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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Arcade 1989 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. Leaderboard Guides Resources Discord Streams Forum Statistics Sub-games. Moderated by: whitmanprice whitmanprice, SnakeSoldier SnakeSoldier, LRock617 LRock617, Charlieboy Charlieboy. The game was released in 1989, in the same year and under the same name as the first game. Since the first game was already ported to other platforms, the ports of the arcade game had different names, like TMNT, TMNT 2 or Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, and usually with the subtitle The Arcade Game. This caused lot of confusion since the two.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a 1989 arcade game released by Konami^[2] and based on the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series that began airing two years earlier. In the game, up to four players control the titular Ninja Turtles, fighting through various levels to defeat the turtles' enemies, including the Shredder, Krang and the Foot Clan. Released during a high point in popularity for the Ninja Turtles franchise, the arcade game was well received and versions for various home systems soon followed, including the Nintendo Entertainment System.^[3] A sequel, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time, was released in 1991.

Gameplay[edit]

The player chooses from one of the four Ninja Turtles: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael. Depending on the version of the game, the characters are either chosen via an in-game select screen or based on which coin slot the player placed their credit into. After Shredder kidnaps the Turtles' friend April O'Neil and their mentor Splinter, they must give chase, save their comrades, and defeat the evil Shredder. Up to four players (two in some versions) can take control of any of the Turtles. Donatello has slower attacks but a longer range, Michelangelo and Raphael have faster attacks but a shorter range, and Leonardo is a well-rounded Turtle with average range and speed.

The eight-way joystick controls the movements of the Turtle, the jump button makes them jump and the attack button makes them hit in front of them using their weapon. The Turtles can also perform special moves, including throwing Foot soldiers overhead and performing a special attack by pressing the jump and attack buttons; Raphael rolls along the ground and finishes with a kick, while the other Turtles do a sweeping jump attack with their weapons. The Turtles can also spring off the wall in certain areas. Enemies can be defeated more quickly by slamming them into walls or solid objects. Many objects such as traffic cones, parking meters, fire hydrants and exploding oil drums can be hit or damaged with attacks in order to help defeat nearby enemies. In the attract mode, the game shows the first part of the cartoon opening, along with a portion of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song.

Most of the enemies the Turtles face are the Foot Soldiers, all color-coded to indicate their attack patterns and weapon of choices. Some enemies, such as the standard purple-clad Foot Soldiers and Roadkill Rodney robots, have the ability to restrain the Turtles' mobility and drain their health, leaving the player open to attack for other enemies. The bosses in the game include Rocksteady and Bebop (individually at first in that order, and later the two of them together), Baxter Stockman, Granitor, General Traag, Krang, and Shredder himself.

Release[edit]

The arcade game was distributed as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in North America and Oceania, Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles in Europe and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Super Kame Ninja^[a] in Japan. The game was released primarily as a dedicated four-player cabinet in all regions except Japan, where it was sold as a 2-player conversion kit. 2-player conversion kits of the game were released in other regions, serving as less expensive alternatives to 4-player cabinets.

Home versions[edit]

Ports to home systems[edit]

The game was ported to the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1990. This conversion was titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game in order to avoid confusion with the previous NES game based on the franchise.^[4] The Japanese Famicom version was titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, without a number nor a subtitle, due to the fact that first NES game was localized in Japan under a different title.

This version includes two new levels (the first part of Scene 3 and all of Scene 6), which feature new enemy characters, including two new bosses created specifically for the NES port: Tora (a dog-like 'blizzard beast') and Shogun (a robotic samurai). Most of the original stages from the arcade version were extended as well and the second half of Scene 3, the parking garage stage, replaces the arcade version's end battle with Bebop and Rocksteady with a battle against the mutated fly form of Baxter Stockman. The NES port appeared in Nintendo's PlayChoice-10 arcade system. This version of the game was once slated for release on the WiiVirtual Console, but was canceled.^{[citation needed]}

The NES version featured notable product placement advertising: Pizza Hut logos. The rear cover of the instruction manual provided a coupon for the restaurant, with an expiration date of December 31, 1991.^[5]

Computer ports of the arcade game were released by Image Works and ported by Probe Software in 1991 for the ZX Spectrum, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, PC and Commodore 64. The title was changed to Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Coin Op in the European versions, reflecting Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series)#International of the 1987 TV series in certain regions at the time.

Emulated releases[edit]

An emulated version of the arcade game is included as a hidden bonus game in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube, but with altered music and most of the voice clips edited out. The game is unlocked by finding an antique in Stage 9-1; the antique turns out to be the original arcade machine.^[6]

An Xbox Live Arcade version of the game was released under the name TMNT 1989 Classic Arcade on March 14, 2007, published by Ubisoft and ported by Digital Eclipse.^[7] The game was priced at 400 Microsoft Points.^[7] Like other classic arcade games on the Xbox 360 platform, portions of the original arcade game were emulated with network code and other new features added. Players could earn achievements as well as play 2-4 player co-op (both online and offline). Unlike the unlockable in Battle Nexus, this rerelease retains the music and voices of the 1989 arcade game. This version was delisted in June 2011 and is no longer available for purchase.^{[citation needed]}

In 2019, the game was rereleased as a replica arcade cabinet for home use by manufacturer Arcade1up.^[8] The reissue is nearly identical to the original, however there are a few changes; the opening is performed by a different artist, players do not need to insert quarters to play, and Konami's name on the arcade marquee is replaced by Nickelodeon's.^[8]

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Reception[edit]

In Japan, Game Machine listed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on their September 1, 1990 issue as being the fourth most-successful table arcade unit of the year.^[11]

Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu gave the Famicom (NES) version of the game a 26 out of 40 score.^[9]

British gaming magazine The One reviewed the home computer versions (Amiga, Atari ST, DOS) of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles under the British title, Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, calling it 'a pretty poor interpretation of a pretty poor yet popular subject. Every one of the levels is too easy to guarantee more than a week's interest, particularly because the opponents' intelligence is so predictable and your own moves so limited.' The One criticises Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles scrolling, stating that the 'Music and sound effects are jolly enough, but the cartoon-style graphics are let down by slow and jerky scrolling.' The One concludes by stating that the game 'lacks depth and imagination'.^[12]

Zzap! reported on the game after it appeared at Amusement Trades Exhibition International, calling it a 'great coin-op which is best in four player mode.'^[13]Time's Jared Newman named to his list of '14 Important Arcade Games Not Available for iPhone or iPad', citing the game's pioneering 4-player simultaneous play.^[14]

GamesRadar ranked it the 25th best NES game made. The staff attributed the Ninja Turtles' continued success to the game and praised its visuals, audio, and combat system.^[15]

The Xbox Live Arcade digital version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sold 984,271 units on the Xbox 360 console, as of 2011.^[16]

Notes[edit]

1. ^Japanese: ティーンエイジ・ミュータント・ニンジャ・タートルズ 〜スーパー亀忍者〜Hepburn: Tīneiji Myūtanto Ninja Tātoruzu: Sūpā Kame Ninja

References[edit]

1. ^'Around the Route'. Cash Box. December 23, 1989.
2. ^http://ca.ign.com/blogs/ledjar/2014/01/13/every-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtle-game-by-konami-1989-2005-review-dubious-gaming
3. ^'Hardcore Gaming 101: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'. www.hardcoregaming101.net. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
4. ^'Retro Game of the Day! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game'. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
5. ^Beckerman, Marty. 'A COMPLETE HISTORY OF TMNT PIZZA PRODUCT PLACEMENT'. MTV.com. MTV.com. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
6. ^'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus Cheats'. www.gamesradar.com. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
7. ^ ^abSinclair, Brendan (2007-03-06). 'Ninja Turtles headed to Live Arcade'. GameSpot. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
8. ^ ^abhttps://ign.com/articles/2019/12/16/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtle-arcade1up-cabinet-review
9. ^ ^ab'T.M.N.T. ミュータント ニンジャ タートルズ [ファミコン] / ファミ通.com'. www.famitsu.com. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
10. ^Arcade, Johnny (December 1990). 'Nintendo ProView: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Arcade Game'(PDF). GamePro. pp. 106–108.
11. ^'Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - テーブル型TVゲーム機 (Table Videos)'. Game Machine (in Japanese). No. 387. Amusement Press, Inc. 1 September 1990. p. 21.
12. ^Houghton, Gordon; Hamza, Kati (February 1991). 'Green Grosser'. The One. No. 29. emap Images. p. 23.
13. ^'ATEI Show Report.' ZZAP! March 1990. p.39.
14. ^Newman, Jared (February 24, 2012). '14 Important Arcade Games Not Available for iPhone or iPad'. Time. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
15. ^'Best NES Games of all time'. GamesRadar. 2012-04-16. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
16. ^Langley, Ryan (January 20, 2012). 'Xbox Live Arcade by the numbers - the 2011 year in review'. Gamasutra. UBM Technology Group. Retrieved 29 April 2020.

External links[edit]

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at the Killer List of Videogames
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Nostalgia can be a harsh mistress. Reeling out that sentiment in a review for yet another Live Arcade disappointment brings with it a certain Groundhog Day vibe, but never is it more true than when talking about arcade games from the cultural dead zone known as the Late Eighties.

With increasingly powerful home consoles eating into their market share, the cabinet makers supplying the world's arcades inevitably chose the Darkside path of least resistance and served up titles boasting attention-grabbing visuals and sound still beyond the reach of the fledgling SEGA Genesis, but often with precious little in the way of gameplay. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a typical example of this all-sizzle, no-steak era of arcade gaming. Served up on a next-gen platter, the result is singularly unappetising.

Sewer stench

This honestly came as a surprise to me since, like many others, I had fond memories of the game. Admittedly, this is probably because it was one of the few working cabinets in the lobby of the Stalybridge Palace Theatre, my then-local cinema and an establishment later used as a location for The League of Gentlemen, a fact which should give you some idea of how inappropriate the name really was. Seeing screenshots from the game certainly took me back to a time when such thrills were the best a boy could aspire to but, viewed with adult eyes, its clear my taste had a lot of growing up to do.

Populated by garish and stiff sprites, it's fair to say that the once-amazing visuals have lost their appeal over the years. Unlike the very early arcade games, which still hold a certain minimalist grace, Turtles looks horrible - a muddled splurge of colours and noisy backgrounds cut, pasted and pixelated wholesale from the cartoon, devoid of any real artistry. Animation is rudimentary, while the scrolling is jerky.

Offering a mere five short levels of repetitive scrolling beat-'em-up, and a move set best described as anorexic, the fact that its sole function was to Hoover pocket money from children's hands is made horribly apparent once the Insert Coin mechanic is removed and replaced with infinite credits in single-player. If it weren't for the ludicrously unfair difficulty slowing you down, the whole game would be over in five minutes. As it is, it lasts for about twenty.

Cowadunga

Old games were hard - we all know that, and it's even part of their charm. Those with retro tastes have developed a deep masochistic streak, learning to take pleasure from being savagely beaten. Infamously brutal titles such as Ghost n' Goblins and Defender made life impossibly hard for gamers yet remain well-loved because, beneath the constant death, the core gameplay was fun and improved performance was always tantalisingly within reach.

Turtles has none of that tough love. Once you needed a stack of pound coins, now patience and a cool temper are all that's needed to see it through. Success doesn't require you to get better at the game, just that you keep hitting continue. As you trudge through wave after wave of identical foes, the game changes not one iota from the first level to the last, and nor do the skills required to survive that far.

You can jump, and you can hit things. That's about it as far as instructions go. No high, low, strong or weak attacks. No blocking. The turtles themselves have no distinguishing features or abilities beyond their weapons and masks so there's no reason to favour one character over another. During a four-player game, it's easy to lose track of your turtle in amongst the morass of purple jumpsuits and green shells. Sadly, not being able to work out where you are doesn't even affect the gameplay all that much.

Shelling out

It's not just that the game repeatedly puts you in positions where health loss or death are unavoidable - you can hit the guy to your left, but only at the expense of the guy to your right shooting you in the back - it's that there's no joy in the process, no sense of discovery or excitement. You just keep plugging away through sheer stubbornness, gritting your teeth at each new combination of environmental death-traps and unavoidable attacks. As there's no risk of losing your bus fare home to the slotty maw of the arcade machine, the flatlining gameplay just dangles there, rendered pointless when taken out of context. The closest the game comes to penalising you is in the co-op mode, where you have limited credits. Run out, and you're unable to add any more. It's revealing that having to take an early bath from the game can actually feel like a reward.

The game doesn't even have the good grace to offer up a well thought out array of Achievements for your trouble. Most require near-superhuman feats such as navigating a stage without losing health or defeating a boss without being hit by their weapon, and a game designed solely to kill the player as frequently as possible just isn't suited for such tasks. On the other hand, there are completely pointless Achievements, such as the one that gives you zero gamerpoints for falling into a manhole five times. Is it a joke? Or an admission that in a game so lacking in depth or variety there simply weren't enough things to do to make up the required twelve Achievement Awards?

Turtles is about as shallow as gaming gets, with even less to offer than Renegade, a game already three years old by the time this hit the arcade. It's no surprise that not long after its release Capcom released the similar yet vastly superior Final Fight, forcing Konami to try that little bit harder with its later Simpsons and X-Men side-scrollers. Already outclassed by its peers in 1989, the shortcomings of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are laid horribly bare in 2007. Within an hour of downloading the thing I'd completed it twice - once on my own, once in multiplayer co-op - and see no reason to ever go back to it again. Even at 400 points, that's pretty shoddy value.

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