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7. Nintendo Power, June 1993

I'm still waiting for a good Battletoads cover. I may be waiting quite a while on that one but I'm still holding out hope that the series will have a resurgence and it'll happen someday. The Toads, which were (believe it or not) Rare's biggest original franchise for a couple of years, suffered from the same crisis that Sonic faced for ages -- nobody besides the original development staff could draw them competently, and the result was a lot of airbrushed embarrassment for everybody.