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I always say my childhood peaked when I played the TMNT arcade game for the first time in the lobby of a movie theater when my friends and I were there for a friend's birthday and we were seeing the Ninja Turtles movie. Its hard to top a dopamine rush like that has a 9 year old lol
TMNT was the 1st game I ever finished in the arcade. I started playing and 3 random kids joined in and we button mashed our way right to the end, god knows how much we spent between us 😂. We gave each other a high 5 when we completed it and went our separate ways. One of my fondest moments in an arcade. Kids today will never get that.
I miss arcades. I have a lot of memories with Double Dragon, beating up baddies all the way to the final boss, only to fight each other at the end for Marian, lol. Memories...
@@medmuscle I remember I used to go to the same arcade every holiday, it was massive with every type of game possible. Spent hours of my life bashing away on those buttons. Then I also remember the heartbreak and shock when I returned from one year to find all the games removed (apart from a small section) and replaced with bloody slot machines everywhere.
I remember going on holiday with a friend in 1990, on that holiday in Newquay - I saw and played the following games for the first time: Final Fight (wow!), Golden Axe and TMNT - seriously, awesome memories. Agree with your list, impressed by the Nes, Amstrad and the Speccy versions.
A good comparison of the different versions. I appreciate the time and energy that goes into making videos like this 🙂 I only played the arcade version back then and it was pretty special. A 16-bit version on SNES and Mega Drive would have been the best home version but the timing for that didn't work out. Turtles in Time on SNES was the best home version of a Turtles arcade game and still is. At least, it is if you don't count the Cowabunga Collection but that's just the original arcade versions being emulated because... well, there's no good business reason to remake them when emulation is as accurate as it is.
Mate that was a well done video you hit that 90 second intro on the money and even brought back some memories with the Asda Pizza lol. I always forget that Turtles 2 was arcade and not just SNES which is one of my fave games of all time. Hope you do TMNT2 next
Loved playing the Arcade with friends or total strangers in random arcades in the early 90's. Always rushed home to watch the cartoon after school on the DJkat show on Sky 1.
i remember joining in strangers games and having strangers join in the arcade game when i was a kid konami hit gold with these arcade multiplayer games and gave me wonderfull memories.
Loved this game so much back in the day in the arcades...could always hear the attract mode calling you to play. Loved it so much i own the 2 player TMHT (UK) original Jamma arcade board now 😊 Had an Amstrad and always enjoyed that version at home, when the SNES Turtles in Time game came out....wow
Just ordered the NES version for my custom game boy advance, played the arcade loads in UK holidays parks in 1990s, now 42 years old and love the nostalgia 🙏
Oh ZX Spectrum (my beloved), that was so smooth and so nice to look at, great sprites and everything about it is special, especially with the limitations Big ups and respect for the developers who has the time to make it that good. NES one is a masterpiece though
Funny how the 8 bit NES version manages to run at a proper 60 FPS with responsive controls and the 16 bit Atari ST and Amiga versions are horribly choppy. Especially unforgivable on the Amiga as it had hardware support for scrolling and sprites.
@@JustJamie1983 Amiga and Atari ST diddent have hardware tiles at all. Its all bitmap. but Amiga is a direct Atari ST port with small effort and did not use blitter and so on......
I'm shocked that you had 9:45 as your number one pick as the best port, Jamie. I liked the game as a kid since it's the only thing to play the arcade classic as I knew back then. But something was off compared to the arcade version.
Believe it or not but the Amstrad version does contain music. It's in the code but not utilized. This is a rare game on Amstrad as it's a latter commercial release along with Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis the Action Game
the first intro to the arcade gam was the NES port and I was enamored with it. Of course after it came out as TMNT 2 after that first TMNT NES title lol!
I was 9 years old when TMNT came out. I had almost all the action figures. Then, a year later, the movie came out, which confused the crap outta 10 year old me as Rocky Steady and BeBop weren't in it. Nor was Krang.
My all time favourite arcade game. My local video shop had this for about a year and i begged my parents for cash every time i went there. Got the c64 version and loved thag too. I already had the other c64 TMNT game (which i know is a bit crap and far too hard, but i still loved it and did manage to beat it), but the 'coin-op' was so much better. I remember my parents buying it for me in Boots, in Gloucester. Seems weird thinking of Boots selling video games, doesn't it?
I didn’t know they did it on the pc as we just had the other turtles game which wasn’t very easy, until by accident we pressed a bunch of keys down at the same time and got some sort of invincibility cheat, but if we had this we would have been super happy, even with the pc beeper
Along with WWF Wrestlefest and Simpsons one of the best arcade games of the era. No expectations when the Speccy version came out and I was right. Arcade royalty.
I like the Amiga port. It looks great and plays decent even with the 1 button controls. It closer resembles the arcade. Of course I had the NES version. The added levels and bosses did extend the game but really didn’t improve it much. But it’s the definitive port no question. Really wish this could have been on the PC-Engine/Turbo Grafix 16 CD back in the day. That would have been amazing.
For the time I agree the NES version although not perfect was the superior port by quite a large margin. But there is 1 version which destroys that... the Xbox 360 Arcade version which was released alongside The Simpsons Arcade both being 'Arcade Perfect' ports
So, here in Brazil, it was this arcade game in the NES clones at home all the rage. And, so, rightfully so, the best version in the period. There wasn't any C64, nor CPC, the ZX Spectrum's clone failed commercially, IBM compatibles were existing but not much affordable... So, my Top Game, a NES clone by CCE, was the cheapest option AND the best gift my father gave me when I was 10 years old. I was aware of TMNT game a year later and it never failed to be fun since then and on.
@JustJamie1983 Master System was very popular indeed here. However, it was the only official 8-bit game console of that generation, thanks to TecToy. Only about 3 or 4 years after SMS' arrival we had an official NES manufactured by Playtronic, a merge between Gradiente (a manufacturer that before was the official Atari distributor and a NES clone, Phantom System) and Estrela (a Toy manufacturer that didn't give shit about videogames). The official NES was dead on arrival and the real deal was the Super NES. Nintendo has always played hard with Brazil, but, at that time, Brazilian laws allowed foreign companies only to manufacture from the country unless they had an agreement with a national one. Taxes have always been terrible for imports. So, believe me, the real rivals to Sega here in my country, during the 8-bit days, were the NES clones.
I forgot to mention that the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST were only known in game magazines, but weren't popular at all. They were too expensive to import...
@@JustJamie1983Of course, SMS was very popular... The 1st official 8-bit game console to come here. By the time the official NES came, 4 or 5 years later, it was dead on arrival. So, the real rivals to Master System here were the NES clones.
Exactly what I thought. They were too long, too unnecessary, too "epic" and just forgettable. The true TMNT era was our era and nothing has come close to beating it since. Don't even get me started on the Nickleodeon era...
mmm Turtles... as a kid I had no idea that original and pirated video games existed, I bought my first original video game and it was also a disappointment because I wanted to get Turtle arcade for Commodore 64 instead I bought another Turtles game which wasn't even bad but I didn't read or even look at what I bought... kid...in my area Megadrive and Super Nintendo were a luxury and I couldn't even afford a Commodore Amiga 500/600 and on this computer the conversion of Turtles like other games was a dream, seeing kids buying lots of (pirated) floppies at the newsstand was something that I envied and dreamed of having a collection of games all to myself one day. my favorite Turtles game? today I would say the arcade one even if that title which wasn't Turtles arcade for Commodore 64 remains in my mind because it was the first time I left home to go to a toy shop to buy a game with my own money that for better or for worse it made me experience an adventure for someone like me who was an introverted kid who rarely or spontaneously left the house.
@@JustJamie1983 It was a commentary on your rankings. You show a port that has a game breaking bug on level 1. However, you rank it higher than 3 other versions. That doesn't make sense to me.
@ZeroCharisma because bugs like this were very common in those days. To say the game isn't complete is wrong. The game is full, like I also said. It so happened that two images I had both did the same. Therefore I placed it in third place.
The worst port of this game is the game I got for the CPC, I assumed it would be a copy of the arcade game but it was the scrolling platform game. My mum had scoured the games shops for a copy so I had to pretend to be thrilled hut I was gutted!
Enjoying these port comparisons but I thought the point was to rank the games according to how much they captured the look and sound of the Arcade game and on that basis, the NES version feels too high, no matter how well it plays.
I hated Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles and everything do with it, so never played this even though I owned an Amiga, but I was a young adult by the time the craze started at 21 years of age, too old. That said even at 55 years old I enjoy playing JRPGs like the Persona series for instance even though they're clearly designed for teens. Good to see the Amiga version of TMHT use it's custom hardware including hardware scrolling rather than being just a lazy ST port, but come on, no music with a much more powerful sound chip than the Atari ST when even the C64 version had SID music, no excuse except being lazy or rushed.
You have great videos but your always rate Spectrum games way too high. Any computer if using only 2 colours and no sound will be have more fluid gameplay, does this make a better game? I think not
That's very debatable. In most cases. The ZX has a better CPU than say, the C64. So things often are more fluid to play and faster if programmed right.
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I always say my childhood peaked when I played the TMNT arcade game for the first time in the lobby of a movie theater when my friends and I were there for a friend's birthday and we were seeing the Ninja Turtles movie. Its hard to top a dopamine rush like that has a 9 year old lol
Yeah, never thought of that but yeah, peaked is a good way of seeing it.
TMNT was the 1st game I ever finished in the arcade.
I started playing and 3 random kids joined in and we button mashed our way right to the end, god knows how much we spent between us 😂. We gave each other a high 5 when we completed it and went our separate ways.
One of my fondest moments in an arcade.
Kids today will never get that.
Ditto. Did the same with The Simpsons. Great days.
Me too. This and Simpsons all the way.
I miss arcades. I have a lot of memories with Double Dragon, beating up baddies all the way to the final boss, only to fight each other at the end for Marian, lol. Memories...
@@medmuscle I remember I used to go to the same arcade every holiday, it was massive with every type of game possible. Spent hours of my life bashing away on those buttons. Then I also remember the heartbreak and shock when I returned from one year to find all the games removed (apart from a small section) and replaced with bloody slot machines everywhere.
Thank god for Konami and Capcom in the 90s
and 80s
Absolutely
Didn't realize how much April looks like a blow up doll at the end of stage 1 lol
Hahaha
I remember going on holiday with a friend in 1990, on that holiday in Newquay - I saw and played the following games for the first time: Final Fight (wow!), Golden Axe and TMNT - seriously, awesome memories.
Agree with your list, impressed by the Nes, Amstrad and the Speccy versions.
You are of the same era. A totally radical time 😀
@@JustJamie1983 agreed, also a big Count Duckula fan here too :D
It was a excellent time to be a kid I went to Blackpool on holiday in 1990, every arcade I went in had Turtles.
A good comparison of the different versions. I appreciate the time and energy that goes into making videos like this 🙂 I only played the arcade version back then and it was pretty special. A 16-bit version on SNES and Mega Drive would have been the best home version but the timing for that didn't work out. Turtles in Time on SNES was the best home version of a Turtles arcade game and still is. At least, it is if you don't count the Cowabunga Collection but that's just the original arcade versions being emulated because... well, there's no good business reason to remake them when emulation is as accurate as it is.
Mate that was a well done video you hit that 90 second intro on the money and even brought back some memories with the Asda Pizza lol. I always forget that Turtles 2 was arcade and not just SNES which is one of my fave games of all time. Hope you do TMNT2 next
Personally. I rate this over turtles in time any day.
Loved playing the Arcade with friends or total strangers in random arcades in the early 90's. Always rushed home to watch the cartoon after school on the DJkat show on Sky 1.
i remember joining in strangers games and having strangers join in the arcade game when i was a kid konami hit gold with these arcade multiplayer games and gave me wonderfull memories.
We could socialise back then without fear of social media influencing us.
Loved this game so much back in the day in the arcades...could always hear the attract mode calling you to play.
Loved it so much i own the 2 player TMHT (UK) original Jamma arcade board now 😊
Had an Amstrad and always enjoyed that version at home, when the SNES Turtles in Time game came out....wow
Couldn't agree more!
To me this is the definitive version of TMNT, the violence of the comics and the awesome cheesiness of the first season of the cartoon mixed together.
This is the ranking we were all waiting for you to make! And this was the ONLY choice for #1! GOOD SHOW OLD CHAP! 5/5 stars!
Why thank you very much 😀
Just ordered the NES version for my custom game boy advance, played the arcade loads in UK holidays parks in 1990s, now 42 years old and love the nostalgia 🙏
Same era as me. Great era.
Looking forward to you covering my favourite Arcade games, Wonder Boy and Wonder Boy in Monster Land.
At some point 😀
@@JustJamie1983 I also vote for Wonder Boy and Wonder Boy in Monster Land ;)
Oh ZX Spectrum (my beloved), that was so smooth and so nice to look at, great sprites and everything about it is special, especially with the limitations
Big ups and respect for the developers who has the time to make it that good. NES one is a masterpiece though
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@JustJamie1983 I really do, thank you
Funny how the 8 bit NES version manages to run at a proper 60 FPS with responsive controls and the 16 bit Atari ST and Amiga versions are horribly choppy. Especially unforgivable on the Amiga as it had hardware support for scrolling and sprites.
Nothing out of the ordinary for computer versions.
@@JustJamie1983 Amiga and Atari ST diddent have hardware tiles at all. Its all bitmap. but Amiga is a direct Atari ST port with small effort and did not use blitter and so on......
In the early days of Nickelodeon, the channel licensed a lot of international kids shows, so even those of us in the USA got to see Count Duckula.
Remember that being on regular tv here, at the time trix cereal was orange, purple and yellow balls.
The robots are called "Mousers". They were created by Baxter Stockman and used to capture Splinter.
Ah that's the one, it's been a while.
NES was my childhood's game and I was almost completed it, was beaten by Krang.
My cousin actually brought the record on vinyl back in the day - Turtle Power by Partners in Kryme
That song was ace. I pretty much remember the lyrics to date.
TMNT Arcade NES port was the Bees'Knees outside of the Arcade original. Just a shame the Genesis never got a port.
Yeah, very odd. I guess it was licensing issues?
I'm shocked that you had 9:45 as your number one pick as the best port, Jamie.
I liked the game as a kid since it's the only thing to play the arcade classic as I knew back then. But something was off compared to the arcade version.
Haha, i aim to shock and avoid the status quo of ranking videos. I like to look outside the box 😀
i still got the nes version.. i got the cowbunga collection for switch too..great video dude.
Hey, thanks very much.. the cowabunga collection is pretty special.
TMNT was at the caravan (stayed every summer) can still remember the cheers when 4 kids finished the game
A very holiday game by the seems of itm
Believe it or not but the Amstrad version does contain music. It's in the code but not utilized. This is a rare game on Amstrad as it's a latter commercial release along with Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis the Action Game
the first intro to the arcade gam was the NES port and I was enamored with it. Of course after it came out as TMNT 2 after that first TMNT NES title lol!
Yeah a little odd how they named it part two. A licensing issue of some kind more than likely.
I was 9 years old when TMNT came out. I had almost all the action figures. Then, a year later, the movie came out, which confused the crap outta 10 year old me as Rocky Steady and BeBop weren't in it. Nor was Krang.
I am guessing the mutated enemies especially Krang was far too ambitious for that film. I mean. How would the teknodrome of fitting in?
@JustJamie1983 Use the same model as the Death Star in Star Wars.
3:43 You said smooper 😂. Another great video tho!
Thanks 😅
@@JustJamie1983 lmao I'm just messing with ya. Always great content!
@OENIGMA1 haha I know 🤣
My all time favourite arcade game. My local video shop had this for about a year and i begged my parents for cash every time i went there.
Got the c64 version and loved thag too. I already had the other c64 TMNT game (which i know is a bit crap and far too hard, but i still loved it and did manage to beat it), but the 'coin-op' was so much better.
I remember my parents buying it for me in Boots, in Gloucester. Seems weird thinking of Boots selling video games, doesn't it?
Yup. A slight before my time. But I know they did in the 80s.
I didn’t know they did it on the pc as we just had the other turtles game which wasn’t very easy, until by accident we pressed a bunch of keys down at the same time and got some sort of invincibility cheat, but if we had this we would have been super happy, even with the pc beeper
Really. The DOS game is fairly decent. Just let down by the music, but that's pretty much the same for most.
Best port - Cowabunga Collection (Multi, 2022)
Best TMNT on NES! 😏👍🔥
Along with WWF Wrestlefest and Simpsons one of the best arcade games of the era. No expectations when the Speccy version came out and I was right. Arcade royalty.
100%
I like the Amiga port. It looks great and plays decent even with the 1 button controls. It closer resembles the arcade.
Of course I had the NES version. The added levels and bosses did extend the game but really didn’t improve it much. But it’s the definitive port no question.
Really wish this could have been on the PC-Engine/Turbo Grafix 16 CD back in the day.
That would have been amazing.
Would have been ace on TG CD.
For the time I agree the NES version although not perfect was the superior port by quite a large margin. But there is 1 version which destroys that... the Xbox 360 Arcade version which was released alongside The Simpsons Arcade both being 'Arcade Perfect' ports
So, here in Brazil, it was this arcade game in the NES clones at home all the rage. And, so, rightfully so, the best version in the period. There wasn't any C64, nor CPC, the ZX Spectrum's clone failed commercially, IBM compatibles were existing but not much affordable... So, my Top Game, a NES clone by CCE, was the cheapest option AND the best gift my father gave me when I was 10 years old. I was aware of TMNT game a year later and it never failed to be fun since then and on.
To my knowledge, wasn't the Master System very popular in Brazil too?
@JustJamie1983 Master System was very popular indeed here. However, it was the only official 8-bit game console of that generation, thanks to TecToy. Only about 3 or 4 years after SMS' arrival we had an official NES manufactured by Playtronic, a merge between Gradiente (a manufacturer that before was the official Atari distributor and a NES clone, Phantom System) and Estrela (a Toy manufacturer that didn't give shit about videogames). The official NES was dead on arrival and the real deal was the Super NES. Nintendo has always played hard with Brazil, but, at that time, Brazilian laws allowed foreign companies only to manufacture from the country unless they had an agreement with a national one. Taxes have always been terrible for imports. So, believe me, the real rivals to Sega here in my country, during the 8-bit days, were the NES clones.
I forgot to mention that the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST were only known in game magazines, but weren't popular at all. They were too expensive to import...
@@JustJamie1983Of course, SMS was very popular... The 1st official 8-bit game console to come here. By the time the official NES came, 4 or 5 years later, it was dead on arrival. So, the real rivals to Master System here were the NES clones.
Let's be honest, "Hero Turtles" was only in the UK, hahaha.
Also in Austria and I guess more countries in Europe.
Listen if rock steady's entrance is a criterium i need to see it scored for all versions.
Why do the bandanna colours keep changing on the ST and Amiga ports? That seems very distracting
Because that was the how bad some of these were.
Okay, you win TH-cam Video Game Troll of the Year.
?
This list sums up why I snubbed the micro computers perfectly. 🤣
Exactly
Exactly
Great arcade game , loved it
The amiga version didn't even have in game music , very lazy port by probe software
Yup
I aree with you. The graphic is not the mean aspect of a game. It is more important the gameplay
Exactly.
B A B A Up Down B A Left Right BA Start. Extra lives and Stage Select. It doesn't get much better
Never knew that. Thanks
The original TMNT boom in the late 1980s was the best.
I can't stand the Michael Bay movies where he made them giants.
Exactly what I thought. They were too long, too unnecessary, too "epic" and just forgettable. The true TMNT era was our era and nothing has come close to beating it since. Don't even get me started on the Nickleodeon era...
Thanks Jamie.
My pleasure!
mmm Turtles... as a kid I had no idea that original and pirated video games existed, I bought my first original video game and it was also a disappointment because I wanted to get Turtle arcade for Commodore 64 instead I bought another Turtles game which wasn't even bad but I didn't read or even look at what I bought... kid...in my area Megadrive and Super Nintendo were a luxury and I couldn't even afford a Commodore Amiga 500/600 and on this computer the conversion of Turtles like other games was a dream, seeing kids buying lots of (pirated) floppies at the newsstand was something that I envied and dreamed of having a collection of games all to myself one day. my favorite Turtles game? today I would say the arcade one even if that title which wasn't Turtles arcade for Commodore 64 remains in my mind because it was the first time I left home to go to a toy shop to buy a game with my own money that for better or for worse it made me experience an adventure for someone like me who was an introverted kid who rarely or spontaneously left the house.
Awww, that's really sad to read.
@@JustJamie1983 Wait! mine wasn't a bad experience, I can assure you that some of my best memories are thanks to video games. ^^
@xcom457 ah that's cool then 😉
The Atari ST has a game breaking bug on level 1 but, it's still better than the 8 bit micro's.
Ah I see. Thanks for letting me know. Such a pity.
@@JustJamie1983 It was a commentary on your rankings. You show a port that has a game breaking bug on level 1. However, you rank it higher than 3 other versions. That doesn't make sense to me.
@ZeroCharisma because bugs like this were very common in those days. To say the game isn't complete is wrong. The game is full, like I also said. It so happened that two images I had both did the same. Therefore I placed it in third place.
The worst port of this game is the game I got for the CPC, I assumed it would be a copy of the arcade game but it was the scrolling platform game. My mum had scoured the games shops for a copy so I had to pretend to be thrilled hut I was gutted!
Why the atari ST version....it looks like all the turtles rolled into one super turtle lol? Same with the amiga version
Now that's Turtle power.
Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Start
What does this code do?
As far as i know the Contra code doesn’t do anything for this game
Well, at least April had a good time!
Hahhaa
The nes game isn’t a port, it’s it’s own game. It doesn’t retain the combat nor does it look like the arcade aside from the first level.
It's just easier to say port, and yes. It is much like the arcade game despite having a couple of extra levels.
Enjoying these port comparisons but I thought the point was to rank the games according to how much they captured the look and sound of the Arcade game and on that basis, the NES version feels too high, no matter how well it plays.
I made an exception lol
@@JustJamie1983ha ha, fair enough. Your list, your rules 😂
You should do Rampage next
@cm0123 it is coming at some point 😀
This game missed an important graphic. When hit the enemy it didn't feel like you hit them...
I wonder if the C64 versions of these games would look better they left colors out and went black and white
ZX games did this often and it only works when the sprites are bold enough to sit on top. Definitely a fine art. Otherwise it’s a checkerboard mess.
@@willmatic5768 Game Boy was black and white. The sprites usually looked better than C64. Which is more powerful Game Boy or C64?
I hated Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles and everything do with it, so never played this even though I owned an Amiga, but I was a young adult by the time the craze started at 21 years of age, too old. That said even at 55 years old I enjoy playing JRPGs like the Persona series for instance even though they're clearly designed for teens. Good to see the Amiga version of TMHT use it's custom hardware including hardware scrolling rather than being just a lazy ST port, but come on, no music with a much more powerful sound chip than the Atari ST when even the C64 version had SID music, no excuse except being lazy or rushed.
Yup. That's fair enough. Far too old to get into a cartoon. Same happened with me and that Pokeman thing. Too old by the time it came out.
Why did they call them "Hero" Turtles in your neck of the woods? Is ninja taboo?
Ninja was associated with Violence at the time and they didn't want the association.
@JustJamie1983. And yet we had ninja hamstet, bmx ninja, etc etc. Think it was a bbc decision though could be wrong
@twankistevenson3884 yup. Dosent make much sense.
It went so far that the Nunchaku were not allowed to be shown in that version of the cartoon. For whatever reason they were okay in the game though.
You have great videos but your always rate Spectrum games way too high. Any computer if using only 2 colours and no sound will be have more fluid gameplay, does this make a better game? I think not
That's very debatable. In most cases. The ZX has a better CPU than say, the C64. So things often are more fluid to play and faster if programmed right.
nes is the best port indeed
100%
prefer the nes port
It's a corker.
Always preferred the other tmnt game on c64 its pure nostalgia
Yup. Was a very cool game despite people's hate towards it.