Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES) Playthrough
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- Опубліковано 15 бер 2022
- A playthrough of Ultra's 1989 license-based action game for the NES, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
I loved this game as a kid, dedicating a ridiculous number of hours to learning it inside and out when I was around nine or so. As so many that cut their gaming teeth in the late 80s can tell you, even by NES standards, TMNT's difficulty level is through the roof. The notoriety it has gained over the years is well deserved.
But regardless of how many tears of frustration it has drawn from unsuspecting kids, it's a quality game. Despite the awkward glitchiness that shows through a bit too often, the graphics are sharp and do a nice job of capturing the gritty style of the comic, and though it doesn't use any of music from the TV show, the soundtrack is one of Konami's greats on the NES.
Once you get a handle on the jump physics, the controls are solid, and being able to choose which turtle to use lets you decide how you want to tackle each area. This allows for some fun experimentation as long as you keep two important things in mind: Raphael and Michaelangelo are always the expendable ones (perfect for the underwater stage!), and Donatello should be kept alive at all costs.
If you're really determined to see it through to the end, the biggest tip I can offer is to use the buildings in stage three to stock up on supplies. If you take a few minutes to collect scrolls and pizzas for everyone, the rest of the game becomes way more manageable.
I rerecorded many of the TMNT games around the time that I started updating my videos to 4K60, and with Konami's announcement of the upcoming TMNT Cowabunga Collection, I don't think I could've asked for a better opportunity to put them up. They are brand new playthroughs that I'll be posting over the next few weeks, so stay tuned! There's plenty of more to come.
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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A whole new generation is finally gonna be able to feel the pain I had trying to beat this as a kid with the new collection coming out
good old donnie glitch saves the day.... they ripped off the old mirage magazine and forgot to include the stats etc
I'm currently in a ptsd fetal position as I type..
They will in a sense but not like we did. With the rewind features and save states they're giving in the collection the worst they'll do is keep rewinding.
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The electrified seaweed on "The Dam" level still scares me.
This game pissed me off to no end as a kid, especially that damn dam level
This game took me forever to beat. I was quite disappointed at Shredders skills. He was painfully easy. He looked so badass during the TV part of this game. He looked all big and muscular. The level with the Technodrome was so difficult to me. I was stuck for years at that level.
Yeah I think the technodrone level was the biggest middle finger of the game. Once you reached it, you’ve used up all your continues and all your turtles are on life support and there’s no opportunities to replenish them
It's painfully hard, but I've always loved this one!
Yup me too
It is. I couldn't beat it when I was a kid
Are you gonna play Ninja turtle collection in your channel ?
There's hard and then there's NES hard.
Pretty much my sentiments. It has a certain something that subsequent games, enjoyable though they are, lack.
Y'know, when you think about it, it's been mentioned that Battletoads was obviously inspired by TMNT. But a thing that their first games have in common, that I don't hear many people think or say much about?
The part everyone knows: the first sixth of each game is a breeze (Levels 1 and 2 of Battletoads, Level 1 of TMNT), and the next level after that sixth is over is where the game suddenly and brutally shows you what you're REALLY in for.
But the part most people don't think about, or even get the chance to realize? Beyond those levels, IT GETS SO MUCH WORSE.
Oof ikr? The turbobikes are tough when you first get to them, but if you can't get through that level, you haven't got a prayer of getting through anything beyond it. That f*ing level with the trippy hippy circle that chases you... just thinking about it makes me grit my teeth still.
Thank God for April's support... couldn't have done it without that!
i know, right? Her tips are useless. As a kid in level 3, I thought that the clues given were what you needed to do. Like when she says, "find a rope to move to the next building." Turns out that not only do you NOT need the rope in level 3, but the one time you can use one is in a totally optional building that helps you in no way. Thanks, April! If I had my choice, she'd still be held by Rocksteady.
When I finally made it past the water level around 9 or 10, I felt like a GOD. Then came the other frustrations - missing the jump in the sewers, not making the jump when on the rooftops, not falling fast enough in the crush room, THE HALLWAY WITH THE LAZER MEN, until you learned how spawning worked, lol. The music though - Coolest level of them all - Shredder's Hideout.
Fun fact that no one seems to know about - Each turtle is strong vs certain enemy types, while Don is just a menace. Mikey can stunlock the maniac chainsaw men. Raph can take out the flies in one hit and the ed-209 looking robots in 3 hits where it takes Leo and Mikey 2 and 4 respectively. They all get a power boost when they're under 50% hp and I think Mikey is 2nd strongest overall in that sense.
😲Wow! Cool! Did not know any of that. Thank you! 🙂
I vastly preferred TMNT 2 and 3 on the NES over this game, but it still has its charms. In particular, not many people know that the different Turtles in this game actually all have different abilities. Leonardo is the all-rounder in terms of speed, reach and damage. Raphael has the shortest reach of all the Turtles, but he does vastly increased damage to flying enemies, often killing them in one hit. Michaelangelo has the fastest attack speed, and actually deals more damage the less health he has, so he's best used as your "last chance" Turtle against a difficult boss or area. Donatello has the longest reach and does more damage overall compared to the other Turtles, but he also has the slowest attack speed and his attacks cover the least area (particularly horizontally).
This game had the weirdest enemies. 😂
This game was my introduction to TMNT! Holds a special place in my heart, even though it is pretty challenging. Like anyone who played it, i hear the *ZAP* sound in my head anytime i see even a picture of the damn stage... XD
All those "jumps" you could just walk over. YOU COULD JUST WALK OVER!
I’m still so excited about the Cowabunga Collection!
This game is where the memories lie for me. I would rent it every time I went to the grocery store. I only got past the dam but driving around in the Turtle Van was so much fun!
i played this as a kid and i still have the nes cassette to this very day (have the nes console just nothing else), and i will be buying the cowabunga collection when it comes out. do you know when that'll be?
I LOVED that van and its little wiggle.😁👍
Can't wait to play this on the Cowabunga Collection! 😀
@SuperRandom90 me three i liove Turtles Tournment fighter
It's really cool how many rarer/expensive games are in the collection so people actually get the chance to own them. For example, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue for Game Boy is a super rare game and I've always wanted to try it.
When does the collection come out?
@@runitback5066 No exact date just yet. Hope it's sooner rather than later!
@@LPetal86 Cool look forward to playing it.
11th best selling NES game with 4 million copies sold.
I was never able to figure out this one at my Aunt's house, but it's gone on to prove to be an NES classic that withstands the test of time. (Incidentally, watching these just makes me hanker for the Cowabunga Collection even more). I still can't believe Konami is actually giving us this many games--they must have realized there is profit to be had from doing a good job releasing their Castlevania stuff (especially the Advance Collection), so I hope we see more and more of their back catalog released!
The Advance Collection, Contra, Castlevania, and now Turtles... will be great on the Steam Deck / Switch.
A true classic, always fun to watch a playthrough of this game! 🐢🐢🐢🐢
The very first of many video games starting the heroes in a half shell. Can you believe this was the best selling third party title on the NES? Yea it does have a plethora of problems, but I enjoy this game and grew on me on each revisit.
Yeah, that really is nuts to think about. I guess it just goes to show how popular the turtles used to be, and the NES had a lock on the perfect demographic for the license.
Such a classic first ever NES Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ever done and how I remembered. The game was fun, but frustrating at the same time. The level that no one forgets is the Dam Level with those electric seaweeds. I nearly gave up on that, but I pressed on and managed to pull through. It is too bad that I still can't beat the part to find the Technodrome.
It’s so nice of April to offer such overwhelming support
it's always such a joy to me, to read your descriptions on every video.
yeah... that's my favorite part of all his vids. sometimes i won't even necessarily watch the gameplay, and click just to read the description. he's an excellent writer.
9:30 I love how the hand is out of the screen
Yeah that's pretty funny
I was never able to finish this game back then and it was not the water maze the problem but an impossible jump in level 3.
I've never seen someone make this look so easy. This is an eye-opener. Thanks!
Wonderful memory with this good retro game that reminds me of my early childhood. I still play it from time to time thanks to an emulator. And I confess I still love it so much.
It's like this gamer dug my History note pad out of my dads back yard and played this game page by page. This stuff was insanely difficult to master when you're 2-5 years old, but I beat the water level before I got out of pull-ups. Gamer 4 life lmao xD
Great video. I've had this game for decades and never even got close to finishing it.
you make this look so easy, but I learn a lot, It been taking me 20 years but today I will complete this game
This game gave me chills and a post-traumatic feeling. That glitching activity at game interface made me go back and forth in the shop and every time, I tried to tell the staff that it was broken, then I had to play it in front of them to show which part of the game it was glitching. Unfortunately, most of the time I fail to prove it and my mom starts to doubt me... 😂🤦♂️😂
Esse jogo é um inferno de difícil, mas eu gosto bastante, sempre me sinto voltando a minha infância quando jogo ele, muito obrigado por trazer mais essa pérola para o canal🙏
I LOVED this game's music and sound FX. 😁👍 It was so hard, though. I didn't understand English back then, so I always got stuck in games. 😩
EDIT: 6:39 I totally forgot how beautiful the underwater dam music was, especially that chorus. 😭 This game also had the best snare drum sound on the NES. So dry and snappy.
Recuerdo mi infancia jugando a este gran clásico de la NES, su música me hace volver en el tiempo, nostalgia pura 🤩
Yup the good old Contra Bubbles in this game. Loving old school games.
i remember playing this game, man it was hard..never could get past the 3rd stage.
i know people complain about the dam stage, but i really never had problems with it.
I've said it before many times and I will once more, for an 8bit game, they really nailed The Shredder's comic book look, huh??
Love this game. The soundtrack is amazing, too.
My only major gripe with this game (and I hope I'm not the only one who has this gripe) is how you could unexpectedly collect a sub-weapon weaker than the Scrolls, and you don't get the option of replacing it, or keeping the scrolls. This can be very frustrating, especially if you're trying to stock up 99 scrolls with all four Turtles.
Yeah, more than once I've screwed myself by accidentally grabbing something like the stars when I already had scrolls.
That's just a carry over from Castlevania. Frustrating is an understatement.
One of my favourite NES games. That damn water level though! 🤬🤬🤬🤬
Thanks for this. 💙❤🧡💜
I have fun playing this games as a kid and man this games was so hard to beat
Good old memories
As usual, I love your playthroughs. Cheers
Nice to see someone else with a positive opinion on this one. I never could beat it but I enjoyed trying every time.
If I remember correctly different enemies were weak to different turtles so while Don is the powerhouse there were foes that Mike or Raph could beat easier.
Now at 41, get extra belly fat, high cholesterol and high blood pressure with pizza. You can do it.
You have my support 😂
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Fun fact: You can just walk over it.
Ever notice this game bears a closer resemblance to the original comic than the contemporary animated series?
They only had the comics and the "new" toy line to guide them while making the game. They made up most of the enemies themselves trying to emulate what they thought the show might be like.
TMNT Tuesday is finally here.
That's a good dad right there. Well done. I remember my dad waking my sister and I, maybe at 3am, to watch him beat TMNT Arcade Game on NES. Also, when we had to go out like to dinner or a movie, and we were far in Super Mario bros 3 or World, we would leave the console on and point a fan at the power cord. During the Modern Warfare years he would play and beat the game from very easy to veteran and then star all over again.
TMNT: Donatello's Adventure.
Don does all the work, while the rest of the guys decide to only help when there's swimming involved.
Then Michelangelo comes in to take all the glory at the end.
Someone should make that into a movie
One of my first games. Still love it!
Omg... I still remember my brother playing this! I was like 2...
Well, I feel dumb. When I was a kid, it never occurred to me to hot swap the turtles like this guy does. I pretty much used one turtle until it died and THEN switched.
And after completing the water level, which was hard enough in its own right, I never figured out what you were supposed to do next.
Never beat this game as a kid but man do I love it
this was the first great game. the arcade game also came out during the time too
Classic. Yet im thinking about the movie "The Wizard". where the dad gets obsessed with beating this game lol
8:59 "Oh wow, he finished the water level! ...oh wow this game has 41 more minutes of gameplay I never saw?"
there is no way you can calculate my level of hype i have for the tmnt collection
Leonardo , Michaelangelo , Raphael , Donatello : COWABUNGA!
Never got much past the reservoir at the dam whenever I played, but damn if it wasn't loads of fun trying. Also, can we talk about the fact that the foot clan had freaking FIRE PEOPLE as henchman? That goes way beyond just ooze, I think
Such a hard game but pretty damn fun if you knew what you were doing lol. Still have it on the NES but can’t wait to replay it on the TMNT Collection
This game is the definition of rage quit. Still an absolute classic!
Just so you knlw, your amazing at this.
I play tmnt on the nes when I was a kid and it's still excellent today. 😀👍🐢🎮
Man, this game has even more graphical glitchiness than Metroid 1 when there’s too much stuff onscreen
In preparation for the cowabunga collection
am im the only one that didn't hated the dam level when I was young(I was 8 when i first played this game)?
I remember when I couldn't pass the water level and I used a glitch to skip levels, how nostalgic...
Bring me back to the late 80's loved playing this game
NintendoComplete completely skipped 1080p and went all the way from 720p to 4K!
Gotta bring my A game, ya know? :)
Very difficult, but very good game. Dig the soundtrack, too.
This game has an cool map battle! Mayble everyone when who has 0 health, it will be explosed and dosent exist now! But well.... i love this game's that fight!
So as it turns out, Nobuya Nakazato was a graphic designer on this game according to his resume and interview in the bonus materials for the Contra Anniversary Collection. This was one of the first projects he ever worked on.
Mind sharing a bit about your set-up? Are these recordings from emulation? Looks great!
Even as a kid who loved the Ninja Turtles, I was never really a fan of this game. The respawning enemies can be really annoying, Donatello's Bo is easily the best weapon compared to everyone else's because their limited range, those stupid steamrollers on the overworld, and who could forget that underwater level where you have to diffuse bombs in a time limit while "avoiding" electrical seaweed that saps away your health... Easier said than done. [6:20]
And then, there's *this* nonsense! [3:07]
But... I do like the graphics, the music is really good and I always liked how you can play as all 4 of the turtles unlike some other games.
The Cowabunga Collection with it's saves, rewind feature and ability to remove sprite flicker made this game almost tolerable!
I remember renting this spring break of 1st grade. Most frustrating spring break I can remember.
I like this videogame, greetings from Guaranda, Ecuador.
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My childhood is back....THis is a very strange game
It's hard, yes. But very doable.
This game has bad rep, and I'm guessing it's due to it not being like it's more "crowd pleasing" beat-em up sequels, the fact it was the subject of an early AVGN episode and yes....it's quite tough. I think it's pretty great though. It has it's fair share of 8-bit BS but no more than a lot of other games from that era. Plus I love how WEIRD it is. I love slinking around the trainyard in the 5th area - kind of atmospheric almost.
@CS Local Yeah I find myself coming back to this one a surprising amount. Sometimes I can beat it, sometimes I can't (damn jetpack guys in the last hallway). That makes it even more exciting to play I guess
Great walk through! I never thought to use the scrolls on Shreddrer. BTW, I cannot seem to get your website to work right. All I get is the Toki front page, and that has been for years, I think.
back then 25 years-ish a go, i've been try to beat this and was bleed to gruesome any form of agony. .now i can die in peace.
I played this game a lot as a kid.
This game is the closest I ever came to putting the console through my parents tv. And I'm not being hyperbolic. My brother literally had to talk me down and take the machine from my hands.
That being said, great playthrough! 👍
This such a good year for TMNT fan for me on my switch have shredder revenge and cowabunga collection I am damn happy 😁
As a kid, I took the difficulty of this game rather personally.none of my schoolmates would admit struggling with it.also as a turtle fanatic back then (who wasn't). I was also disappointed in myself for not seeing all the sights and sounds depicted on the back of the packaging. Reaching the technodrome was always my limit.
I loved this game when I was little (5 years old ) in 1990
Nes games - " ok kid you all grown up now , it was nice playing with you . I can't fit in this new pubg and free fire world I'll miss ya 😀 "
Kid - " you gave me best memories of my childhood 😢😢😢"
I beat this game 2 years ago. I remember having trouble in the Technodrome but I did not give up. I even beat Battletoads (With a warp and Bootsy beats Battletoads videos), Adventures of Bayou Billy, Silver Surfer and Ninja Gaiden 3 that same year. I did make some rules like No Game Genie. Level select codes are fine if a game has one. If it doesn't, I'm on my own.
you can just walk over it
One unfair complaint is that only a few of the characters from the cartoon show is present. They tend to forget that this cart was released in the spring of 1989, when the show was on the air for just two seasons at that point, the five-episode miniseries and the 13-week Saturday run.
First got TMNT as a birthday gift in the early 90s and it was challenging…years later I finally beat TMNT put the game back in the box and left it in my closet…can’t wait until the tmnt cowabunga collection is released…not to brag I’ve beaten every tmnt game since I finally beat tmnt on Nintendo years later….
Splinter Oh!
that dam level is so goated
Since this is a good TMNT day, Its best to take on this good ol Hard classic!
It may be Tough, But with Good Strategy and Ninja Tricks, It is Possible to Master it.
Don't give up for the Turtles or you end up as Cowafuckinpieceofdogshit for the loser's side that is!
TMNT Forever!
soundtrack whips
Does anybody know what the powerup with the dude walking on something does cuz idk
"You just....WALK acoss it?!"
Party wagon Turtle Van Missile Enemy
Hey! Can I use this in one of my videos? It's a review for the game.
They should cast Rob Schneider as Splinter for a live‐action redux, "You can do it!".