10 Video Game Sections You Didn't Know You Could Skip
7. Most Of Rat Race - Battletoads
The original Battletoads' 10th level, "Rat Race," gives players the opportunity to skip right through the bulk of it. When you reach any of the bombs in the race, kick the bomb and the pursuing rat will begin falling upside down.
Charge or kick the rat twice before he lands on the ground and the level will come to an abrupt end, due to the rat being the game's end-stage boss, General Slaughter, in disguise.
KO'ing the rat will trick the game into thinking you've also beaten General Slaughter, sending you straight to the 11th level without needing to formally battle him at the end.
It's a tricky sequence to pull off, but each of the three bombs on the stage gives you an opportunity to do so, saving yourself the leg-work of getting through the rest of it as God - and the developers - intended.