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Playing further in, the SMS Battlemaniacs soon reveals itself to be rather unfinished and glitchy. The first level plays about the same, minus the earthquake features, and the graphics and sound are reasonably represented, though the smushed sprites remind one of the original NES game. From a first glance, it’s a rather impressive port given the obvious technological downgrade. In addition to the SNES original, a Sega Master System port of Battlemaniacs was published by Tec Toy for the South American market, though Virgin Interactive’s name is all over the thing due to a cancelled European release. There’s even a new beat played when you pause! In general, the attitude here is “bigger, better, more” but without drastically changing the nature of the game. Combat and control is mostly the same as the first, but you get a new special move that can hit enemies on both sides of you.

The Turbo Tunnel looks and plays in a largely familiar manner, but taken to the next level with double and triple walls, more elaborate obstacle arrangements, and a few particularly frightening segments where you actually land in the crazy ball pit and must hit a concealed ramp to leap back out. Ragnarok’s Canyon, instead of being a dull, benign landscape, is now a lava-filled trench with belching volcanoes, burning bridges, and unpredictable terrain.

Unsurprisingly, the “Gamescape” looks and behaves a lot like Ragnarok’s World, but in a much more stylish manner. As usual, the remaining Toads, Pimple and Rash, must enter the “Gamescape” and stop this from happening.

It is then revealed that the previously unintroduced Silas Volkmire intends to somehow merge the game universe with reality in order to conquer everything with the Dark Queen by his side. As the “Gamescape” is being demonstrated, creatures from within kidnap the daughter of the corporation’s CEO and Zitz as he tries to intervene. Borrowing plot elements from the Nintendo Power comic (which we’ll continue to ignore for the moment, as it makes this game’s premise especially confusing) without actually filling in any important details, we find the Toads invited to an isolated research facility in Tibet to witness the unveiling of a detailed virtual reality simulator.

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