
The player can use the enemy or object from the surroundings as a weapon like pipes on the wall, flagpoles, legs that break from walker and more. The attacks are specific for each stage as the gameplay is different for every level.

BT Bashing Ball is used in the second level, hanging on the Turbo Cable where the toad change over into a wrecking ball. There are many combat attacks that the player can use: Jaw buster, Turbo Thwack, Battletoad Butt and many more. Each level varies in the gameplay, but in general, it is presented as beat them up, which means the player moves forward by defeating enemies and dangerous environment. The player has a total number of six-hit points which you can replenish by eating flies.

Players get three lives at the start of the game. The game has different elements like climbing, racing, obstacles courses. All this makes the third level full of action. There are toads' pounds, enemies and few rats that jump over the boiling soups, leaping over rockets and many more. There are piranhas and amphibians, and other hazards and toads that you have to escape then you will reach the third stage.

After that, the toads come down a vertical shaft and get to the game's second stage. Then they reach the end of the area and engage in a final battle. The first one begins, with a series of cliffs where players knock the pigs and rats and ride on fire-breathing dragons. It is the first instalment in the Battletoad series and has a total of three stages. Battletoads is a beat them up-platform video game released in 1991 for Nintendo entertainment system (NES).
