Clinger Winger to be the easiest. Apparently this level is almost impossible if you're not playing on a CRT television.

is ure credit and intro music a beautiful sample of the pause menu from BT?!

nice man a battletoads video lol. I like how u said ppl that hate a game cause its to hard, i could for sure argue that with a game being to easy so its boring. Doing the no death run of battletoads will forever put this game in a special place for me. There are games that are hard because of bad controls or just made cheaply then there is battletoads and memorization. This game has a great balance of fun/difficulty. Its so rewarding to beat a stage for the first time

I had alot of fun playing BATTLETOADS! I still play it to this day along with the Ninja Gaiden trilogy, but i couldn't get into Castlevania for some reason but... i make a run at them pretty soon😁👍👍

I own this game nowadays, but I never did as a kid. I rented it a bunch of times. Despite its difficulty, I really enjoyed it. The turbo tunnel was never that difficult for me. The ice stage is usually where I died. I made it to the 5th level a couple of times.

I’m convinced this is the Elden Ring of 8bit/16bit games.

Is the all stars version the same as the rerelease for the gba? Because that was my first run in the mario. Someone brought there gba to school and we all would huddle around for literal weeks attempting to beat it.

My brother, cousins, and I played this game a lot and we beat it often.

Why they deleted this pause music in Battletoads & double dragon :(

In the Turbo Tunnel dodging the walls and traps isn’t too bad for me, nor hitting the ramps; where I get messed up is that part when you see that exclamation point and you’re supposed to jump from one platform to the other. It looks like it shouldn’t even be hard but I always go flying off!! I’m open to advice.

This game was hard for me because I was 3 or 4 when I first played it. Went back to it a couple of years ago and I just don’t want to dedicate the time to “get good” lol

Ghosts n' Gobblins!

Lots of old games are extremely hard. Strider, Contra, Sonic - ritually every retro game I know of is insanely difficult.

Just try playing the snake level as the second player.

Battletoads is a great game. It is hellishly difficult but thats by design. Its not broken its just hard.

As much as I like Battletoads NES, it's not my favorite in the series because despite what the name implies you do way more platforming than battling. For my money I prefer Battletoads GB, Battletoads/Double Dragon SNES, and my #1 Battletoads Arcade.

Battletoads won’t exist without the tmnt

"If you want to make this game even more difficult".....try playing it through blindfolded!

I don't think is the hardest, for my one of the hardest is Ninja Gaiden ,

No it's not, Shmups in general are a lot more difficult than Battletoads. Gradius, R-type, Ikaruga, Silver Radiant, Einhander, Darius, etc. Battletoads its the very first Roguelike XDDD

Game genie.

Wow. It is so weird listening to old Retrobird videos. Retrobird's delivery feels off and scripted. In his current videos, he sounds so natural, but here it's like he's just a LITTLE slower than usual, and it's just enough to COMPLETELY break the illusion. It becomes blatantly obvious that he's reading from a script. It's feels like looking at an optical illusion from a slightly different angle and the illusion breaks apart. It's like a magic trick is being exposed. I'm not complaining. On the contrary, it's cool to see the evolution and improvement of content creators.

Not even close to “the hardest of all time” tbh. Try the Ikari warriors with no abba code, the touhou series, the original rogue, or the I wanna kill the kamilia series. This games difficulty is overhyped honestly.

No, it's NOT the hardest game I've ever played. I'm not the greatest player and I reached Level 12 (after months, I must admit...)

This game is incredibly overrated. It isn't entirely a bad game, but you can tell how unconfident Rare was with releasing this. The story goes that Rare was upset that people were renting their games instead of buying them. I have no issue with games being difficult, but as mentioned, difficult*is* fun, but there's no continues, no password system and no save feature. Every true difficult game has something like that such as Ninja Gaiden, Mega Man, Ghosts N Goblins, Batman, etc. On top of that, the controls are stiff. Sometimes you need to jump high over an obstacle. Doesn't work. Maybe you need to dash fast to avoid the big metal wheel thing. Doesn't work. Perhaps youre trying to use a combo to beat at enemy. Doesn't work. Oh, and sometimes using a combo can be problematic as the animation for the boot or punch can slow down your attack, thus opening you up to be attacked. The big problem becomes that the game expects precision from a lot of the gameplay itself, so you're no longer having fun, you're just trying to gain muscle memory so you don't have to start over. That's not fun. On top of that, it's impossible to actually memorize this game as it can be random with where enemies spawn such as the fish, and those robots that shoot electricity can drain your lifebar due to a glitch, along with all the other cheap deaths such as getting stepped on. Any game that requires you to take leaps of faith such as in the snake level, navigate rooms of spikes with surgical precision, or memorize the layout of obstacles that will 1 hit KO you the millisecond they appear onscreen....thats bad game decision. It's too bad too, since Rare otherwise mostly makes good games, but this one rightly gets every bit of criticism it deserves.

It's not that hard.

Too hard !!!!! Allow this BS