Screenshot from part one of the Battletoads race
On January 1st, 2012, a 4 player Battletoads race between NintendoCaprisun, ProtonJonSA, SuperJeenius and Pcull44444 started. They are racing to the end of the game as fast as possible, save-states aren't allowed, but warps are allowed and they have infinite lives. ProtonJon also came up with achievements, such as "Spend 10 minutes in a level" and "First to curse in the race".
Episodes[]
| Part | Uploaded | Watch |
|---|---|---|
| Part 1 | Jan. 1, 2012 | Watch this video |
| Part 2 | Jan. 8, 2012 | Watch this video |
| Part 3 | Jan. 17, 2012 | Watch this video |
Achievements[]
Special Achievements[]
These achievements can only be gotten by one person.
(listed in the order they were achieved)
Language, Young Man!
Be first racer to curse
Hit The Ground Running
Be first racer to start gameplay
Hey Guys, Wait Up!
Be last racer to start gameplay
First Blood
Be first racer to lose a life
It's All This Easy, Right?
Be first racer to beat Level 1
Bringing Up The Rear
Be last racer to beat Level 1
Everyone Else Did It
Be last racer to lose a life
Delicious Tears
Be first racer to break down and cry
The King of Toads
Be first racer to max out the score
My Calculator Was Broken
Be last racer to max out the score
That Was Death #1000
1000 deaths total so far! (Be first racer to reach the 1000th death of the race)
Limited Vocabulary
End with most total swears uttered
Tonight I Dine On Toad Soup
End with the most amount of deaths
Dust In The Wind
End in last place
Sonic Boom
End with the loudest scream (by decibel)
Death Magnet
End with the most deaths per stage
Where I Spend My Time
End with the worst level completion time
An Award For Awards
End with the most achievements
Maestro
End with the most total songs sang
Quit Yo Jibba Jabber!
End with the most total gibberish spoken
Gas Guzzler
End with the most mid-race belches
Serenity
End as the quietest racer
Lucky Toad's Foot
End with the least amount of deaths
Fuck This Noise
Be the first racer to turn off the game
WE'RE FREE!
Beat the game
One Last Time
Die the last death of the race
Normal Achievements[]
These achievements can be gotten, even if someone else already got them.
(listed in the order they were achieved)
How To Train A Dragon
Mount the dragon enemy in Level 1
Unlimited Plus 1
Collect a 1UP (Despite the fact that everyone's racing with unlimited lives)
Cheating Death
Die while beating a level (Literally beat a level with no health)
From Downtown!
Land every shot on the first boss
One Life To Live
Beat a level without dying
Do The Timewarp
Take a Mega Warp
That Wasn't Too Bad...
Beat Level 3 in less than 5 lives
Perfect Imitation
Someone's getting hatemail (Do an impression of Doug Walker)
A Toad's Dozen
Lose 12 lives in one level
Do The Timewarp Again!
Take two Mega Warps
Just Like Hasselhoff
Jump over a high wall in Level 3
Air Juggle
Keep a boss in midair
Fuck You Sound Barrier!
Make everyone go deaf (Scream to the point where you peak your microphone)
Goo Lover
Get killed four times in total by Level 8's Goo enemies
Well Placed 1UP
Get the same 1UP 5 times
I Like It Here!
Spend 10 minutes in a level
What's A "Race"?
Pause the game for a while
Save Me Konami Code!
Lose 30 lives in one level
It Had To Be Snakes...
There's a FOURTH room? (Reach Section 4 of Level 6, thoroughly frustrated)
Hope Rides Alone
You don't got this (Gain confidence, only to immediately lose said confidence)
Battletoads: The Musical
Sing a song of Battletoads
Changing Gears
Ascend two places in the race within 10 minutes
Going For The Record
Die again within a split-second after you respawn
Animorphs
I think he's part cat now... (Scream like that of a wild animal)
Frog Pin Cushion
Die 50 times to spikes
My Bad...
Should've said that earlier (Inform someone of an exploit an hour too late)
Wonder What's On TV...
Spend 30 minutes in a level
Only the Lonely
Be the only racer to play a particular level
Ladies?
He's quite the charmer (Demand that someone or something give you a sexual act)
Ernie's Revenge
Die 10 times in total to Level 9's Rubber Ducks
It Was Worth It
Die to get farther in a level
He Who Smelt It...
Die 10 times in total to Levels 8 and 10's gas
Dry, Pointy Land
Exit the water, die anyways (Miss the last helicopters of Level 9 and die on the spikes below)
Bow Chika Wow OW!
Lose 69 lives in one level
That's Not Your Line!
Quote a different LPer
All About The Benjamins/Bordens
Lose 100 lives in total
GOOSE!
Crash into Level 7's last electric wall
Mid Sentence Smackdown
Never EVER tempt fate (Proclaim your progress, only to immediately lose said progress)
Mister Boombastic
Rat doesn't reach a bomb (Reach Level 10's first checkpoint)
Your Biggest Fan
Die 10 times in total to a fan in Levels 8 and 10
Say Me Fantastic
Rat doesn't reach 2 bombs (Reach Level 10's second checkpoint)
Glitched the Glitch
How did he fall up? (Fail to perform Level 10's rat glitch in a spectacular fashion)
No Blue Shells Yet
Maintain 1st place for an hour
Why Even Bother?
Just waiting around to die (Wait for the irrefutably-in-the-lead rat to just reach the third bomb and put you out of your misery already in Level 10)
Horrible Luck
Have a boss spawn and land directly on top of you, killing you instantly
Turn The Other Cheek
Matthew 5: 38-42 (Draw comparison between a certain passage of the Holy Bible and the behavior of Level 9's Rubber Duck enemies)
What's The Big Deal?
Clear Level 8's inverted fan section on your first try
Called It
Narrate your own death in real time
Overkill
Maze wasn't hard enough (Die to a certain electric gate at the end of the 3rd section of Level 10)
Split Second Screw Job
That's salt in the wound... (Get outpaced by the third rat in Level 10 by a millisecond, on top of collecting the Overkill achievement the previous death)
Alcoholic in Training
This game stops sobriety (Drown your sorrows in booze mid-race)
Snarf Snarf!
Better call Lion-O for help (Do an imitation of Snarf from Thundercats out of anguish)
Life Imitates Battletoads
Hurt yourself in real life during the race
Well...
He is in last place (Proclaim you have "lost the game" while being cripplingly behind in the race)
Fuck
Fuck (Exclaim the word "fuck" multiple times consecutively)
I Can't Count Any Higher
Max out your score
Handicapped
Looks pretty broken to me (Break your controller/keyboard mid-race)
The Franklin/Borden Twins
Die 200 times in total
To The Mini-Mall!
Go get a new controller
You Ever Coming Back?
Pause the game for over a minute
Triple Digit Trouble
Lose 100 lives in one level
Sing Us A Song
At least give him a quarter (Request that another racer sing a song)
Who Needs iTunes?
Sing a song on demand from another racer
Jukebox Hero
Sing a total of 5 different songs centered around Battletoads
Could Always Be Worse
Could be AT&T (Lambaste the game's sprint mechanic)
I Thought It Was Snakes?
You were thinking it too (Proclaim a game mechanic to be the one thing that consistently kills you, despite there already being a contending game mechanic for that title)
Wasn't Quite User Error
Find yourself completing the game more effectively with a keyboard instead of a controller
I Can Count!
Lose 123 lives in one level
Conga Line Karaoke
Sing a song of Battletoads so good that everyone else starts contributing to it
Worst. D-Pad. Ever.
Perfect for Battletoads! (Mention that you're playing the game with an analog stick, which could explain all those times you died stupidly)
...But Not Worth an Award
...wait a minute... (Downplay another player's use of a keyboard despite the fact that you yourself are using one as you speak)
NOW It's A Race
Catch up to the racer in 1st place
Disco Fever
Die 50 times on Level 11
...And That's For Jaws 4!
Kill Level 9's unkillable shark
Hear That Sound?
That's A Soul Being Killed (Die a pixel away from the end of a level you've been stuck on for an eternity, and profess the pure agony of such an experience)
How About Them Sports?
Break an instance of awkward silence
Addicted To Battletoads
"Can't chat, dying too much" (Allow the race to be a hinderance to your social life)
THIS! IS! A REFERENCE!
Die 300 times in total
Beat On Repeat
Die on the exact same hazard 5 times in a row within a short period of time
There's Your Blue Shell!
Take the lead
Slow On The Uptake
You didn't realize that? (Fail to immediately recognize the fact that you're in the lead)
What Does This Thing Do?
Just stare at one of Level 10's bombs without destroying it, letting the rat catch up and detonate it
Swing & A Miss
Miss your attack, thus failing to destroy a bomb in time
Turned It Up To 11
Beat Level 11
Water Walkin'
Time to defy physics! (Bug the game by attacking the frame before you re-enter Level 9's water, causing your Toad to stand on the water)
Stockholm Syndrome
Battletoads broke him (Proclaim that you're having fun with the game, despite previous overwhelming evidence to the contrary)
Ass Blast
Die a total of 20 times to the gas of Levels 8 and 10
Murder By Death
Die 100 times in two different levels
Now You're A Man
Real men sing falsetto (Sing a song in falsetto)
Too Much Information!
Too many Good Vibrations (Proclaim yourself to be actively masturbating, and therefore in possession of three hands)
Feature Length Stage
Spend 1 hour on one level
Deja Vu
Remember that one time? (Die a pixel away from the end of a level you've been stuck on for an eternity a second time)
Girl Power!
He's got your back, ladies (Disavow slut-shaming mid-race)
Ring Around The Revolution
Fall to your death on Level 12 10 times in total
Stand There & Take It
Allow the game's enemies to kill you out of frustration
Duck of Doom
Die 30 times in total to Level 9's Rubber Ducks
I'll Take That Back...
Reclaim 1st place after previously losing it
The Timothy Bishop Award
Die 30 times in total to the gas of Levels 8 and 10
Well...
At least he's honest (Respond with the same word you've just uttered ad nauseam after being told to express how you really feel)
Gored
Die to Level 12's Rhino enemy 10 times in total
Life's A Rat Race
Die 50 times in total to a bomb on Level 10
Make It Rain
Kill a Red Cloud in Level 12
That Other Health Bar?
Totally there for looks (Connect the dots that Battletoads does, in fact, support co-op)
Viva La Revolution
Die 50 times in total on Level 12
Hungry Hungry Rhinos
Die 10 times in total to the Red Rhinos of Level 12
Master Of Control Setting
Barry would be proud (Pause your game and then unbind your pause key, thus softlocking the game without further fiddling with the emulator)
What's a "Pause Button"?
Die while AFK
Control Free Curbstomp
Die 5 times consecutively while AFK
Join The Nintendo Fun Club
Look up a strategy guide mid-race
The Final Countdown
Make it to Level 13
Smoke Toads Everyday
Die 420 times in total
Tastes Like Chicken
Die 20 times total to the Red Rhinos of Level 12
Wow
This guy sounds like a dick (Sound like a dick throughout the race)
Achievement Overview (incomplete)[]
Hover over an achievement to see how it is gotten.
| Achievement | SuperJeenius | Pcull44444 | NintendoCapriSun | ProtonJon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Language, Young Man! | Yes | No | No | No |
| Hit The Ground Running | Yes | No | No | No |
| Hey Guys, Wait Up! | No | No | No | Yes |
| First Blood | Yes | No | No | No |
| How To Train A Dragon | No | Yes | No | No |
| Unlimited Plus 1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cheating Death | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| It's All This Easy, Right? | No | No | No | Yes |
| From Downtown! | No | Yes | No | No |
| One Life To Live | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Bringing Up The Rear | No | No | Yes | No |
| Everyone Else Did It | No | No | No | Yes |
| Do The Timewarp | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| That Wasn't Too Bad... | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Perfect Imitation | No | Yes | No | No |
| A Toad's Dozen | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Do The Timewarp Again! | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Just Like Hasselhoff | No | No | Yes | No |
| Air Juggle | Yes | No | No | No |
| Fuck You Sound Barrier! | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Goo Lover | No | Yes | No | No |
| Well Placed 1UP | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| I Like It Here! | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| What's A "Race"? | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Save Me Konami Code! | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| It Had To Be Snakes... | Yes | No | No | No |
| Hope Rides Alone | No | Yes | No | No |
| Delicious Tears | No | Yes | No | No |
| Battletoads: The Musical | No | Yes | No | No |
| Changing Gears | No | No | Yes | No |
| Going For The Record | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Animorphs | Yes | No | No | No |
| Frog Pin Cushion | Yes | No | No | No |
| My Bad... | No | No | No | Yes |
| Wonder What's On TV... | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Only the Lonely | Yes | No | No | No |
| Ladies? | Yes | No | No | No |
| Ernie's Revenge | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| It Was Worth It | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| He Who Smelt It... | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Dry, Pointy Land | No | No | No | Yes |
| Bow Chika Wow OW! | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| That's Not Your Line! | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| All About The Benjamins/Bordens | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| GOOSE! | Yes | No | No | No |
| Mid Sentence Smackdown | No | No | Yes | No |
| Mister Boombastic | No | No | No | Yes |
| Your Biggest Fan | No | No | Yes | No |
| Say Me Fantastic | No | No | No | Yes |
| Glitched the Glitch | No | No | No | Yes |
| No Blue Shells Yet | No | No | No | Yes |
| Why Even Bother? | No | No | No | Yes |
| Horrible Luck | No | No | Yes | No |
| Turn The Other Cheek | No | No | Yes | No |
| What's The Big Deal? | Yes | No | No | No |
| Called It | No | Yes | No | No |
| Overkill | No | No | No | Yes |
| Split Second Screw Job | No | No | No | Yes |
| Alcoholic in Training | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Snarf Snarf! | No | Yes | No | No |
| Life Imitates Battletoads | No | Yes | No | No |
| Well... | Yes | No | No | No |
| Achievements | 27 | 27 | 21 | 28 |
Statistics[]
At the end of part 1[]
| Player | Current Level | Deaths | Achievements |
|---|---|---|---|
| SuperJeenius | 6 | 40 | 8 |
| Pcull44444 | 8 | 43 | 12 |
| NintendoCapriSun | 8 | 38 | 9 |
| ProtonJon | 9 | 43 | 11 |
At the end of part 2[]
| Player | Current Level | Deaths | Achievements |
|---|---|---|---|
| SuperJeenius | 7 (+1) | 70 (110 total) | 13 (21 total) |
| Pcull44444 | 9 (+1) | 69 (112 total) | 9 (21 total) |
| NintendoCapriSun | 8 (±0) | 65 (103 total) | 8 (17 total) |
| ProtonJon | 10 (+1) | 56 (99 total) | 7 (18 total) |
At the end of part 3[]
| Player | Current Level | Deaths | Achievements |
|---|---|---|---|
| SuperJeenius | 8 (+1) | 79 (189 total) | 6 (27 total) |
| Pcull44444 | 9 (+0) | 62 (174 total) | 6 (27 total) |
| NintendoCapriSun | 9 (+1) | 69 (172 total) | 4 (21 total) |
| ProtonJon | 11 (+1) | 38 (137total) | 10 (28 total) |