Nowadays if you get into a game with four other players, someone's using hacks, another has a buzzing mic, and another is some kid spouting slurs of all kinds.
I was flushed from the womb in the year 1980. You just made me happy and sad. I miss my childhood arcade memories. This game, X-Men (6 player dual screen cabinet was the best!), The Simpsons and there's others that I can't recall right now, but for 4 player fun, they were practically the only games that offered that at the time -- even being some of the few and rare 4 player games at that time. Konami and Capcom were just the best...Daddy Pig is very upset. 😭 (Jk.... Kinda)
That was alot of games brother. I hate how fucked up things are. I am blessed to have lived in times. Of great entertainment. Our escape was at its prime .
It's amazing how well this game holds up after nearly 30 years. I credit it to great art direction; crisp, clear sprites/backgrounds and smooth animation, as well as the little humorous touches.
@Flatulence Pile Well, of COURSE if you look at a modern PS4 game like Spider-Man or Final Fantasy VII Remake (both of which I played and I think are amazing, btw), their quality is going to be leagues ahead of an arcade game released in 1989. But if you compare this game to, say, games from the PS1 generation, this game has aged a LOT better than those blocky, early gen 3D graphics. I can't replay stuff like the first Crash Bandicoot without wincing at how awful those graphics look nowadays. You don't really get that same feeling with games like TMNT.
I miss the arcades in the 80s and 90s so bad. The last arcade game i played with other people when tekken 5. People would meet up afterwork and weekends to play. But once tekken went online no one showed up anymore.
This arcade game of TMNT, is based on the comic book and animated series of the same name that began 2 years earlier, being released during the show's 3rd season. This game was the same design that was later reused and converted what would become succedded into Punk Shot, The Simpsons, Vendetta, Sunset Riders, the second TMNT game Turtles in Time, X-Men, G.I. Joe, Bucky O'Hare, Mystic Warriors: Wrath of the Ninjas, Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa, Martial Champion, Metamorphic Force, Violent Storm, and Run and Gun: B-Ball Show Time cabinets. It was the success of this game that led to Konami many licensed in the early/mid 90's. The amazing success of the game led to Konami got the rights to many American (and some European) cartoons, TV shows, movies and comic books for home and arcade video games with a quality so good that sometimes shadowed the original work Konami later acquiring Aliens, the previously acquired Top Gun, and The Goonies, Mission: Impossible, Rollergames, The Simpsons, The Lone Ranger, Tiny Toon Adventures, Bucky O'Hare, Monster in My Pocket, Star Trek, X-Men, G.I. Joe, Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa, Zen: Intergalactic Ninja, Batman Returns, Batman: The Animated Series, The Adventures of Batman & Robin, Animaniacs, Biker Mice From Mars, and French comic Asterix, and many more in order to capture as many of the red hot properties to create a video game tie in for. The arcade hardware board System 16, which TMNT was based on, would be used to create many of the games such as Super Contra (1988), Gang Busters (1988), Devastators (1988), The Main Event (1988), Thunder Cross (1988), Block Hole (1989), Crime Fighters (1989), Gradius III (1989), M.I.A.: Mission in Action (1989), Quarth (1989), S.P.Y.: Special Project Y (1989), Aliens (1990), Punk Shot (1990), and Thunder Cross II (1991) and the engine which TMNT was also based on for these various franchises such as The Simpsons, X-Men, Bucky O'Hare, and Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa, and as mentioned, TMNT would return to once again kick some shell in the arcades a few 2 years later on (which for the SNES port, listed it as the 4th game in the series, after Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Manhattan Project). Over the course of the next 4 years, they would adapt and reuse the TMNT game engine reskinned the concept game style formula, this would become the blueprint for many other successful similar later Konami 4/6 player beat 'em up games such as The Simpsons (1991), Sunset Riders (1991), the sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (1991), the X-Men (1992) (which was actually a 6-player co-op game, many were 4 player versions, some were 2 player versions), Asterix (1992), Bucky O'Hare (1992), Mystic Warriors: Wrath of the Ninjas (1993), and Metamorphic Force (1993). All were solid hits, giving further proof that the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles formula was one of the great ones. Setting the difficulty on the game at the maximum, and then starting a four player game will result in a screen so clogged with enemies that it is difficult to move (as the game changes the amount of enemies based on the difficulty and the number of players). This is really only fun to do if you want to see if you can make the game lag, as the game is already hard enough on factory settings. This trick works on most Konami games such as X-Men, and Bucky O’Hare. A modified version of the same was published by Ultra for the NES in late 1990 under the title, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game, in order to avoid confusion with the previous earlier NES game based on the franchise, while at the same time, making it clear to players that it was given both a sequel number based on the arcade game. The Japanese Famicom version was titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, without a number nor a subtitle, due to the fact that first NES game was localized in Japan under a different title. This version includes two new levels (the first part of Scene 3 and all of Scene 6), which feature new enemy characters, 4 new music, including two new bosses created specifically for the NES port: Tora (a Polar Bear-like "blizzard beast") and Shogun (a robotic samurai). Most of the original stages from the arcade version were extended as well and the second half of Scene 3, the parking garage stage, replaces the arcade version's end battle with Bebop and Rocksteady with a battle against the mutated fly form of Baxter Stockman. The NES port appeared in Nintendo's PlayChoice-10 arcade system. This version of the game was once slated for release on the Wii Virtual Console, but was canceled. The NES version featured notable product placement advertising: Pizza Hut logos. The rear cover of the instruction manual provided a coupon for the restaurant, with an expiration date of December 31, 1991. The NES port is actually written as a direct sequel to the 1990 hit Turtles film. In 1991 Electronic Gaming Monthly published an April Fools' joke stating that after resetting the game console five times and entering a code on both controller one and controller two, players would be able to play the game as Simon Belmont from the Castlevania series. In 2019, the game was rereleased as a replica arcade cabinet, including Turtles in Time, as well, for home use by manufacturer Arcade1Up. The reissue is nearly identical to the original, however there are a few changes; the opening is performed by a different artist, players do not need to insert quarters to play, and Konami's name on the arcade marquee is replaced by Nickelodeon's. I grew up playing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game. I first saw this game in late 1989/early 1990 in Maryland. I haven't played this since 1999, when I lived at Fort Sam Houston, Texas at that time. This installment included a "II" in the title when released on the NES for continuity purposes on that console. The last time I played this was on November 2013 at the Coastal Carolina Fair in Ladson, South Carolina.
That corner trap on Shredder at the end was awesome. Only work with more than one people. Me and my friends were the only ones to figure it out at the arcades when we were kids.
This game was so hard when I was 10. I spent lots of my paper route money on this. Then bought it for the NES for $60. That was insane back in the early 90’s.
Bosses: 1:42 Rocksteady (Burning Building and April's Apartment) 3:55 Bebop (Streets) 6:12 (Dr.) Baxter Stockman in his hovercraft (Sewers) 7:21 Rocksteady & Bebop re-match (The Parking Garage) 10:05 Tire Foot Soldiers (The Highway) 11:35 Machine Gunners and Bombers (The Skateboarding Stage) 13:55Sergeant Granitor (The Warehouse) 16:51 General Traag (The Technodrome boss 1) 17:51 Krang (The Technodrome boss 2) 19:00 Final Boss: The Shredder (The Technodrome) 20:11 Ending & Credits
I and my old friends from my family and my school were enjoyed playing all Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcades when we were kids in lovely 1990s and early 2000s. It was the most beautiful days, the most wonderful days, the most enjoyable days, the most joyful days, and the most happiest days with my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and my old friends in lovely 1990s and early 2000s. I wish very much to go back to a wonderful and beautiful times of lovely 1990s and 2000s and back as kids again to enjoyed playing all Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games again.
It's a good thing the Foot Soldiers are robots that can't feel fear because I'm pretty sure actual humans would be crapping their pants at the sight of this - four humanoid turtles coming at you in a wave of destruction that just wrecks absolutely everything in its path It's kind of not even fair when you think about it
22:06, in less-than-4-player play throughs, the portraits of the inactive ninja turtles are silhouettes. The NES version doesn’t have the feature at 22:06.
While when I was younger I couldnt get into the game like I could final fight due to the combos being not as fun/ fast to be pulled off (game was kinda slow in terms of combat for me) I wont even deny that this game is a literal masterpiece with graphics and music way beyond its time. Shredders revenge was a perfect way to honor this master piece
Very rarely do I see all four players playing at the same time. When I was a kid another kid or two max would play and it bothered me because they were strangers to me and too close to me. I always liked my arcade space
I remember playing moonwalker as a kid and even back then as we played it, we were all saying that Michael was the real bad guy. Lol. Acquiring children throughout the game...wtf?
Around 1991 me being 15 and three younger than 10 year old kids beat this game one night at Chucky Cheese. Never met these little buggers before. good times.
There were several distinct versions of this game available in the arcade, but the 4-player dedicated cabinet was the most common by far. There were also two player versions, but they are much harder to come by. You can convert a 4-player board to the 2-player version by burning new EPROMs, but the conversion doesn't work the other way around because the 2-player board doesn't have the connectors to accomodate the extra two controllers. The TMNT dedicated cabinet was fairly large and had an oversized control panel (to accomodate four players). The sides were decorated with full sideart showing April O'Nial and several of the turtles in a city scene. Machines in the UK will be labeled as Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, because that was the name of the turtle franchise over there. The marquee shows a city scene with all the turtles and a live action version of April O'Neil. Frankly they just should have drawn her instead of using a photograph, her hair is just awful. The control panel has a city scene similar to the one on the marquee and has four joysticks (one for each player), each of which is a different color. These machines all came equipped with 25 inch open frame monitors, although you will sometimes run into one with a different size screen, these are almost always conversions of other titles. Moving on to the interior of the machine, the game itself runs on a JAMMA compatible circuit board. The board itself will plug into a JAMMA wiring harness, but it has a second harness to accomodate the controls for players three and four. The games The Simpsons, Sunset Riders, and Bucky O'Hare are fully compatible with this extended harness, and will plug directly into a TMNT cabinet without modification. One thing that you may notice is that the jump and attack buttons seem backwards of what they would logically be, but you get used to it quickly. The game's code itself runs on a pair of processors, an 8 Mhz 68000 and a 3.58 Mhz Z80. Konami's other 4-player games from the era run such as Devastators, Gang Busters, Super Contra, The Main Event, Thunder Cross, Block Hole, Crime Fighters, Gradius III, M.I.A.: Mission in Action, Quarth, S.P.Y.: Special Project Y, Aliens, Punk Shot, Surprise Attack, Lightning Fighters, Bells and Whistles, Thunder Cross II, Rollergames, Golfing Greats, the 2nd Turtles game sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time, and Premier Soccer on similar hardware, but they always changed something so people couldn't just swap EPROMs to change games. For examples, The Simpsons had the same basic mainboard, but used a 3 Mhz encrypted 68000 in place of the 8 Mhz unencrypted one that TMNT uses. Each one of the dozen or so Konami 4-player games has at least one component difference from all the others. I learned this when I was poking around to see if any TMNT mainboard could run any other games. Konami also did other 4-player cabinet games from the era, such as the previously established The Main Event (in the deluxe 25” cabinet) in 1988, Crime Fighters (also in the deluxe 25” cabinet) in 1989, Punk Shot in 1990, The Simpsons, the 2nd Turtles game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time, Vendetta (Crime Fighters 2), and Sunset Riders in 1991, Escape Kids, Marvel Comics’ X-Men, the run ‘n gun G.I. Joe, France’s Asterix, the beat ‘em up & run ‘n gun Bucky O’Hare in 1992, Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa, Mystic Warriors, Metamorphic Force and the 3-player Violent Storm (Crime Fighters 3) in 1993. Setting the difficulty on the game at the maximum, and then starting a four player game will result in a screen so clogged with enemies that it is difficult to move (as the game changes the amount of enemies based on the difficulty and the number of players). This is really only fun to do if you want to see if you can make the game lag, as the game is already hard enough on factory settings. This trick works on most Konami games such as X-Men, and Bucky O’Hare.
That's not true, well not for me anyway. My 4 player JAMMA board for TMNT has the connectors but so does my Turtles in Time which is only 2 player ROM. I also had Sunset Riders 2 player and 4 player boards. Well anyway I've never seem a Konami board that didn't have the connectors for 3 or 4 players, I thought it was just the ROMs that were different. Sega's 16 bit board on the other board, that does has a detachable connector that doesn't exist on a 2 player board (although you can swap the connector between boards and thankfully unlike Konami's boards you can change the number of players in the game's BIOS.)
I was so pissed that the original TMNT theme from the original cartoon series in the 1st arcade game has been removed in the Xbox 360 version for no reason due to copyright issues. Although it was reinstated in The Cowabunga Collection but it was re-recorded by Nickelodeon for no reason either as they did on the Arcade 1 Up version. Damn Paramount to hell for not having the original theme like it used to be on the Konami arcade cabinet
The beauty of this game is that you could walk into an arcade and bond with people you never met.
Those were the best
Used to love playing this gamr with my cousins in Mexico. All of us would take turns playing with all 4 characters. Fun menories.
Nowadays if you get into a game with four other players, someone's using hacks, another has a buzzing mic, and another is some kid spouting slurs of all kinds.
I was flushed from the womb in the year 1980. You just made me happy and sad. I miss my childhood arcade memories. This game, X-Men (6 player dual screen cabinet was the best!), The Simpsons and there's others that I can't recall right now, but for 4 player fun, they were practically the only games that offered that at the time -- even being some of the few and rare 4 player games at that time. Konami and Capcom were just the best...Daddy Pig is very upset. 😭 (Jk.... Kinda)
That was alot of games brother. I hate how fucked up things are. I am blessed to have lived in times. Of great entertainment. Our escape was at its prime .
Probably one of the best multiplayer games in history. Most arcade game rooms had this game back then people waiting and ready to play.
It's amazing how well this game holds up after nearly 30 years. I credit it to great art direction; crisp, clear sprites/backgrounds and smooth animation, as well as the little humorous touches.
Dont forget the music
@Flatulence Pile The PS4 sucks balls and alot of its games are shit
@Flatulence Pile, modern games sucks.
Flatulence Pile what? are you refering to those movies?
@Flatulence Pile Well, of COURSE if you look at a modern PS4 game like Spider-Man or Final Fantasy VII Remake (both of which I played and I think are amazing, btw), their quality is going to be leagues ahead of an arcade game released in 1989. But if you compare this game to, say, games from the PS1 generation, this game has aged a LOT better than those blocky, early gen 3D graphics. I can't replay stuff like the first Crash Bandicoot without wincing at how awful those graphics look nowadays. You don't really get that same feeling with games like TMNT.
I miss the arcades in the 80s and 90s so bad. The last arcade game i played with other people when tekken 5. People would meet up afterwork and weekends to play. But once tekken went online no one showed up anymore.
One thing about this game is when you and 3 others are playing, not only is the game more fun, but you make quick work of the bosses.
This Game Turns 30 This Year 2019 still looks great!
Damn 33 years old and Looking good! Not even most people can’t say that.
I would have loved to have this arcade cabinet in my house growing up.
U can. If u buy the Arcade 1up machine. Before the Corona virus. It was selling @ your local Walmart store. It also had TMNT Turtles in time as well
Welp now its gonna be on consoles as part of the tmnt cowabunga collection
end of second stage:
"duuhhhh who put the lights out?"
all 4 turtles jump into same death trap to move on.
arcades the fastest way to make the friends
Jeez that final boss. Giving Shredder an IK was just a brilliant move to eat up quarters, because NOBODY wanted to lose at Shredder.
This arcade game of TMNT, is based on the comic book and animated series of the same name that began 2 years earlier, being released during the show's 3rd season. This game was the same design that was later reused and converted what would become succedded into Punk Shot, The Simpsons, Vendetta, Sunset Riders, the second TMNT game Turtles in Time, X-Men, G.I. Joe, Bucky O'Hare, Mystic Warriors: Wrath of the Ninjas, Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa, Martial Champion, Metamorphic Force, Violent Storm, and Run and Gun: B-Ball Show Time cabinets.
It was the success of this game that led to Konami many licensed in the early/mid 90's. The amazing success of the game led to Konami got the rights to many American (and some European) cartoons, TV shows, movies and comic books for home and arcade video games with a quality so good that sometimes shadowed the original work Konami later acquiring Aliens, the previously acquired Top Gun, and The Goonies, Mission: Impossible, Rollergames, The Simpsons, The Lone Ranger, Tiny Toon Adventures, Bucky O'Hare, Monster in My Pocket, Star Trek, X-Men, G.I. Joe, Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa, Zen: Intergalactic Ninja, Batman Returns, Batman: The Animated Series, The Adventures of Batman & Robin, Animaniacs, Biker Mice From Mars, and French comic Asterix, and many more in order to capture as many of the red hot properties to create a video game tie in for. The arcade hardware board System 16, which TMNT was based on, would be used to create many of the games such as Super Contra (1988), Gang Busters (1988), Devastators (1988), The Main Event (1988), Thunder Cross (1988), Block Hole (1989), Crime Fighters (1989), Gradius III (1989), M.I.A.: Mission in Action (1989), Quarth (1989), S.P.Y.: Special Project Y (1989), Aliens (1990), Punk Shot (1990), and Thunder Cross II (1991) and the engine which TMNT was also based on for these various franchises such as The Simpsons, X-Men, Bucky O'Hare, and Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa, and as mentioned, TMNT would return to once again kick some shell in the arcades a few 2 years later on (which for the SNES port, listed it as the 4th game in the series, after Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Manhattan Project). Over the course of the next 4 years, they would adapt and reuse the TMNT game engine reskinned the concept game style formula, this would become the blueprint for many other successful similar later Konami 4/6 player beat 'em up games such as The Simpsons (1991), Sunset Riders (1991), the sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (1991), the X-Men (1992) (which was actually a 6-player co-op game, many were 4 player versions, some were 2 player versions), Asterix (1992), Bucky O'Hare (1992), Mystic Warriors: Wrath of the Ninjas (1993), and Metamorphic Force (1993). All were solid hits, giving further proof that the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles formula was one of the great ones.
Setting the difficulty on the game at the maximum, and then starting a four player game will result in a screen so clogged with enemies that it is difficult to move (as the game changes the amount of enemies based on the difficulty and the number of players). This is really only fun to do if you want to see if you can make the game lag, as the game is already hard enough on factory settings. This trick works on most Konami games such as X-Men, and Bucky O’Hare.
A modified version of the same was published by Ultra for the NES in late 1990 under the title, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game, in order to avoid confusion with the previous earlier NES game based on the franchise, while at the same time, making it clear to players that it was given both a sequel number based on the arcade game. The Japanese Famicom version was titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, without a number nor a subtitle, due to the fact that first NES game was localized in Japan under a different title.
This version includes two new levels (the first part of Scene 3 and all of Scene 6), which feature new enemy characters, 4 new music, including two new bosses created specifically for the NES port: Tora (a Polar Bear-like "blizzard beast") and Shogun (a robotic samurai). Most of the original stages from the arcade version were extended as well and the second half of Scene 3, the parking garage stage, replaces the arcade version's end battle with Bebop and Rocksteady with a battle against the mutated fly form of Baxter Stockman. The NES port appeared in Nintendo's PlayChoice-10 arcade system. This version of the game was once slated for release on the Wii Virtual Console, but was canceled.
The NES version featured notable product placement advertising: Pizza Hut logos. The rear cover of the instruction manual provided a coupon for the restaurant, with an expiration date of December 31, 1991. The NES port is actually written as a direct sequel to the 1990 hit Turtles film.
In 1991 Electronic Gaming Monthly published an April Fools' joke stating that after resetting the game console five times and entering a code on both controller one and controller two, players would be able to play the game as Simon Belmont from the Castlevania series.
In 2019, the game was rereleased as a replica arcade cabinet, including Turtles in Time, as well, for home use by manufacturer Arcade1Up. The reissue is nearly identical to the original, however there are a few changes; the opening is performed by a different artist, players do not need to insert quarters to play, and Konami's name on the arcade marquee is replaced by Nickelodeon's.
I grew up playing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game. I first saw this game in late 1989/early 1990 in Maryland. I haven't played this since 1999, when I lived at Fort Sam Houston, Texas at that time. This installment included a "II" in the title when released on the NES for continuity purposes on that console. The last time I played this was on November 2013 at the Coastal Carolina Fair in Ladson, South Carolina.
Amazing post. Thanks for the wealth of info.
Cowabunga! Thanks for sharing! I remembered playing this as a kid with three other people. So many Foot soldiers!
That corner trap on Shredder at the end was awesome. Only work with more than one people. Me and my friends were the only ones to figure it out at the arcades when we were kids.
I know this is an over 1 year comment. Getting Shredder trapped in the works best with Raphael as his weapon attacks are the fastest.
11:03.
In the arcade, there's the moment where many of your quarters disappear.
You saw it too. They kept dieing left and right. Like wow
Hated that level
Don't worry. There will be no more spending quarters cause the Cowabunga Collection is coming to Switch, PS5 and X Box S.
@@VJ87G
Or if they got the Arcade1Up of TMNT. I got one about a year ago.
@@JustinEvitable80 but the Cowabunga Collection is going cost less than that.
My favorite arcade of all time
Oh my god I just got an ad for Pizza Hut before this video, no joke!
Excellent!!
perfect
The NES port of this game included a Pizza Hut Coupon for a free personal pan pizza! no joke!
It's funny because anyone under the age of 35 probably won't understand the irony of getting a Pizza Hut ad before this video
This game was so hard when I was 10. I spent lots of my paper route money on this. Then bought it for the NES for $60. That was insane back in the early 90’s.
The game is still hard now lol
Bosses:
1:42 Rocksteady (Burning Building and April's Apartment)
3:55 Bebop (Streets)
6:12 (Dr.) Baxter Stockman in his hovercraft (Sewers)
7:21 Rocksteady & Bebop re-match (The Parking Garage)
10:05 Tire Foot Soldiers (The Highway)
11:35 Machine Gunners and Bombers (The Skateboarding Stage)
13:55Sergeant Granitor (The Warehouse)
16:51 General Traag (The Technodrome boss 1)
17:51 Krang (The Technodrome boss 2)
19:00 Final Boss: The Shredder (The Technodrome)
20:11 Ending & Credits
Matthew Ulanski The Rock Soldier's name at the Warehouse is Lieutenant (Lt.) Granitor.
General Traag
@@CROSSTATT Sergeant Granitor
@@jtomally9681Lieutenant granitor
How many of y'all knew Master Shedder was voiced by Uncle Phil from the fresh prince of Bel-Air?
Me
This game was amazing when it came out a true stepping stone to a multi player platform
Teaming up with 3 other strangers and pumping in quarters to be the Ninja Turtles taking on evil was so much fun!
Awesome playthrough. Reminds me of chuck e cheese. Me and my friends would go ham on this game.
Wasnt it showbiz pizza back then
Showbiz then turned into Chuckie Cheese after they got bought/sold
Y’all caught Shredder in the corner and went gang gang on em
Happy Anniversary to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade video game by Konami, since November 15, 1989.
3:15 Skateboarder: Ahhhh!!
Leo: Duh, who put the lights out?
That skated board level is designed to suck up that pocket money (allowance).
They're Coming back and this time, all thanks to Dotemu and Tribute Games, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge.
Everyone on TH-cam lost it when that trailer dropped. I so can’t wait. Day 1 buy for sure.
I and my old friends from my family and my school were enjoyed playing all Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcades when we were kids in lovely
1990s and early
2000s. It was the most beautiful days, the most wonderful days, the most enjoyable days, the most joyful days, and the most happiest days with my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and my old friends in lovely
1990s and early
2000s. I wish very much to go back to a wonderful and beautiful times of lovely
1990s and 2000s and back as kids again to enjoyed playing all Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games again.
Remember when Konami was awesome?
Michael Smith yes and am helping them restore themselves back in the future
Awesome throwback. Such controlled mayhem
I will always prefer the "cowabunga!" Sound effect over the "Let's Kick Shell" in Turtles In Time just feels 100 times more satisfying then the other.
What if the ninja gurads are players instead of tmnt? That would be interesting.
I like how Neca made figures of the arcade game. :)
It's a good thing the Foot Soldiers are robots that can't feel fear because I'm pretty sure actual humans would be crapping their pants at the sight of this - four humanoid turtles coming at you in a wave of destruction that just wrecks absolutely everything in its path
It's kind of not even fair when you think about it
22:06, in less-than-4-player play throughs, the portraits of the inactive ninja turtles are silhouettes. The NES version doesn’t have the feature at 22:06.
The NES DOES have that feature dude. Shut up
Anyone else watching this at 3 am for some reason?
Big Apple 3 AM
DAAAAMN i miss playing this every friday at Skating rink! lol
19:00: Shredder Battle (Final Boss)
The Spring is here! 6:30
The Ninja Turtles Are With You
I like how arronmunroe is the only one trying to fight smart against the bosses
While when I was younger I couldnt get into the game like I could final fight due to the combos being not as fun/ fast to be pulled off (game was kinda slow in terms of combat for me)
I wont even deny that this game is a literal masterpiece with graphics and music way beyond its time. Shredders revenge was a perfect way to honor this master piece
I so want to get the arcade one up machine for this game so my grandkids can play with me 😀
I remember the crowd surrounding this cab. It was at Chucky Cheese.
Denatello and Leonardo are my favorite charaters
This would be the top selling eShop game bundle with Turtles in Time. :(
I know, right? How about TMNT Anniversary Collection with online support?
Better yet how about a konami beat em up collection genius! 🤓💡
@@jayquanterrell6020 this comment aged well
I finished this on NES. It was difficult to finish. You can't save game there. Gaming was hard back then.
Greatest arcade game of all time
I miss these days
0:03: Game Start and Character Select
So...just noticed April's apartment room had a bong in it.
HotaruZoku The 80's bruh
Bruh...
She might be Muslim.
Or a big crack pipe, it was all the rage
Very rarely do I see all four players playing at the same time. When I was a kid another kid or two max would play and it bothered me because they were strangers to me and too close to me. I always liked my arcade space
I love classic video games
6:28 Shredder's Epic Laugh
This is the best ni ja turtles version because it highlights the very vest season of ninja turtles. The first season.
4:33-4:34-4:35-4:36-4:37: Xadx and Boss Defeated
It was this, the simpsons arcade game or the moonwalker arcade game... Every Wednesday-afternoon after school...
I remember playing moonwalker as a kid and even back then as we played it, we were all saying that Michael was the real bad guy. Lol. Acquiring children throughout the game...wtf?
This is the kind of game that I would like to watch in with words "NO DAMAGE"
1:14-1:15-1:16-1:17: Enemy Wave Incoming
20:21: Ending (Epilogue)
20:03-20:04-20:05-20:06-20:07: All Clear (Shredder Defeated)
A True Timeless Classic!! #cowabunga
5:15 MOUSERS!!!!!! Man, I hate those things!!!!
0:19: Stage Start
Around 1991 me being 15 and three younger than 10 year old kids beat this game one night at Chucky Cheese.
Never met these little buggers before.
good times.
20:40 Escaped to Dimension X. Knowing the villains, they will come up with a new plan.
Yeah like trap them in a time warp (wink wink)
13:21: Another Enemy Battle
I love Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
7:21: Enemy Battle
Shredder seemed super easy.
13:54: Another Boss Battle
There were several distinct versions of this game available in the arcade, but the 4-player dedicated cabinet was the most common by far. There were also two player versions, but they are much harder to come by. You can convert a 4-player board to the 2-player version by burning new EPROMs, but the conversion doesn't work the other way around because the 2-player board doesn't have the connectors to accomodate the extra two controllers.
The TMNT dedicated cabinet was fairly large and had an oversized control panel (to accomodate four players). The sides were decorated with full sideart showing April O'Nial and several of the turtles in a city scene. Machines in the UK will be labeled as Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, because that was the name of the turtle franchise over there. The marquee shows a city scene with all the turtles and a live action version of April O'Neil. Frankly they just should have drawn her instead of using a photograph, her hair is just awful. The control panel has a city scene similar to the one on the marquee and has four joysticks (one for each player), each of which is a different color. These machines all came equipped with 25 inch open frame monitors, although you will sometimes run into one with a different size screen, these are almost always conversions of other titles.
Moving on to the interior of the machine, the game itself runs on a JAMMA compatible circuit board. The board itself will plug into a JAMMA wiring harness, but it has a second harness to accomodate the controls for players three and four. The games The Simpsons, Sunset Riders, and Bucky O'Hare are fully compatible with this extended harness, and will plug directly into a TMNT cabinet without modification. One thing that you may notice is that the jump and attack buttons seem backwards of what they would logically be, but you get used to it quickly.
The game's code itself runs on a pair of processors, an 8 Mhz 68000 and a 3.58 Mhz Z80. Konami's other 4-player games from the era run such as Devastators, Gang Busters, Super Contra, The Main Event, Thunder Cross, Block Hole, Crime Fighters, Gradius III, M.I.A.: Mission in Action, Quarth, S.P.Y.: Special Project Y, Aliens, Punk Shot, Surprise Attack, Lightning Fighters, Bells and Whistles, Thunder Cross II, Rollergames, Golfing Greats, the 2nd Turtles game sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time, and Premier Soccer on similar hardware, but they always changed something so people couldn't just swap EPROMs to change games. For examples, The Simpsons had the same basic mainboard, but used a 3 Mhz encrypted 68000 in place of the 8 Mhz unencrypted one that TMNT uses. Each one of the dozen or so Konami 4-player games has at least one component difference from all the others. I learned this when I was poking around to see if any TMNT mainboard could run any other games. Konami also did other 4-player cabinet games from the era, such as the previously established The Main Event (in the deluxe 25” cabinet) in 1988, Crime Fighters (also in the deluxe 25” cabinet) in 1989, Punk Shot in 1990, The Simpsons, the 2nd Turtles game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time, Vendetta (Crime Fighters 2), and Sunset Riders in 1991, Escape Kids, Marvel Comics’ X-Men, the run ‘n gun G.I. Joe, France’s Asterix, the beat ‘em up & run ‘n gun Bucky O’Hare in 1992, Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa, Mystic Warriors, Metamorphic Force and the 3-player Violent Storm (Crime Fighters 3) in 1993.
Setting the difficulty on the game at the maximum, and then starting a four player game will result in a screen so clogged with enemies that it is difficult to move (as the game changes the amount of enemies based on the difficulty and the number of players). This is really only fun to do if you want to see if you can make the game lag, as the game is already hard enough on factory settings. This trick works on most Konami games such as X-Men, and Bucky O’Hare.
But.....why...?
That's not true, well not for me anyway. My 4 player JAMMA board for TMNT has the connectors but so does my Turtles in Time which is only 2 player ROM. I also had Sunset Riders 2 player and 4 player boards. Well anyway I've never seem a Konami board that didn't have the connectors for 3 or 4 players, I thought it was just the ROMs that were different.
Sega's 16 bit board on the other board, that does has a detachable connector that doesn't exist on a 2 player board (although you can swap the connector between boards and thankfully unlike Konami's boards you can change the number of players in the game's BIOS.)
I was so pissed that the original TMNT theme from the original cartoon series in the 1st arcade game has been removed in the Xbox 360 version for no reason due to copyright issues. Although it was reinstated in The Cowabunga Collection but it was re-recorded by Nickelodeon for no reason either as they did on the Arcade 1 Up version. Damn Paramount to hell for not having the original theme like it used to be on the Konami arcade cabinet
1:40: Boss Battle #1
Good to have team mates. This was awesome to watch.
I can't wait to play Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shredder's Revenge
This is the only TMNT game worth having. 🤨🤨🤨
20:51: End Credits
i wish i'd had this arcade game
+4Skenderbeu good luck finding one in good condition. Most dedicated 4 players often go for beyond $1000 on eBay sometimes.
You can play it along with Turtles in Time if you buy the Arcade1Up version.
8:14-8:15-8:16: Stage Clear
I love being a turtle
My favorite Arcade ever! 🐢
Take it! People born after 2000!
Well, I was born in 2001 and liked this game.
Always nice to play 4 players made it easier
14:58: Final Stage
1:16 "Help MWOOOOoooo"
And 2:44...
3:28 OOOH, that'll leave a mark!
WTF! lol
Decapitated Donatello head if you pause at 6:23 just before all the turtles are about to jump off the top of the screen.
Go Green Machine!!! 🐢🐢🐢🐢👊🏾
Last time I played this I must've spent $4.50 in quarters just to beat this game.
12:06-12:07-12:08: Warning Incoming
Xbox live port was perfect 4 players and all that
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I miss playing this on xbox live.
I remember this game being alot harder (when iI was young)
TMNT '89 Arcade is the Shhh. I'm getting the Cowabunga Collection by Konami!
16:49: Mini-Boss
Playing this next Tuesday on switch
Duhh who put the lights out?
Best day ever!
6:28 Shredder's/Shang Tsung's Epic Laugh