Definitely not the best NES game but far from bad either. I'd say it's one of the better ones. The thing about the AVGN is, it's in the name, right? He is the *angry nerd*. All those game critics and everything should be taken with a grain of salt.
@@nickpavloff8977 yes the good old time when you where stuck with shitty games for several months. When parents asked you : DId you finish your game ? ooh too bad finish it before we buy you another one. You can imagine this one pissed me off a long time.
The early AVGN episodes are such gems. While I absolutely appreciate the fact that James is still making AVGN all these years later, the early episodes still have an undeniable charm and the comedy is still so very on point.
It’s just like what AVGN said about the Atari 2600. Even though stuff like the 5200 (aka the new episodes) tried to replace the 2600 (the old episodes), they failed and that old dusty 2600 lived on.
***** I think it had something to do with the flow of the water like in sewers water flows under pressure while in the second level the water is completely still.I think that explains it all.
The older avgn videos have aged really well. You can tell how much fun James has playing as the nerd & the comedy is still on point. Much respect, Mr. Rolfe
It was actually my former boss who showed me this back then as well! It was a little later though (Plumbers don't wear ties was just out) and we ran through an episode daily from the beginning at lunch. Awesome times.
You think that’s crazy I think it’s insane of how popular he’s gotten like seriously his games called AVGN Adventures on the 3DS and AVGN 2 Assimilation as well as the AVGN Adventures on the Switch
***** In Episode 102 he claims that this rant wasn't memorized by heart, but rather when he was looking away from the camera he actually was reading the script.
this is the most rewatchable series on youtube. I love how no matter what avgn episode you watch, whether old or new, theres always a lot of quality and creativity to it.
I remember watching this when my new born daughter was sleeping, she's almost 8 now. Crazy how time flies, thanks for the years of entertainment James Rolfe
To this day "you can just walk over it" makes me laugh because I spent untold hours retrying this jump as a kid for some nerd in 2006 to show me it was all a waste. His scowl represents my inner child throwing the controller across the room.
+Chris Wollensack 3 years ago I would agree with you but ever since he made his comeback and introduced new characters and skits into his reviews 2013, the quality has drastically decreased
Niko Si Mid-30s here and still playing these games, and my father (who used to play these with me when I was a kid and is now in his 60s) still likes to play them too! So nope, you're never too old :)
I'm 23 and I wasn't even around for the the Atari or NES days, but I love retro games of all types. 2600, Commodore, NES, SNES, Master System, Genesis, N64, Saturn, Dreamcast, PSone, PS2. This was back when gaming actually meant something to me. There was no DLC, expansion packs, or being charged for cheat codes.
The deadpan "and I don't like it" is what made me (and I'm sure many others)a fan back in the day. One of the most intense fits of laughter I've ever had. Thanks James 🙂
This was my favourite game on the NES, and I still have it to this day. Once you learned you can full-speed walk over the 1-block gaps, as James shows in the sewer level, it became so much easier.
Ziaheart all reptiles are decent swimmers but not all great swimmers...Land turtles aren't kind of amphibian. They probably can swim, but definitely not as great as sea turtles
I heard this rant on an Ed Edd n Eddy TH-cam poop once years ago and was searching for it ever since. I have finally found it. I almost starting believing in god for a second there...
@1:02 "How am I supposed to get up there? That's impossible". 13 seconds later: "The only way to get up there is with Donatello." ME: Ummmm...that's the point of the game...to switch turtles.
I remember watching this shit when I was in elementary and being afraid of my mom listening to Avgn cuss 😂 now I'm a senior in high school god damn time flies
+oldniggafuture I started watching him in elementary school with the same concern now im a freshman in college and i watch it with the volume all the way up while still singing along to the theme song
There's a speed run of this here on TH-cam. It was done to raise money, and the gentleman that did it was really impressive, if maybe a little nerdy. For the sewer jumps, he explained that there are three distinct jumps one can do. He talked about how all of the turtles attacks actually hit enemies behind them(besides Ralph, who is basically a sacrificial lamb). He knew the spawns of the game, and how to generate which enemy spawn set. He knew the percentage odds of reaching the Technodrome depending on which sewer pipe you go down, and he knew of alternative things to do when attempting a world record(which I think he owns). It was fun to see someone fully dissect one of my favorite childhood games.
I had a AVGN moment when I broke my controller, throwing it at my tv. It was from that same spot in the ceiling. Jumping for hours, I gave up after several game sittings. Was no internet back then. I was looking up the Japanese TMNT OVA, and came across your video. Now I'm hooked and debating if I should go back and play it. It's crap, yet I own it and haven't beaten it. Thanks for making your videos.
In 7th grade, around 2007, my buddy and I had that whole rant at the end memorized. We used to repeat it when we didn't like whatever things at school.
5:00 I remember I was at a convention in like 2009 when they showed AVGN in a big theater room, and when he got the pizza everyone in the audience cheered.
I sat my nephew down to play Ninja turtles. He's 7 years old and he figured the pizza jump out and that single space jump for the rockets right away. It took me years as a kid to do it and my 7-year-old nephew gets it right away.
Fun Fact: Ultra games was just a shell corporation for Konami. What that means is that Konami just made the company up so they could release more games for the system, because back in the 80's, Nintendo only had company release a certain amount of titles a year so they wouldn't just crank out games. That was their way of getting around it.
Yeah Konami published the NES version of Metal Gear in the US as "Ultra Games". The use of a dummy company... sounds like an intrigue espionage plot from a Metal Gear game! -- AT
The Tanker incident two years ago... The spill in the Manhattan bay instigated the construction of the Big Shell. All a ploy by the Patriots to test the Triple S Project - The Super Sucky ShellcorporationknownasUltraGames
At least the game had a very nice soundtrack, I remember when I used to gt into situations like the one at 4:50 I just stood there and calmed my nerves down to the music, and the water level music has to be in the top five of any video game ever
now on pc, ps systems, even the nintendo switch, there is the cowabunga collection and this game is mutch more playable (if you turn sprite flikkering of and the slowdown, you can even save.... everyware so.
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Almost 14 years later Mike decided to defend this game: th-cam.com/video/IAd0r8Ic2JU/w-d-xo.html
I'm sorry Avgn. It seems he might have betrayed you.
Definitely not the best NES game but far from bad either. I'd say it's one of the better ones. The thing about the AVGN is, it's in the name, right? He is the *angry nerd*. All those game critics and everything should be taken with a grain of salt.
It still sux.
woah what
He’s been watching speed runners 🏃
A show about nostalgia has become a nostalgic show. Something special about that.
E br e?
River Delman
We don’t mention his name here...
Blows my mind
Facts
@@furiousstudios4438 why not?
All that rant and to end it calmly saying "and I don't like it"
Perfect
AdADglgmutShevanel - don’t forget, it suckin fucks it fuckin sucks it fuckin blows and it’s a piece of shit
Agreed best part lol
Perfect ending
I'm the 1,000th like
The only way I could beat the game was with the Game Genie. However, that sewer level still was a major pain to get through.
When i see "13 years ago" under a youtube vid it makes me feel kinda old...
You're the one delving into the past.
John Destouches Well if u grew up with the game you can double that 13 years I guess
But yea , time flys n doesn’t at the same time lol I dunno
@@nickpavloff8977 yes the good old time when you where stuck with shitty games for several months. When parents asked you : DId you finish your game ? ooh too bad finish it before we buy you another one. You can imagine this one pissed me off a long time.
@@nickpavloff8977 more like triple it...
The early AVGN episodes are such gems. While I absolutely appreciate the fact that James is still making AVGN all these years later, the early episodes still have an undeniable charm and the comedy is still so very on point.
That and the older episodes are not poisoned by product placements
Some people are saying that the newest season of AVGN is the best in years.
It’s just like what AVGN said about the Atari 2600. Even though stuff like the 5200 (aka the new episodes) tried to replace the 2600 (the old episodes), they failed and that old dusty 2600 lived on.
@@thema1998it is bro
The old ones are the best tbh
Imagine...back in 2006, when TH-cam had barely started...that THIS was one of the most professionally produced things available. I miss the old days:(
So they can't swim in the third level, yet the second level, is underwater level.
*LOGIC*
***** I think it had something to do with the flow of the water like in sewers water flows under pressure while in the second level the water is completely still.I think that explains it all.
True
True.
***** Epic logic
The older avgn videos have aged really well. You can tell how much fun James has playing as the nerd & the comedy is still on point. Much respect, Mr. Rolfe
"All that for a pizza?? Pizzashit.."
Classic.
What a pizzashit
Mr Gamer and Watcher word play on piece of shit, pizzashit
i mean its pretty obvious youre only getting the pizza in that room you can see it from the bottom floor lol
Wanted to see him finish the game
hahahha xd
“...and I don’t like it.”
Probably one of the most underrated lines in AVGN history.
Catulus
considering the lead-up to it, you're absolutely right about that
"It sucking fucks" is right up there also
So true XD
AVGN has aged better than Nostalgia critic when it comes to entertainment value
I think they've both aged well.
@@legoking6165 Nostalgia critic has always been shit and a cheap ripoff of AVGN.
Avgn definitely has. Nostalgia critc has fallen too far from grace.
@Alex NAILED IT!
NotMe f*uck you
13 years later and this guy still manages to make people laugh. One of the best TH-cam enterteiners there will ever be.
I remember arguing with my boss at work about this game. He showed me this video and I been a fan since. 😂
wow your boss loves video games? may be our boss does too i havent asked yet)
Ave Mcree Your boss is/was a cool dude
....Can I get a boss like that?
What are you arguing about
It was actually my former boss who showed me this back then as well!
It was a little later though (Plumbers don't wear ties was just out) and we ran through an episode daily from the beginning at lunch.
Awesome times.
"stupid bannana raincoat wearing bitch" I don't know when or how but I will use this line some day.
Smithstirini yep
Did you?😁
I cried laughing at that 😂
Who else is still binge watching in 2019?
Always will
Wise beardedman He’s the angry Atari Sega nerrrrrd.
Ha ha! I remember this game! It did suck along with Rambo, Jaws, and Friday the 13th.
Yeah I remember having this game. And only being able to use Donatello.
Me
It's crazy seeing this guy grow up on TH-cam
From a 25 year old to a 40 year old. Time flies.
You think that’s crazy I think it’s insane of how popular he’s gotten like seriously his games called AVGN Adventures on the 3DS and AVGN 2 Assimilation as well as the AVGN Adventures on the Switch
He didn't grow up, he grew older.
Sad isn't it
AVGN is the reason why I try to put more effort into framing my curse words.
3:40
You can just walk over it...before "you can just walk over it".
Years of experience playing Mario taught me that method, i wish I could've told him lol!
6:13 And "you are scum."
You can actually jump up there it's a glitch.
That ending rant, in my opinion, is still the best one.
The timing of it all and it just felt so naturally angry
I do find myself coming back to this video just for that part, as well as the Friday the 13th vid's end rant.
Jonathan Unger The friday the 13th episode as a whole is awesome
***** In Episode 102 he claims that this rant wasn't memorized by heart, but rather when he was looking away from the camera he actually was reading the script.
***** I agree. "Shredder's my ass and Splinter's my balls" is one of my favorite AVGN quotes. Also "What a shit load of fuck"
Pat Magroin "it sucking fucks, it fucking sucks, it fucking blows its a piece of shit...and I dont like it"
this is the most rewatchable series on youtube. I love how no matter what avgn episode you watch, whether old or new, theres always a lot of quality and creativity to it.
Holy crap 240p. Humble beginnings to the quality of today, James has gone a long way.
Welcome to 2006
There was no different video quality option to click on in TH-cam videos back then.
I watch it in 144p for a better quality.
It's almost like technology has progressed. Almost.
240p we meet again..
13 years later and I’m still laughing about the gap
"You can just walk over it"
Wow, this is older than Jared Fogle's girlfriend.
+Hidious Vanity he lost 600 pounds eating sandwiches he is an inspiration to nobody.
+Joe Bryant he spent his entire career getting in smaller pants lol
+Nit Picker Wow....Savage AF. *slow clap*
Damn.
+Nit Picker This was twitch before twitch was a thing
Never gets old avgn
6:25
The Emotionally Controlled Video Game Nerd.
6:29 Best rant anyone has ever done and perhaps the most iconic AVGN moment.
Me too
So surprised and laughed
100% Agreed!! Favorite AVGN moment ever!
"Shredder's my ass and Splinter's my balls!" HAHAHAHAHA!
"Cowabunga... Cowafucking piece of dog shit" hahaha classic
Wow, 10 years... I feel so old
Dan Vasc same
Hell.. its 12 years old now in 1 week.. lol
It's official...12 years.
Dan Vasc It's twelve,"damn"
10 years have got behind you, no one told you when to run; YOU MISSED THE STARTING GUN!
"wait you can just walk over it" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I remember watching this when my new born daughter was sleeping, she's almost 8 now. Crazy how time flies, thanks for the years of entertainment James Rolfe
She turns 16 this year. That's insane
How is your daughter now?
"Pizzashit" that's freaking clever. XD
Lmaoooooo man i got this game ages ago like 1989 or something and his reaction was mine back then. Hate that game with a passion
To this day "you can just walk over it" makes me laugh because I spent untold hours retrying this jump as a kid for some nerd in 2006 to show me it was all a waste. His scowl represents my inner child throwing the controller across the room.
I used that quote when Dreadking Rathalos literally walked over me and killed me in ONE hit!
AVGN: the only person, besides Nostalgia Critic, who can make repeated swearing look classy
Nostalgia Critic sucks dude
Aaron M Nostalgia Critic's great
No; nooooo he's not
+Chris Wollensack 3 years ago I would agree with you but ever since he made his comeback and introduced new characters and skits into his reviews 2013, the quality has drastically decreased
You forgot ADoseofBuckley.
6:30 The holy grail of funny.
Sir McQuack Cowabunga.....
Jake Brewington COWAFUCKING PIECE OF DOG SHIT
I come back to this video every once in a while just for that part
"You can just walk over it"... smh I remember when I found that out too.
Well, at least isn't impossible to complete
**MS-DOS flashbacks intensifies**
AVGN's legendary rant here @ 6:29
That rant at the end is GOAT
second trip through the AVGN videos..... I'm almost 30, but my love for old school video games will never die.
Amen indeed.
It's a culture. You're stuck with us.
Richard Krzyzanski wouldnt wanna be stuck anywere else!
Niko Si
Mid-30s here and still playing these games, and my father (who used to play these with me when I was a kid and is now in his 60s) still likes to play them too! So nope, you're never too old :)
I'm 23 and I wasn't even around for the the Atari or NES days, but I love retro games of all types. 2600, Commodore, NES, SNES, Master System, Genesis, N64, Saturn, Dreamcast, PSone, PS2. This was back when gaming actually meant something to me. There was no DLC, expansion packs, or being charged for cheat codes.
Seeing the TMNT Cowabunga Collection brought me back here 😂
Me too.
Holy crap. Even its over 10 years, the "comment" at the last minute is still so remarkable.
I always will watch this no matter how long has passed.
4:32 has been the best part for well over 10 years for me; 🤣😂😂 at "This is just a bunch of cockadookie, this is bullfuck!"
That moment when you realize you can just walk over the space, your real AVGN character came to be...
2:03 "Stupid banana raincoat wearing bitch." 😁😂
3:58 They're like Sonic, who also can't swim even though hedgehogs are actually fairly decent swimmers!
Mike, this needs a higher quality version.
austinfailz th-cam.com/video/Po-mwFaz37Y/w-d-xo.html
ASSSSSSSSSS!
Thanks though. Looks way better.
***** I laughed
what would he do some editing and dress up as a fucking ninja turtle
+ozzyalmighty I know! Amazing!
6:54 can it be the origin of the lyrics “he’d rather have a buffalo take a diarrhea dump in his ear” ?
That’s the next review
6:10 Holy shit.
You can just walk over it...I lost so many games on that level because of that jump.
Back in time when 240p was standard :)
The good ol days :)
Now, at least 480p is expected.
The deadpan "and I don't like it" is what made me (and I'm sure many others)a fan back in the day.
One of the most intense fits of laughter I've ever had.
Thanks James 🙂
I really love this game. Maybe im in the minority. Reminds me most of the NES than anything else.
This was my favourite game on the NES, and I still have it to this day. Once you learned you can full-speed walk over the 1-block gaps, as James shows in the sewer level, it became so much easier.
Literally everyone had this gamelmao
This game was great if you loved Turtles
Rewatching the series, and this is when AVGN really comes into his own. Especially that end.
"stupid banana raincoat-wearing bitch" is still one of my favorite insults to this day.
16 years later i’m watching this video all over again
"...and I don't like it." is such an iconic line for the Nerd. What a gem.
Wait, didn't you have to swim on the dam mission? And yet, they can't swim in the sewer?
maybe there is a strong flow in the sewers, that's why you can't control it
Hmm, I guess that could be. Although... turtles are pretty good swimmers...
Ziaheart sea turtles-yes, normal land turtles-hardly likely
TabalugaDragon Aren't all turtles kind of amphibian? I'm learning new things every day!
Ziaheart all reptiles are decent swimmers but not all great swimmers...Land turtles aren't kind of amphibian. They probably can swim, but definitely not as great as sea turtles
“Why is this game so hard? It’s for kids! Have mercy!”
Underrated line/10
"This is just a bunch of cockadookie. This is bullfuck." James has such a way with words.
Cowabunga collection brought me back to this
Wow, I remember watching this on an old box monitor desktop with detached speakers and dial up internet as a kid. We’ve come a long way
17 years ago. Insane. I remember when this was new. The net and videos started taking off. So much fun in early internet and youtube day's
Before being spammed with corporate advertisements left right and centre. Great Times.
I heard this rant on an Ed Edd n Eddy TH-cam poop once years ago and was searching for it ever since. I have finally found it. I almost starting believing in god for a second there...
You hear the TMNT theme every time you beat a boss. Sure its just the "Heros in a half shell. Turtle power" part but its there.
The best AVGN Rant ever 6:23 to 7:03
Another thing about this game is the respawn rate of enemies is insane.
“You can just walk over it?”
Why even have that there!!!!!?
@1:02 "How am I supposed to get up there? That's impossible".
13 seconds later: "The only way to get up there is with Donatello."
ME: Ummmm...that's the point of the game...to switch turtles.
I remember watching this shit when I was in elementary and being afraid of my mom listening to Avgn cuss 😂 now I'm a senior in high school god damn time flies
same
i started watching him when i was 9 and now im 14
this came out on mybday I feel old too
Same bro lol just turned 18 a few months ago
+oldniggafuture I started watching him in elementary school with the same concern now im a freshman in college and i watch it with the volume all the way up while still singing along to the theme song
There's a speed run of this here on TH-cam. It was done to raise money, and the gentleman that did it was really impressive, if maybe a little nerdy. For the sewer jumps, he explained that there are three distinct jumps one can do. He talked about how all of the turtles attacks actually hit enemies behind them(besides Ralph, who is basically a sacrificial lamb). He knew the spawns of the game, and how to generate which enemy spawn set. He knew the percentage odds of reaching the Technodrome depending on which sewer pipe you go down, and he knew of alternative things to do when attempting a world record(which I think he owns). It was fun to see someone fully dissect one of my favorite childhood games.
All these years later and I still come back to watch this. Such a classic lololol
Me too lol the end is epic and the April o Neal line lol
Krang: exists
Game developers: You get purple bats and hopping drumsticks
I had a AVGN moment when I broke my controller, throwing it at my tv. It was from that same spot in the ceiling. Jumping for hours, I gave up after several game sittings. Was no internet back then. I was looking up the Japanese TMNT OVA, and came across your video. Now I'm hooked and debating if I should go back and play it. It's crap, yet I own it and haven't beaten it. Thanks for making your videos.
***** pretty much raging and trolling and lagging
bat sonic same here except this time there was was one brainwashed guy who got on my side immediately when I waved 5$ in his face
6:30 "Cowabunga" this rant is probably the most classic nerd in his most purest form.
The legends say that he's still trying to get that pizza. 🍕
In 7th grade, around 2007, my buddy and I had that whole rant at the end memorized. We used to repeat it when we didn't like whatever things at school.
4:22 This part always brings tears to my eyes. Awww fucking classic :D
One decade of this hilarious shit.
5:00 I remember I was at a convention in like 2009 when they showed
AVGN in a big theater room, and when he got the pizza everyone in the
audience cheered.
I've just realized the game was 17 years old when the video was published... Now the video is 17 years old!! 😮
two decades and i'm still in, avgn is a part of my life that will never fade away
DUDE IM FREAKING OUT RIGHT NOW. I jumped up to the part where you can walk over the gap!
Det är fan helt underbart att någon/några har subbat hela säsongen på svenska, kudos på det!
I sat my nephew down to play Ninja turtles. He's 7 years old and he figured the pizza jump out and that single space jump for the rockets right away. It took me years as a kid to do it and my 7-year-old nephew gets it right away.
Crazy how a 16 year old TH-cam video about an old video game is 10x funnier than anything todays “comedians” are producing.
ERB: "We're like your NES game, cause we can't be beaten"
You just finished watching the retail review of this game, didn't you?
Yep!
Fun Fact: Ultra games was just a shell corporation for Konami. What that means is that Konami just made the company up so they could release more games for the system, because back in the 80's, Nintendo only had company release a certain amount of titles a year so they wouldn't just crank out games. That was their way of getting around it.
Yeah Konami published the NES version of Metal Gear in the US as "Ultra Games". The use of a dummy company... sounds like an intrigue espionage plot from a Metal Gear game! -- AT
The Tanker incident two years ago...
The spill in the Manhattan bay instigated the construction of the Big Shell.
All a ploy by the Patriots to test the Triple S Project -
The Super Sucky ShellcorporationknownasUltraGames
damn... seeing "10 years ago" in a youtube video...
It feels weird man.. We are getting old..
it's gonna be 14 years old soon enough..
Im from the future and its 20 yearsold now
At least the game had a very nice soundtrack, I remember when I used to gt into situations like the one at 4:50 I just stood there and calmed my nerves down to the music, and the water level music has to be in the top five of any video game ever
I'm glad I can watch this 18 years later and still laugh. Oh the simpler times...
Last cursing combo is unbeatable😅
I finally got the cowabunga collection for PS4 and had to come back to watch this! Thanks James, you definitely said what all of us were thinking.
Been playing the new cowabunga collection on ps5. Hahaha had to come back and watch this classic AVGN!!
AVGN should review another TMNT game for the 40th anniversary!
i moved away from home today and couldn’t relax from anything that normally relaxes me :/ avgn rly did the trick. never change james
now on pc, ps systems, even the nintendo switch, there is the cowabunga collection and this game is mutch more playable (if you turn sprite flikkering of and the slowdown, you can even save.... everyware so.
Oh man, I STILL remember that underwater level, and I must have been like 6 when I played it.
Fun fact: In the TMNT Cowabunga Collection guidebook in the game, the guide says you have to walk to get the items. Looks like Konami watched AVGN
Something special about these classic nerd episodes ❤
I used to love this game
You must be one of turtles or creators