Pros: Pure beat-em-up bliss, with less gimmick stages from the NES original. It's mostly arcade style, multiplayer, with cool new rotation and zoom effects (not to mention BLOOD), as well as massive animated sprites. The bosses are pretty impressive here, I particularly liked the giant snake boss that would lunge at you from the background, it looked pretty damn rad! The toads have more moves than ever, can use weapons, use their tongues, all the standard stuff for a feel good bashin' baddies time. A couple things that stand out above the rest here is the music by David Wise, who really upped his game in this one, it rocks hard, some really jammin' tunes here, also, this is the first time we see Rare's use of CGI, at least a tiny bit of it, in a later stage where you fly on a fighter jet. It was a sign of greater things to come!

Cons: It is a beat-em up of the classic era, and with that, you do get that button mash monotony, and the sidescrolling and jetpack stages only do so much to quell that, still, it's satisfying beat em up!

What it means to me: Played this game once and once only, at an arcade with a friend, and we played it til the end, it was a great time! Typically, I was never really a fan of the Battletoads, always much preferred the TMNT games, but this is the best of them, all things considered.