Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (arcade game)
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 Cover artwork of the NES version, which was retitled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game. |
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| Developer(s) | Konami, Digital Eclipse (XBLA conversion) |
| Publisher(s) | Konami, Ultra Games (NES North American version), Ubisoft (XBLA version) |
| Composer(s) | Mutsuhiko Izumi Miki Higashino |
| Platform(s) | Arcade, NES, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, ZX Spectrum, Sharp X68000, Xbox 360 (XBLA) |
| Release date(s) | Arcade INT 1989 JP 1990 NES Port JP December 7, 1990 NA January 1991 EU November 14, 1991 XBLA Version INT 2007 |
| Genre(s) | Beat 'em up |
| Mode(s) | Up to four players, simultaneous |
| Cabinet | Upright |
| Display | Horizontal, raster, standard resolution |
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an arcade game produced by Konami in 1989. It is a scrolling beat 'em up based on the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series. As with all merchandise relating to the Ninja Turtles, the name of this game was altered to Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles in Europe. It was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System under the title of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game.
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[edit] Gameplay
The player chooses from one of the four Ninja Turtles: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael. 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 fast attacks but a short range, and Leonardo is a well-rounded Turtle with average range and speed.
The controls are fairly straightforward. 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. In addition to this, some combinations are possible. The Turtles can throw Foot soldiers overhead, and by pressing the jump and attack buttons, a special attack is performed. Raphael rolls along the ground and finishes with a kick, while the other Turtles do a jump attack with their weapons. In the attract mode, the game showed the first part of the cartoon opening, along with a portion of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song.
The majority of the enemies the Turtles must face are the Foot Soldiers. They wear a different colored uniform depending on what weapon they have. The bosses in the game includes Bebop and Rocksteady (individually and together), Baxter Stockman, two Stone Warriors, Krang, and Shredder himself.
[edit] Ports
[edit] Nintendo Entertainment System
This game was ported to the NES in 1990 under the title Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game to disambiguate it from the previously released Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game for the NES. The Family Computer version in Japan retained the original title since the first game was titled differently in Japan. This would later affect the numbering of the game's immediate sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project, which was titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 in Japan. The NES 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: Tora (a mutant snow wolf) and Shogun Warrior (a cyborg samurai), both characters created for the game. 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.
[edit] Home computers
The computer ports of the arcade game released by Image Works in 1992 for the ZX Spectrum, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, PC and Commodore 64. Although the computer versions bore the same title as the NES game (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game) on their packaging, the title screen for each version simply said Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and lacked the extra stages and bosses from the NES game.
[edit] Xbox Live Arcade
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. Like other classic arcade games on the Xbox 360 platform, portions of the original arcade game are emulated with network code and other new features added. Players can earn achievements as well as play 2-4 player co-op (both online and offline). Certain aspects, such as the character select screen, were based on images from the 2007 movie.
[edit] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus
The arcade version of Ninja Turtles is included as unlockable extra in the 2004 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus video game for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube. The music was altered and most of the voice clips edited out.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- The game's instruction manual
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at the Killer List of Videogames
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at MobyGames
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (arcade) guide at StrategyWiki
- Official Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Xbox.com game page
- Complete gamevideo(NES) on archive.org
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