Arcade is obviously the best version, but I also love the NES version. I remember being so excited getting my personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut with the coupon that came with it.

The NES version of TMNT II rocked so hard that I remember being 6 or so and playing the heck out of it and getting pretty far but always dying somewhere in the late levels. Years later I picked up a cheap copy for $2 when I was 13 and finally beating it. The feeling I had was that of glory!

13:51 Just leaves April in the burning fire LOL

Love hearing the music!!!!! It brings back memories!!!!

For some oddball reason, the 360 port cut out the scene where the turtles jump from the rooftop to April's apartment. It ends abruptly as Splinter says, "Hang on, April!" and cuts straight to the scene 1 screen. I will never ever figure out why they did that.

I remember when the original TMNT machine hit arcades there were lines out the door! And when I got to play I had goosebumps and making beatbox smacking sounds everytime I took down a Foot. Thanks for the post! COWABUNGA!!!

Whoever made the music for the msdos version should be shot. Always impressed by everything they squeezed out of the nes hardware.

This is pure awesomeness. I need to get a hold of the arcade game so I can play it again with my family and friends. We spent so much money on this game back in the early 90s!

@thetru-drushow8412

Жыл бұрын

Cowabunga Collection

Thanks for putting all these videos up! Its cool to see how different the ports are, and also interesting to see ports that I never even knew existed lol. But oh man, hearing that music from the MS-DOS version brought back so many memories for me! I've actually gone through that entire game ( the MS-DOS port ) and the song plays THE ENTIRE TIME!! IT NEVER EVER CHANGES!!

NES > All other home ports. Post 16-bit era ports do not count, as they were just emulations of the arcade game.

For me, playing this game on arcade with 4 players at the same time was an unforgettable experience.

This was one of many arcade games that only the rich kids could finish :D Great compare as always.

@skippyscourge181

10 жыл бұрын

But now, thanks to MAME, anyone can finish it! XD

I loved the NES version but the Atari ST looked like a decent effort as well.

i found always the sound of the enemies in the c64 version pretty funny for some reason. :D

When i got my nes game of this,This is when i first noticed that the arcade always had better graphics.I never noticed before that. I was about 9

I think the ZX Spectrum port was amazing! I can't believe someone could extract that much from such a simple and old computer! I wish I could have put my hands on this software back on the early 90s

I love this game in the arcade version, thanks for made this video, Regards.

This vid really blew my mind. The TMNT arcade takes a unique place in my memories. As a kid, this (and the NES port) seemed forever out of my reach, so much so that whenever I caught a glimpse of it, I felt lucky to even look at the game demo and hear the jingle play whenever the turtle profiles came on (1:06) So finding out that this elusive (to me) game was ported amongst so many consoles in so many ways, from floppys to cassettes, each with varying results and weird limitations, is... well, like I said, mind blowing.

@quentincampbell612

6 жыл бұрын

Red Rodri I totally agree with you! Had no idea there were other ports of this arcade game,other then the NES port,until I saw this video. It's crazy what you find out later in life lol!

I never noticed that bong in April's apartment before...

I would say that the TMNT license deserves to be with Konami, but considering how horribly they treat their own franchises recently I'm actually kinda glad they no longer have the license.

This is great! I loved this game in the arcade and was disappointed by the Amiga versions I played.

The arcade version is my favorite (obviously)...but I still love the NES version. It's very nostalgic and has a certain charm to it. All the other versions shown here look like garbage.

@Maru96

9 жыл бұрын

RetroGamerAaron Except some of the others version have better graphics.

@retrogameraaron4778

9 жыл бұрын

Marcel Weber Graphics aren't everything. Take the MS-Dos version. The graphics are better, but it has very choppy animation and gameplay, the sound effects are awful, and it plays the same generic sounding music throughout the entire game.

@Maru96

9 жыл бұрын

RetroGamerAaron The Atari ST version is quite decent though.

@TerraEsperZ

9 жыл бұрын

RetroGamerAaron The NES version had the advantage of being developped by Konami themselves. Its graphics weren't the most authentic, but they still looked good. Plus, the gameplay was as fast and responsive as the arcade game, the soundtrack was amazing (and *better* than the arcade aside from the opening) and it featured extended stages in general, two extra stages and three new bosses.

@Maru96

9 жыл бұрын

TerraEsperZ I liked the soundtrack of the arcade more. And yeah the gameplay was similar to the arcade, which means it was mediocre.

Can everyone see the hash bong on April's table lol

@autodidacticprofessor869

3 жыл бұрын

YES!!! LOL!

Amazes me some of the things the programmers change in the process of converting. The way enemies fall, how far the turtles jump, colours of enemies, position of enemies. I always appreciated the conversions that tried to stay true.

I had the C64 version of this... man it was clunky and hard. XD

This was an interesting video as I've never heard of half of these gaming platforms

WOW OST OF ARCADES ARE JUST MASTERLY I LOVE THESE.. someone shoulld make games like these again

ahhhhh ! I remember when i played this when i was 5 years old with my friend on my dad's pc with mame32 !

I'm glad I had an NES growing up. All of the other ports (besides the arcade version obviously) look like crap. They look slow, clunky, and have terrible music.

@Maru96

9 жыл бұрын

Runie549 Atari ST version looks a lot better than the NES one.

@AlexOjideagu2

9 жыл бұрын

Runie549 The NES was vastly overrated by Americans, in Europe computers were far more popular. Konami made the NES port, they didn't make the other ports.

@MetalSonicodraco7342

8 жыл бұрын

+ojideagu Except fhe shitty part of TMNT which pushes every system that was ported for...in this comment section I see so many people overrating the NES meanwhile they throw shit to computer lazy ports...c'mon did anyone know the word "lazy"?

@Maru96

8 жыл бұрын

ojideagu Let's be honest here, the NES has far more worthy titles than a speccy or an amstrad.

@Scripture-Man

6 жыл бұрын

You're so lucky growing up with a NES! Living in the UK, I've never even seen a NES. All the kids either had Speccys, Amstrads, or C64s. Later on, one of my friends got a SNES and we were all blown away with the graphics and music. (I was still playing Spectrum games at the time!)

NES was a pretty good port.

The MS-DOS country-like music made me lol ^^ Made me think of the turtles walking into a saloon.

...and the C-64 and DOS versions of the game clearly came from the same port since they have the same not-quite-the-turtles-theme. And as StRoRo pointed out, the ST and Amiga versions are clearly ports of each other down to the way Leonardo pauses at the beginning before they enter the building (unlike the arcade and NES where Mikey falls). Gotta say, I think the NES wins the best port award here, though it was far from perfect itself.

he just left April behind

Best home version award goes to nes

I remember going to the arcade with my father and playing the Ninja Turtles arcade game. just by it's self I think I gave that thing a ton of quarters :P

I remember showing this to my dad

@celinesenden4142

3 жыл бұрын

Thats amazing

Objectively, some versions are really honest. the real problems came from bugs and lack of musics. For exemple, did you know that if you check the files of the AMIGA port with an Action Replay 2 cart, you will discover unfinished Jeroen Tel's musics that contained samples straight from the coin-op? AMSTRAD CPC version should be very nice too if there was less bugs and AY musics because 16 colour GFX and scrolling animation are very interesting regarding the limits of the hardware. But in 1991, Mirrorsoft was collapsing and they release this work in a hurry as developement was not really ended. But that's true too that arcade conversions on 8/16 bits computer was generally only made in for rentability and didn't made justice to powerful computers like the AMIGA. Ocean made some great coin-op conversions like Pang, Toki, Snow bros, NewZealand Story, Rainbow Islands and Liquid Kids. We can also talk about Rodland, Silkworm, Bubble Bobble... The talent, but especially the time given to developers by the publisher to develop a conversion often determined its quality...

THe spectrum is rly trying so hard. Respect for that old thing.

This is very well done!

@GamingHistorySource

10 жыл бұрын

thanks !! :D

I wish I could say that I had happy memories of playing this game on my NES, but that would be a lie. The game was hard for all the wrong reasons. I just wanted a good port of the arcade that I fell in love with the moment I saw it and never got it. They got TMNT right on the SNES though. That made up for this game.

@VideosbySteve

10 жыл бұрын

Ditto. The crummy "bassy" music, poor hit detection, slow movement all contributed to a letdown for me as a child. And the explosions were tiny and didnt sound good at all.

@chaos120m

10 жыл бұрын

i thought the nes version was way to easy.

@OldsXCool

10 жыл бұрын

chaos120m Yeah, come to find out it was easy if you either did your special move on every enemy or jump kicked everyone which was boring and nothing like the arcade.

@tomaturtle7790

10 жыл бұрын

I'm still puzzled why people think the NES Ninja Turtles games was hard. As a kid the hard part for me was the 3rd stage sewer level before the boss. Other than that I never hated this or any other game because of the hard difficulty. As an adult now, I can beat the game, no problem. Now Battle Toads and Castlvania, that a different story. :P

@ivannoriega225

10 жыл бұрын

it was not that hard... but it was nothing like the arcade, the nes was chopy and sucky haah.... back then it was frustrating playing something like the arcade and then be home and playing this.. but it all you got back then or be rich to play all the time on the arcade or buying the fucking arcade at home.. hahah

Wow! Nice NES version! As a kid with a Speccy, who enjoyed the other TMNT game, I thought I really wanted to see this ported... until I finally did. Bit of a let down really. Just felt a bit stagnant. Would love them to have attempted some colour on it.

The ZX Spectrum for days!!! It has THE BEST MUSIC along with the Amstrad and the Amiga version. Seriously though, it is amazing how far music can take a game. The Amiga version would have been fine if it had any.

The NES version might not have the best graphics but it does have the smooth game play of the arcade version. I am glad that I grow up with that instead of these other thrash versions!

I feel for the programmers of these ports. Re-write the code, get it to work on your system and oh yea TRY to get it to look like the original. Big ask. I could see the Zx Spectrum programmers being proud of what they had accomplished.

Nes was the best port back then but this game was awesome for the arcade I just wish we had xbox one or ps4 that would easily make this version exactly like the arcade

on the dos version intro they bossed up and went in, that's gangsta lol

I love the Atari ST music cover.

Oh hell yeah awesome classic oufffff spent long hours playing tmnt

i wish they would release all the old turtle games .. like xbox did with rare replay bundle up all the old turtle games and rerelease!

@FirebirdCamaro1220

2 жыл бұрын

Good news, they are this fall (12/31/22). The Cowabunga Collection. Already on my wishlist on the PS Store!

@supernatdan04

2 жыл бұрын

@@FirebirdCamaro1220 ya im excitd! been waiting for something like this for so long!

It's funny how many Amstrad versions of games are often identical to the Speccy versions except with more colors. It's neat to get familiar with non-US-centric consoles and computers from back in the day.

@Larry

10 жыл бұрын

You could also watch my videos about games unreleased in the US :D

@wingnut-jt5yz

10 жыл бұрын

***** You should add a link to the video. :)

@Larry

10 жыл бұрын

wingnut4427 Okay, here's one episode that I particularly liked :D Don't Buy This: Five of the Worst Games Ever (ZX Spectrum) - Games Yanks Can't Wank

Me and my dad beat this game COUNTLESS times in co-op in the mid 90's

The arcade version is like mega awesome i love it

Ugh, what is up with many of these computer ports not having any music or sound?? XP

@colliric

5 жыл бұрын

Lazy fucken Devs.

Obviously the original arcade trumps all, but I do loved the NES version. I remember that game and double dragon III making up a big part of the summer of 1991 for me. Oh to be that age (8) again! ☺️

@neilyringworm

8 жыл бұрын

ooft double dragon 3 was insanely hard ha. could hardly get anywhere in it

Arcade original for the win.Though id rate the nes port second to it despite it's flaws.

Arcade (True sound intro.),ZX Spectrum (Nostalgy.),C64 (Tune.),Amstrad,Atari ST (Tune-Acordeon is like as ZX Spectrum)

The arcade is ...the arcade!! The ZX version is just crap! probably programmed by people that dont liked the speccy. The C64 and Amstrad are very similar and very decent. Atari ST, MS-Dos and Amiga Versions did nothing more than the expected for 16-bit machines; just acceptable!! But the NES version is simply a small piece of art! wonderfull! magnificent! extrapolating all that hardware limitations! certainly had a lot of programming tricks and a huge dose of ingenuity and hard work of artists and programmers!!

@MetalSonicodraco7342

8 жыл бұрын

That made me cry that serious part of computer port get by horrible companies (like US Gold) and they dindt get they job serious and as a result, they made new (and nes fanboys) think these machines are bad...when they are not

@themodule8335

5 жыл бұрын

@@MetalSonicodraco7342 I once heard a rumour that some developers were so worried about the fate of the home computer industry (at one point spectrum and C64 games were selling more than ST and Amiga games) that some developers were deliberately limiting those versions to encourage people to move to the 68000 machines. The other side of this was the developers couldn't afford to make games that exploited the more powerful hardware, thus a lot of ST and Amiga games were effectively conversions of Spectrum, C64 and Amstrad games instead of making bespoke, better games. There's an interview with the guy that did Ghostbusters 2 on the ST and Amiga who talks about this- he had some big ideas but was told the game needed to be the same on all 5 systems. The home computer industry did indeed die just a couple of years later and a lot of those developers had to move from the Amiga to the NES!

wingnut4427 Have A Great New Year Wingnut!

Classic!

I loved the arcade game so much I would daydream about having it at home or how they would get it to work on the NES. Then I received the NES version for my 10th birthday. Of course it wasn't as good as the arcade version but I still played the crap out of it plus it had TWO all new levels. wowowow! (plus I actually used that Pizza Hut coupon)

You forgot the Gamecube version, it's unlocked in ninja turtle's battlenexus after level 9

I cried for days whit my parents to get the game for my c64, at that time even a little commodore cassette was really expensive (almost today prices if you do the proportion) Then, when I finally got the game and put it in the tape player, got this 9:22 It was still awesome ;D Love your channel, almost insta-subbed

@alexojideagu

8 жыл бұрын

C64 games were not expensive on tape, they were a fraction of NES games.

@ilSignorLimone

8 жыл бұрын

we are not from the same country, we had different prices and also different wiews on what "expensive" means

@alexojideagu

8 жыл бұрын

Ok, well I lived in the UK which made most of the C64 games. Sega and especially Nintendo games cost sometimes 10 times more.

@paul1979uk2000

7 жыл бұрын

From what I remember of it in the UK, most of the best games for the C64 cost £1.99 to £2.99, whereas the games on the Nes cost around £20, C64 differently worked out cheaper in the long run.

@AlexOjideagu2

7 жыл бұрын

+Paul Aiello the newest NES games like mario 3 were £30-40

Of all these versions, the only one that truly lives up to the arcade is the NES one... (Even though it lives up only a tiny little bit) TMNT 3 Manhattan project on NES is far superior to TMNT 2 The arcade game...

Good lord, those poor British kids from the 80s.

I remember liking the NES port of this as a kid. The others suck though. Wow, I'm surprised they even bothered ._.

THE N. E. S.!!!

20:10 The NES version has Pizza Hut bro XD

I played the arcade game before. I lost 2 quarters on that machine. 1: I wasted 25 cents on the 2up slot that didn't work. 2: I wasted the other 25 because I entered the coin NOT ON THE TITLE SCREEN.

I never understood why the software companies, for the most part, hired incompetent programmers to handle the home ports of arcade games. I mean, after you get past the early days of arcade games, most of the home ports sucked. Good ports were the exception rather than the rule. The Amiga could have had a great version of TMNT, but instead it looks like crap. Even the ST version looks better.

@supahdupahguy81

10 жыл бұрын

I'd guess it's coz the home computer market probably made up a tiny fraction of revenue for ppl like Konami as opposed to the console market......therefore they were disinclined to spend the required amount of money to get someone good on the job for relatively small returns. Remember, full price games for the home 8-bits could cost as little as £8-£11.....compared to $45-$60 a time for a NES cartridge..

@trydowave

10 жыл бұрын

***** I would have paid more for a decent product, or in this case, a 'finished' decent product.

Lots of sound effects from Contra in the NES port.

arcade is god tier:)

I had no idea there was an ST version. I searched a lot back then but never found one. Pre Internet days and all. Graphics it looks good,very good, but the animation suffers as with all computer versions for some reason.

I grew up on NES version. Beat it hundreds of times. I did beat the actual arcade game at an arcade though. Still no port of it except for XBLA which I don't have. Best I have is the PS2 version of it and lack of music, voices and ability to choose who I want is bothersome.

Cowabunga!

The Amiga and ST obviously ports of each other as the both have the same issue of the Turtle's having blue masks on certain animations

@GamingHistorySource

10 жыл бұрын

Didn't even notice that until You pointed it out. Good eye !

Is there a way to get this on 3ds? I know its not on the Nintendo e shop. Maybe through an r4 card?

The Nintendo version and the dos is most faithful to the arcade.

Surprised the MSDOS version doesn't exceed the arcade version or at least look the same.

@josephfrye7342

6 жыл бұрын

and thank god at least the MSDOS Version Tried.

Arcade is amazing

the last 2 were the best graphically but nintendo had then beat in the music and sound effect department.

In ZX Spectrum version April could kill Rocksteady with one kick :D She is so big :D

@GamingHistorySource

8 жыл бұрын

+Jarosław Blaminsky lol I never noticed that.

@O.G.Ashtre

8 жыл бұрын

LMAO

They took out TMNT 1989 Classic Arcade from XBL? That sucks, but luckily I still have my copy. They did the same with UMK3(now they have a trilogy collection of MK with 1, 2, and UMK3).

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!! :D

Unpopular opinion: The NES version was so broken. It was hard to not die.

It looks like they didn't screw up the C64 port, like they did the first time around with Double Dragon.

Apparently April stands on a ladder to use her computer.

The ST one sounds exactly like a Neo Geo Pocket game.

in my channel you can see 2 curious things... an streets of rage 2 hack with the turtles from tmnt hyper stone heaist, and a incredible openbor game named tmnt shell shocked. that have only a demo but is going pretty well. is a kind of remake with things from many tmnt games, all together... ;)

Atari ST looked closer to the arcade but the NES looks smoother gameplay. Sad there was never a good port made back then. Too bad NeoGeo didn't get a port.

I like the arcade version

Arcade game and NES so bests.

@celinesenden4142

3 жыл бұрын

The original arcade version its my favorite

Guess whoever made the Amiga version just reckoned they had to compensate for the lack of music by throwing three times the amount of enemies at you. What the fuck? =/

The NES version is, strangely, the best port of all of them. It seems like developers has a lot more tools to get the game closer than the other options.

@colliric

3 жыл бұрын

Konami should have ported the game to the Sega Genesis with a proper 16-bit port. But my guess is Nintendo signed them to an exclusive deal and locked Sega out. Still it would have been the better system.

alright its time to compare teenage mutant ninja turtles/teenage mutant hero turtles the arcade 1989 to the rest of all the platforms and ports.

@josephfrye7342

6 жыл бұрын

and yes including the N.E.S / Famicom Ports.

Jeez how did we never get an arcade perfect port?

@FirebirdCamaro1220

2 жыл бұрын

I have arcade emulations of both arcade games

Why is it that in every version except the NES version (which I like), April has a bong in her room? Also, how many people will never not see that now that I pointed it out (much like the arrow in the FedEx logo)?

@Missingno3000

10 жыл бұрын

**Facepalm** It's a vase for flowers. >_>

@Dragonrider1227

10 жыл бұрын

If the closest thing I had for friends was 6 foot talking turtles, and was constantly being attacked by ninjas with FEET for their symbol, I'd probably want a bong too XD

J'avais une version differente sur amstrad,elle se raproché beaucoup plus des version nes.

Is there a list of names of each characters special attacks?

@celinesenden4142

3 жыл бұрын

Leonardo reachel donatello michaelangelo

Some of the versions of this game look good but the NES version is the smoothest next to the arcade

Teenage Mutant "HERO" Turtles...

@louiskeiflin5858

5 жыл бұрын

That's the Pal region to you!