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DF Retro Let's Play: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - NES Turtlemania Revisited!
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Terrible game. Remember getting it and honestly despised it.
Going to a beat em up was the best decision they ever made.
Going to a beat em up was the best decision they ever made.
Looking forward to watching this when I get some time. I played this game so much when I was a kid. Damn Underwater section (not a typo) I never thought was that hard, you just gotta memorize where to go and don't forget to switch.
After that part though, I remember the game getting really hard and I've never made it much further past the dam lol.
After that part though, I remember the game getting really hard and I've never made it much further past the dam lol.
...mmm, it really wasn't "terrible". It was just difficult as shit. It was decent enough.
Never liked the first game, but 2 and 3 are amazing. Anyone that loves these games should check out the fan game, it's amazing.
Download here: https://www.merso-x.com/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-rescue
Download here: https://www.merso-x.com/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-rescue
Yeah I dont remember having much trouble with the underwater level as a kid, its everything after it thats hard. I never really understood how that level got such a reputation for being impossible. I mean I could see it being challenging for people, or someone not being able to find the bombs, but not to the degree its reputation has become. I guess its a battletoads situation with the turbo tunnels, where it was the first wall players ran into for the game.
Me too, but the worldmap music was nice through :)
Played the game again last year, how in the fucking hell did my 12 years old self reach the underwater level in the first place? The whole game is fucked up and brutal.
As a UK NES owner I remember spending a fucking fortune on this in Toys R Us. I foolishly thought this was a version of the awesome arcade Turtles game. Turns out it was just a hard as hell something else. So depressing. I still rate this as my most despised video game purchase.
I got to the final area of this game but could never beat that first boss without using Donatello.
I grew up playing the ZX Spectrum version. I seem to remember the dam level was even harder than it was in the NES version, which I ended up owning a year or two later as well.
Looking forward to watching this video. The AVGN review of the NES Turtles game is one of the all time greats.
Looking forward to watching this video. The AVGN review of the NES Turtles game is one of the all time greats.
First video game I ever completed, after months of playing it. It didn't help that for the first few weeks any time my little brother was in the room our parents made me share lives/turtles with him, each playing until our turtle got captured, and that little asshole would always get Donatello caught and leave me that useless prick Raphael.
The Technodrome interior is bullshit.
The Technodrome interior is bullshit.
The movie and the game teams actually communicated more with each other than Mirage and Surge licensing which is one of the reasons they share some scenes,as well as the eventual arcade game.
A few years ago, I spoke to all of the devs, director of the movie and Kevin Eastman for my hardcore gaming 101 tmnt retrospective
Really fascinating tidbit with that Getsufuu Maden game. As someone that grew up with TMNT nes as a kid, i'm really curious on trying it out but sadly don't own a Famicom or any of the means to play it through all the Japanese VC releases. Seems like a interesting title they could have brought to the west back then. Oh well.
Agreed. It was the only NES game I actually sold off at the time. Meanwhile Turtles 2 Arcade was incredible at the time.
Dark1x you guys are playing the wrong Turtles games :)
The challenge in the underwater level if more of a meme than anything. It's perfectly doable even as a kid back then although more than likely you'd end up with a crippled team, since the turtles don't regain health between levels. Moronic. The rest of the game is way harder. Just one of those "classic" games at the time where much of it is obtuse and poorly designed in general.
I can't believe I never noticed this thing ran at 30fps but that certainly explains why it felt so sluggish. Plus the obvious slowdown.
I think back in the day I think I only managed to get to level 4 at best.
I can't believe I never noticed this thing ran at 30fps but that certainly explains why it felt so sluggish. Plus the obvious slowdown.
I think back in the day I think I only managed to get to level 4 at best.
The funny thing about the underwater part of the dam level is that it really isn't that difficult, especially once you learn where all the bombs are. It gets kinda tricky towards the end, but not super difficult.
I've never got the fuss over the water level. I don't remember having any issues with it and can probably do it without taking a single hit. I can never get any further than the beginning of the Technodrome though. :(
The water level was really hard.
But you are also right that the game gets even harder after that.
The Technodrome was the real bullshit.
Even that was probably doable but without saves at a certain point I was like fuck this game.
This game isn't as bad as a lot of people make it out to be. It's hard as sin, but so was a ton of other NES games, and it has a lot of cool concepts in it. I wish they would have tried to expand on its ideas in another platformer.
Oh and the Technodrome as a boss fight was really cool.
Oh and the Technodrome as a boss fight was really cool.
Ahhh, yeah. We were playing on the plasma downstairs due to the heat wave otherwise I would have setup a camera as I usually play on CRTs for capture!
The worst part is the arcade game existed when this came out and that was what I was expecting...at least that's what my childhood memories are telling me
I haven't seen the video yet but I really enjoy this game. I love how ambitious it was with a semi open world you could explore. Having to find certain items in order to progress, find hidden super powerful sub weapons, being able to rescue defeated Turtles if you knew where to look. They could've just gone the standard licensed platformer route, but instead they made something far more ambitious.
and the like. It's the prime example of a game you have to learn and adjust to. It doesn't hold your hand in any way. It's such a shame that they didn't expand on this game in a real sequel and instead just went with the standard beat'em up route. Now Turtles in Time (the SNES version) is a classic don't get me wrong, but it would've been so great to see a real sequel to the first TMNT.
It's such a shame it's gotten such a bad rep, no doubt magnified because of the thousands of videos like AVGN and the like.
Had this game been released today the whining would've been insane based on just the first three levels. People would've been livid that they ddin't know what to do or where to go.
and the like. It's the prime example of a game you have to learn and adjust to. It doesn't hold your hand in any way. It's such a shame that they didn't expand on this game in a real sequel and instead just went with the standard beat'em up route. Now Turtles in Time (the SNES version) is a classic don't get me wrong, but it would've been so great to see a real sequel to the first TMNT.
It's such a shame it's gotten such a bad rep, no doubt magnified because of the thousands of videos like AVGN and the like.
Had this game been released today the whining would've been insane based on just the first three levels. People would've been livid that they ddin't know what to do or where to go.
Well, to be fair...I DO like the game but it has a lot of deep flaws. It runs slower than most NES games (30fps with flicker and drops), the enemy spawning is terrible (no thought placed into enemy placement), flawed jumping mechanics and more. That said, I like what they were attempting and it's interesting to revisit.
I do think it gets dramatically harder after the water stage. The level where you need to find the Technodrome is just insanity.
Oh there's no denying that the later parts are very very hard. I do think at least the three first levels are completely beatable without much trouble as long as you get familiar with how the game controls and works.
The controls and technical "problems" in the game never bothered me at all, that was just how it was and a part of how the game played to me.
I couldn't ever get past that orange hallway, the very last room in the game before the final boss Shredder. Just way too much junk thrown at you at once, especially those astronaut guys and their super-powerful lasers.
But besides that, I love the game. It's my favorite Turtles game, though to be fair I don't like beat-em-ups.
But besides that, I love the game. It's my favorite Turtles game, though to be fair I don't like beat-em-ups.
Yeah, I know, it's just unusual for a Konami game to run like this especially for 1989. Pretty much every side scroller they developed was a mostly smooth 60fps (like most games on NES). So it's strange that this is half that. Never understood what happened there.
Understandable!
Love how the cartoon and movie clips are spliced into the vid. Great work as usual.
I would like DF retro to one day do something on the home computer versions of arcade games that were released in europe. While the US was busy playing the NES us euros were busy on c64's, spectrums and CPS's. There are also some amazing games on the 8 bits in their own right. You cannot really talk about video games without talking about the massive influence those machines and their games had on later games. GTA was heavily influenced by some home computer games for example.
We would get past the water level. It was after that there was a part jumping on building rooftops that we could never make the jump and lost all our lives. Never got past that. The frustrating thing was not being able to continue. After you lost your lives it was game over start from the beginning. D:
