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Battle Toads were kind of extreme to the max already.

Battletoads were already a bargain bin ripoff of TMNT - you can't really corrupt something like that. This is still far more respectful to the source than the recent TMNT movie was though - about as good as could possibly be expected of mixing Battletoads with Killer Instinct. Huge props for that, and I don't give a crap about any of the involved franchises. Also, it kind of has already been done in KI - Sabre Wulf was adapted from the game of the same name, so there's a precedent Wow, this totally reads like an infinite zest post.

you misspelled "xtreme"

caring about the integrity of Battle Toads is about the same as caring about the integrity of Samurai Pizza Cats or Mummies Alive

Heh that does read like an infinite zest post. But mummies alive was tits good!

I don't think as many people feel ownership over the Battletoads, or that changing their childhood amphibian vigilantes is such a personal betrayal.

Less that, and more about it being some horrible meme from 7 or 8 years back where idiots called game stores asking for battletoads and... I guess that was the joke.

Actually looking at the list I would also like to include RC Pro Am. But no Marble Madness. Your nostalgia for that game is just as dumb as your nostalgia for Battletoads. You hated it like you hate an ex lover, but you don't want to say it like that because you had some good times fucking with it.

I was a big fan of Killer Instinct, but I have not played this new one nor do I feel any inclination to do so... which is sad, because a KI reboot was a dream of mine for years.

Wizards & Warriors was also a great game - easily one of my top ten favorite NES games - and the port of Pirates!, also on that Wikipedia list, was probably my favorite NES game of all time. (I would chalk that up to a win for Sid Meier rather than Rare, however). Golden Eye, Narc, Cabal, and Donkey Kong Country, too.

Blast Corps was fantastic, though it seems no one remembers it now. But yeah, for the most part Rare was really overrated, as should be obvious by how the quality of their work went to hell as soon as they were separated from Nintendo's quality control.

I played the PC Pirates a good decade until I played an emulated NES version but I'll bet it was pretty great for the time if you hadn't played the other.

Blast corps was pretty fun, yeah. Homie I'm curious about your like of KI. I'm definitely no fighting game expert, but to me it didn't do anything other than having a sort of useless combo system that I thought capcom was doing better. The graphics were amazing at the time but the characters and story were weak.. And there wasn't much fun you could have with the fatalities compared to MLK.. I dunno just curious.

Oh yeah EH it's off topic but I've been working on MLP art. I made one with rainbow dash and applejack and they're both in the bathtub holding tvs watching mlp. Just thought I'd share that :)

Rare didn't do Marble Madness - they may have done the NES port? I don't think ports should count unless they're radically different and better. What's the NES version of NARC like? Goldeneye does not hold up. I deny that Battletoads had revolutionary gameplay - did it revolutionise? I think the good outweighs the bad in BT though - the difficulty bottlenecks are awful, but there's quite a bit of fun in there otherwise. The arcade version is pretty cool. I heard the Famicom release of BT fixes a bunch of issues it has. Viva Pinata is kinda neat and Nuts and Bolts has a surprisingly appealing visual style (for a Rare game) and a pretty cool concept.

Battletoads and other old games of its ilk threw you headlong into difficulty walls at regular intervals largely because the playtesters were also the programmers. It's easy to forget how bloody frustrating a level is when you've been fucking around in it for hours in debug mode.

Donkey Kong Country 2 was my favorite of the series, just hard enough to still be a fun challenge, and enough secrets to dig up for a platformer without getting bogged down in widget hunting. Blast Corps was tits; we need more puzzle games that emphasize massive destruction and aren't Bomberman. Banjo-Kazooie had excellent presentation and pretty solid gameplay, although making stuff like the secret fairy godmother's gross trivia an actual plot point was kind of cruel. And I may be the only one to say this now, but I loved Jet Force Gemini. Of all the N64 games that I'd like to play again with a proper twin-stick setup, it's near the top of the list.

Oh yeah, forgot about DKC.. It was fun but once again it was all about the graphics. I don't have the manual anymore but I think their manual art said something about how the game could look like on Ultra 64. And that was cool when I was a kid, but it didn't do much to distinguish itself from Mario. It was just that year's model.

But saying Bond doesn't hold up is kind of like saying Shakespeare doesn't hold up vs modern literature. I was pretty young and could get on a duke3d or Doom server but it was a pain in the ass. 4 player mode is still one of my favorite moments in gaming because it was so easy to do.

Sounds cool, you should post that picture! As for KI, I enjoyed the gameplay, and the combo system was fun once you got a hang of it - you were able to pull off combos that ran into the hundreds of hits if you practiced at it. The main thing, I think, was that KI was one of the only fighting games of that era which actually managed to be both a solid game, and distinguish itself from MK/ Street Fighter. Usually, fighting games were either clones of Street Fighter, or klones of MK - Art of Fighting, Eternal Champions, etc - but KI was distinct enough to be it's own thing, taking the best aspects of Mortal Kombat (the violence and story) and the best aspects of Street Fighter (the mechanics) and adding their own twist to the mix (the dial-a-combo system). I don't believe I'd say it was BETTER than MK or Street Fighter, or even that it was AS GOOD, but it made a good showing for itself.

Also, Killer Instinct had a finishing move where the Asian chick flashed her tits.

Sadly, Killer Xbone is not something I'm ever likely to play, for three reasons: 1) Xbone exclusivity (I am a fan of Microsoft, but not of their consoles, and no way in hell am I buying something with built-in Big Brother tech) 2) Freemium pay scheme (nope!) and 3) the lack of finishing moves.

Yeah, you're right.. and every game promotes its own graphics. Would you play Tekken 7 if it looked like Tekken 2 even though the fighting was better? I guess during KI's time I was playing Toshinden and Tekken, which at the time had zero story, but I liked the characters more. But I guess a fighting skeleton is pretty cool.

Actually that's my prediction: 8 bit is all the rage right now, so early polygonal fighting games will probably be a thing in the next couple of years.