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A side-scrolling platform game released in 1989 (1990 for the PAL region) for the Nintendo Entertainment System and 1991 for computers. 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. Like the rest of the franchise it's ultimately based on the original comic created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, but nearly everything about it (Splinter being Hamato Yoshi mutated, the Technodrome, The Shredder being alive and having a retromutagen gun, the existence of Bebop and Rocksteady, and April O'Neil as a reporter) came from the hit cartoon, though the box art and some of the in-game art style came from the comics. Perhaps due to brand recognition, this game was one of the best selling NES titles published by a third-party company.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. 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. 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. 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.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. Progression to the next level is gained by beating each platforming segment.Although only a single player game, you can switch between the Turtles on the fly at the pause screen. Each turtle is essentially a life, meaning you have four lives. 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. 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. 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. Still, you are given a few chances to rescue captured Turtles.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.Released a little later in '89 was the arcade game, which was nowhere near as polarizing and is almost unanimously considered a classic in the Beat 'em Up genre. Thanks to the arcade game's success, most games based on the Ninja Turtles henceforth would be beat em ups as well, although some, such as a couple of the Game Boy titles, would be platformers like this puppy.LP'ed here by ProtonJon, of Kaizo Mario World LPing fame, in honor of the game's then-recent re-release on Virtual Console (speaking of the VC release, it's 600 Wii points, instead of the usual 500 for an NES game, due to licensing issues; and said licensing expired, causing the game to be de-listed, although previous buyers can still re-download it).In March 2022, the game was announced to be a part of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection, which would be released for all platforms later that year. |
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Crate Expectations: Some levels have the classic wooden crates. A few of them have entire surfaces made of crates. |
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Unexpectedly Realistic Gameplay: In the first building in Area 3, just in front of the Turtle Van missiles, there's a gap between two platforms that is about as wide as your character and impossible to jump across, as the ceiling is too low and you end up hitting it and falling. The solution is to simply walk over it. |
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All There in the Manual: It's only in the instruction book that it's mentioned that the Turtles are after Shredder's Life Transformer gun; as a result, those who don't have the manual are of course confused by Splinter turning human at the end of the game. |
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Eternal Engine: The Technodrome. |
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Beef Gate: If you try walking around the building from the starting area, a roller (One-Hit KO, except in the PC port) will approach as an attempt to guide you into the sewer. However, you can walk around it as it approaches by keeping to the left or simply hit it with your weapon. |
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Adapted Out: Even though the Technodrome is in this game (as a boss even), Krang is nowhere to be found despite his status as a series staple. |
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Super Drowning Skills: Thankfully, the turtles won't drown if they fall in the water filling the sewers in Stage 3, but they are whisked away by the (seemingly mild) current, splashing ineffectually, and reappear on the overworld close to the entrance. This feels a little jarring considering that the turtles were perfectly capable of swimming in Stage 2. |
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Unintentionally Unwinnable: The North American MS-DOS port features a jump that can't be made unless you cheat. |
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Damsel in Distress: The plot kicks off with Shredder kidnapping April. You save her at the end of the first Area. |
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Inconveniently-Placed Conveyor Belt: Conveyor belts start to appear midway into the game. Often these conveyor belts lead nowhere, or into the spikes. |
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Big Dam Plot: Area 2, which has you trying to stop the Foot Clan from blowing up a dam. |
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Nintendo Hard: Level 2 is the infamous swimming stage. Level 3 is a maze to find Splinter (though once you have the missiles, you can go right to where he is if you know the way, obviously). Level 4 is a "choose your path" with different roads to take to get to the end and towards the end are instant kill traps like fire pits and sliding spike walls. Level 5 is full of tough enemies and has a randomly placed boss who is difficult to defeat, and level 6 is FULL of tough enemies. The jet pack-equipped laser troopers will make you tear your hair out. This game is TOUGH. But it is certainly NOT impossible. |
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Point of No Continues: Your game will be over with no possibility to continue if all four Turtles are captured after continuing twice! |
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Marathon Level: Areas 3 and 4. Also, the final area. |
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Guide Dang It! |
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Guide Dang It!: Area 4's correct hatch sequence. Area 5 has the Technodrome, which is mentioned in depth below. |
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Covers Always Lie |
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Covers Always Lie: The cover would imply that the game is strictly based on the Mirage comics, but not only does the game adapt aspects of the cartoon, in-game, the turtles all have their colored masks, while the cover has them all wearing red. |
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High-Voltage Death: The dam in Area 2 is filled with electric plants that can zap the turtles upon contact. |
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Spikes of Doom: About halfway, damaging spikes make their first appearance. |
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Absurdly-Spacious Sewer: As to be expected from he franchise, the sewers are huge. |
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Down the Drain |
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Down the Drain: The dam in Area 2. |
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Non Standard Game Over: If you fail to defuse the bombs in the underwater portion of Area 2, the bombs explode, causing an instant game over, regardless of how many Turtles were remaining. |
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Mighty Glacier: Don's has the most range and power with his weapon, but his attack is the slowest. |
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Luck-Based Mission: In Area 5, the boss of the Area (the Technodrome) can be at the end of one of three caves. You have no way of knowing which one it'll be in short of trying each one and hoping it's there. Making this even worse is the fact that it's most likely (a one-in-two chance) to be at the end of the furthest, most difficult cave. |
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Respawning Enemies: A common complaint about the game is that the enemies respawn and aren't always the same enemy that you killed. |
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Totally Radical: The instruction manual is full of flip lingo, dude. |
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Jack of All Stats: Leo is the most well-rounded of the Turtles with balanced range and strength. |
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Final Boss |
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Final Boss: The Shredder, naturally. This trend would continue for most future games in the franchise. |
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Hard Levels, Easy Bosses |
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Hard Levels, Easy Bosses: The further along in the game you get, the easier the bosses get. The final boss, Shredder, is considered the easiest boss because he has a very predictable movement pattern and takes knockback from any hit you do to him (a feature that no boss in the game possesses). |
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Sentry Gun |
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comment |
Sentry Gun: Technodrome has wall-mounted spherical turrets that track the player and fire slow bullets. |
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Timed Mission |
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comment |
Timed Mission: The dam in Area 2 gives you 2 minutes and 20 seconds to defuse all of the bombs. |
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1.0 |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (Video Game) / int_bb48f8ba |
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Negative Continuity |
| | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (Video Game) / int_bd8aa92a |
comment |
Negative Continuity: Though the villains are defeated and Splinter is turned back into a human, this has no effect on the story of subsequent games. |
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type |
Slow Laser |
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comment |
Slow Laser: Jetpack-equipped enemies shoot out slow laser beams. |
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type |
Dub Text |
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comment |
Dub Text: Geki Kame Ninja Den turned April into Splinter's daughter. |
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type |
Secondary Adaptation |
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comment |
Secondary Adaptation: A 1989 single player Platform Game that took plot cues from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987), despite basing more of the art style on the cartoon's comicbook origin, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage). It was initially released for the Nintendo Entertainment System console. |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (Video Game) / int_d859e7a2 |
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type |
Super Not-Drowning Skills |
| | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (Video Game) / int_e5bb2929 |
comment |
Super Not-Drowning Skills: There's no air meter when swimming in Stage 2, as the only restriction is the time limit before the bombs you're trying to disarm detonate. Which, granted, is shorter than how long many species of turtles can hold their breath for. |
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| | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (Video Game) |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (Video Game) / int_e5bb2929 |
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type |
The Maze |
| | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (Video Game) / int_e6ce4b |
comment |
The Maze: The third (where you rescue Splinter) and fourth (the Foot Clan air base) areas have a maze of some sort. |
| | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (Video Game) / int_e6ce4b |
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1.0 |
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| | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (Video Game) |
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type |
Jet Pack |
| | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (Video Game) / int_eb9eaecd |
comment |
Jet Pack: One of the enemies in Technodrome flies around using a jet pack. |
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1.0 |
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| | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (Video Game) |
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type |
Critical Status Buff |
| | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (Video Game) / int_ef8ee709 |
comment |
Critical Status Buff: Mike's attack strength doubles when he's down to half-health (Four bars). It kinda makes you want to avoid healing him in order to abuse it. |
| | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (Video Game) / int_ef8ee709 |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
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| | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (Video Game) |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (Video Game) / int_ef8ee709 |
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type |
Oddball in the Series |
| | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (Video Game) / int_f068cba |
comment |
Oddball in the Series: Overlapping with Early-Installment Weirdness. Most of its successors were Beat Em Ups that are mostly straigtforward beatable affairs. This installment was a Platform Game best remembered for being Nintendo Hard. |
| | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (Video Game) / int_f068cba |
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1.0 |
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| | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (Video Game) |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (Video Game) / int_f068cba |
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type |
Check-Point Starvation |
| | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (Video Game) / int_f09021fe |
comment |
Checkpoint Starvation: There are no checkpoints inside the Technodrome. Losing a Turtle at any point results in resuming from the very beginning of the level. It's also chock-full of dangerous foes, most of which are unique to the final level, too. |
| | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (Video Game) / int_f09021fe |
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1.0 |
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| | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (Video Game) |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (Video Game) / int_f09021fe |
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type |
Never Say "Die" |
| | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (Video Game) / int_f51c5f3c |
comment |
Never Say "Die": The Turtles are always 'captured' upon losing all their health. Justified, in that you have a few chances to rescue captured Turtles later, clearly still alive. |
| | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (Video Game) / int_f51c5f3c |
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1.0 |
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| | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (Video Game) |
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type |
Distressed Dude |
| | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (Video Game) / int_f9e16ef |
comment |
Distressed Dude: Splinter get captured by the Foot Clan at the beginning of the third Area. He is rescued at the end of the same Area. |
| | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (Video Game) / int_f9e16ef |
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| | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (Video Game) |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (Video Game) / int_f9e16ef |
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type |
Bigger on the Inside |
| | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (Video Game) / int_fe1b2e75 |
comment |
Bigger on the Inside: You actually fight the Technodrome as a boss in this game and enter it upon defeat. It's scaled down to fit on the screen but it serves as the final area of the game which is much, much bigger. |
| | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (Video Game) / int_fe1b2e75 |
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ItemName |
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