Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Compared to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, its sort-of predecessor, this game is (sometimes literally) a walk in the park. This being originally an arcade game ported to the NES, the gameplay is much simpler and more straightforward. The goal is to simply walk to the right in side-scrolling levels, defeating everything that Shredder, Krang and the Footclan throw at you before you can proceed. Footsoldiers, small robots, wild animals, helicopters, you name it.

Actually, the simplicity of this game was a welcome change of pace after the much more complex (not to mention frustrating) first NES game, which featured maze-like stages, impossibly tough enemies, and one-hit-kill situations. You will find none of that here. Gameplay is purposely easy, just beat up everything that gets in your way over the course of ten widely varying areas. Every now and then you get to use a fire hydrant cap, manhole cover or parking meter to hit the baddies with, and there is one very cool level where you fight from a skateboard, but that's about all the variation in gameplay there is. This game was clearly made for mindless beating rather than strategy, but fortunately it worked.

In the beginning of the game, you can pick your Turtle to fight with, but theya re quite interchangeable, since their attacks have more or less the same effect (Leo and Donatello have a better range, though). Your attacks are somewhat limited anyway, to normal attacks, jump kicks and special attacks. Mastering the latter two is basically key to finishing the game. You get to use them on a significant horde of enemies, quite varied and some more tricky than others, so never a dull moment. But the real challenge lies in the boss fights. Several of these bosses are old acquaintances of the animated TV show, which makes battling them extra fun, and some of them, like Shredder and Krang, really put up a good fight.

People complained about this game looking significantly less good on the NES as compared to the arcade version. Yeah, what'd you expect? It didn't bother me, because it still looked much better graphically than the previous game. There was always good level music to enjoy, and the NES version had some extended and additional levels, so I'm not complaining.

This game offered a nice alternative to all the Legend of Zeldas and Castlevanias of the time that were more immersive, but also more headache-inducing. Nothing wrong with a little button-bashing every once in a while. Especially not when it envolves our four favorite green ninjas.

Rated E(Contains Violence)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is one of the games I played on NES.Its an old game but it is also a fun game as well.Its basically a ninja fighting game for the NES.Based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon(which spawned three live action movies and another cartoon).

I don't really remember the game that much.You can choose between all the Ninja Turtles and you fight thugs and try to save new york.Teenange Mutant Ninja Turtles is a pretty fun NES game and its worth a try if you are a fan of the ninja turtles.

7/10

Ok, as a kid I couldn't watch the TV show, so I was stuck playing the game...and what fun it was! It was tough, but I finally beat it! SCORE! This has almost everything you could look for in an 80s action/ninja game...cool villains, equally kick ass heroes, and much more! Break out the katanas, get rocking with that annoying soundtrack, and watch out for the bouncing balls!

First of all this section is referring to the 4 player ARCADE game and not the much inferior 1 player Nintendo game. I noticed the first reviewer was commenting on the NES game. If you played the arcade game then you know that the 8 bit NES version is not the same game. Just like Double Dragon did for 2 player beat em ups and Street Fighter 2 did for fighting games, the Turtles arcade game started the 4 player beat em up trend that lasted to the mid 90's. The Simpsons, Turtles 2: Turtles in Time, and X-men are just some of the games that came off the success of this game. The voices came straight from the TV show actors. This game is still very fun and playable today if you can find it. This game is much more fun when playing with at least one other player. Not to mention easier and cheaper because you'll use less quarters. When with playing three others this game was downright addictive. Anyway check it out.

This is simply one of the most important arcade games of my youth. Aside from being based on the greatest pop phenomena of the time, the game was incredibly well designed. Similar arcade games like The Simpsons and The X-Men, were equally as addicting, but Ninja Turtles took the cake. The game was adapted to the NES home system, but the transition didn't work well. Aside from the poor 8-bit graphics compared to the arcade's original 16+, many of the games hidden treasures like smackable scenery, background jokes, and between stage animations were cut. No wonder extra stages and Pizza Hut ads were placed in the game to poorly compensate. If you are to play this game your better to find the arcade itself. In the days of NES, Super Nintendo and Genesis, Konami was simply a master maker of great games. But they fail big time with the over rated 3D revolution. They just don't make games like this anymore. No one does.