Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

by Nintendo

Product Details

• ASIN: B000FJEV06
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,879 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

The game begins with all four Ninja Turtles: Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo and Raphael, who can be switched between at any time during gameplay. Each turtle is practically identical besides the attack range and speed of their weapon. The player must travel through the first 5 of the levels using an overview map to enter various sewers, warehouses, and other areas which leads to the goal of each level. Along the way the player fights various enemies that range from Foot Soldiers and Rat Kings to bomb dropping blimps and chainsaw wielding baddies. Each turtle serves as a life and there are only 2 continues. Later in the game, the player is given several opportunities to rescue some of the turtles. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles released by Konami in 1989 for NES. this another great classic Beat-'Em-Up for Konami.

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A classic NES title nobody should be without!, November 20, 2007

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Mike Roach (New Jersey) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This game was HUGE back in 1989, and even after the sequels came out, the game was still awesome, even today, and it puts up a great challenge. Although it isn't the best TMNT game (that would be TMNT 3:The Manhattan Project), it still remains as one of the classic NES titles, even if there were times where it was frustrating.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars old school, but not the best, October 19, 2010

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M "CultOfStrawberry" (I wait behind the wall, gnawing away at your reality) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Video Game)

This game has garnered mixed feelings, and I can understand both sides of the spectrum. This game is OLD, and is indeed primitive compared to the games of 2010, but that in itself is certainly not a flaw.

What made this game frustrating is the clunky controls, the turtles did not move as smoothly as say, Mario in even the first Super Mario Bros. games, or even in the second TMNT game. The other issue is the inordinate amount of enemies. It would get to the point where it stopped being a challenge and just became frustrating, especially if you cleared the enemies off one screen, moved up one screen, got knocked off by one of the enemies on the new screen, and the old screen would be filled with enemies AGAIN. Or if you went into a building or sewer only to reach a dead-end after fighting all of these enemies, you would have to fight your way back.

The boss fights are actually surprisingly easy compared to bosses in other games, so I guess that kind of makes up for the enemies. Infact, the final boss (none other than Shredder, of course!)is so easy to beat it's almost ridiculous, all you have to do is stay in one spot and just keep swinging, and he;ll go down easy. He goes down faster if you have the throwing stars in your arsenal.

If this game were given a face-lift, much as the Mario and Final Fantasy games were for the Game Boy Advance, this could be a truly memorable game, even more so with a password or save feature.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not The Best Tutles Game In The Series..., February 19, 2011

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Tech Guy - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Video Game)

Being the first Turtles game in the series, it was okay at best. Not a masterpiece, but just okay. Here is a little history lesson. Konami made this game under their Ultra brand. There was a reason for this: back in the day, Nintendo placed a hold on how many games could be released for their system by a specific company (I believe companies could only release 5 games a year, correct me if I am wrong), so to get around this companies like Konami, Capcom, Tecmo, and the rest of them made shell-companies so they could release more games for the NES. This is why the NES Turtles games were released under the Ultra brand.

Now, this game is actually based on the comic book, not the TV series (which definitely made some kids mad, me included), so the main enemies you will not recognize except for the bosses. Like any kid who grew up in the late 80's and early 90's remembers the TV show, and when this game came out, we all thought we were in for a treat like the arcade game....Boy, where we wrong.

This game is hard, no doubt, but what made this game hard was the clunky controls, the size of the turtles, the level design, and the hit detection was pretty off. Like an enemy could hit you without touching you, and you could try to hit an enemy and sometimes it would register and sometimes it wouldn't.

Now opinions differ with this game; it is pretty much a game either you LOVE it or you HATE it. There is no black or white area with this game. For me, it is fun don't get me wrong, but for me this game is like a bad movie where it is so bad it is good. Also, with the fun comes the frustration.

While the game is fun, it can be VERY FRUSTRATING at times; especially the Dam level where you have to swim through electrical currents while trying not to get sucked into the deadly seaweed and diffusing a number of bombs under a time-limit (that time-limit is 2 minutes and 30 seconds), and if you don't diffuse all the bombs, it's GAME OVER; you don't get a second chance even if you have both continues.

Although it isn't the best game in the series, if curiosity peaks your interest, it is worth checking out for at least the nostalgica part of it.