Wow, this is incredible. I played this game extensively as a kid and never beat it. The farthest I got was inside the technodrome when the rooms change color for the first time. The dam level was a pain too, but after playing it enough times, that was more of one of the easy stages. Mad props.
23:10 That hallway right there is as far as i have EVER got! I tried forcing my way through it, fighting my way through it, nothing seemed to work. wow..i had no idea how close i really was! After so many years, i owe it to myself to finish this thing!
did the instruction manual mention what turtle was best at what? for example, in the infamous bomb disarming swimming stage, donatello was bit faster at disarming the bombs, given that he was the tech nerd of the bunch. what about the other turtles?
All of the tunnels in Area 4 have a number--even though you don't need to use them all, there are so many of them that you would have a tough time keeping track of where you were if they weren't numbered.
...You took six damage over the course of the entire game. ... Even if it had all been on one turtle, and even if you hadn't gotten any healing, you still wouldn't have lost a life. ... I think I hate you.
Thanks for the reply, im not going for a speedrun but just wanted to know as im always trying to save health by that stage and walking through all those holes drains what little health I have left. I managed to beat this game though for the first time just recently, after playing it for like 20+ years lol. But well done, and thanks your video helped quite a bit.
@Gtorockk all of my speedruns are done the same i hit the record button and play all the way through if i finish it cool if not then i make use of the reset button and try again lol...
I'm guessing you already know this, but you could've saved time by intentionally falling in the water around 9:20 to get you back outside. Of course, that wouldn't look as cool as dominating the rest of the building like you did.
Bit of an epic letdown in the end with Shredder. Still, was good to see the last couple of levels, I never was good enough to make it that far on the NES, havent tried with a ROM. Well done!
Being someone who played TMNT on the NES, and all the insanity included, I was always confused where the logic sat in the notion that being hit by a long stick was somehow more lethal than a sword.
Just imagine being a kid and finishing this game to find out the saga you love the one you never want to end... is over. That's a BAD ending. **** you ULTRA!
I remember beating this only once as a child, after months of crying and controller throwing. Watching you beat this is disgusting though. I lost two turtles, than got them back than lost them again... Also the damn level is still one of the worst levels ever in games.
Shredder has a de-mutagen gun that this guy didn't even let him fire once. If you got hit by it you turned back into a regular turtle and it would start you at a checkpoint.
I'm guessing you consider pausing the game during the Giant Mouser battle to keep the pearl vulnerable to be a cheat since you didn't do that. And here I didn't think it was possible to beat this under an hour. I guess that only applies to 8 year olds. Very impressive!
That's because any turtle that has the scrolls is automatically the best turtle in that game. April O'Neill would've been the best character if you gave her 99 of those things.
Congratulations on getting past the dam level. You have achieved what 99% of kids back in the day could not do. Ninja Turtles? More like Battle Toads underwater.
Isn't finding the Technodrome in Stage 5 based on the luck of the draw? Is there a technique in spotting which hole is the right one? Or were you just riding your luck there? :P
Using scrolls for Shredder is cheating!!! hahahaha ... man you are awesome, freaking good player. I remember my record was 54 minutes and I felt like a King of the World. I pay my respects to you!!!
Can I ask, is there any way to know exactly which of those 3 holes the technodrome is in? Im always checking all three of them before getting the right one.
at 14:03 I was wonder if you would ever do the double-jump.. when it auto-jumps you after throwing the line at those pipes, you can often do a second jump at the top of the auto-jump.. just for fun =P
now that's some advice i will definitely take this in mind if i decide to re-run this game when i get a Toshiba's RD-A1 HD DVD recorder with 1TB disk i'm really looking forward to it's release ;)
Does anyone know what the numbers mean in the beginning and ending of sewer tunnels? I am a little half way done with the video (great upload and run man! very impressive!!) and have noticed numbers that went up by 3 (for the most part) like 3, 6, 9, 12, 15. Do they mean anything?
No. if you head over to Speed Demos Archive and check the speedrun of TMNT done by Spider-Waffle he also mentions that it is the biggest hindrance to speed run this game the technodrome randomly spawns in the sewers you can complete this game over ten times and chances are you will need to hit the reset button on the nintendo if you want a really good time hope that helps ;)
.... that's how to beat Shredder, I always thought that weapon was the only way to get past the corridor outside his room... used them in the wrong place. Could never beat him without game genie cheats.
I dont know how i would have ever beaten the game without April Oneal's support.....
The nostalgia.. :D
It was a very hard game.. never even saw the end.
always hated the underwater level too
That goddamn water level is so hard. I still can't beat it up to this day
Watching you play this game perfectly makes it look like it was actually fun.
This game made me cry as a kid lol. Thank you for this.
I like how this run showed me how unnecessary most of these rooms were.
The emotional scars i got from this game still persists to this day, This game destroyed my childhood. lol
That out doors city scene music,it really gets stuck in your head,no??
No fair! How can the dam be made to look easy?! This guy's a pro!
How many kids do you think ever saw that ending screen?
18:30 That pizza is a troll move.
LOVE THE MUSIC!!!!
Wow, this is incredible. I played this game extensively as a kid and never beat it. The farthest I got was inside the technodrome when the rooms change color for the first time. The dam level was a pain too, but after playing it enough times, that was more of one of the easy stages. Mad props.
This is just further proof that Donatello is the best turtle.
Using Mikey to disarm bombs?
100% authentic mate.
23:10 That hallway right there is as far as i have EVER got! I tried forcing my way through it, fighting my way through it, nothing seemed to work. wow..i had no idea how close i really was! After so many years, i owe it to myself to finish this thing!
Well, you mocked my childhood! Congratulations!
6:26 is the first 3DTV in existence.
This game was INSANELY hard, it seriously frustrated me. I was never able to finish it in my NES back in the day.
I only got to the Technodrome and never beat it. What a game!
I play this when I was a kid. Nice. Brings back the old games.
Now i can die in peace.
did the instruction manual mention what turtle was best at what? for example, in the infamous bomb disarming swimming stage, donatello was bit faster at disarming the bombs, given that he was the tech nerd of the bunch. what about the other turtles?
Pretty impressive considering that this was NES,The Shredder looks like The Shredder,right??
This level haunted my childhood
i hated that fucking jump at 03:15
4:29 Bullshit detected.
All of the tunnels in Area 4 have a number--even though you don't need to use them all, there are so many of them that you would have a tough time keeping track of where you were if they weren't numbered.
amazing! that last hallway in the technodrome seems to end my game more than anything else... nice job!
...You took six damage over the course of the entire game.
...
Even if it had all been on one turtle, and even if you hadn't gotten any healing, you still wouldn't have lost a life.
...
I think I hate you.
i miss those days. this game was awesome and it still looks good :)
Its fantastic!!! Perfect timming.
I completed this game 4 years ago and I remembered that it´s extremely hard.
Congratulations!!!
Wow, thats insane playthrough. Nice work.
I would always get so frustrated once I reached the turtle mobile I'd quit...kinda cool to see it played all the way through haha
Good job man!
No cheats but one very lucky guess in world 5.
Thanks for the reply, im not going for a speedrun but just wanted to know as im always trying to save health by that stage and walking through all those holes drains what little health I have left. I managed to beat this game though for the first time just recently, after playing it for like 20+ years lol. But well done, and thanks your video helped quite a bit.
This game has the most random enemies
@Gtorockk
all of my speedruns are done the same
i hit the record button and play all the way through if i finish it cool
if not then i make use of the reset button and try again lol...
Donatello was my favorite character. Lol.
I'm guessing you already know this, but you could've saved time by intentionally falling in the water around 9:20 to get you back outside. Of course, that wouldn't look as cool as dominating the rest of the building like you did.
back in the day I never got passed the water level :(
Much props on the game play i remember this game was extremely hard!!! The highest i got was Shredder's Castle
shredder went down like a controlled detonation
that damn water level has haunted me for 20 years
Bit of an epic letdown in the end with Shredder. Still, was good to see the last couple of levels, I never was good enough to make it that far on the NES, havent tried with a ROM. Well done!
They can swim in the dam but not the sewers???
18:45 world hardest boss :>
back to human form!? WwhAT!?
Great NES game. It has its flaws, but if a master gamer like this plays the game, it's just pure art and fun :)
i couldn't beat it as a kid, but LOVED turtles & this game. Well made, but too hard at some parts.
Being someone who played TMNT on the NES, and all the insanity included, I was always confused where the logic sat in the notion that being hit by a long stick was somehow more lethal than a sword.
I can turn back to human form. Let's celebrate with pizza.
Just imagine being a kid and finishing this game to find out the saga you love the one you never want to end... is over. That's a BAD ending. **** you ULTRA!
I remember beating this only once as a child, after months of crying and controller throwing. Watching you beat this is disgusting though. I lost two turtles, than got them back than lost them again... Also the damn level is still one of the worst levels ever in games.
I could never beat this game as a kid. I used to get soooo frustrated and just rage quit, lol! I could never beat Captain Planet either :(
I did finish this game as a young kid but now that I'm grown I have tried to beat it again with no success. This game is tough.
@ 6:14 ... "I have no memory of this place..."
Shredder has a de-mutagen gun that this guy didn't even let him fire once. If you got hit by it you turned back into a regular turtle and it would start you at a checkpoint.
Saw that as well and thought, "I'm gonna need both barrels for this!"
I like how the Technodrome is more of a tear drop and less of a globe. Haha
Not only that, but in the 2nd NES game (which happens to be the arcade game) Splint is a rat again. What happened Splinter? Did you get mutated again?
I'm guessing you consider pausing the game during the Giant Mouser battle to keep the pearl vulnerable to be a cheat since you didn't do that.
And here I didn't think it was possible to beat this under an hour. I guess that only applies to 8 year olds.
Very impressive!
Splinter just changes back??? How? Why? Like wtf?
And nice speed run dude. Epic
That's because any turtle that has the scrolls is automatically the best turtle in that game.
April O'Neill would've been the best character if you gave her 99 of those things.
I would consider 7:32 a cheat but otherwise great game play.
At 7:41 that jump can works ! In fact, I remembered that at 2:55 the player can also do it again.
Congratulations on getting past the dam level. You have achieved what 99% of kids back in the day could not do. Ninja Turtles? More like Battle Toads underwater.
Music sounds like 'Base Wars' (nes)
Thumbs up if you think it'd be cool if they made a TMNT game based on the original comic books with the original grittiness!
I find your run through better than the TAS one. Good work.
This game Definitly made it top 3 games for the nes XD oy vey the Nostolgia! I thought this one was for the Snes.
Isn't finding the Technodrome in Stage 5 based on the luck of the draw? Is there a technique in spotting which hole is the right one? Or were you just riding your luck there? :P
You are a beast. But I don't know how you jumped up at 7:40. I played mine on a nintendo so maybe it's slightly different.
Anyone knows the name of the music starting at 6:05 ? (It's also the start screen music) Thx !
Using scrolls for Shredder is cheating!!! hahahaha ... man you are awesome, freaking good player. I remember my record was 54 minutes and I felt like a King of the World. I pay my respects to you!!!
hated that water level only beaten it twice!
Can I ask, is there any way to know exactly which of those 3 holes the technodrome is in? Im always checking all three of them before getting the right one.
at 14:03 I was wonder if you would ever do the double-jump.. when it auto-jumps you after throwing the line at those pipes, you can often do a second jump at the top of the auto-jump.. just for fun =P
OMG I didn't remember that ending ROTFLMAO.
So, Splinter is an American male? Wooow this game got it all wrong!
damn. i remember when games were hard like this. kids these days have no idea how easy there games are.
11:34 - 11:38 is the hardest jump ever!
now that's some advice i will definitely take this in mind if i decide to re-run this game when i get a Toshiba's RD-A1 HD DVD recorder with 1TB disk i'm really looking forward to it's release ;)
Uhhh, im pretty sure it was Ralph who was bitch slapping Shredder at in that vid, proving that he is in fact the best Turtle.
so this is how you play the game
this game used to drive me and my brother nuts..
I could never get any further than 23:45 as a child!
You said it man. Me and a friend were saying the exact same thing.
Haha I still have this game but I just can't finish it.
Too f#*%in' hard only for hardcore gamers xD
Very good play ! Is it one or multi segments ?
14:16 - the buildings say "01." What's 01 for?
I still shudder anytime someone says 'Dam' it's like PTSD.
Well done sir.
Does anyone know what the numbers mean in the beginning and ending of sewer tunnels? I am a little half way done with the video (great upload and run man! very impressive!!) and have noticed numbers that went up by 3 (for the most part) like 3, 6, 9, 12, 15. Do they mean anything?
impressive
Wow ........that is amazing
You are my hero.
No. if you head over to Speed Demos Archive and check the speedrun of TMNT
done by Spider-Waffle he also mentions that it is the biggest hindrance to speed run
this game the technodrome randomly spawns in the sewers you can complete
this game over ten times and chances are you will need to hit the reset button on the nintendo if you want a really good time hope that helps ;)
luigi180 Two years later... no it isn't a glitch. There was a power up that he grabbed that allows him to do that
.... that's how to beat Shredder, I always thought that weapon was the only way to get past the corridor outside his room... used them in the wrong place. Could never beat him without game genie cheats.