I played this as a kid a million times. I was stuck at my nieces birthday party at a skating rink, I noticed they had a tmnt arcade machine. I payed for my nephews to play this with me the whole way through. It was freaking awesome they loved it!
Whenever my father took me to the mall to get a haircut he always let me go to the arcade and give me fifty cents to play this game afterwards. I would play as Donatello and he would be Michelangelo. If I died first he always would step aside and let me play his character. For years circa 1992 that’s just what we did. All of the memories of him doing this for me mean more to me than the fact that he helped me buy my first car or paid for half of my university tuition. Over 25 years later, here I am coming to the realization that if my mother dies first and my dad can’t take care of himself, I’m going to have him come live with my wife and I rather than allow him to go to a retirement home. I can’t believe a beat-em-up arcade game has made that big of a paw-print on the mudbank of my heart, but there you go. 🤷🏼♂️
This game was mindblowing back in the day. I remember playing it for the first time in a pizza place back in the day and being awestruck by how good it looked and sounded.
This is such a nostalgia trip; the good kind, too! I loved the show and was always watching it, but just as much a huge fan of this game. Back when Konami knew how to make a good game. Whoeever was playing did an excellent job, too! It's definitely fun to see all four turtles, but sometimes that makes the game a lot harder since there's more enemies to accommodate them.
The turtles are such truth. They came along and had such a simultaneous impact on comics, video games, tv, movies, toys, and kids. Crazy how good the music in this is, too. And crazy how it was tmnt that had such successful arcade cabinets
It is Saturday morning, I've got my pocket money, blagged money off my family and money I've saved, off to the arcade to play TMNT with friends...those were the days, wish I could go back
I played this game a couple of times as kid, I fell in love with it, so my mom bought me the nes version, simpler graphics, but longer and it's so hard, a great version on his own. It needs more than an hour to finish it.