Two young martial arts experts join forces with three anthropomorphic toads to beat up Shadow Warriors and the Dark Queen's cronies. Battletoads & Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team is, quite clearly, one of the most bizarre crossovers ever realised in video games - but who cares about the logic behind such a game when it's so fun? Despite the culture clash, both series do have one thing in common in that they're side-scrolling beat 'em ups that encourage you to take pleasure in the simpler things. In this case, the simple things are connecting your fist with as many faces and crotches as possible to bolster your score. Technos Japan - the developer behind Double Dragon - had little to no role in developing the bizarre crossover title. Instead, Rare took up sole development duties, and did a damn good job too. There's roughly about a gazillion different versions of Battletoads & Double Dragon, but the award of definitive version undoubtedly goes to the SNES - one that sadly isn't included in the Rare Replay collection.
Joe is a freelance games journalist who, while not spending every waking minute selling himself to websites around the world, spends his free time writing. Most of it makes no sense, but when it does, he treats each article as if it were his Magnum Opus - with varying results.
