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@chikuman6224

2 жыл бұрын

hehee

@ruedgaj5198

8 ай бұрын

For me it was 😄 didn’t know that it was possible to change the Charakter 🤦🏻‍♂️

@sarimaleitaron-dw7bd

8 ай бұрын

صدام حسين قسي قسي 50,794

That water level was pretty much the end of the game for most of us

@hondamanvtec2894

4 жыл бұрын

I beat the water level.. And it felt like I beat the whole game

@rgygduysdgyuygsduysd

4 жыл бұрын

lol, kinded like battletoads level 2 with the jet ski nightmare

@lordgargamel4124

4 жыл бұрын

Ill be that guy and say it, i beat this game numerous times. It took me awhile. Practiced, but i did it. Then again im surrounded by players who thought Contra was hard and needed a 30 man code to beat it. So theres that...

@rich_da_prophet6424

4 жыл бұрын

Steve Airport lmao I swear, you are so right. I think I beat the water level only a couple times as a kid.

@jermaineelliott2685

4 жыл бұрын

This is facts.

Just hearing the music gave me goosebumps. 41 years old and still loving it.

@devill2312

Жыл бұрын

im 29 but yeah me 2 it was amazing time when we was small kids and play it this it was super cool and fun the underwater level was the best and he have good music it was super cool game and time when we playit her i wanna back in time hehe :D

@gunsharck

11 ай бұрын

@@devill2312The underwater level was cool??? Are you some kinda masochist mate LOL

@dimitries

11 ай бұрын

I’m about to start crying brah. 40yo man in tears right now

@5starreactions

8 ай бұрын

40 years old and my wife is looking at me asking me why I have tears running like a faucet..and idk what to tell her lol

@marcoyankovich

8 ай бұрын

@@5starreactions I don´t wanna be a monster but your wife is not human!

So it's been 32 years since I was able to really see the ending. Will admit, couldn't pass that water level and gave up. Today happens to be the anniversary of when this game came out (May 12th, 1989). Good job beating it towards the end.

@johneymute

Жыл бұрын

I beated this game twice with the gamegenie but it took me 5 years to beat world 3 as i simply didn’t were to find the exit and some levels did lead to a dead end or they just put you to the other exit next to it.

@mgarcia121752

Жыл бұрын

@@Swampert2344 awesome. Yeah, it sure is the anniversary.

~25 years after I actually played the game, with my classmates, and we couldn't beat it, I finally learn that you can actually switch the character mid-game. :O

@Apollyon_Rev911

3 жыл бұрын

I never knew that either😩.

@aaronblake8378

3 жыл бұрын

Same here!!!!! Yet somehow we got to the end

@jimb.7523

2 жыл бұрын

Ditto.

@kmatcyk

4 ай бұрын

No one beat this game back in the day. Especially with one guy lol

@R3troZone

24 күн бұрын

@@kmatcyk Not with one guy no. But yeah we beat it. My best friend and I were huge turtles fans and we beat this game over the course of one weekend back when it was new.

I appreciate how supportive April was being throughout this entire ordeal.

@edwardgaines6561

4 жыл бұрын

She can be more supportive without her banana jumpsuit on!

@jedahn

4 жыл бұрын

Same here.

@edwardgaines6561

4 жыл бұрын

@@DeadmanDave That too! Makes the imagination work that much harder.

@cla1814

4 жыл бұрын

@@DeadmanDave Yes especially in that "bikini" episode.

@cj.59

4 жыл бұрын

@@cla1814 lol

"You have my support." Thanks, April. That's useful.

@JuliusCaesar888

4 жыл бұрын

This is typical female contribution in any situation.

@adventureoflinkmk2

4 жыл бұрын

You can do it. Thanks, Splinter..

@markryan4373

4 жыл бұрын

I loved this game. Glad he used Raph to swim. That was always my strategy, pretty much useless otherwise.

@piturock8946

4 жыл бұрын

jajajajajjaaa

@djbloodshot

4 жыл бұрын

Stupid banana coat wearing bitch

Those damn "jumps" that you can just walk across. Those are what always got me as a kid.

@michaelkrueger7297

2 жыл бұрын

I was feeling the same sentiment. Those stinking jumps in the sewers.

@0neDoomedSpaceMarine

2 жыл бұрын

@Juanecio Fernandecio There's occasionally these short gaps which are just wide enough to fall through, at times you don't have the space to leap over them, and if you try you'll fall through, either to the floor below or to your death. The way you cross those is to plain walk forward to the other side.

@0neDoomedSpaceMarine

2 жыл бұрын

@Juanecio Fernandecio There's one of those in the dam section, it's not that long, just watch the beginning from there and you'll see it, it's a "one unit" wide gap with no room to jump over it.

@1Holbytla

4 ай бұрын

😂LOL! Man, I was an arrogant ass. After trying for what seemed like hours, I needed to see my little sister to “just walk over it!” in Level 3 (for necessary missiles?) to smarten up a bit.

That intro is the most hype cutscene of all time.. I remember after the water dam how shook I was as a kid after going home to see the lair destroyed and Shredder appears on the tv saying he has Splinter. Looking at it now, the game had a kind of darker/gritty tone like the first movie, I love it.

The second I hear that music, it triggers my PTSD.

@ivansin85

4 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@bigwin2010

4 жыл бұрын

There I am again, four years old, throwing the controller.

@shadowalk

4 жыл бұрын

that music when he's above ground would randomly play in my head ever since i was a kid

@cicstommy

4 жыл бұрын

shadowalk - Dude, now you’ve mentioned it, it’s back in my head again 🤯 🤪 🤦🏻‍♂️ 😂😂

@tiffaniwilliams5526

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

I was born 1983 i remember playing nintendo all the time in the late 1980s and early 1990s great time to be born...

@kiluangu

4 жыл бұрын

Me too I was born in 1983

@edwardgaines6561

4 жыл бұрын

@@kiluangu Sucks that we're almost 40 years old now. But yes, those were good memories. The 16-bit Era was the most innocent and fun. *Sega Vs. SNES!*

@willnill7946

4 жыл бұрын

Me too

@edwardgaines6561

4 жыл бұрын

@matt Okay Zoomer. 😁

@edwardgaines6561

4 жыл бұрын

@matt Forgive this old man. Rarely do we get to be snarky. Enjoy your video game roots here!

My childhood 😭😭 hearing the sound effects really takes me back to playing this as a little kid❤

Dear lord! This game was freaking difficult. When I was 6, back in the late 80's, I beat Super Mario Bros in 10 minutes and many other NES games, but I could never beat TMNT, just made it into the final base, but never to Shredder. Whoever made this, I take my hat off!

@kmatcyk

4 ай бұрын

No one beat this. Don't feel bad!!

Raphael was always the sacrificial turtle used in the water level because he is useless everywhere else.

@Kowasi

4 жыл бұрын

His sai's range was way too short… but they did have overhead strike capacity while crouching which was occasionally useful.

@edwardgaines6561

4 жыл бұрын

@@Kowasi Raphael had overhead priority? Now you tell me! It's been over 30 flippin' years. 😝

@Kowasi

4 жыл бұрын

@@edwardgaines6561 If only we'd had the Internet back then! Edit: 'priority' is a bit strong, but if crouching, he could hit a target directly overhead. In the same stance, Don's bo went straight down. The katana and nun-chuk would go a way out horizontally, I think, but it's kind of hard to remember…

@joe718gt4

3 жыл бұрын

I used Michaelangelo as my sacrificial lamb. Raphael had the 2nd strongest weapon if the worst range

@zZiL341yRj736

3 жыл бұрын

@@edwardgaines6561 Yea I thought Mike and Ralph moves were the same but I cannot hit flying enemies above me with Mike.

39:20 "Use Careful Timing and TEAMWORK to win". Sonic Booms Shredder to death. Teamwork.

@trans8010

5 жыл бұрын

Well it was teamwork that led the strongest turtle to Shredder. Look how OP is able to survive that gauntlet, any loss of one turtle and it becomes severely difficult (even more than it already is) to traverse the corridors of the Technodrome.

@croplaya

4 жыл бұрын

Those sonic booms shouldn't have even been in the game. When I beat this I just spammed them at him and couldn't believe how easy it was to beat shredder after such an excruciating game to go through

@lfb7834

3 жыл бұрын

@@croplaya They are not really necessary to defeat him. He is a jobber

@croplaya

3 жыл бұрын

@@lfb7834 well good thing I will never have to find out

@lfb7834

3 жыл бұрын

@@croplaya ???

This game used to give me fits...I only beat it one time but man was it brutal. Still a classic.

@luuk6718

7 ай бұрын

Same, what a hellish hard game

@greghartman5895

7 ай бұрын

There was always something truly satisfying about finally besting those hellish games tho, ya know? It's like all those negative emotions and frustrations automatically turned into pure satisfaction and I'd be happy for days. Until the next hard game kicked my ass 😂

Wow it's been 30 years since last time I played this game. Its a bizarre feeling when I listen to the music and see the scenes. It was in my brain as memories!

TMNT well deserves its notoriety for its difficulty level, but it's such a sweet game! ...unless you have no patience for brutal 8-bit style gaming. This is gloriously old-school Konami at its most sadistic.

@inspirationalgamer5443

7 жыл бұрын

It really is a great game! Yes back when Konami and other game companies hads to use subsidiary companies because Nintendo put restrictions on how many games could be developed within a fiscal year. Thus is why you see "Ultra Games" on the box, manual, cartridge sticker, and the title screen. Hey if you haven't already there is a hack of this game that changes all the levels and redesigns them.

@standardofexcellence

7 жыл бұрын

NintendoComplete i had no patience for the water level, probably being a brat with a.d.d at the x had something to do with i got this from my sister for christmas after much a gag

@knuclear200x

6 жыл бұрын

Somewhere in mid Level 3 was the furthest i could get without save states.

@Rodzilla97

6 жыл бұрын

yea this game is awesome. gotta love those infinate respawning enemies. proud to say i owned this when it was new

@persona83

5 жыл бұрын

I love this game for these exact reasons. I made it to the end after months of non-stop trial and error, specially levels 3 and 4. It was 91 or 92, I guess. Fond memories of my childhood.

I remember playing this game every chance I had as a kid. Hard as Hell at some spots. Especially where you swimming through the electric seaweed! I HATED that part! Great job on this.

@NintendoComplete

8 жыл бұрын

+Scott O'Drowsky Dear God the seaweed is the worst thing ever. It doesn't even make sense, sometimes it hits you, sometimes it doesnt. I don't get it. As a kid I used to call it devil hemorrhoids

@lyricaldeezy4151

5 жыл бұрын

Bro I swear I hated that level. He made it look hella easy. My 6 or 7 year old mind keeps shouting "HOW!!!" But my 33 year old self now is guessing much practice and patience lol. Great gameplay!!!

@jmi84

4 жыл бұрын

This game is hard and the swimming level was hard too but not that bad for me. I see a lot of folks had trouble with the dam level but I’ve always been able to beat it quickly.

@lickkittysplit3871

4 жыл бұрын

I didn't have a problem with the seaweed at all when I was a child. Today however is a different story!!

@MrX-rk9or

4 жыл бұрын

@@lickkittysplit3871 Yea, skills were somewhat more acquireable as a kid. I did have problems with it back then, lotsa. My friend was first to beat it and man was I ever envious lol. But patience and training got me there and beyond. Today, however is a different story. If anything in a game doesn't work right away the controller goes through the window and I curse everything and everyone in a 3 mile radius. Because I know if I cant do it right then and there, it will all boil down to pure luck... as in when a lost red full moon crosses Plutos orbit right when Mars turns blue and strikes out a lightning hitting earth making Hell freeze over and a smiling Devil pops out of a christmas angel ornament saying Ho ho ho! Couldnt beat the Seaweed retrying it ten years ago and still cant.

Donatello is a beast in this game. If you lose him good luck beating this game.

@greyfox8310

4 ай бұрын

And Michaelangelo was darn near useless 😂

@patrickmurphy9470

4 ай бұрын

@@greyfox8310 when Michelangelo gets low on health he becomes the strongest in the game tho. Weird.

@amruzaky4939

3 ай бұрын

Legit had Donatello as my main all the way until Technodrome. His range is insane. 😂

This game was so damn hard.

@migzfuentes

Жыл бұрын

Because of the electrical seaweed

Oh this brings back the memories of just shutting off the TV but keeping the Nintendo on with the game paused, because video games hadn’t developed memory cards or save points yet. Ahhhh

@suchiuomizu

3 жыл бұрын

Saving was possible at that point, though they were exceptions and mostly RPGs.

@protoaim597

3 жыл бұрын

How about when you get home from school and the NES is off. Your mom is like, Oh you forgot to turn your games off again. MOM!!! NOOooooooo!!!

@TheIrland09

Ай бұрын

Then you get a game over and have to start all over again anyway.

Probably one of my favorite TMNT games! April: You have my support. TMNT: That's not helping beat this game!!!!!

I never realized how close I came to beating this. Game stressed me out so much as a kid

@Maximum7077

9 ай бұрын

Dude. The water level was so hard i had nothing left to do the tank levels.

@amruzaky4939

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, I also found a way to glitch in to Technodrome early by going in one of the building. But ain't no way the kid me was capable of beating him. Til today, I still don't feel like touching this game again.

Christmas 92. My first game console and video game bundle, that would see 6 yo me struggle so hard in the water level first, then 8 yo me struggling to find a way through the city and getting lost at the rope stuff because nobody in my family nor me did know what it meant (I'm french and we are mostly language disabled, here's a baguette 🥖) I still know the soundtrack by heart and the outside melody is often the first tone that comes to mind when I find myself bored and wanting to sing something to my toddlers. Thank you for showing us Shredder's fight most of us heard as a long forgotten legend. 🙌

This game had the best music, I loved the sound effects too. Played this endlessly as a little kid but never could beat it

@Latinofire202

4 жыл бұрын

I think I beat it once. I'm not really sure, but this game was super hard.

@reiddutchess9955

Жыл бұрын

There isn’t a kid under 10 who beat this game. This was designed for professionals 😂

Oh man so many memories. The music brought me right back

@aaronlusanko6356

4 жыл бұрын

The video game music sucked

@Ash_Rein

4 жыл бұрын

Jolfer 13 yes. Memories of rage, confusion, violence against my tv and controller, and tears

@justanameonyourscreen5954

4 жыл бұрын

That first sewer scene did it for me...man I played the sh!t outta this game

@mal2ksc

4 жыл бұрын

Did you catch where the song was a blatant rip-off of the Beatles' _Come Together?_ It made me laugh, but I was trying to figure out why they'd choose to lift that song, at that moment.

@cj.59

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ash_Rein ah yes. The nearly impossible sewer jumps and underwater level.

I'm 37 yrs old this took me back 30 yrs.....these games are so much better then today 😆

Oh god this game reminds me so much of my mom and little brother, playing late at night in the very early 90s. I'm not happy I never developed proper sleep habits but I'll always cherish our late-night gaming sessions.

@persona83

5 жыл бұрын

Me too. In my case, the silence and that all-alone sensation increases the gaming experience a lot.

@edwardgaines6561

4 жыл бұрын

Our best memories tend to involve other people, I'm afraid.

1989 though! Played this EVERYDAY

@royking7607

4 жыл бұрын

Did you beat it

@1zeldalover

4 жыл бұрын

A pair of shu's this tone is awkwardly unfriendly.

@VicM-xc9zb

4 жыл бұрын

Is that picture of you in 1989?

@GamerGee

4 жыл бұрын

Did you get past the damn as a kid.

It's amazing to hear this score as an adult and realize how much it influenced my artistic output over decades. Mind blown

This was the first game I ever played in my life and omfg the Nostalgia!!

@RobertSzawiel

2 жыл бұрын

Me the same!

@sonofsparda80

2 жыл бұрын

Same! Glad that it's added in the upcoming The Cowabunga Collection. 🙌🏻

@tekinmustafamusic6223

2 жыл бұрын

Me too. It came with the NES

@nameless.greyceo

2 жыл бұрын

Same

@legospacememe8468

2 жыл бұрын

So it's a European one NES you got

Oh how I miss the NES! I don’t care what anyone says, these still and always will be the best video games ever made!

@senseicorey9979

Жыл бұрын

I recently found my old stash of NES games, and bought an old NES from a pawn shop. Super fun.a lot games really hold up

@msw0322

Жыл бұрын

TRUTH!

@timd729

9 ай бұрын

The Nes along with the lightgun and many games has been lying dormant since the late 90s in a bin in the basement. One day I will hook it up and see if the games still work

@MrMuaythai84

7 ай бұрын

yeah right nes is like the old fart who played it. OLD! haha fortnite kick ass

Loved this game when I was a kid. Everyone complained about the water level. It was actually one of my favourites in the game.

The CIA uses this game to train it's agents how to endure torture.

@googie300

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@coachmr.ice717

3 жыл бұрын

Yup

@herbyoung2767

3 жыл бұрын

💀

@Mayonidas05

3 жыл бұрын

That’s a fact

@iamthewalrus4998

3 жыл бұрын

Makes me question my whole life seeing how easy this playthrough looks. But I was a kid so the fuck do I know

That opening theme is “stone Cold Crazy” by Queen lol

@NintendoComplete

3 жыл бұрын

Omfg, hahaha! You're absolutely right, I don't even need to go look it up. How'd I never notice that? Nice catch 👍

Let's just appreciate how OP Donatello was.

@adamsanter9385

4 жыл бұрын

He was my favourite turtle

@Kowasi

4 жыл бұрын

Leonardo for me… he had the speed

@NintendoComplete

4 жыл бұрын

Amen.

@pirate_cove_man

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, especially for the one named after the not-so-popular Renaissance artist.

@mkamal4888

3 жыл бұрын

Poor raph and his fork weapon

Seeing someone else play this makes me realise how many small things I optimized on my playthrough. Edit: that includes small things like how boomerangs were pretty much infinite as long as they were caught and that you can pass them between Turtles by throwing them then switching turtle

@Thr33Sh33ts

4 жыл бұрын

I see that you're a person of culture as well. *Nods*

I was today years old when I learned that it was possible to switch turtles at any time and the pause screen updated with tips. :')

Damn nostalgia. It's like I can still smell those summer days in the early 90s when I'd wake up and play this game for hours. Then head on out telling Mom not to turn off the NES. Then bringing friends back and continue on.

This bring back memories, never could beat this game

@yogidemis8513

4 жыл бұрын

It should be time to hook it up and finally beat it. Hey no Game Genie tho haha!!

9:58 SHREDDER INVENTED 3D TVs

@davidnec571

4 жыл бұрын

b00rk I love this comment. Watching this thirty years ago as a child, I was wondering “Is Shredder’s hand coming out of their TV?” Lol

@UniMindPerson

4 жыл бұрын

Paper TV box.

I remember being blown away with this game of how many varied gameplay, from overworld exploration, side scroller, swimming, driving a tank (?), etc.

So glad you posted this! Never was able to finish this game when I was little.

Who else imagined Uncle Phil's voice when reading Shredder's text? You have my support

Absolute bastard of a game. Haunts my dreams with its evil, too this day.

@patrickoakley7890

4 жыл бұрын

They had no mercy on us kids back in the 80s.

@tootsiroll4134

4 жыл бұрын

Howling!!!

@agentfancypants1654

4 жыл бұрын

I just remembered that you didn't get your life points back even after you completed a stage. Are you kidding me??? It's borderline child abuse.

@MiXedPlague

3 жыл бұрын

evil evil evil game

@timsmooth39

3 жыл бұрын

I'm triggered by the sight of it

Got this with the PAL NES boxset in 1990. Will never forget that moment holding a controller for the first time and not knowing wtf to do! Then the music! Merry Christmas everybody. 30 years has gone way too soon!

April is always like “you have my support” but then she never fricken does anything.

@Rockmonanov

3 жыл бұрын

That you see on screen....

I use to play this game so much as a kid. I could never get bored of it.

Playing this game after school while having a slice of Pizza back in the 80s was heaven

This game conquered me back then. It was so satisfying watching you for 40mins just to beat this. You're going to heaven for sure.

Awesome walk through. Gonna be uploading more of this game for sure. Keep up the great content.

39:17 "Use careful timing and teamwork to win!" Nah, I'll just use Don with the scroll to cheese shredder out.

I don't know why, but I never get sick of playthroughs for this game.

@NintendoComplete

8 жыл бұрын

Probably because it's such an awesome game! :)

@starofjustice1

7 жыл бұрын

It's kinda weird, really. I still find this TMNT game enjoyable and stimulating but I can't play the arcade one or any of the ones with the same beat em up gameplay anymore. I just get bored too fast.

@edgarbrooks7695

5 жыл бұрын

same lol

Seriously the music playin when yer driving the Turtle van through out the map brings back the feels

God I remember playing this game for hours with my cousins. This one and Mario 2 and 3. The 80s were a great time to be a kid.

@topshot2219

11 ай бұрын

I got to watch kids play Mario 3 in FAO Swartz up on some crazy tv screens 30 ft in the air. That was a time and place in NYC you didn’t call out other 9 year olds for hogging the controller because you knew they basically ran their own lives taking the subway around and you had to respect it was their toy store

@manlymanyo2511

11 ай бұрын

Indeed

@blokin5039

10 ай бұрын

Michael are you a stripper?

This game found the line between “hard” and “not fun” and shat all over it. This game is infuriating.

@lordraptor5042

4 жыл бұрын

LMAO! .

@ferensao

4 жыл бұрын

I agreed. This the most difficult TMNT games

@gusdavid7798

4 жыл бұрын

Nes games did that, A LOT. Ninja gaiden were infuriating, specially the 3rd one for me.

@lordraptor5042

4 жыл бұрын

Ninja Gaiden was hard. 1- hardest, 2- easiest, 3 perfect balance. Beat them all.

@gusdavid7798

4 жыл бұрын

@@lordraptor5042 beat them all except for 3.

One of the NES games I actually owned as a kid... (I only had 3)

When games gave you 3 lives only. Glad those days are gone, sort of.

Wow, this game brings back so many memories. The music plus the endless gameplay of trying to pass the water level 😂.

This game murdered me relentlessly as a kid but growing up on the NES you learned to keep trying even in the face of certain defeat time and time again. Bayou Billy was another almost unbeatable game served up by the sadists at Konami. Great job man I have to say you are the best original TMNT player I have ever seen in my life and deserve some kind of statue erected in your honor in the Konami company CEO's office or his home or both. Those who got the shit kicked out of us on those 8 bit Konami classics salute you to the fullest.

Heh, one of those games where the road to the boss is tougher than the boss themselves

This game was good. I know we love to shot on it for it’s difficulty, but many like myself come from that old school where these games were instant death, unlike nowadays where games are no where near as hard to play or win at. I beat this game when I was 13, and that’s a badge of pride that most new gen gamers won’t ever understand.

The memories, and the feels.

9:55 - Damn, that is some poltergeist phenomena reaching outta the TV right there (yeah, I'm old, kids), lol.

One of the hardest game on the nes.

@justanameonyourscreen5954

4 жыл бұрын

Idk...Battletoads is up there too...

@adenmartinez434

4 жыл бұрын

I beat battletoads.....never this

@forumknight

4 жыл бұрын

This and bayou billy

@GibranMalikRecordings

4 жыл бұрын

i remember i tried with all my might as a kid to beat this and couldn't

@worldwarv5947

3 жыл бұрын

Rambo

So many memories from seeing this and hearing the music again. I used to love this game when i was like 10 years old in like 89-90. Those were the good ol days for sure!!

The music brings back so many memories. This game was so incredibly hard. I don't know anyone who passed it. This takes me right back to those days. Oh how I miss them.

One of the best games on nintendo. Dope soundtrack as well

This is where Game Genie came in handy.

I remember being in college in the late 90's and playing this game all night with friends in our dorm. We would pass the controller around while getting baked out of our minds. One of the all time greatest games right here.

@abstractdaddy1384

2 жыл бұрын

Late 90s or late 80s?

@timd729

9 ай бұрын

CO op today is a joke compared to NES games back then.

Almost 33 years and this game still give me sweaty palms and I’m just watching someone else play.

You make it seem easy and enjoyable. For me to give it another chance and play it again!

My dad used to pass the levels I couldn’t, and I remember screaming at him every time he couldn’t pass it! Sorry dad! 🤣🤣

This is giving me insane nostalgia!

i still cant believe how in the world did i finished this game when I was 8.... at 40 years old I just marvel at the sheer patience and precision that I was capable of. incredible.

The graphics were legit for it’s time

At times, this game comes under attack for not reflecting the TMNT 1987 cartoon all that well, especially by KZread users who inexplicably do commentary with little to no research whatsoever. A quick timeline inspection from director of the first live action TMNT film, Steve Barron, and details from Bey Logan and the Golden Harvest production help clears up some questions and rumors surrounding the game. Negotiations for licensing rights began in 1986 with various developers on what was then, an underground comic sensation that had an upcoming toyline and TV miniseries that was not established in mainstream circles yet. When Konami was set to the task of making the game, their design documents and resources from Mirage Studios and Surge Licensing were based on the original TMNT comic by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman and a brief overview of the TV show that debuted in December 1987. This resulted in the game becoming a hybrid of the original comic and 1987 cartoon series, a bridging of the two very different iterations of TMNT. Barron explains further that when the movie initially began funding and planning, the details on the story was very brief and only had certain scenes, the kidnapping of Splinter and the burning of the antique store. This is why some scenes are shared between the game and the movie despite them being so far apart in release date. This fact probably helped the game become the million dollar seller more than what it's given credit for. The cartoonization of the very gritty reptilian mutants had left the original fanbase disgruntled, to put it mildly, and the 1987 show was as close to a bizarro world as it could be - a bright art style and slapstic humor, essentially a half hour toy commercial, though with a certain amount of heart. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for NES manages to blend elements just so both fanbases can find enjoyment within, and also creates a style unique to the game, for example blending the red clothed Shredder from the Mirage universe with the cartoony sidekicks Rocksteady and Bebop. A complaint that often arises from fans is the cast of enemies, which consists of weird aliens and an ensemble of unknowns. While it's true the majority of the enemies are completely original, by the time the game was in actual development, the cartoon show simply didn't feature a very large cast beyond the central figures. The more sci-fi inspired enemies featured does reflect the original comics which featured more science-fiction elements due to Laird's love for the genre. Further bridging was done with the cover art. Though probably more of an accidental move rather than planned marketing, the use of Mike Dooney's art from the TMNT #4 reprint issue from 1987 drew in the comic book fans with a familiar image, though the red bands across the entire cast of turtles led to a common misperception that the cover was subject to a print error. For those who are only familiar with either the cartoon show or the origin comics might have trouble seeing the true benefit of this game's content and style. I'm just saying.

@dillontam9752

6 жыл бұрын

Source: Hardcore Gaming 101, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Series

@persona83

5 жыл бұрын

Interesting. Thanks for share this information.

Ah, I remember Donatello doing the bulk of the work! I remember struggling a lot playing this game. Definitely among the hardest.

Ill never forget the first day i got this game for the nes, i couldn't wait to get home and play, and once i started playing, i must not slept for two days, one of the best day of my childhood

Alongside the arcade game (also developed by Konami), it was one of the first video games based on the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series, being released after the show's 2nd season. The game got 3 sequels: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game in 1990, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time in 1992.

I was in my early 20's when I beat this game, for over a decade I could not beat it but I did and I even man cried like Matthew McConaughey in INTERSTELLAR .

@alucard624

4 жыл бұрын

It's quite an accomplishment to beat this difficult game. Most people give up right at the underwater level.

@steve_ire321

4 жыл бұрын

LOL

Aaaah this used to be my favorite game for so long on nes. Thanks for the memory lane route!

One of my absolute favourites! I can't stop thinking about this game when I was a kid!

Got this game the year it came out and have never once been past the seaweed.

i played this game religiously. thought having pizza would restore my health everytime i got hurt or sick. now I'm fat

@theevilascotcompany9255

3 жыл бұрын

But you still haven't been killed by flying robots or random guys who just squat there until you walk close to them, so clearly the video game was accurate.

The amount of stress and anxiety to get that ending is unreal lol. I’ll never forget this game from my childhood.

One of the things that is crazy about watching playthroughs of my childhood games is realizing how short the games actually were. They felt so incredibly long in my head but apparently games like this weren’t very long. Today, when I find myself playing a game like hollow knight, I hear the average playtime and I think “shoot I wish that were a bit higher,” but in all honesty it’s much longer than games used to be. Hell super Metroid felt like an epically long game that took 30 hours, and in reality it’s super short. Not knocking any of these games just observing a distorted perception

I never could beat this game..it lead to many a angry and frustrated play that usually ended with me throwing my controller.

@dty395

4 жыл бұрын

Truth🤪

@willevans8523

4 жыл бұрын

Lol, me too, the controller definitely took a beating

@mike3224

4 жыл бұрын

Video games give a person 3 things: Entertainment Good hand/eye coordination And a creative way of coming up with new profanities I'm not sure which was my most favorite.

@Kazadrek

3 жыл бұрын

The problem with old video games is that when you throw the controller, you throw the console too 😭 (btw that's how i broke my ps1)

Got this game when I was 4 years old in 92 took me 25 years to finally beat it.

So nostalgic watching the old NES games. They were pretty good for the time. Love the music, it takes me back to my childhood living room.

This was one of my favorite game back then. If i can recall, I mostly used donatello. April was very supportive. Lol

It's back... time for me to go through more suffering with another tmnt game. This time on PS4 lol

Used to play this all the time as a kid, but that damn water level was the end of the line for me. This game was difficult but a walk in the park compared to battletoads for nes and zelda the gold cartridge.

@davidnec571

4 жыл бұрын

Same here, but I don't think the water level was too bad after some practice. People make it out to be a lot harder than it was. Me and my friends got through it consistently. I agree that Battletoads was harder than this game.

His interchangeable use of the Turtles is supreme!!! Leo was my guy on this game

12:31 - "You can just walk over it."

@jimkurth

3 жыл бұрын

I laughed so hard when I saw the AVGN get angry over that part because as a child I had the same problem with this game when I came out in the early 90s.

I finally beat this hell of a game, i had to play the levels over and over to get trough them easily, and the final level is just brutal.

My brother recorded himself beating the game too, and I still have the tape. But I don't have a VHS player. Thanks for the upload. Great job, and thanks!

This game has a special place in my childhood. This was one of the first NES games I ever had. It's a pity I never beat it. I remember getting past the Technodrome fight, but it was a pain to get to Shredder, and I never did.

@tonypratt1023

11 ай бұрын

Actually you can now with the TMNT cowabanga collection either switch PS4 PS5 or Xbox

Oh man, I remember it taking me forever to beat this. When I finally did I was one proud 10 year old!