Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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An action platformer developed by Konami for the NES and Famicom in 1989.
Kit's verdict · 5.8/10
A big licensed hit with a cool turtle-swap idea, sunk by unfair difficulty and that dam level.Kit · Sadkitty Games
Loved
- Swap between four turtles with different reaches
- Big overworld between stages
- Good music
Not so much
- The underwater bomb level is notorious
- Hard enemy placement and unfair jumps
Play it if TMNT fans who want to see the franchise's early gaming roots.
Skip it if anyone looking for the arcade beat-'em-up version.
Cheats & codes
No cheat codes
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles doesn't have cheat codes. The tips and secrets below are the next best thing.
Tips
Play it better
- Use Donatello for most fights; his bo staff has the longest reach.
- When a turtle gets low on health, swap him out and grab pizza to heal before he's captured.
- In the dam level, plot a route through the seaweed before you swim; touching it hurts a lot.
- Pick up the Scroll for a powerful wave attack that passes through enemies.
- Captured turtles can be rescued later in the game.
- Use missiles on the Party Wagon to destroy the steamrollers in stage 3.
Secrets & unlockables
Hidden in plain sight
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Trivia
- It sold over four million copies on the NES.
- Ultra Games was a Konami brand created to get around Nintendo's limit on how many games a publisher could release a year.
- It's based on the 1987 cartoon rather than the original comic.
- The underwater dam level often appears on lists of the hardest levels ever.
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