The Good Old Days

Since recently watching Rocky IV I have been feeling nostalgic about my childhood and some of the movies I used to (still) watch and video games I used to play.  So every once and a while I will pay homage to (or insult) something from my childhood.

The names of the Battletoads are Rash, Zitz, and Pimple.  How charming

As a child I could have used my time to start a boy band or become a world class basketball player.  But both of those would have been far too easy, so I spent my time trying to beat this:

Developers in the 80’s and early 90’s couldn’t make games terribly long or loaded with content.  Instead they made games impossibly difficult and Battletoads is one of the most notorious examples.  Checkpoints were almost non-existent and there are parts where you had to essentially memorize the game to have any chance at all.  It got to the point where actually stopping an evil queen and her army of anthropomorphic rats and pigs would have probably been easier in real life than it was in the video game.

For those of you who have never heard of Warriors of Virtue, brace yourself, you also may want to remove any small children from the room, it’s for their own good. 

Warriors of Virtue is a 1997 film about a bullied high school student named Ryan Jeffers. 
His attempt to fit in with a group of “cool” kids goes wrong and Ryan falls into a whirlpool in a water treatment facility.  When our hero wakes up he finds himself in a mystical world currently being oppressed by the evil (and extremely flamboyant) Komodo.  In order to fight Komodo, Ryan teams up with a group of five anthropomorphic warrior kangaroos who wield the elements of wood, fire, earth, metal, and water.  Enjoy the trailer:

Warriors of Virtue does have one claim to fame: early in the film Ryan’s best friend suggests that they, “make like Tom and cruise.” So it may be responsible for the worst line in cinema history.

According to the Wikipedia article, “Film critic Kale Klein of the Carlsbad Current-Argus was so physically distressed by the film that he actually vomited during the initial screenings.” I haven't heard of anyone actually throwing up due to Two Girls, One Cup.  So you could argue that Warriors of Virtue is more disturbing.  Speaking of the Wikipedia article, someone illiterate, drunk, or both has been editing it, so probably one of the movie's writers.