5 Years With the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 

I always felt TMNT 3 Manhattan Project was underrated for it's time. Loved that game

Fun Fact. The Shredder dies in the 1st ever issue of the 1984 comic. It wasn't until the 1987 cartoon they brought the Shredder back.

I've actually played "TMNT: The Hyperstone Heist" on the Sega Genesis before I was able to play "TMNT IV: Turtles In Time" on the SNES shortly afterwards, and I totally agree that both 16-bit TMNT games are excellent must-play titles. :)

I feel bad for all the youth born after like 90 or so...being a kid in the 80s and 90s was a one off experience, the amount of stuff made and sold to us was perfected, Saturday morning cartoons, The Absolute Perfection of breakfast cereal, seems like it kind of sucks being a kid today, but I have no clue.

Really looking forward to the new "Shredder's Revenge" game coming soon!

Turtles In Time is my all time favorite beat em up. The gameplay, stages and soundtrack are all the gold standard to me. I still play it occasionally and it never ages to me.

The SNES days were the best days of my gaming life.Super Mario World.We played for 3 months. We could not afford to buy games so just rent them. Luckily we got to Turtles in time. We played to 12 midnight and woke up like 6 in the morning.

LOL @ the sprites in that second TMNT Game Boy game.

That part about your sister bringing you a game and asking to play it brought a tear to my eye. It took me back to when I’d bring games to my older brother and ask him to play with me. Nothing bonds siblings like fighting alongside eachother. My brother had my back, and i had his.

my childhood right here. Absolutely LOVED playing the arcade game with buddies and/or strangers. Then when Turtles in Time landed on the SNES, oh man! The only actual turtle game I had was the first Game Boy one, and I had loads of fun with it!

2 things of interest here. 1. The bosses of the 2 new levels of the TMNT arcade game home version, Tora and Shogun, were designed by Kevin Eastman specifically for that home release. 2. In The Hyperstone Heist, the boss of Level 3, Tatsu, was Shredder's right hand man in the first 2 live action TMNT films and the only new asset added to the game.

Who here has actually made it through TMNT NES with all 4 Turtles alive? That game is impossibly hard!

This was fun! Small nitpicking: The Amiga and C64 were not "micro-PCs", they were microcomputers. The PC itself is a microcomputer.

Ah going to the arcade and hearing "Shell Shocked!" in the background was good times :D

I really loved the TMNT 2012 show on Nickelodeon it have some funny moments and dark moments

As someone who wasn't alive when the Turtles were big, the games are a huge reason I've grown so fond of them.

One of my small cherished memories was renting turtle in time back when i was 7. Staying up late trying to beat it as many times as I could before i had to go to bed. Very nice memory.

The early TMNT games carry so much nostalgia for me. What a great era. Gotta say, I’m stoked for that new one coming out from the Streets of Rage 4 guys. They nailed the look.

Ah childhood, this is a great vid SLX, thanks for doing this!

Can’t wait for « Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : Shredder’s Revenge » by DotEmu. The same studio that developed Street of Rage 4 😍😍😍

I loved Hyperstone Heist. Many people have the misconception that it's a "watered down" Turtles In Time which honestly couldn't be further from the truth. The perfect summary of it is that it's a remixed & combined amalgamation of TMNT '89 & Turtles In Time, with some new content, that's wrapped around a new story. People also say it's shorter than Time but that also is false. It has less levels (5 compared to the 10 in Time) but the levels in Hyperstone are MUCH longer and have multiple section in each. When beating both games they take just about the same time to finish. My only real beefs with Hyperstone were the bosses as it was honestly a pretty paltry amount of them (Leatherhead, Rocksteady, Tatsu, Baxter Stockman, Krang & Super Shredder). What made it worse was the fact that stage 4, The Gauntlet, repeated the boss battles of Leatherhead, Rocksteady & Tatsu making it feel like a bit of a cop out. They should have included different bosses here like Dirtbag, Bebop (how and why he was omitted altogether from the game is BAFFLING), Metalhead, Rat King, Groundchuck, etc. They could and should have added any of those enemies during this stage to fight on the way to the Technodrome. Speaking of stage 4 it being in another cave like stage 2, just a different color, felt pretty cheap. Other than those 2 personal negatives I enjoy it a lot.

I have The Hyperstone Heist for the Mega Drive and Turtles in Time for the SNES. I recently played through them both with my nephew and he absolutely loves both games! Us kids of the late 80's/early 90's definitely had it good in terms of TV shows, toys and video games. 👍

The TMNT beat em ups are still damn good. Go, Donatello! 😂

This is why I watch this channel! You bring me right back to this era of my life every time. Love it man!

Original NES TMNT story: Similar to your friend that was good at it. I only had 2 games for my NES when I first got it, and the first TMNT game was one of them. Of course I played the hell out of it and beat it. Fast forward 15 years and my buddy has a working NES and they're talking about how hard games were and how none of them could get past the Damn. I hadn't played the game in many, many years and we were all drinking and I'm like, "sure, I can do this." And I made it past the damn to level 3. Even now, it's ingrained and if I load it up on an emulator I can still make it to the Sewers. (Level 4 I believe.) I also did that with Megaman 2, "This game is super hard, bet you can't beat it!" A few vodkas later I beat it in one sitting on hard mode. Some of those things really stick with you.

Turtles in Time & Fall of the Foot Clan are my absolute favorites!!! What a time to be kid! 💚🐢🎮

My first turtle game was TMNT the hyperstone heist on mega drive, i remember my uncle let me and my brother play it on his mega drive and we had a lot of fun. Sadly nowdays i mostly play it by myself because my brother hates retro games

Being born in '82, my brother (born in '83) and I didn't become fully aware of TMNT until '89, and that was the same year we got an NES with...TMNT.

I was literally just playing Hyperstone Heist right before this video dropped. So perfect timing!

Got my "Hyperstone Heist" in my Genesis right now...

I'm an 80s kid and you can bet that I grew up watching TMNT. Got the toys, clothing, blankets just about anything of the turtles. My first turtles game was definitely the NES game hard game but it took me time to beat it especially I was 8 years old back then. Been playing all the turtles games since then. Very excited for Shredder's Revenge this year.

Hey Konami, remember the Castlevania collection and Contra collection? Time for the TMNT collection! Any licensing costs you’re afraid of will almost certainly be made up for in sheer sales numbers.

Awesome video man, you always have great content.

Never noticed that all those games were released in a 5-year period. Amazing. Great video. It really brought childhood/teenager memories.

TMNT will always hold a special place to me. The Turtles, literally, played a part in me learning colors. Leo's part of the reason blue is my favorite color and I probably had at least 12 different Leonardo toys. You had to been a kid at the time to understand how huge TMNT was at the time. From my experience as a prepubescent kid, the only things I can think of that were bigger than TMNT were Power Rangers and Pokemon. Stopped really caring about Power Rangers a long time ago, but Pokemon has partial ownership of my soul.

Dude I love your channel , feel like you are my spirit animal …. Every time u put out a new vid it’s so freaking nostalgic … thanks 🙏

This video really hits home how many turtles games zoom down from a city skyline onto a man hole on their title screens

Never been this early before. Love the videos brings a lot of nostalgia from my childhood

We still play Turtles in time to this day thanks walmart

You are not lying about that comment in regards to TMNT II the arcade game for NES, that game tied me and my brother together significantly, I have many great memories of this game and SoR 2 for Genesis and they all involve me and my brother spending time together sitting down and kicking butt on our old CRT tv.

Totally Tubular!

Topics like this is why I love your channel. Thank you for this.

TMNT 2 for nes was one of my most rented games. Finally my mom bought it for me for xmas... ironically she bought it from the video store we rented it from when they were clearing inventory.

Turtles in Time is still my favorite game almost 30 years later. Can't wait for Shredder's Revenge!

I had the Genesis version of TMNT Tournament Fighters. I took it back to the store as soon as I could.

Good show and games

Those were the days when fun was at its best. When life was just simple and gaming was just just fun factor. Thank you for brining me down that memory lane again. I love it. Sometimes it just makes me wanna cry😭

This video made my day! Thanks Sega Lord X. Are you going to do a special video for 100k subs?

I really enjoyed this episode, thanks for the trip down memory lane! I’d love to see you do a segment on the donkey Kong country series for the SNES 😎

There is no doubt that there is a ton of memories to be had here from the wicked Cartoon show, the awesome TMNT movie, although I thought 2 was a bit better in terms of goofiness/seriousness, 3 can be forgotten! TMNT arcade was my first exposure due to living behind an arcade as a kid. I did have TMNT the arcade game on the NES first. Then the original TMNT, only making it to the first area or 2 past the DAM (the game is a cheat... lol). I really liked TMNT 3 Manhatten Project a ton, a mix of new moves and areas were nice! The Game Boy version of TMNT was pretty darn good for what it was from what I remember. I never did play it on the Genesis for some unknown reason. SNES was a ton of fun to play at a friends house. Overall through the experience the Cartoon is where it was at, so well done, lots of action and I was able to catch it just as it started when I got home from school!!! SLX You Da Man!!!!!

I still remember playing the TMNT Arcade Game from start to finish at a school sponsored roller skating party back then. Me and 3 other guys all crowded around the arcade machine located less than 20 feet from the rink floor and played the game from start to finish one night. We paid no attention to the DJ & the booming music that was being played at the rink. All we heard was the the sounds coming from that arcade cabinet until we had completed the game. Good times back then!

These games were such a big deal at the time, and are just about all a blast to play even now. The first NES game is still a fun challenge, and the NES port of the arcade still feels pretty good. Several years ago, I bought the 4 player pcb for the 1989 arcade game to swap in and out of my Sunset Riders cabinet, and getting friends together to play it again just feels so good. I never bought a Turtles in Time board, though. The SNES version has always been the version for me, likely because I played it first and prefer its new features. Great again, as is your norm.

I love how every Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game for every console (NES, Super NES, Sega Genesis, and Game Boy) back then is its own unique game and not a port of one another. Even the 3 fighting games were not direct port of one another and had no arcade counterpart to compare to solving the issue of asking for an arcade accurate port as there isn't one.

I remember playing the TMNT Nintendo game...in my TMNT pajamas...eating my TMNT cereal...out of my TMNT bowl on a Saturday morning, Life was Good. 🐢🍕

My parents bought me a Super Nintendo on Christmas ‘92 because I wanted TMNT 4. Came with Super Mario World as a pack in and I remember being stoked

You just made my week-end! Merci beaucoup

Excellent content as always. Watched this video with my 6yr old son who had loads of questions for me. Lots of nostalgia and now we're going to play the arcade version. Have you invested in an Arcade 1up cabs?

Awesome !

I was like 5 or 6 when I play Turtles of Time on the SNES and I rented it from Blockbuster so many times because it so much replay value.

Almost at 100k, early congrats bro. Keep making these retro vids they are good for the soul.

The first video game I ever really played with my 5 year old daughter was the arcade beat-em-up Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon (on MAME). She doesn't know what the Ninja Turtles, Simpsons, or X-Men are, so Sailor Moon was the IP to actually get her to want to try. She's gotten quite good at it. Beat-em-ups are a great entry genre for kids just getting started. When her little sister is big enough to play, maybe we'll try some 3 player Ninja Turtles (Sailor Moon, despite having 5 selectable characters, is only 2 players).

I absolutely loved TMNT on the NES. I must've been about 6 or 7. I still remember that music lol

I've loved the Turtles since I was a kid. I grew up on the 2003 series and the games. But after playing the original arcade game, that instantly became my favorite TMNT game.

TMNT tournament fighters is criminally underrated. He undersells it, IMO. It is a very good fighter for sure. I personally think it can go toe-to-toe with Street Fighter on the SNES.

I was really, really little at the time, but I do remember the very tail end of turtle mania in the 90s, and while I wouldn't play any of the NES games until the 2000s, Tournament Fighters on the Genesis had a big influence on me. Maybe not the gameplay (I didn't know enough about fighting games at the time to know it wasn't all that great) but the art, music and visual design were something I had never seen before. They were bizarre, creepy and beautiful. Another big thing was the final boss of the game (spoilers coming) Karai. She was stronger than Triceraton or even Kraang in his power suit, and the idea that a human martial artist could surpass aliens or technology was something you rarely saw in western media. It was awesome

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Yeah, it was definitely a fun ride while it lasted. The late 80s to the mid '90s were a great time to be a TMNT fan. When they burned out they burned out hard but it's amazing that it only took about 7 years for them to come back as if nothing had really changed. Sadly the games are never quite as good as the heyday with Konami but this next one certainly feels like a throwback to a much better time for TMNT.

I watched all the movies in the theatres, and bought TMNT 2 Arcade Game for my NES, still love the 80s turtles, and watch it to this day, nothing against the newer iterations, they are good in their own right, but nothing beats the 80s tmnt for me

// Fondly remembering coming out the movie theater, singing the "Ninja Rap" w/ my best friend and his lil sis ....... :-D

exactly what I wanted to see...bring me back to the good old days brother

TMNT was such a huge part of my childhood. These games really bring it back for me. Thank you

TMNT Turtles in Time Arcade and SOR2 are The 2 Greatest Beat Em Ups of All Time

I played several of these Turtle games back in the day with my cousins. We had so much fun back in the nineties. Great times... Dear nostalgia

Ahh my childhood in a nutshell from like 6 to 11 my whole life revolved around TMNT ty SLX for being back some long forgotten memories. Been battling cancer for a bit now. It’s nice to go back to a happy time.

One of my favorite channels. SEGA forever. Miss their hardware days.

This was a quality video mate! Absolutely loved watching this and reminiscing about TMNT! So good! 👍🏼👌🏼

I fixed my Wiiu up and can play all these with my sons. Dream come true.

Love ALL the TMNT Games (minus the Gameboy games because I never played them). The first three are my favourite because they are the most nostalgic for me. It brings me back to a time when I had friends and feelings :)

Turtles 2 and Showbiz Pizza/Chuck E. Cheese went together like peanut butter and jelly back in the day.

Cawabangaaa!?! 😍🐢🐢🐢🐢❤️❤️

This was posted 4 hours ago. 7.5k views. Good for you sega lord x 🙏🙌👏 Way to develop a solid following

Who remembers those Late 80s early 90s Ninja Turtle pies with the pudding inside?

*the first turtles arcade game brings back so many memories. I went to America/Florida for the first time in 1990 and they had it in the hotel's arcade and I used to go there after the buffet breakfast. I remember when i died i ran back to the restaurant "mum, dad, nanny, nanna quickkkkk! I need quarters now im winning quick quick!!" and used to peg it back there before the countdown timer ran out. aaaahh good, times! I miss the the 80s and 90s like crazy*

Tmnt still kick ass. 😀👍🐢🎮

This brings back some great memories. Thank you for the great video also you are so close to 100k subs congrats.

I especially enjoyed Turtles 2 on the NES and The Turtles IV/Hyperstone Heist. Glad I played them in order though because after playing the Genesis version it's really hard going back to the slower less responsive SNES game. That run button on the Genesis Hyperstone Heist is a game changer.

Playing GameBoy waiting for mom to finish shopping. Man, THAT took me back. 🤣🤣🤣

The arcade game, Hyperstone Heist and Turtles in Time are the absolute BEST Turtles games of all time, and they'll never be surpassed.

The Cowabunga Collection and Shredder’s Revenge ohh me oh my, I cannot wait for those to come out already! And me, my brother and friends always played the Turtles games together, the NES versions all bring back wonderful memories. And Hyper Stone Heist is my favorite of the two 16 bit side scroller beatem ups.

I have the first two on NES! not a super fan of the original but the home port of the first arcade game is still pretty fun, even as tough as it was! even with the extra lives cheat I haven't made it to the end yet! turtles in time I recently picked up this year after moving in with my wife! (and luckily she's a little more into videogames so its not a hard sell to get her to team up with me on it! already beat the game on easy and normal, eventually we'll have to go back and finish it on hard to get the actual ending... one of these days!) Hyperstone Heist was fun too for being something different compared to the two arcade games. I do remember SNES tourmanent fighters being fun, even if it couldn't dethrone SF2! For the most part Konami knew their stuff when it came to TMNT home games! Also while I don't know when it's releasing I'm definitely all kinds of hyped for Shredder's Revenge, DotEmu's take on Konami's classic beat-em-up formula!

I remember the Manhattan Project had a glitch. My friends and I got the this level where we were on the roof tops of buildings and one of the Foot Soldiers accidentally jumped off the roof. We were not able to continue until we killed all the foot soldiers but he jumped off so we couldn't get him. So we were just stayed on the roof for 10 min until we just reset the game. But we got so far the first time we felt defeated and we quit playing. Didn't try again ever.

The flickering in the NES Turtles Beat'em ups is unreal. Tournament Fighters on SNES looks pretty good though. I had no clue it was a different game than the Genesis version. Already own Turtles in Time and Hyperstone Heist. Both are great games.

02:53 And when you asked for help, he leered over smugly and utter the words 'Git Good'. And so a meme was born years before the internet.

You absolutely MUST check the fangame "TMNT: Rescue-Palooza!" by Merso X. It's inspired by the NES games, but with 4 player support and 60 playable characters to unlock.

I remember finiching the game Turtles in Time on the Super Nintendo, on the highest difficulty with my best friend in coop mode. Good old memories.

The 8 year old version of me thanks you for this video. Excuse me while I go play tmnt 3 on nes, finally.

It was years before I knew TMNT started life as a dark comic, and decades until I found out the box art for their first NES title came from the cover art for the 2nd printing of the TMNT #4 comic, which is why they all have on red hachimaki. I clearly remember getting the first NES game for Xmas(with an NES itself and Ice Hockey) and it kicked my butt.

HOLY SHIT! I can't believe I haven't seen anyone make a video like this this on RU-vid! It's one of those things I've always wanted somewhere deep in my subconscious just outside of my awareness. The Fucking Turtles!!! I grew up back then and was 7 years of age during the summer of 1990, long before our planet of Earth became Mega City One. A better, more pure time, when humans could live unburdened by a selection of choices with most material things. There was but one TV in many houses, and some of those didn't have Cable TV hooked up. My home only had a small TV with only black and white color (or lack thereof) that sat on a table with tinfoil bunny ears on top of it that ran all over our apartment so we could enjoy our 5 wonderful channels! That is, until 1990 when my Dad got a much better paying job and got us hooked up with a COLOR TV AND Cable, and when the guy came and got it hooked up the TV came into focus and what my eyes beheld filled me with excitement: The Goddamn Ninja Motherfucking Turtle Teens, who I was only vaguely familiar with until that moment. It was magical how transfixed I became, and so soon as thine eyes laid upon those humanid suggestions I felt truly alive! A great memory, but somehow I was far, FAR more impressed with the NES renditions of the Turts and just how much more fucking cool I felt when playing as Leo on a game where I'm moving him around and kicking ass!! I had played Atari in those few very young years before that moment, so seeing shapes of so many defined creatures and colors literally took my breath away. If another kid came over I always hoped I would be showing them the Turtles for their first time because the reaction was always similar to mine in how all expressed complete awe. It's fucking bizarre remembering this in such vivid recollection so randomly, fucking hell! I had intended on just mentioning TMNT's fame back then and how goddamn insanely huge it was, because many kids who were without Cable TV as I was had be fans on some level despite being unable to watch the show or play the games. The Turtles were fucking everywhere with cartoons, movies, video games, toys, action figures, etc, which made the pervasive in ways that is impossible today. I just got off work and watched this so I'm gonna stop rambling lol. GREAT VIDEO!! Appreciate the trip down memory lane!! Time to take my tired ass to bed, sorry to anyone who might ready for going on and on! I find it so interesting in so many ways so I just kinda used word vomit to express myself hahaha

These games were pretty much my time spent playing them after school or on the weekend Soo much nostalgia with those turtle games

I first saw a mutant ninja turtle on the cover of a roleplaying game called "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness". I remembering renting the Sega Genesis TMNT game, and playing the heck out of it.