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In retrospect, the swimming level from the first TMNT game was a good lesson in persistence as a child. I remember how great it felt to finally get through that level after what felt like millions of failed attempts. Passing the controller to friends is an experience shared uniquely by our generation.

Damn that sucks PK! I'll make sure to avoid that place. I also recently ordered from DKOldies and had no issues.

Even though I haven't sold a lot of video game products because of the countless horror stories I've heard dealing with incredibly cheap, greedy, and manipulative people - I have enough foresight to cut them off if I detect the slightest inkling that they're going to be difficult. I'm lucky enough that I have a really good friend that helps sell me portions of my collection and I pay him a fee to help me sell it so at least he can get a little bit of profit out of it. I wish game stores would realize that reputation is everything and if enough people have problems with you and your business tactics then your going to lose your business soon enough. You can only get away with a certain of bullshit for too long.

It took me forever to notice that the 1989 TMNT arcade game was basically a playable version of the first season of the 1987 animated series. The stages are designed to follow the plot of the first season.

I like the NES version more than the arcade version. For some reason the hit responses in this game AND turtles in time feel way better than they do in their arcade counterparts for some reason.

Vampire Mike sent me, awesome video but wow these stories are insane

I've been to that store in Erie! I think I bought a few Genesis games there like a decade ago!

I also had a guy who would low ball me on every item I sold and then eventually got one and said oh it doesn't work well, can I have X amount off. Eventually I blocked him too, he was extremely cheap and annoying to deal with. It was old Apple products my wife had that were just sitting in a drawer.

Yeah, I've had to do partial refunds and gotten them here or there with small issues. Good on you pal.

I've been on Ebay since I was a kid, using it as my dad. I got one negative for the first time I can remember last year. The guy was very rude and wanted me to mail his dvd on a Sunday. It went out Monday, he got it a few days later and then left me a negative review that said, "not good". So I wrote to ebay and they got it removed and I blocked him. lol.

That sucks man. Ive been to a lot of retro stores and had great experiences at almost all of them. I hate to hear about these kind of bad places. Good on you calling it out.

I got this for Christmas when it came out and felt like the luckiest person ever. Took me a few tries to get through it. The Shogun level kicked my butt several times. Vincent Van Growl? 🐯 "Spring is here!"

I've often thought a can of fish in liquid opened to mature for a while..., and then poured in the right place would be a fun game to try. 😜

Turtles 2 the arcade game was a fool's errand like many games of the time that tried give us the best version they could of an arcade port. So much gets lost in translation, as the NES ports of smash arcade games fell short massively. Even some of the Snes ports failed like Final Fight, as was only single player and lost levels. Double Dragon 1 was only one player, and added a bunch of annoying platforming to a beat em up game with tank like controls. Plenty of NES ports just weren't up to snuff with the Arcade version, as the difference between the tech on consoles and arcade machines was too massive to compete on any reasonable level. This was of course why people would spent the quarters, since you were getting something you weren't getting at home.(Till more recently as modern hardware easily can handle any 90s arcade games.) The two biggest issues with turtles 2 that couldn't ever overcome or fix that left it forever in the shadow of the arcade game it's a port of is the combat and the 4 player mode. (This one was understandable since the NES couldn't handle that many characters on screen, or players would always outnumber the bad guys heh.) The combat in the arcade game, you had a point in using the regular attack, as it comboed enemies, and tossed them over your head to defeat them. In the NES game, enemies just stagger and invincible for a moment then typically hit you back , making the regular attack fairly useless outside of reflecting back tossed objects or launching objects on the street to hit enemies. This really screws up the flow of basic combat. You are forced to master the jump+attack to complete the NES version for most normal enemies. You need to just kick bosses to death, as it's only reasonable answer to their invinciblity frames. Again you can't combo them with attacks, so it devolves the combat greatly. The arcade version you could jump in and then combo the bosses with regular attacks or jump attack in the air, then launch a second one when you landed. The bosses would generally get knocked back or down, so this game you options of how fight them. The NES game was less fun as a result of this. That said, Konami knew what they were up against, and tried add something to make it's own unique experience from the Arcade version. Giving two unique levels and bosses was cool, just I felt their placement in the game was a wonky. The snow level doesn't feel organic, as we go from pursuing April, to side tracking to defrost NYC, then go back to rescuing April. The game felt like it should stuck to one of these threads. The dojo stage being the penultimate stage felt more in line. I get these were last minute additions, but for all remakes fans do, I am surprised someone hasn't made a version where these get more organic placed into the story and stages. I think this lesson served Konami well though, as they were better at handling the port of Turtles in time, as the home version on Snes feels like the superior version in many ways. They were able to make entire levels that fit organicly into the game' s story and design that felt like they should always been there. Again I wish we could get a remaster that gives us a full version, as Reshelled failed to be that in so many ways. Of the home ports Turtles in time was by far the best of the TMNT games. Konami clearly got better with each installment and learned what worked and what didn't. As far as playing the nes game, I agree it's a product of it's time and limitations. This makes it far less awesome than playing a port of the actual arcade game. I'd much rather play the arcade game over the nes port any day. Not say the NES game is not without it's charms but it was never going stack up to it. It's still impressive that could cram a decent version of the game into what they did. Sacrifices were going be made, but not so many that makes the game unplayable. I feel they really needed to focus on making the best game(As best NES games focus on doing what works for them rather than try give us a watered down version of something else.) they could rather than try translate the Arcade version they best they could. I get why they did, as they already left fans feeling like a bait and switch with the first NES title. They had give them the Arcade game in some form. Like I said this was a fool's errand. Doing anything too different, and people would been mad, but they couldn't match their arcade game either. Home system games ultimately need to stand on their own merits , not just this is the best we could get of it at the time. With much better options now, I would not recommend playing it over the other titles other than to see the stepping stones of the series for those who were curious. Some beat em ups are timeless(Such as Streets of Rage 2), Turtles 2 is not one of them.

after they sent you back your ps2 id check the seriel # etc, make sure they didnt swap it out with one of their janky ones or take parts out of yours.

i remember ebay siding with a buyer who had bought a figure from me as the buyer said theyd paid and hadnt recieved the item. this was 2 days after the auction ended. i had sent ebay a tracking number and knew that theyd recieved the figure but ebay refunded their money.

about 17 years ago i bought a pc engine duo r from a well known game import store on ebay, took about a month and when it came it was in a thinly padded bubble mailer envelope! i was new to ebay and was thankful something came at all and i dont remember calling them out but till this day it still pisses me off as they charged like 30.00 for shipping and handling.

I liked it ok. Would I play it today, probably not. Turtles in time for SNES was the real game changer

I still play it. I love it but since I usually prefer to play games by myself it works for me I guess

Turtles II is the most nostalgic one for me as far as the NES games go, but it’s the one I find myself going back to the least. I’ve come to appreciate the first game more as I’ve gotten older, the third game is head and shoulders the best, and the fighting game is as interesting as it is impressive.

Battle Nexus for GameCube had TMNT 2 NES as an unlockable feature which was awesome to play this game on GameCube. Battle Nexus is also a good game that gets overlooked

Great video man! Also, you must be Canadian.... 3:27....I grew up in a small town in Ontario, and I.G.A. was the only grocery store we had

Got TMNT2 for Christmas, from my brother. I can't complain, since i asked for Bart vs the space mutants. My bro did me a solid, with me not even realizing it at the time... Plus, there was no Pizza Hut where i lived, so i had a useless coupon...

I always thought that them NOT making a Tora (the polar bear? Or wolf) from the Central Park level- Toy was a huge mistake. They could have easily made a quick backstory for him in the Archie Ninja Turtle comics. I assumed he was a polar bear because he’d throw ice blocks at you… but yeah a weird one of exclusive I think ONLY ever referenced in THIS game (and ONLY in the home port) he wasn’t part of the Arcade original

Until the “Sega Genesis” came out of course! Fixed it for you:-)

Loved this version and would finish it frequently, it was all about patterns. I miss those times 😢

I prefer the nes version way over the arcade version. Graphics aren’t everything.

This game was and still is awesome! Fantastic beat em up

I had this game. I loved it then and I still do now.

I remember watching Nintendo doing a demo of this game at the championship they used footage of the arcade game claiming this was in the game I was so disappointed Christmas day. This game is not a bad game. TMNT IV on SNES was the first game that really felt like the arcade.

Great video. I got TMNT first for the NES around 1989 and then TMNT II for my Christmas of '90 when I was 11. I definitely used that Pizza Hut coupon too. Lol. Still have my cart in the box

I still very much enjoy this game. Classic.

5:15 Now there's a visual memory. Where can that Pizza Hut experience be found today? Those lamps go for hundreds on eBay.

Grab in a fire? Just get insurance

Hi, Nick here from the UK! This is such a beloved game for me. My first NES was the Turtles pack, which I don’t think was available in the States. It came in a TMNT-branded box with the first Turtles game. At the time, I thought it would be the arcade game, but it wasn’t. I actually discovered the arcade version during a holiday in the U.S. in 1990. To play it at home, I had to modify my NES to be region-free, but it was worth it-I had so much fun! It was the closest I could get to the arcade experience back then. That said, the game is LONG, and as you mentioned, by the time you get to Shredder, you’re often too drained to finish! These days, I play it on an RGB-modded NES hooked up to a high-end CRT. The quality is amazing-it’s a luxury compared to playing on RF back in the day. It’s still a lot of fun, but like you said, playing these games as an adult is a very different experience compared to being a kid.

It is a fantastic game but you are right that you can’t replicate the experience from back then. I’m sorry to hear about the passing of your old friend. I had a friend named Josh that owned this game back in the day that we would play at his house, hope he’s doing okay.

The instruction book came with a coupon on the back for a free personal pizza from pizza hut. I redeemed mine on the last day it was good. Cowa-unga-bunga

I still think it was great for what that console could do at the time

We had the Book It! program at school where you read books to collect stickers which would get you a free personal pan pizza at Pizza Hut. Pizza Hut had the TMNT arcade game! On days where we finally got that free pizza, if you went to Pizza Hut you'd definitely be playing TMNT Arcade with several of your classmates. Having it at home was godly... I played the NES version a billion times. Now I'd go for the arcade version on MAME, for sure, but I have plenty of nostalgia for the NES version too.

Hi mate.. i really enjoyed this ! Great memories bro.. one of my all time fav games ❤ - New subscriber here.. great job man

So true! Every once in a while, I get the urge to play an old game. I get super excited and play it, n yeah, it's not what I wa expecting. It's just not the same. I think part of it has to do with knowing there's more and better options out there but also the fact that I have responsibilities now. I had no cares back then. Lol

What’s this guy going on about? This game is still holds up. Nostalgia or not.

This game was my first experience with a beat em up and I loved it.

My father gave me a Sega Genesis with one game he found in the trunk of a car he bought. The console smelled like exhaust fumes, but it and the controller worked. The game? High Seas Havoc, a Sonic ripoff. I played that game many times, learned most of its secrets, and eventually beat it. It's the fond memories a game brings forward that makes it special to us. Dad didn't give two hoots about the Sega, but that particular game will always remind me of him.

To me I think this is a good game but its not better then arcade version or the japanese version.