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Summary

Battletoads for Game Boy (often just called Battletoads) drops you into a solo run as Zitz, the green‑clad toad, with three lives and three continues. The game packs eight wildly varied stages, swapping between classic side‑scroll beat‑‘em‑up action and frantic vehicle sequences.

After blasting through Psyko‑Pigs and rat‑piloted UFOs on Armageddon’s surface, you’ll zip a speeder bike armed with a laser cannon, swing on vines in dark caverns, jet‑ski across hazardous waves, and dodge a rolling brain‑shaped boulder in a frantic foot‑race. Later sections have you rappelling down spikes, soaring with a jet pack against a 99‑second timer, and finally balancing on rotating platforms before confronting Robo‑Manus, the Dark Queen’s lackey, in the last showdown.

The title never left the Game Boy, making its level design and brutal difficulty a unique slice of the series, and it even earned a respectable 77.7 % average on GameRankings. Its cover art mirrors the NES original, and the Japanese release arrived years later under Masaya’s banner.

Storyline

While partying on the deep‑space leisure station Lost Vega, the three Battletoads—Zitz, Rash and Pimple—are ambushed by a Thallian Thorax Dancer who turns out to be the evil Dark Queen. She captures Rash and Pimple and leaves Zitz to flee in the Toadster back to Professor T. Bird’s Vulture.

The professor drops Zitz on the hostile world Armagedda, where he must trek across swamps, caverns and even the belly of a giant Wurm while battling Psyko‑Pigs, rat‑piloted UFOs and other hazards. The Dark Queen only appears in taunting cut‑scenes, never as a playable boss.

Ultimately Zitz confronts the Robo‑Manus mutant, the Dark Queen’s mechanical lieutenant, and defeats him to rescue his friends and prove himself a true Battletoad.

Edited by Maya Carter