Retronauts Episode 396: Battletoads

Retronauts

Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2021

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

When Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles struck gold at the start of the '90s, everyone wanted the piece of the action. That included British developer Rare, who created a similar group of green heroes to capitalize on Turtlemania: the Battletoads. Though it's mostly remembered for a singular stage within the first game, and only lasted a few short years, the Battletoads series attracted enough nostalgia to receive a brand-new release 26 years after the last one. But is there any appeal for this IP outside of sheer irony? On this episode of Retronauts, join Bob Mackey, Jeremy Parish, Matt McMuscles, and Stuart Gipp as the crew clings to their speeder bikes and zooms through a history of Battletoads. It'll be mad, bad, and crazy!

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0:27.8	This week on RetroNOTs, we're totally traumatized by the Turbo Tunnel.
0:54.6	Hello everybody, welcome to another episode of RetroNOTs.
0:56.6	I'm your host for this one, Bob Mackie, and today's episode is all about the battle
1:00.3	toads.
1:01.3	Before I go on, I want to introduce everybody on this totally awesome podcast, because
1:05.1	that's the only pun we'll be using for the next 90 minutes.
1:08.6	Who is my constant RetroNOTs companion in North Carolina?
1:12.3	I guess that's a generic perish, but in the virtual world, I'm known as Xima.
1:17.1	Okay, yes, I guess we have to come up with our toad names.
1:19.6	I'm in Petygo.
1:20.6	Jeremy's Xima.
1:23.1	Who do we have across the cold ocean that has no toads in it?
1:28.2	Oh, I am a Stuart Gip, and I guess I am athlete's foot, but with the Y instead of an A, that's
1:36.0	kind of cool, right?
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