Did You Know About... #001: Battlemaniacs for the Sega Master System

Hi there everyone! Today I'm gonna start the first series of the blog which I named "Did You Know About..." . On this one, I will always bring some interesting facts about games, consoles and companies that are not know by a lot of people or it's too old to us to rememer it. This week I was playing Battlemanics on the SNES and I remembered something about it that you might like. Here we go...

Battlemaniacs is the second game in the Battletoads franchise and was released on June 1993 for the Super Nintendo in North America and later that year on Europe. The game wasn't achieved the same success that the first game achieved and people were more focused on another title that was released almost at the same time: Battletoads & Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team. This one achieved some relative success and was inicially released on the NES, and later for the Game Boy, Genesis/Mega Drive and Super Nintendo systems.

Maybe because of the timing of the released (releasing 2 games at the same time is NEVER a good idea) and the appellin to the Double Dragon audience as well, people sticked to the other game and let Battlemaniacs on the second plan. But don't get me wrong, Battlemaniacs is a excelent game and a very good adition to the series, but B&DD have much more to appel than this one.

But in 1994, a company named Syrox Developments decided to port the game to the Sega Master System and release it on the European market. On July 1994, the game was schedule to be released, but on the last minute the company decided to pullet out the game of the stores and canceled it's release - even with the game already been reviewed by some UK magazines.

Out of the nowhere, Tec Toy released the game here in Brazil in 1996, and people could finally see why it was pulled out: the game was barely finished, with music missing in some levels and invisible obstacules in some others levels and some minor glitches through the entire game. A shame though, because the potencial could be seen, and a little more time spent on it and it could have been another 8-bit rare gem.

Here you can read one of the reviews made in the UK:

*by clicking on the image, it will expand it.

And here, the game being complete in one video:

And that's all for today mates! I hope that you enjoyed reading this fact and as always if you find some mistyping on my text PLEASE let me know so I can correct it, OK? And don't forget to make suggestions, complements, say bad names, whatever to keep this thing going! Got an interest fact that you want to see here? Let me know on Twitter, just follow my profile @NostallgiaBR!

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