In this game, Smash Hits vary in appearance with each 'Toad. As before, much of the difficulty comes from the various vehicle levels, which require near-perfect memorization and reflexes to survive. There are also two bonus levels and a final stage against the Dark Queen. There are only six levels, but their size and length are increased to help compensate. Meanwhile, Michiko and Zitz are being conveyed to his dreaded lair, the Dark Tower, where they will be destined for doom if anyone tries to stop him.īut he must be stopped! - and Rash and Pimple are the 'toads to do it!īattlemaniacs uses many of the same stage themes as the NES game, though with obvious improvements in audio and visual effects. Bird's suspicion that the evil genius, Silas Volkmire, and his malevolent partner, the Dark Queen, are behind the kidnapping and the Gamescape leakage, and it is soon revealed that he is correct: Silas has hooked himself up to a Gamescape Generator somewhere beyond the portal, with the wicked intention of transforming the entire world into his very own Gamescape kingdom, over which he and the Dark Queen will rule. Before anyone else can do anything, the Pigs of the Apocalypse are galloping away into the Gamescape with their two captives - and to make matters worse, the Gamescape begins to leak through the portal into our world!Ī prerecorded message flashes up on the Gamescape screen, confirming Professor T. When Zitz tries to stop them, he is clubbed senseless and draped over a saddle.
One of them grabs Michiko Tashoku and leaps back through the portal.
Suddenly, the pigs gallop strait at the portal, bursting through it and into the test room. Gradually, the figures get closer and are seen to be four Psyko Pigs mounted on horseback - the Pigs of the Apocalypse. The portal is switched on and the Gamescape is revealed: a rolling plain with four figures barely visible in the distance. Bird and the 'toadally awesome trio, Zitz, Rash and Pimple, otherwise known as the Battletoads. Yuriko Tashoku, President of the Psicone Corporation, her daughter Michiko, Professor T. 21 allows a person to actually enter the Gamescape through a unique, computer-generated portal anyone passing into the portal will have his or her atoms integrated into the Gamescape by a complicated process of quantum-mechanical osmosis. 21, an acronym for Total Reality Integrated Player System.
At a converted fortress, Gyachung-La, high in the Tibetan mountains, the Psicone Corporation is testing its latest invention - the T.R.I.P.S.
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