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Genre
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, is a Beat 'em Up game, also known as Brawlers, this type of genre is about action games where the protagonist has to fight multiple enemies while passing screens. Is a side-scrolling 2D game, typically, in those games gameplay mechanics are quite simple, consisting of the protagonist slowly making his way through a large number of enemies. In many brawlers the protagonist is unable to proceed until he has cleared a small portion of the stage of the enemies.
The first game to feature this genre was Sega's boxing game Heavyweight Champ in 1976 but the “Golden Age” for the beat‘em up genre started when the game Double Dragon was launched in 1987. From there, many games were created with varied themes but with similar mechanics
Heavyweight Champ (1976)
History
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) is an arcade game released by Konami in 1989. The game is based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series of 1987. It's first version was released for arcade machines in 1989, but a year later (1990) another version of the game was released. This new version was developed as a Nintendo Entretainment System (NES) videogame, for those who wants to play TMNT at home. This new version was named Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game to distinguish this new game from the previous version Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles .
The enterprise that developed TMNT was Konami. It was founded in 1969 as a jukebox reparing company. They first arcade videogame was released in 1978, after that, they began exporting his products to United States. Actually Konami released 432 different machines under this trade name, and it is populary known because the release of some titles like Castlevania, Silent Hill or Metal Gear series.
Konami's logo
Market Positioning & History of Versions
The first version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was released for the arcade machines in 1989. Due to the popularity of the game, a year later Konami decided to release new versions oriented to consoles, for those players who want to play Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles at home. This new versions for consoles were renamed to distinguish the new console version from the old one despite they were the same game with some variations.
| Arcade | Famicom/NES | Home Computers (ZX Spectrum, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, MS-DOS y Commodore 64) | Microsoft Xbox, PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube | Xbox 360 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TITLE | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game | Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Coin Op | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Battle Nexus | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 1989 Classic Arcade |
| NA | November 15, 1989 | December 1990 | 2004 | March 14, 2007 | |
| EU | 1989 | November 14, 1991 | 1991 | 2004 | |
| AU | 1989 | 2004 | October 31, 2007 | ||
| JP | 1990 | December 7, 1990 | 2004 |
In these new versions Konami added some new levels, new enemies and two new bosses, like Tora and Shogun.
Some of these versions for consoles were only for two players (unlike the first version, that was for 4 players). Some other were a remastered game for 4 players. These ones were added as a bonus after completing TMNT II: Battle Nexus.
Technical Profile
TMNT was firstly released as an arcade game, so it had his own machine version on that time. It used a 68000 running at 8 MHz for a CPU, along with a Z80 running at 3.58 MHz. Used 5 different sound chips, they are 1 YM2151 running at 3.58 MHz, an 007232 chip, a uPD7759 at 0.64 MHz, analog sound samples and a custom chip.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade cabinet
Similar Games
- Double Dragon (1987) is a Beat 'em Up arcade game with an Horizontal Scroll Interface System developed by Technos Japan. In this game (that can be played by two people simultaneously), players have to fight against hordes of enemies and move forward into different levels until reach the final boss in order to save a kidnapped girl. The variety of the enemies was small, but these can bring different weapons which can be used by players when beat them, fact that makes the gameplay more attractive.
Double Dragon in-game footage
- Final Fight (1989) is a side scrolling Beat 'em Up arcade videogame produced by Capcom. This game has individual and multiplayer modes (two people maximum). Players have to pass through different levels beating all enemies and defeat the bosses that appear at the end of every round. The game allow players to smash some of the elements that appear on the scene and grab weapons such as pipes, knives and swords.
Final Fight in-game footage