Battletoads 2020 - Chug my dumptruck you stinky wimps, BEEP BEEP, GARBAGE BUTT BACKING U-U-U-UP!

Rover said:
Why didn't they just shit out a pixel art battletoads in like a year or two that changes nothing from the nes game besides maybe higher quality pixel art and new levels.

Even that would've been better.
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They could have and should have pulled a SEGA and just released a package emulated version of BattleToads NES and SNES.

Cheaper in the long run and probably would have pleased everyone involved.
 
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Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
There were tons of demo stations where people could test the game to make up for it, I don't know what the limitations of those were but making a game easier instead of harder seems counterproductive if someone can beat it without paying.
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Marissa Moira said:
People were not hurting in japan if they wanted to try out a game before paying for it.

They had Arcades back then and arcade owners would set up console rooms for a small entry fee, companies had demo stations they would also position in arcades. You also had actual arcade games and shit that console ports would be based on. You also had a fuckload of magazines.

Word got around if a game sucked or not.

The best documented instances of people early on going apeshit over a game is Dragon Quest 1, the night before nobody cared. Suddenly on release day it was everywhere.
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I just wonder if the games themselves would have been more profitable had gamers been able to rent instead of only buy and if those great PS2 era survival horror games could have continued on.

Of course for all I know it could be the opposite and gamers having to buy them made them more profitable, so who knows.

SiccDicc said:
They could have and should have pulled a SEGA and just released a package emulated version of BattleToads NES and SNES.

Cheaper in the long run and probably would have pleased everyone involved.
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But then it would have featured the original Dark Queen and the modern corpo cult of woke can't have a sexy female in their modern products, men might masturbate to them and don't you know men masturbating to video game women counts as virtual rape?
 
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Marissa Moira said:
I heard about the official NES Re-issue cart that is happening.

It's 100 bucks for a cart only release, the NES cart doesn't come in a flat gray but it's the clear neon green color shell that those 101 in 1 knock off carts have. It's from the same people who made that Street Fighter 2 re-issue cart that fried your SNES.

I bought the original battle toads cart only (and from gamestop) for like 12 bucks.
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Jfc, that Street Fighter 2 cart's way worse than I would have guessed. And this GameSpot article shares a damning tweet that I'm surprised iam8bit didn't catch flak for:

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If you need a hard copy of Battletoads NES and can't find a cart, it's also on Rare Replay, along with the arcade version.
 
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SiccDicc said:
They could have and should have pulled a SEGA and just released a package emulated version of BattleToads NES and SNES.
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Already did that with Rare Replay. They went NES and arcade though which is probably the better picks. NES for the nostalgia and arcade for something that most people probably never played, and I don't think had ever been released on consoles until then.

People have been asking for a new Battletoads game since forever so it makes sense to bring it back. The problem is they didn't make the game for the people who actually know what the hell a Battletoad is. Not that they really care, like I said in my original post it's just game pass filler.
 
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As much as I hate the new Battletoads, it's so tone deaf that it's actually more fun to laugh at its badness than it would've been to enjoy a good Battletoads game. Cheaper, too. 'Garbage butt backing uuhhhp,' is pure magic. I don't know how the writers were able to combine childish un-humor with self-righteousness and a latent scat obsession. It's just spectacular.
 
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Ted_Breakfast said:
As much as I hate the new Battletoads, it's so tone deaf that it's actually more fun to laugh at its badness than it would've been to enjoy a good Battletoads game. Cheaper, too. 'Garbage butt backing uuhhhp,' is pure magic. I don't know how the writers were able to combine childish un-humor with self-righteousness and a latent scat obsession. It's just spectacular.
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Well, it's funnier than just saying "kiss my ass!" Even though it would've worked better if they kept her original design instead of being skinnier than a twig.
 
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Jfc, that Street Fighter 2 cart's way worse than I would have guessed. And this GameSpot article shares a damning tweet that I'm surprised iam8bit didn't catch flak for:
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I reveal complete ignorance on the workings of electronic circuitry by asking this, but how in the name of hell can a video game cartridge even do this? Doesn't a SNES game cartridge just get its electricity from the SNES, at published voltage and current limits? Don't they just contain ROM chips that furnish game data (with a few exceptions that provide the Super FX chip)? What could a cartridge possibly be doing to generate enough heat to set the console on fire?

I didn't even think that stuff runs fast enough to need even passive cooling, and even if it did, surely it'd be the console generating the bulk of the heat, not the cartridge.

That said, it takes brass balls to sell a product with a disclaimer like that. "Here's our product. You want it. It will literally light your shit on fire. We give zero fucks. You will buy it anyway. No refunds. Bitch." If you bought this thing and your console melted from it, you have no one to blame but yourself.
 
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Dizzydent said:
I didnt even know this was a thing and i got excited and then i got sad especially since i just found my copy of battletoads this morning and seeing this thread took me for a trip....

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>no turtles cartridge sneaked into the second photo

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Dom Cruise said:
I just wonder if the games themselves would have been more profitable had gamers been able to rent instead of only buy and if those great PS2 era survival horror games could have continued on.

Of course for all I know it could be the opposite and gamers having to buy them made them more profitable, so who knows.
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there's probably too many factors involved to ever come to a definitive conclusion. however, budged doesn't magically increase, so dosh you spend on game A you can't spend on game B. if you don't have the money for A you can't ever play it (unless you get lucky and borrow it from a friend). the former is also an actual sale, while the latter isn't, but from a creator perspective at least someone played your game, which leads to word of mouth and possibly buying it later or the sequel etc. this especially is a factor a lot of companies still haven't grasped or only superficial when they pay streamers to shill your shit instead of paying for ads on busses etc.

however you also have to consider as @Marissa Moira mentioned that japan has a completely different culture when it comes to arcades and the social aspect it fosters, which makes engaging with some games quite different (for example you won't necessarily buy a fighter to play alone at home but still dump lots of coins into the arcade machine fighting against others).
 
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I reveal complete ignorance on the workings of electronic circuitry by asking this, but how in the name of hell can a video game cartridge even do this? Doesn't a SNES game cartridge just get its electricity from the SNES, at published voltage and current limits? Don't they just contain ROM chips that furnish game data (with a few exceptions that provide the Super FX chip)? What could a cartridge possibly be doing to generate enough heat to set the console on fire?

I didn't even think that stuff runs fast enough to need even passive cooling, and even if it did, surely it'd be the console generating the bulk of the heat, not the cartridge.

That said, it takes brass balls to sell a product with a disclaimer like that. "Here's our product. You want it. It will literally light your shit on fire. We give zero fucks. You will buy it anyway. No refunds. Bitch." If you bought this thing and your console melted from it, you have no one to blame but yourself.
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Honestly the only way I could see someone's SNES deck catching on fire is if it was an older SNES and some of the wiring/circuits in it weren't quite what they used to be. I don't even remember my SNES getting particularly warm, not even while running SuperFX carts.
 
ZMOT said:
there's probably too many factors involved to ever come to a definitive conclusion. however, budged doesn't magically increase, so dosh you spend on game A you can't spend on game B. if you don't have the money for A you can't ever play it (unless you get lucky and borrow it from a friend). the former is also an actual sale, while the latter isn't, but from a creator perspective at least someone played your game, which leads to word of mouth and possibly buying it later or the sequel etc. this especially is a factor a lot of companies still haven't grasped or only superficial when they pay streamers to shill your shit instead of paying for ads on busses etc.

however you also have to consider as @Marissa Moira mentioned that japan has a completely different culture when it comes to arcades and the social aspect it fosters, which makes engaging with some games quite different (for example you won't necessarily buy a fighter to play alone at home but still dump lots of coins into the arcade machine fighting against others).
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Yeah, there's no real way to know for sure, but I only learned recently that Japan has no games rental market and that fact really surprised me and totally changed my understanding of the Japanese video game scene, so now I can't help but wonder what would have happened if they did.

If I had to wager a guess though I would say it probably wouldn't have changed that much, as the ballooning cost of game development over the 7th gen killed many a western developer too and that's with the rental market.

Still, it would be interesting to hop into an alternate dimension and find out for sure, I just really miss the days of mid budget Japanese games that still looked impressive or at least solid, there's still a few devs doing that like From software or Platinum, but a lot less than there used to be and some that do still come out are below par, like compare the newest Disaster Report, which looks like total garbage, to the PS2 Disaster Reports which looked decent for the time.
 
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