Ill be that guy and say it, i beat this game numerous times. It took me awhile. Practiced, but i did it. Then again im surrounded by players who thought Contra was hard and needed a 30 man code to beat it. So theres that...
im 29 but yeah me 2 it was amazing time when we was small kids and play it this it was super cool and fun the underwater level was the best and he have good music it was super cool game and time when we playit her i wanna back in time hehe :D
So it's been 32 years since I was able to really see the ending. Will admit, couldn't pass that water level and gave up. Today happens to be the anniversary of when this game came out (May 12th, 1989). Good job beating it towards the end.
I beated this game twice with the gamegenie but it took me 5 years to beat world 3 as i simply didn’t were to find the exit and some levels did lead to a dead end or they just put you to the other exit next to it.
Damn nostalgia. It's like I can still smell those summer days in the early 90s when I'd wake up and play this game for hours. Then head on out telling Mom not to turn off the NES. Then bringing friends back and continue on.
@Juanecio Fernandecio There's occasionally these short gaps which are just wide enough to fall through, at times you don't have the space to leap over them, and if you try you'll fall through, either to the floor below or to your death. The way you cross those is to plain walk forward to the other side.
@Juanecio Fernandecio There's one of those in the dam section, it's not that long, just watch the beginning from there and you'll see it, it's a "one unit" wide gap with no room to jump over it.
😂LOL! Man, I was an arrogant ass. After trying for what seemed like hours, I needed to see my little sister to “just walk over it!” in Level 3 (for necessary missiles?) to smarten up a bit.
~25 years after I actually played the game, with my classmates, and we couldn't beat it, I finally learn that you can actually switch the character mid-game. :O
@@kmatcyk Not with one guy no. But yeah we beat it. My best friend and I were huge turtles fans and we beat this game over the course of one weekend back when it was new.
@@edwardgaines6561 If only we'd had the Internet back then! Edit: 'priority' is a bit strong, but if crouching, he could hit a target directly overhead. In the same stance, Don's bo went straight down. The katana and nun-chuk would go a way out horizontally, I think, but it's kind of hard to remember…
TMNT well deserves its notoriety for its difficulty level, but it's such a sweet game! ...unless you have no patience for brutal 8-bit style gaming. This is gloriously old-school Konami at its most sadistic.
It really is a great game! Yes back when Konami and other game companies hads to use subsidiary companies because Nintendo put restrictions on how many games could be developed within a fiscal year. Thus is why you see "Ultra Games" on the box, manual, cartridge sticker, and the title screen. Hey if you haven't already there is a hack of this game that changes all the levels and redesigns them.
NintendoComplete i had no patience for the water level, probably being a brat with a.d.d at the x had something to do with i got this from my sister for christmas after much a gag
I love this game for these exact reasons. I made it to the end after months of non-stop trial and error, specially levels 3 and 4. It was 91 or 92, I guess. Fond memories of my childhood.
Well it was teamwork that led the strongest turtle to Shredder. Look how OP is able to survive that gauntlet, any loss of one turtle and it becomes severely difficult (even more than it already is) to traverse the corridors of the Technodrome.
Those sonic booms shouldn't have even been in the game. When I beat this I just spammed them at him and couldn't believe how easy it was to beat shredder after such an excruciating game to go through
I remember playing this game every chance I had as a kid. Hard as Hell at some spots. Especially where you swimming through the electric seaweed! I HATED that part! Great job on this.
+Scott O'Drowsky Dear God the seaweed is the worst thing ever. It doesn't even make sense, sometimes it hits you, sometimes it doesnt. I don't get it. As a kid I used to call it devil hemorrhoids
Bro I swear I hated that level. He made it look hella easy. My 6 or 7 year old mind keeps shouting "HOW!!!" But my 33 year old self now is guessing much practice and patience lol. Great gameplay!!!
This game is hard and the swimming level was hard too but not that bad for me. I see a lot of folks had trouble with the dam level but I’ve always been able to beat it quickly.
@@lickkittysplit3871 Yea, skills were somewhat more acquireable as a kid. I did have problems with it back then, lotsa. My friend was first to beat it and man was I ever envious lol. But patience and training got me there and beyond. Today, however is a different story. If anything in a game doesn't work right away the controller goes through the window and I curse everything and everyone in a 3 mile radius. Because I know if I cant do it right then and there, it will all boil down to pure luck... as in when a lost red full moon crosses Plutos orbit right when Mars turns blue and strikes out a lightning hitting earth making Hell freeze over and a smiling Devil pops out of a christmas angel ornament saying Ho ho ho! Couldnt beat the Seaweed retrying it ten years ago and still cant.
The Nes along with the lightgun and many games has been lying dormant since the late 90s in a bin in the basement. One day I will hook it up and see if the games still work
That intro is the most hype cutscene of all time.. I remember after the water dam how shook I was as a kid after going home to see the lair destroyed and Shredder appears on the tv saying he has Splinter. Looking at it now, the game had a kind of darker/gritty tone like the first movie, I love it.
Yeah, I also found a way to glitch in to Technodrome early by going in one of the building. But ain't no way the kid me was capable of beating him. Til today, I still don't feel like touching this game again.
Did you catch where the song was a blatant rip-off of the Beatles' _Come Together?_ It made me laugh, but I was trying to figure out why they'd choose to lift that song, at that moment.
Oh this brings back the memories of just shutting off the TV but keeping the Nintendo on with the game paused, because video games hadn’t developed memory cards or save points yet. Ahhhh
Wow it's been 30 years since last time I played this game. Its a bizarre feeling when I listen to the music and see the scenes. It was in my brain as memories!
Oh god this game reminds me so much of my mom and little brother, playing late at night in the very early 90s. I'm not happy I never developed proper sleep habits but I'll always cherish our late-night gaming sessions.
There was always something truly satisfying about finally besting those hellish games tho, ya know? It's like all those negative emotions and frustrations automatically turned into pure satisfaction and I'd be happy for days. Until the next hard game kicked my ass 😂
Dear lord! This game was freaking difficult. When I was 6, back in the late 80's, I beat Super Mario Bros in 10 minutes and many other NES games, but I could never beat TMNT, just made it into the final base, but never to Shredder. Whoever made this, I take my hat off!
Christmas 92. My first game console and video game bundle, that would see 6 yo me struggle so hard in the water level first, then 8 yo me struggling to find a way through the city and getting lost at the rope stuff because nobody in my family nor me did know what it meant (I'm french and we are mostly language disabled, here's a baguette 🥖) I still know the soundtrack by heart and the outside melody is often the first tone that comes to mind when I find myself bored and wanting to sing something to my toddlers. Thank you for showing us Shredder's fight most of us heard as a long forgotten legend. 🙌
Seeing someone else play this makes me realise how many small things I optimized on my playthrough. Edit: that includes small things like how boomerangs were pretty much infinite as long as they were caught and that you can pass them between Turtles by throwing them then switching turtle
At times, this game comes under attack for not reflecting the TMNT 1987 cartoon all that well, especially by UA-cam users who inexplicably do commentary with little to no research whatsoever. A quick timeline inspection from director of the first live action TMNT film, Steve Barron, and details from Bey Logan and the Golden Harvest production help clears up some questions and rumors surrounding the game. Negotiations for licensing rights began in 1986 with various developers on what was then, an underground comic sensation that had an upcoming toyline and TV miniseries that was not established in mainstream circles yet. When Konami was set to the task of making the game, their design documents and resources from Mirage Studios and Surge Licensing were based on the original TMNT comic by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman and a brief overview of the TV show that debuted in December 1987. This resulted in the game becoming a hybrid of the original comic and 1987 cartoon series, a bridging of the two very different iterations of TMNT. Barron explains further that when the movie initially began funding and planning, the details on the story was very brief and only had certain scenes, the kidnapping of Splinter and the burning of the antique store. This is why some scenes are shared between the game and the movie despite them being so far apart in release date. This fact probably helped the game become the million dollar seller more than what it's given credit for. The cartoonization of the very gritty reptilian mutants had left the original fanbase disgruntled, to put it mildly, and the 1987 show was as close to a bizarro world as it could be - a bright art style and slapstic humor, essentially a half hour toy commercial, though with a certain amount of heart. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for NES manages to blend elements just so both fanbases can find enjoyment within, and also creates a style unique to the game, for example blending the red clothed Shredder from the Mirage universe with the cartoony sidekicks Rocksteady and Bebop. A complaint that often arises from fans is the cast of enemies, which consists of weird aliens and an ensemble of unknowns. While it's true the majority of the enemies are completely original, by the time the game was in actual development, the cartoon show simply didn't feature a very large cast beyond the central figures. The more sci-fi inspired enemies featured does reflect the original comics which featured more science-fiction elements due to Laird's love for the genre. Further bridging was done with the cover art. Though probably more of an accidental move rather than planned marketing, the use of Mike Dooney's art from the TMNT #4 reprint issue from 1987 drew in the comic book fans with a familiar image, though the red bands across the entire cast of turtles led to a common misperception that the cover was subject to a print error. For those who are only familiar with either the cartoon show or the origin comics might have trouble seeing the true benefit of this game's content and style. I'm just saying.
Got this with the PAL NES boxset in 1990. Will never forget that moment holding a controller for the first time and not knowing wtf to do! Then the music! Merry Christmas everybody. 30 years has gone way too soon!
This game was good. I know we love to shot on it for it’s difficulty, but many like myself come from that old school where these games were instant death, unlike nowadays where games are no where near as hard to play or win at. I beat this game when I was 13, and that’s a badge of pride that most new gen gamers won’t ever understand.
I got to watch kids play Mario 3 in FAO Swartz up on some crazy tv screens 30 ft in the air. That was a time and place in NYC you didn’t call out other 9 year olds for hogging the controller because you knew they basically ran their own lives taking the subway around and you had to respect it was their toy store
It's kinda weird, really. I still find this TMNT game enjoyable and stimulating but I can't play the arcade one or any of the ones with the same beat em up gameplay anymore. I just get bored too fast.
When we played this as kids, we only had a black and white TV. I thought all of the turtles had red bandanas. Seeing that they actually charge colors is blowing me away!
I laughed so hard when I saw the AVGN get angry over that part because as a child I had the same problem with this game when I came out in the early 90s.
I remember being in college in the late 90's and playing this game all night with friends in our dorm. We would pass the controller around while getting baked out of our minds. One of the all time greatest games right here.
Alongside the arcade game (also developed by Konami), it was one of the first video games based on the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series, being released after the show's 2nd season. The game got 3 sequels: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game in 1990, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time in 1992.
i still cant believe how in the world did i finished this game when I was 8.... at 40 years old I just marvel at the sheer patience and precision that I was capable of. incredible.
Ill never forget the first day i got this game for the nes, i couldn't wait to get home and play, and once i started playing, i must not slept for two days, one of the best day of my childhood
But you still haven't been killed by flying robots or random guys who just squat there until you walk close to them, so clearly the video game was accurate.
WHAT??? YOU CAN SWITCH TURTLES DURING THE GAME?????? My God, I lowered my life expectancy with 2 decades trying to get through the water level was an 8 yo. Wish I knew back then!
Video games give a person 3 things: Entertainment Good hand/eye coordination And a creative way of coming up with new profanities I'm not sure which was my most favorite.
One of the things that is crazy about watching playthroughs of my childhood games is realizing how short the games actually were. They felt so incredibly long in my head but apparently games like this weren’t very long. Today, when I find myself playing a game like hollow knight, I hear the average playtime and I think “shoot I wish that were a bit higher,” but in all honesty it’s much longer than games used to be. Hell super Metroid felt like an epically long game that took 30 hours, and in reality it’s super short. Not knocking any of these games just observing a distorted perception
I was in my early 20's when I beat this game, for over a decade I could not beat it but I did and I even man cried like Matthew McConaughey in INTERSTELLAR .
You go through all of that by saving the world, converting Splinter back to a human, and April suggests “let’s get a pizza to celebrate”. The turtles shoulda said, “bitch! That’s it?!?”
Used to play this all the time as a kid, but that damn water level was the end of the line for me. This game was difficult but a walk in the park compared to battletoads for nes and zelda the gold cartridge.
Same here, but I don't think the water level was too bad after some practice. People make it out to be a lot harder than it was. Me and my friends got through it consistently. I agree that Battletoads was harder than this game.
I always wondered how in the hell defeating Shredder turns splinter back into human form when it was the magic “ooze” that turned him into a rat anyway.
I'm actually glad more people in the comment section are reflecting the game itself than just remembering the infamous AVGN review of the game. I'm pretty sure those people are around and about, which is okay. It's just, TMNT for the NES associate AVGN with it now since it became a huge episode.
So many memories from seeing this and hearing the music again. I used to love this game when i was like 10 years old in like 89-90. Those were the good ol days for sure!!
Dude, I'm 45 years old and still playing this game, lol. I used to pass that water fase, but died when I got to the third one. I've recently found out that those missiles were to destroy the barriers. I couldn't get far in the game because April would only speak to me in Japanese, hahaha. Once I saw your demo playing, everything made sense to me. Thanks a lot!
I was 7 years old playing this when it just came out, and I only now realize this games intro was my introduction to metal music. Now I see where the trend started and how I loved Command and Conquers sound track, and then Descent 2 soundtrack and so on. Awesome.
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For me it was 😄 didn’t know that it was possible to change the Charakter 🤦🏻♂️
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That water level was pretty much the end of the game for most of us
I beat the water level.. And it felt like I beat the whole game
lol, kinded like battletoads level 2 with the jet ski nightmare
Ill be that guy and say it, i beat this game numerous times. It took me awhile. Practiced, but i did it. Then again im surrounded by players who thought Contra was hard and needed a 30 man code to beat it. So theres that...
Steve Airport lmao I swear, you are so right. I think I beat the water level only a couple times as a kid.
This is facts.
Just hearing the music gave me goosebumps. 41 years old and still loving it.
im 29 but yeah me 2 it was amazing time when we was small kids and play it this it was super cool and fun the underwater level was the best and he have good music it was super cool game and time when we playit her i wanna back in time hehe :D
@@devill2312The underwater level was cool??? Are you some kinda masochist mate LOL
I’m about to start crying brah. 40yo man in tears right now
40 years old and my wife is looking at me asking me why I have tears running like a faucet..and idk what to tell her lol
@@5starreactions I don´t wanna be a monster but your wife is not human!
I appreciate how supportive April was being throughout this entire ordeal.
She can be more supportive without her banana jumpsuit on!
Same here.
@@DeadmanDave That too! Makes the imagination work that much harder.
@@DeadmanDave Yes especially in that "bikini" episode.
@@cla1814 lol
So it's been 32 years since I was able to really see the ending. Will admit, couldn't pass that water level and gave up. Today happens to be the anniversary of when this game came out (May 12th, 1989). Good job beating it towards the end.
I beated this game twice with the gamegenie but it took me 5 years to beat world 3 as i simply didn’t were to find the exit and some levels did lead to a dead end or they just put you to the other exit next to it.
@@Pharospig2443 awesome. Yeah, it sure is the anniversary.
It got us all brother! I finally beat it like 10 years ago. Vindication!
Damn nostalgia. It's like I can still smell those summer days in the early 90s when I'd wake up and play this game for hours. Then head on out telling Mom not to turn off the NES. Then bringing friends back and continue on.
"You have my support."
Thanks, April. That's useful.
This is typical female contribution in any situation.
You can do it.
Thanks, Splinter..
I loved this game. Glad he used Raph to swim. That was always my strategy, pretty much useless otherwise.
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Stupid banana coat wearing bitch
The second I hear that music, it triggers my PTSD.
🤣🤣🤣
There I am again, four years old, throwing the controller.
that music when he's above ground would randomly play in my head ever since i was a kid
shadowalk - Dude, now you’ve mentioned it, it’s back in my head again 🤯 🤪 🤦🏻♂️ 😂😂
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I was born 1983 i remember playing nintendo all the time in the late 1980s and early 1990s great time to be born...
Me too I was born in 1983
@@kiluangu Sucks that we're almost 40 years old now. But yes, those were good memories. The 16-bit Era was the most innocent and fun. *Sega Vs. SNES!*
Me too
@matt Okay Zoomer. 😁
@matt Forgive this old man. Rarely do we get to be snarky. Enjoy your video game roots here!
Those damn "jumps" that you can just walk across. Those are what always got me as a kid.
I was feeling the same sentiment. Those stinking jumps in the sewers.
@Juanecio Fernandecio There's occasionally these short gaps which are just wide enough to fall through, at times you don't have the space to leap over them, and if you try you'll fall through, either to the floor below or to your death. The way you cross those is to plain walk forward to the other side.
@Juanecio Fernandecio There's one of those in the dam section, it's not that long, just watch the beginning from there and you'll see it, it's a "one unit" wide gap with no room to jump over it.
😂LOL! Man, I was an arrogant ass. After trying for what seemed like hours, I needed to see my little sister to “just walk over it!” in Level 3 (for necessary missiles?) to smarten up a bit.
~25 years after I actually played the game, with my classmates, and we couldn't beat it, I finally learn that you can actually switch the character mid-game. :O
I never knew that either😩.
Same here!!!!! Yet somehow we got to the end
Ditto.
No one beat this game back in the day. Especially with one guy lol
@@kmatcyk Not with one guy no. But yeah we beat it. My best friend and I were huge turtles fans and we beat this game over the course of one weekend back when it was new.
Raphael was always the sacrificial turtle used in the water level because he is useless everywhere else.
His sai's range was way too short… but they did have overhead strike capacity while crouching which was occasionally useful.
@@Kowasi Raphael had overhead priority? Now you tell me! It's been over 30 flippin' years. 😝
@@edwardgaines6561 If only we'd had the Internet back then!
Edit: 'priority' is a bit strong, but if crouching, he could hit a target directly overhead. In the same stance, Don's bo went straight down. The katana and nun-chuk would go a way out horizontally, I think, but it's kind of hard to remember…
I used Michaelangelo as my sacrificial lamb. Raphael had the 2nd strongest weapon if the worst range
@@edwardgaines6561 Yea I thought Mike and Ralph moves were the same but I cannot hit flying enemies above me with Mike.
TMNT well deserves its notoriety for its difficulty level, but it's such a sweet game! ...unless you have no patience for brutal 8-bit style gaming. This is gloriously old-school Konami at its most sadistic.
It really is a great game! Yes back when Konami and other game companies hads to use subsidiary companies because Nintendo put restrictions on how many games could be developed within a fiscal year. Thus is why you see "Ultra Games" on the box, manual, cartridge sticker, and the title screen.
Hey if you haven't already there is a hack of this game that changes all the levels and redesigns them.
NintendoComplete i had no patience for the water level, probably being a brat with a.d.d at the x had something to do with i got this from my sister for christmas after much a gag
Somewhere in mid Level 3 was the furthest i could get without save states.
yea this game is awesome. gotta love those infinate respawning enemies. proud to say i owned this when it was new
I love this game for these exact reasons. I made it to the end after months of non-stop trial and error, specially levels 3 and 4. It was 91 or 92, I guess. Fond memories of my childhood.
39:20 "Use Careful Timing and TEAMWORK to win". Sonic Booms Shredder to death. Teamwork.
Well it was teamwork that led the strongest turtle to Shredder. Look how OP is able to survive that gauntlet, any loss of one turtle and it becomes severely difficult (even more than it already is) to traverse the corridors of the Technodrome.
Those sonic booms shouldn't have even been in the game. When I beat this I just spammed them at him and couldn't believe how easy it was to beat shredder after such an excruciating game to go through
@@croplaya They are not really necessary to defeat him. He is a jobber
@@lfb7834 well good thing I will never have to find out
@@croplaya ???
Donatello is a beast in this game. If you lose him good luck beating this game.
And Michaelangelo was darn near useless 😂
@@greyfox8310 when Michelangelo gets low on health he becomes the strongest in the game tho. Weird.
Legit had Donatello as my main all the way until Technodrome. His range is insane. 😂
What a way to complicate the run by using Donie when Raph or Miky can do a way better job.
My childhood 😭😭 hearing the sound effects really takes me back to playing this as a little kid❤
I remember playing this game every chance I had as a kid.
Hard as Hell at some spots. Especially where you swimming through the electric seaweed! I HATED that part!
Great job on this.
+Scott O'Drowsky Dear God the seaweed is the worst thing ever. It doesn't even make sense, sometimes it hits you, sometimes it doesnt. I don't get it.
As a kid I used to call it devil hemorrhoids
Bro I swear I hated that level. He made it look hella easy. My 6 or 7 year old mind keeps shouting "HOW!!!" But my 33 year old self now is guessing much practice and patience lol. Great gameplay!!!
This game is hard and the swimming level was hard too but not that bad for me. I see a lot of folks had trouble with the dam level but I’ve always been able to beat it quickly.
I didn't have a problem with the seaweed at all when I was a child. Today however is a different story!!
@@lickkittysplit3871 Yea, skills were somewhat more acquireable as a kid. I did have problems with it back then, lotsa. My friend was first to beat it and man was I ever envious lol. But patience and training got me there and beyond.
Today, however is a different story. If anything in a game doesn't work right away the controller goes through the window and I curse everything and everyone in a 3 mile radius. Because I know if I cant do it right then and there, it will all boil down to pure luck... as in when a lost red full moon crosses Plutos orbit right when Mars turns blue and strikes out a lightning hitting earth making Hell freeze over and a smiling Devil pops out of a christmas angel ornament saying Ho ho ho!
Couldnt beat the Seaweed retrying it ten years ago and still cant.
This game had the best music, I loved the sound effects too. Played this endlessly as a little kid but never could beat it
I think I beat it once. I'm not really sure, but this game was super hard.
There isn’t a kid under 10 who beat this game. This was designed for professionals 😂
Oh how I miss the NES! I don’t care what anyone says, these still and always will be the best video games ever made!
I recently found my old stash of NES games, and bought an old NES from a pawn shop. Super fun.a lot games really hold up
TRUTH!
The Nes along with the lightgun and many games has been lying dormant since the late 90s in a bin in the basement. One day I will hook it up and see if the games still work
yeah right nes is like the old fart who played it. OLD! haha fortnite kick ass
Sometimes, you just crave the classic simplicity of an 8 bit side scroller
That intro is the most hype cutscene of all time.. I remember after the water dam how shook I was as a kid after going home to see the lair destroyed and Shredder appears on the tv saying he has Splinter. Looking at it now, the game had a kind of darker/gritty tone like the first movie, I love it.
I never realized how close I came to beating this. Game stressed me out so much as a kid
Dude. The water level was so hard i had nothing left to do the tank levels.
Yeah, I also found a way to glitch in to Technodrome early by going in one of the building. But ain't no way the kid me was capable of beating him. Til today, I still don't feel like touching this game again.
Oh man so many memories. The music brought me right back
The video game music sucked
Jolfer 13 yes. Memories of rage, confusion, violence against my tv and controller, and tears
That first sewer scene did it for me...man I played the sh!t outta this game
Did you catch where the song was a blatant rip-off of the Beatles' _Come Together?_ It made me laugh, but I was trying to figure out why they'd choose to lift that song, at that moment.
@@Ash_Rein ah yes. The nearly impossible sewer jumps and underwater level.
Oh this brings back the memories of just shutting off the TV but keeping the Nintendo on with the game paused, because video games hadn’t developed memory cards or save points yet. Ahhhh
Saving was possible at that point, though they were exceptions and mostly RPGs.
How about when you get home from school and the NES is off. Your mom is like, Oh you forgot to turn your games off again. MOM!!! NOOooooooo!!!
Then you get a game over and have to start all over again anyway.
1989 though! Played this EVERYDAY
Did you beat it
A pair of shu's this tone is awkwardly unfriendly.
Is that picture of you in 1989?
Did you get past the damn as a kid.
I'm 37 yrs old this took me back 30 yrs.....these games are so much better then today 😆
Wow it's been 30 years since last time I played this game. Its a bizarre feeling when I listen to the music and see the scenes. It was in my brain as memories!
Oh god this game reminds me so much of my mom and little brother, playing late at night in the very early 90s. I'm not happy I never developed proper sleep habits but I'll always cherish our late-night gaming sessions.
Me too. In my case, the silence and that all-alone sensation increases the gaming experience a lot.
Our best memories tend to involve other people, I'm afraid.
Probably one of my favorite TMNT games! April: You have my support. TMNT: That's not helping beat this game!!!!!
This game used to give me fits...I only beat it one time but man was it brutal. Still a classic.
Same, what a hellish hard game
There was always something truly satisfying about finally besting those hellish games tho, ya know? It's like all those negative emotions and frustrations automatically turned into pure satisfaction and I'd be happy for days. Until the next hard game kicked my ass 😂
The CIA uses this game to train it's agents how to endure torture.
Lol
Yup
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That’s a fact
Makes me question my whole life seeing how easy this playthrough looks. But I was a kid so the fuck do I know
Dear lord! This game was freaking difficult. When I was 6, back in the late 80's, I beat Super Mario Bros in 10 minutes and many other NES games, but I could never beat TMNT, just made it into the final base, but never to Shredder.
Whoever made this, I take my hat off!
No one beat this. Don't feel bad!!
This game found the line between “hard” and “not fun” and shat all over it. This game is infuriating.
LMAO! .
I agreed. This the most difficult TMNT games
Nes games did that, A LOT. Ninja gaiden were infuriating, specially the 3rd one for me.
Ninja Gaiden was hard. 1- hardest, 2- easiest, 3 perfect balance. Beat them all.
@@lordraptor5042 beat them all except for 3.
Loved this game when I was a kid. Everyone complained about the water level. It was actually one of my favourites in the game.
Let's just appreciate how OP Donatello was.
He was my favourite turtle
Leonardo for me… he had the speed
Amen.
Yeah, especially for the one named after the not-so-popular Renaissance artist.
Poor raph and his fork weapon
Christmas 92. My first game console and video game bundle, that would see 6 yo me struggle so hard in the water level first, then 8 yo me struggling to find a way through the city and getting lost at the rope stuff because nobody in my family nor me did know what it meant (I'm french and we are mostly language disabled, here's a baguette 🥖)
I still know the soundtrack by heart and the outside melody is often the first tone that comes to mind when I find myself bored and wanting to sing something to my toddlers.
Thank you for showing us Shredder's fight most of us heard as a long forgotten legend. 🙌
I was today years old when I learned that it was possible to switch turtles at any time and the pause screen updated with tips. :')
This bring back memories, never could beat this game
It should be time to hook it up and finally beat it. Hey no Game Genie tho haha!!
9:58 SHREDDER INVENTED 3D TVs
b00rk I love this comment. Watching this thirty years ago as a child, I was wondering “Is Shredder’s hand coming out of their TV?” Lol
Paper TV box.
I remember being blown away with this game of how many varied gameplay, from overworld exploration, side scroller, swimming, driving a tank (?), etc.
It's amazing to hear this score as an adult and realize how much it influenced my artistic output over decades. Mind blown
Seeing someone else play this makes me realise how many small things I optimized on my playthrough.
Edit: that includes small things like how boomerangs were pretty much infinite as long as they were caught and that you can pass them between Turtles by throwing them then switching turtle
I see that you're a person of culture as well. *Nods*
At times, this game comes under attack for not reflecting the TMNT 1987 cartoon all that well, especially by UA-cam users who inexplicably do commentary with little to no research whatsoever. A quick timeline inspection from director of the first live action TMNT film, Steve Barron, and details from Bey Logan and the Golden Harvest production help clears up some questions and rumors surrounding the game.
Negotiations for licensing rights began in 1986 with various developers on what was then, an underground comic sensation that had an upcoming toyline and TV miniseries that was not established in mainstream circles yet. When Konami was set to the task of making the game, their design documents and resources from Mirage Studios and Surge Licensing were based on the original TMNT comic by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman and a brief overview of the TV show that debuted in December 1987. This resulted in the game becoming a hybrid of the original comic and 1987 cartoon series, a bridging of the two very different iterations of TMNT. Barron explains further that when the movie initially began funding and planning, the details on the story was very brief and only had certain scenes, the kidnapping of Splinter and the burning of the antique store. This is why some scenes are shared between the game and the movie despite them being so far apart in release date.
This fact probably helped the game become the million dollar seller more than what it's given credit for. The cartoonization of the very gritty reptilian mutants had left the original fanbase disgruntled, to put it mildly, and the 1987 show was as close to a bizarro world as it could be - a bright art style and slapstic humor, essentially a half hour toy commercial, though with a certain amount of heart. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for NES manages to blend elements just so both fanbases can find enjoyment within, and also creates a style unique to the game, for example blending the red clothed Shredder from the Mirage universe with the cartoony sidekicks Rocksteady and Bebop. A complaint that often arises from fans is the cast of enemies, which consists of weird aliens and an ensemble of unknowns. While it's true the majority of the enemies are completely original, by the time the game was in actual development, the cartoon show simply didn't feature a very large cast beyond the central figures. The more sci-fi inspired enemies featured does reflect the original comics which featured more science-fiction elements due to Laird's love for the genre. Further bridging was done with the cover art. Though probably more of an accidental move rather than planned marketing, the use of Mike Dooney's art from the TMNT #4 reprint issue from 1987 drew in the comic book fans with a familiar image, though the red bands across the entire cast of turtles led to a common misperception that the cover was subject to a print error. For those who are only familiar with either the cartoon show or the origin comics might have trouble seeing the true benefit of this game's content and style.
I'm just saying.
Source: Hardcore Gaming 101, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Series
Interesting. Thanks for share this information.
That opening theme is “stone Cold Crazy” by Queen lol
Omfg, hahaha! You're absolutely right, I don't even need to go look it up. How'd I never notice that? Nice catch 👍
This was the first game I ever played in my life and omfg the Nostalgia!!
Me the same!
Same! Glad that it's added in the upcoming The Cowabunga Collection. 🙌🏻
Me too. It came with the NES
Same
So it's a European one NES you got
Got this with the PAL NES boxset in 1990. Will never forget that moment holding a controller for the first time and not knowing wtf to do! Then the music! Merry Christmas everybody. 30 years has gone way too soon!
I use to play this game so much as a kid. I could never get bored of it.
This game was so damn hard.
Because of the electrical seaweed
This game was good. I know we love to shot on it for it’s difficulty, but many like myself come from that old school where these games were instant death, unlike nowadays where games are no where near as hard to play or win at. I beat this game when I was 13, and that’s a badge of pride that most new gen gamers won’t ever understand.
Almost 33 years and this game still give me sweaty palms and I’m just watching someone else play.
God I remember playing this game for hours with my cousins. This one and Mario 2 and 3. The 80s were a great time to be a kid.
I got to watch kids play Mario 3 in FAO Swartz up on some crazy tv screens 30 ft in the air. That was a time and place in NYC you didn’t call out other 9 year olds for hogging the controller because you knew they basically ran their own lives taking the subway around and you had to respect it was their toy store
Indeed
Michael are you a stripper?
Playing this game after school while having a slice of Pizza back in the 80s was heaven
One of the hardest game on the nes.
Idk...Battletoads is up there too...
I beat battletoads.....never this
This and bayou billy
i remember i tried with all my might as a kid to beat this and couldn't
Rambo
I don't know why, but I never get sick of playthroughs for this game.
Probably because it's such an awesome game! :)
It's kinda weird, really. I still find this TMNT game enjoyable and stimulating but I can't play the arcade one or any of the ones with the same beat em up gameplay anymore. I just get bored too fast.
same lol
When we played this as kids, we only had a black and white TV. I thought all of the turtles had red bandanas. Seeing that they actually charge colors is blowing me away!
Seriously the music playin when yer driving the Turtle van through out the map brings back the feels
Heh, one of those games where the road to the boss is tougher than the boss themselves
Absolute bastard of a game. Haunts my dreams with its evil, too this day.
They had no mercy on us kids back in the 80s.
Howling!!!
I just remembered that you didn't get your life points back even after you completed a stage.
Are you kidding me??? It's borderline child abuse.
evil evil evil game
I'm triggered by the sight of it
One of the NES games I actually owned as a kid... (I only had 3)
12:31 - "You can just walk over it."
I laughed so hard when I saw the AVGN get angry over that part because as a child I had the same problem with this game when I came out in the early 90s.
I always got so annoyed when the game began to lag when there was too much happening on the screen... Good old days!!!
AND the music tho!!! :D
39:17 "Use careful timing and teamwork to win!" Nah, I'll just use Don with the scroll to cheese shredder out.
Who else imagined Uncle Phil's voice when reading Shredder's text?
You have my support
I remember being in college in the late 90's and playing this game all night with friends in our dorm. We would pass the controller around while getting baked out of our minds. One of the all time greatest games right here.
Late 90s or late 80s?
CO op today is a joke compared to NES games back then.
How the heck did u leave the turtle van?! Idk how to do I’m stuck in it 10:38
The amount of stress and anxiety to get that ending is unreal lol. I’ll never forget this game from my childhood.
Alongside the arcade game (also developed by Konami), it was one of the first video games based on the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series, being released after the show's 2nd season.
The game got 3 sequels: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game in 1990, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time in 1992.
This game has some of the strangest enemies I have ever seen
i still cant believe how in the world did i finished this game when I was 8.... at 40 years old I just marvel at the sheer patience and precision that I was capable of. incredible.
This game conquered me back then. It was so satisfying watching you for 40mins just to beat this. You're going to heaven for sure.
Ill never forget the first day i got this game for the nes, i couldn't wait to get home and play, and once i started playing, i must not slept for two days, one of the best day of my childhood
My dad used to pass the levels I couldn’t, and I remember screaming at him every time he couldn’t pass it! Sorry dad! 🤣🤣
When games gave you 3 lives only. Glad those days are gone, sort of.
9:55 - Damn, that is some poltergeist phenomena reaching outta the TV right there (yeah, I'm old, kids), lol.
i played this game religiously. thought having pizza would restore my health everytime i got hurt or sick. now I'm fat
But you still haven't been killed by flying robots or random guys who just squat there until you walk close to them, so clearly the video game was accurate.
Ah, I remember Donatello doing the bulk of the work! I remember struggling a lot playing this game. Definitely among the hardest.
One of the best games on nintendo. Dope soundtrack as well
WHAT??? YOU CAN SWITCH TURTLES DURING THE GAME?????? My God, I lowered my life expectancy with 2 decades trying to get through the water level was an 8 yo. Wish I knew back then!
I never could beat this game..it lead to many a angry and frustrated play that usually ended with me throwing my controller.
Truth🤪
Lol, me too, the controller definitely took a beating
Video games give a person 3 things:
Entertainment
Good hand/eye coordination
And a creative way of coming up with new profanities
I'm not sure which was my most favorite.
The problem with old video games is that when you throw the controller, you throw the console too 😭 (btw that's how i broke my ps1)
those robot kangaroos and jetpack guys are no joke. the people who made this game must have had something against kids!
One of the things that is crazy about watching playthroughs of my childhood games is realizing how short the games actually were. They felt so incredibly long in my head but apparently games like this weren’t very long. Today, when I find myself playing a game like hollow knight, I hear the average playtime and I think “shoot I wish that were a bit higher,” but in all honesty it’s much longer than games used to be. Hell super Metroid felt like an epically long game that took 30 hours, and in reality it’s super short. Not knocking any of these games just observing a distorted perception
I was in my early 20's when I beat this game, for over a decade I could not beat it but I did and I even man cried like Matthew McConaughey in INTERSTELLAR .
It's quite an accomplishment to beat this difficult game. Most people give up right at the underwater level.
LOL
There's a special place in hell for games that respawn enemies if the screen leaves their spawn location by 1 pixel.
This and Ninja Gaiden (f'ing birds!!) will keep one another company.
Me: "This game is fucking difficult."
April: "You have my support."
You go through all of that by saving the world, converting Splinter back to a human, and April suggests “let’s get a pizza to celebrate”. The turtles shoulda said, “bitch! That’s it?!?”
So nostalgic watching the old NES games. They were pretty good for the time. Love the music, it takes me back to my childhood living room.
Used to play this all the time as a kid, but that damn water level was the end of the line for me. This game was difficult but a walk in the park compared to battletoads for nes and zelda the gold cartridge.
Same here, but I don't think the water level was too bad after some practice. People make it out to be a lot harder than it was. Me and my friends got through it consistently. I agree that Battletoads was harder than this game.
This was one of my favorite game back then. If i can recall, I mostly used donatello. April was very supportive. Lol
12:30 AVGN "you can just walk over it?!?"
Screw him
His interchangeable use of the Turtles is supreme!!! Leo was my guy on this game
I always wondered how in the hell defeating Shredder turns splinter back into human form when it was the magic “ooze” that turned him into a rat anyway.
For an 8bit game, it has the best detailed image of Shredder, huh??
A bit top-heavy, but yeah.
Wow, this game brings back so many memories. The music plus the endless gameplay of trying to pass the water level 😂.
The graphics were legit for it’s time
I'm actually glad more people in the comment section are reflecting the game itself than just remembering the infamous AVGN review of the game. I'm pretty sure those people are around and about, which is okay. It's just, TMNT for the NES associate AVGN with it now since it became a huge episode.
So many memories from seeing this and hearing the music again. I used to love this game when i was like 10 years old in like 89-90. Those were the good ol days for sure!!
I’m lucky to say I grew up playing this game. Im 40 and still game daily, and this is one of the hardest games I’ve ever played lol.
tmnt dark souls version.
Got this game the year it came out and have never once been past the seaweed.
Turtles: Work their butts off and almost die
April: Pizza Party!
"You can have a pizza" - April's only buying one. Kinda stingy
Dude, I'm 45 years old and still playing this game, lol. I used to pass that water fase, but died when I got to the third one. I've recently found out that those missiles were to destroy the barriers. I couldn't get far in the game because April would only speak to me in Japanese, hahaha. Once I saw your demo playing, everything made sense to me. Thanks a lot!
I was 7 years old playing this when it just came out, and I only now realize this games intro was my introduction to metal music. Now I see where the trend started and how I loved Command and Conquers sound track, and then Descent 2 soundtrack and so on. Awesome.