The difference with Battletoads was that you had a very finite number of lives, and once you were out it’s game over, and there were no substantial number of continues.  And when that happened, your NES controller typically went through a wall, foot through the console, and you didn’t have to worry about giving the speedbike levels another shot, and you could move on.

And if it was anything like Battletoads/Double Dragon, the game itself was aware of when you used cheat codes, and penalized you at the end of the game subsequently.

The point is, Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze was pretty much the most frustrating game I’ve played in ages.  If I were a kid completely devoid of discipline and Prozac, the WiiU control would have been destroyed at least 72 times by the time I finally beat the game, but it was my girlfriend’s (I know, right) system, and she would have ditched me at the curb if I did such.  Needless to say, it made me feel boiling levels of game rage that I didn’t know I even still had anymore.

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