Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete 

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That water level was pretty much the end of the game for most of us

Just hearing the music gave me goosebumps. 41 years old and still loving it.

So it's been 32 years since I was able to really see the ending. Will admit, couldn't pass that water level and gave up. Today happens to be the anniversary of when this game came out (May 12th, 1989). Good job beating it towards the end.

~25 years after I actually played the game, with my classmates, and we couldn't beat it, I finally learn that you can actually switch the character mid-game. :O

I appreciate how supportive April was being throughout this entire ordeal.

The second I hear that music, it triggers my PTSD.

Those damn "jumps" that you can just walk across. Those are what always got me as a kid.

Dear lord! This game was freaking difficult. When I was 6, back in the late 80's, I beat Super Mario Bros in 10 minutes and many other NES games, but I could never beat TMNT, just made it into the final base, but never to Shredder. Whoever made this, I take my hat off!

"You have my support." Thanks, April. That's useful.

Raphael was always the sacrificial turtle used in the water level because he is useless everywhere else.

Donatello is a beast in this game. If you lose him good luck beating this game.

This game used to give me fits...I only beat it one time but man was it brutal. Still a classic.

I was born 1983 i remember playing nintendo all the time in the late 1980s and early 1990s great time to be born...

TMNT well deserves its notoriety for its difficulty level, but it's such a sweet game! ...unless you have no patience for brutal 8-bit style gaming. This is gloriously old-school Konami at its most sadistic.

I never realized how close I came to beating this. Game stressed me out so much as a kid

That intro is the most hype cutscene of all time.. I remember after the water dam how shook I was as a kid after going home to see the lair destroyed and Shredder appears on the tv saying he has Splinter. Looking at it now, the game had a kind of darker/gritty tone like the first movie, I love it.

Oh this brings back the memories of just shutting off the TV but keeping the Nintendo on with the game paused, because video games hadn’t developed memory cards or save points yet. Ahhhh

I remember playing this game every chance I had as a kid. Hard as Hell at some spots. Especially where you swimming through the electric seaweed! I HATED that part! Great job on this.

My childhood 😭😭 hearing the sound effects really takes me back to playing this as a little kid❤

I'm 37 yrs old this took me back 30 yrs.....these games are so much better then today 😆

1989 though! Played this EVERYDAY

39:20 "Use Careful Timing and TEAMWORK to win". Sonic Booms Shredder to death. Teamwork.

It's amazing to hear this score as an adult and realize how much it influenced my artistic output over decades. Mind blown

Wow it's been 30 years since last time I played this game. Its a bizarre feeling when I listen to the music and see the scenes. It was in my brain as memories!

Probably one of my favorite TMNT games! April: You have my support. TMNT: That's not helping beat this game!!!!!

This game had the best music, I loved the sound effects too. Played this endlessly as a little kid but never could beat it

This was the first game I ever played in my life and omfg the Nostalgia!!

The CIA uses this game to train it's agents how to endure torture.

Oh how I miss the NES! I don’t care what anyone says, these still and always will be the best video games ever made!

Oh god this game reminds me so much of my mom and little brother, playing late at night in the very early 90s. I'm not happy I never developed proper sleep habits but I'll always cherish our late-night gaming sessions.

Damn nostalgia. It's like I can still smell those summer days in the early 90s when I'd wake up and play this game for hours. Then head on out telling Mom not to turn off the NES. Then bringing friends back and continue on.

That opening theme is “stone Cold Crazy” by Queen lol

Oh man so many memories. The music brought me right back

Let's just appreciate how OP Donatello was.

This game was so damn hard.

April is always like “you have my support” but then she never fricken does anything.

Loved this game when I was a kid. Everyone complained about the water level. It was actually one of my favourites in the game.

Absolute bastard of a game. Haunts my dreams with its evil, too this day.

God I remember playing this game for hours with my cousins. This one and Mario 2 and 3. The 80s were a great time to be a kid.

Who else imagined Uncle Phil's voice when reading Shredder's text? You have my support

Seeing someone else play this makes me realise how many small things I optimized on my playthrough. Edit: that includes small things like how boomerangs were pretty much infinite as long as they were caught and that you can pass them between Turtles by throwing them then switching turtle

This game was good. I know we love to shot on it for it’s difficulty, but many like myself come from that old school where these games were instant death, unlike nowadays where games are no where near as hard to play or win at. I beat this game when I was 13, and that’s a badge of pride that most new gen gamers won’t ever understand.

Almost 33 years and this game still give me sweaty palms and I’m just watching someone else play.

This game found the line between “hard” and “not fun” and shat all over it. This game is infuriating.

This bring back memories, never could beat this game

When games gave you 3 lives only. Glad those days are gone, sort of.

i played this game religiously. thought having pizza would restore my health everytime i got hurt or sick. now I'm fat

Playing this game after school while having a slice of Pizza back in the 80s was heaven

I don't know why, but I never get sick of playthroughs for this game.

I remember being blown away with this game of how many varied gameplay, from overworld exploration, side scroller, swimming, driving a tank (?), etc.

Christmas 92. My first game console and video game bundle, that would see 6 yo me struggle so hard in the water level first, then 8 yo me struggling to find a way through the city and getting lost at the rope stuff because nobody in my family nor me did know what it meant (I'm french and we are mostly language disabled, here's a baguette 🥖) I still know the soundtrack by heart and the outside melody is often the first tone that comes to mind when I find myself bored and wanting to sing something to my toddlers. Thank you for showing us Shredder's fight most of us heard as a long forgotten legend. 🙌

9:55 - Damn, that is some poltergeist phenomena reaching outta the TV right there (yeah, I'm old, kids), lol.

39:17 "Use careful timing and teamwork to win!" Nah, I'll just use Don with the scroll to cheese shredder out.

I remember being in college in the late 90's and playing this game all night with friends in our dorm. We would pass the controller around while getting baked out of our minds. One of the all time greatest games right here.

Got this with the PAL NES boxset in 1990. Will never forget that moment holding a controller for the first time and not knowing wtf to do! Then the music! Merry Christmas everybody. 30 years has gone way too soon!

I use to play this game so much as a kid. I could never get bored of it.

One of the NES games I actually owned as a kid... (I only had 3)

Seriously the music playin when yer driving the Turtle van through out the map brings back the feels

I was today years old when I learned that it was possible to switch turtles at any time and the pause screen updated with tips. :')

Heh, one of those games where the road to the boss is tougher than the boss themselves

One of the best games on nintendo. Dope soundtrack as well

Ah, I remember Donatello doing the bulk of the work! I remember struggling a lot playing this game. Definitely among the hardest.

The amount of stress and anxiety to get that ending is unreal lol. I’ll never forget this game from my childhood.

I was in my early 20's when I beat this game, for over a decade I could not beat it but I did and I even man cried like Matthew McConaughey in INTERSTELLAR .

One of the hardest game on the nes.

i still cant believe how in the world did i finished this game when I was 8.... at 40 years old I just marvel at the sheer patience and precision that I was capable of. incredible.

This game conquered me back then. It was so satisfying watching you for 40mins just to beat this. You're going to heaven for sure.

I never could beat this game..it lead to many a angry and frustrated play that usually ended with me throwing my controller.

9:58 SHREDDER INVENTED 3D TVs

His interchangeable use of the Turtles is supreme!!! Leo was my guy on this game

Wow, this game brings back so many memories. The music plus the endless gameplay of trying to pass the water level 😂.

This game murdered me relentlessly as a kid but growing up on the NES you learned to keep trying even in the face of certain defeat time and time again. Bayou Billy was another almost unbeatable game served up by the sadists at Konami. Great job man I have to say you are the best original TMNT player I have ever seen in my life and deserve some kind of statue erected in your honor in the Konami company CEO's office or his home or both. Those who got the shit kicked out of us on those 8 bit Konami classics salute you to the fullest.

You make it seem easy and enjoyable. For me to give it another chance and play it again!

Ill never forget the first day i got this game for the nes, i couldn't wait to get home and play, and once i started playing, i must not slept for two days, one of the best day of my childhood

The memories, and the feels.

This is where Game Genie came in handy.

This is giving me insane nostalgia!

So glad you posted this! Never was able to finish this game when I was little.

Given how hard that game was, whoever played it THAT well must be some kind of video game god lol.

My dad used to pass the levels I couldn’t, and I remember screaming at him every time he couldn’t pass it! Sorry dad! 🤣🤣

It's back... time for me to go through more suffering with another tmnt game. This time on PS4 lol

So many memories from seeing this and hearing the music again. I used to love this game when i was like 10 years old in like 89-90. Those were the good ol days for sure!!

One of the things that is crazy about watching playthroughs of my childhood games is realizing how short the games actually were. They felt so incredibly long in my head but apparently games like this weren’t very long. Today, when I find myself playing a game like hollow knight, I hear the average playtime and I think “shoot I wish that were a bit higher,” but in all honesty it’s much longer than games used to be. Hell super Metroid felt like an epically long game that took 30 hours, and in reality it’s super short. Not knocking any of these games just observing a distorted perception

WHAT??? YOU CAN SWITCH TURTLES DURING THE GAME?????? My God, I lowered my life expectancy with 2 decades trying to get through the water level was an 8 yo. Wish I knew back then!

Got this game when I was 6. Couldn't beat it til I was 12 passing a controller back and forth with a close friend each level. Used boomerang to defeat shredder with only two turtles left with next to no health. Was so happy to beat the damn game and reward was April giving us a damn pizza at the end and that's it 😞 just beat it again a few mins ago cause I forgot how to reach techodrome. *Rave it up*

Awesome walk through. Gonna be uploading more of this game for sure. Keep up the great content.

Oh man, I remember it taking me forever to beat this. When I finally did I was one proud 10 year old!

The graphics were legit for it’s time

Used to play this all the time as a kid, but that damn water level was the end of the line for me. This game was difficult but a walk in the park compared to battletoads for nes and zelda the gold cartridge.

When we played this as kids, we only had a black and white TV. I thought all of the turtles had red bandanas. Seeing that they actually charge colors is blowing me away!

For an 8bit game, it has the best detailed image of Shredder, huh??

Alongside the arcade game (also developed by Konami), it was one of the first video games based on the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series, being released after the show's 2nd season. The game got 3 sequels: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game in 1990, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time in 1992.

So nostalgic watching the old NES games. They were pretty good for the time. Love the music, it takes me back to my childhood living room.

Aaaah this used to be my favorite game for so long on nes. Thanks for the memory lane route!

At times, this game comes under attack for not reflecting the TMNT 1987 cartoon all that well, especially by RU-vid users who inexplicably do commentary with little to no research whatsoever. A quick timeline inspection from director of the first live action TMNT film, Steve Barron, and details from Bey Logan and the Golden Harvest production help clears up some questions and rumors surrounding the game. Negotiations for licensing rights began in 1986 with various developers on what was then, an underground comic sensation that had an upcoming toyline and TV miniseries that was not established in mainstream circles yet. When Konami was set to the task of making the game, their design documents and resources from Mirage Studios and Surge Licensing were based on the original TMNT comic by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman and a brief overview of the TV show that debuted in December 1987. This resulted in the game becoming a hybrid of the original comic and 1987 cartoon series, a bridging of the two very different iterations of TMNT. Barron explains further that when the movie initially began funding and planning, the details on the story was very brief and only had certain scenes, the kidnapping of Splinter and the burning of the antique store. This is why some scenes are shared between the game and the movie despite them being so far apart in release date. This fact probably helped the game become the million dollar seller more than what it's given credit for. The cartoonization of the very gritty reptilian mutants had left the original fanbase disgruntled, to put it mildly, and the 1987 show was as close to a bizarro world as it could be - a bright art style and slapstic humor, essentially a half hour toy commercial, though with a certain amount of heart. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for NES manages to blend elements just so both fanbases can find enjoyment within, and also creates a style unique to the game, for example blending the red clothed Shredder from the Mirage universe with the cartoony sidekicks Rocksteady and Bebop. A complaint that often arises from fans is the cast of enemies, which consists of weird aliens and an ensemble of unknowns. While it's true the majority of the enemies are completely original, by the time the game was in actual development, the cartoon show simply didn't feature a very large cast beyond the central figures. The more sci-fi inspired enemies featured does reflect the original comics which featured more science-fiction elements due to Laird's love for the genre. Further bridging was done with the cover art. Though probably more of an accidental move rather than planned marketing, the use of Mike Dooney's art from the TMNT #4 reprint issue from 1987 drew in the comic book fans with a familiar image, though the red bands across the entire cast of turtles led to a common misperception that the cover was subject to a print error. For those who are only familiar with either the cartoon show or the origin comics might have trouble seeing the true benefit of this game's content and style. I'm just saying.

This was one of my favorite game back then. If i can recall, I mostly used donatello. April was very supportive. Lol

One of my absolute favourites! I can't stop thinking about this game when I was a kid!

The music brings back so many memories. This game was so incredibly hard. I don't know anyone who passed it. This takes me right back to those days. Oh how I miss them.

The Technodrome stage was a royal pisstake man, no collision detection on the enemies and no real way to avoid being hit unless you had the scrolls. What always made me laugh was the Technodrome boss fight itself, the scale of it is clearly too small, looks funny when you jump into it.