Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Arcade Game

Original title: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Video Game
1989
E10+

IMDb RATING

7.6/10

1.4K

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Arcade Game (1989)

IMDb traces the history of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from their inception and rise in the 1980s and '90s to 'Mutant Mayhem,' their latest animated incarnation from producer Seth Rogen.
In 1984, Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman self-publish the first issue of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." In 1987, Playmates Toys licenses the Turtles and develops an animated series to promote its upcoming toys, which brought in $1.1 billion over the next four years. The cartoon and action figures establish the Turtles' distinct personalities as well as their passion for pizza, colored masks, and "cowabunga" catchphrases. In 1989, Teenage Mutant Ninja video games debut for Nintendo and at the arcade. More than 40 games have been released in formats from Playstation to pinball. In March 1990, the Turtles hit the silver screen, grossing more than $200 million, the highest-grossing independent film up to that time. Two live-action sequels and a Vanilla Ice collaboration follow ... but with diminishing returns.
In 1997, a live-action reboot series adds a controversial fifth Turtle named Venus de Milo. The decision to add Venus splits Laird and Eastman's partnership, and "Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation" is canceled after one season.
From 2003 to 2016, there are two more reboots on TV, plus two live-action films, where computer-generated Turtles took over for the guys in rubber suits.
A fourth animated series debuts in 2018, this time going back to their early teen years. "Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" ends in 2022 with a movie on Netflix.
And in 2023, the Turtles return to theaters with a new computer-animated feature. 'Mutant Mayhem' producer Seth Rogen hopes to bring youthful energy (tech and all) back to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

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Directors
- H. Ohyama
- H. Toyoda
Writers
- Kevin Eastman
- Peter Laird

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IMDb RATING

7.6/10

1.4K

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Directors
- H. Ohyama
- H. Toyoda
Writers
- Kevin Eastman
- Peter Laird

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Trivia
To gain access to a cheat where you can select any level or extra lives, enter the following code on the main screen (with the Turtles logo) before the cut scenes play: B, A, B, A, UP, DOWN, B, A, LEFT, RIGHT, B, A, START

Goofs
When Granitor (the blue stone warrior) first appears, he is heard saying, "Crush the turtles!" But the on-screen captions read: "Crash the turtles!"

Quotes
Rocksteady: Say your prayers, toitles.

Crazy credits
The credits scroll across a ticker.

Alternate versions
(2004) A version of the game is included as an unlockable extra in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus (2004). However, all the music from the original arcade game is replaced with new music, and the voices are also changed.

Connections
Edited into Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection (2022)

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8/10

They just don't make games like this anymore

This is simply one of the most important arcade games of my youth. Aside from being based on the greatest pop phenomena of the time, the game was incredibly well designed. Similar arcade games like The Simpsons and The X-Men, were equally as addicting, but Ninja Turtles took the cake. The game was adapted to the NES home system, but the transition didn't work well. Aside from the poor 8-bit graphics compared to the arcade's original 16+, many of the games hidden treasures like smackable scenery, background jokes, and between stage animations were cut. No wonder extra stages and Pizza Hut ads were placed in the game to poorly compensate. If you are to play this game your better to find the arcade itself. In the days of NES, Super Nintendo and Genesis, Konami was simply a master maker of great games. But they fail big time with the over rated 3D revolution. They just don't make games like this anymore. No one does.