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Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril
Battle Kid Fortress of Peril
Series Game Grumps
Console NES
Episodes 3
Playlist Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril
Run October 18, 2014 - October 20, 2014
Status Quit


Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril is a custom-made NES game, the fifty-ninth game played by Danny and Arin, and the 131st series on Game Grumps.

The game was sent in to the show by David Almirall.

Episodes[]

  1. Poo Castle
  2. Ice Cream and Bagels
  3. FINALE

Game Information[]

Battle Kid: Fortress Of Peril is a homebrew 2D platform video game, released in February 2010 for the Nintendo Entertainment System, created by Sivak Games, and published through Retrozone, with the cover art designed by YouTuber, Larry Bundy Jr. (who coincidentally had one of his shows intro animated by Ross).

Battle Kid is very similar to I Wanna Be the Guy, an indie freeware game for the PC, in terms of the design of the main character and the projectile weapon he possesses, the trial-and-error difficulty, and instant death mechanics of all enemies and hazards. However, the similarities end here as the actual gameplay and control is much more in the likeness of Mega Man games on the NES and the boss fights at the end of each major stage. The main character, Timmy, can only be hit once before the player is greeted with a 'game over' screen; however, there are infinite continues and the player will start over from the last save point. There are also keys which unlock different areas of the fortress and enhancement cards which give the player a number of different abilities to overcome obstacles. There are over 500 individual rooms, over 30 different enemy types, and multiple difficulty settings.

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Trivia[]

  • This playthrough is only three episodes long because Arin is unable to surmount the boss fight against the Lotus Guardian and gives up after accidentally hitting an option to end the game on the game over screen. It would have been only two episodes long, as Arin had already grown frustrated with the game in the second episode, but Danny encouraged him on a little longer.
  • Ross makes a cameo in this playthrough at the end of the last episode, having witnessed Arin raging at the game from outside the window of the recording room and entering the room to ask if Arin was okay, even telling him he could beat the boss, and gives Arin hope at beating the boss. Ironically it was "Ross' Magic Touch" as Arin called Ross' words of encouragement that accidentally caused him to hit the end game option on the game over screen, causing Arin to scream in pure anger at the game.
    • Ross had no idea what Arin had done, asking if his latest attempt went well and causing Danny to laugh hysterically. When he asks what happened, and Arin and Dan revealed what Arin did right after Ross gave his words of encouragement Ross goes into a bout of hysterical laughter as well, and he either says "I fucked it up!" or "You fucked it up!" To Arin.
  • Arin's last attempt at the boss, according to Battle Kid files, takes 45 Hits to kill and his final attempt was 41 successful hits.
  • This playthrough, in the last episode in particular, is a favourite for Game Grumps fans for the amount of rage and anger the game brought out in Arin, mainly at the Lotus Guardian boss, and the various ways he would try to help him beat it, from improvising to flat out getting angrier as the episode went on, ultimately resulting in him ending the whole game accidentally and resetting his whole progress.
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