Battletoads [GBA - Proto / Cancelled]
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Battletoads is a video game by Rare Ltd. created to rival the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games. The first game was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1991 and was followed up with sequels released over the ensuing years for GameBoy, SNES, Megadrive / Genesis and Arcade. [Info from Wikipedia] A proto for a GBA version of Battletoads was discovered in the collection of cancelled RARE games that transparentjinjo has uploaded on his Youtube Channel.
The game was only in development for a few weeks, and everything from character animations and enemy AI to sound effects is a placeholder.
The character design was the result of merging the sometimes conflicting ideas of the original Battletoads artists, who were now in director or lead positions on other teams.
Even the main game design was not fixed at that point. Team instructions ranged from “make a shiny clone of the NES version” to “do whatever you think is best” to “everything cool will have to wait for an Xbox version”.
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7 Responses to Battletoads [GBA - Proto / Cancelled]
Cubivore10
August 4th, 2008 at 5:19 am
Maybe it is a good thing that this game didn’t get released, it doesn’t look all that fun…
mister
February 9th, 2009 at 11:43 am
Well it is just a prototype, right? I don’t think the final game would look that way… at least I hope not.
Herp Derp
May 12th, 2010 at 5:50 am
The toads don’t even look nearly as badass as they’re supposed to. Pussified for the wimpy generation of now.
SMBMadman
August 25th, 2010 at 12:05 am
What the heck?! That’s Battletoads???
MPNagem89
September 2nd, 2010 at 2:47 pm
battletoads was suppose to make a comeback on the wii but they didn’t thanks to those dumbasses at microsoft. why couldn’t kinect sports get cancelled instead of battletoads wii?
Temo
November 2nd, 2010 at 12:52 pm
The World needs a new Battletoads. And needs to be sold exclusively on Gamestop stores.
Granville
January 16th, 2011 at 3:30 am
This is so early that they reused sound effects from Banjo Kazooie Grunty’s Revenge on GBA. The toad’s jumping grunt is Banjo’s from the GBA game.