The most infamous aspect of the game is its difficulty, ultimately making it a divisive affair you either love it because it's Nintendo Hard, or hate it because it's Nintendo Hard. Still, you are given a few chances to rescue captured Turtles. This means that if you're down to Raph and Mike, you're likely going to be taking a lot of damage since you have to be right up on the enemies in order to hit them, and most don't die in one hit. It can get very painful when you are down to only Raph and Mikey, as Donatello's bo staff has the longest range and strongest attack power, Leonardo's katana has middling range and attack power, Raph's sai has the worst range and strong attack power, and Mikey's nunchaku have short range and the weakest attack power. When the vitality gauge of a Turtle is completely depleted, he is "captured." When all four are captured, it's Game Over, and you are only given a chance to continue twice. Each turtle is essentially a life, meaning you have four lives. Progression to the next level is gained by beating each platforming segment.Īlthough only a single player game, you can switch between the Turtles on the fly at the pause screen. There are six levels total, and gameplay is divided into two modes: initially, you start the level in a top-down perspective hub world, and you walk your way to a platforming segment. His plan? Brainwash April and train her in ninjitsu so she will become part of the Foot! The Turtles must save April, storm the Shredder's Technodrome lair, and steal his Life Transformer Gun, which can turn their beloved Master Splinter back to his original human form of Hamato Yoshi. To give you an idea of how deadly he is, the instruction manual describes him as "a villain more vicious than an army of mind altered Bruce Lees." That's deadly. Their babe-licious human friend, Channel 6 News field reporter April O'Neil, had just been kidnapped by the Shredder, the deadly leader of the Foot. ![]() The four eponymous characters-brothers Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael-are in hot pursuit of the Foot Clan, the most dangerous criminal empire New York has ever seen. It also has the distinction of being the fifth game reviewed by James Rolfe's " The Angry Video Game Nerd" character, then known as the Angry Nintendo Nerd. Perhaps due to brand recognition, this game was one of the best selling NES titles published by a third-party company. ![]() Although it is often thought to be based on the comic created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, nearly everything about it - Splinter being Hamato Yoshi, the Technodrome, The Shredder being alive and having a retromutagen gun, the existence of Bebop and Rocksteady, and April O'Neil as a reporter using her cartoon design, all came from the cartoon, though the box art and some of the in-game art style came from the comics. As you could tell by the title, it was a video game adaptation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles which had become a cash cow franchise towards the end of The '80s thanks to the hit cartoon. A side-scrolling platform game released in 1989 (1990 for the PAL region) for the Nintendo Entertainment System and 1991 for computers.
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