It is always a bit depressing when the video gets to levels you aren't sure you recognize and then ones you clearly don't and realize that is where you peaked as a child.

Just watching the water level brings back old frustrations from my childhood.

Wow.... You made this game, which tormented me in my childhood, look so.... Beatable..! Congrats!

I've never realized it before, but the opening themesong sounds a lot like "Stone cold Crazy" :)

It bugs me so much when he doesn't pick up the pizzas.

This game was like self-inflicted child abuse.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Meat Shields For Donatello.

Damn that game was hard !

It took me almost 4 years of practice and dedication to finally beat this game and this guy completely destroys it in less than 30 minutes... What am I doing wrong?

Can be beat in 23 minutes? I feel like I played it for an hour and never got anywhere xD.

Who doesn't love such classic character as boomerang guy and mutant frog?

First of all, that tune which plays when you drive the van is so awesome. I remember playing this when I was 9 or so, the dam level was so dam intense (pun intended). I vividly recall that taking-damage sound when you touch the weeds, I was sweating so bad. Never beat this game though, reached the very last stage but didn't find the boss I believe. Good times.

Yeah this game was HARD.

Good video. You have my support.

Meu primeiro jogo da Vida, tinha 5 anos, melhor jogo das tartarugas ninjas, parabéns pela run, incrível

I don't care what some gamers think; this game rules. One of the all-time great NES favorites of mine.

This game is a classic that brings me much nostalgia. AND HOW DID YOU DO THAT JUMP AT 8:09?!

1st. I remember this being a lot longer. 2nd. I would have been pissed if I finally beat it and got that ending.

And we spent evenings getting headaches trying to beat this game, you've done it in this short period of time. Ironic.

God this game used to aggravate the hell out of me.

Quite challenging even after all these years!! Brings back many memories!

This resulted in the TMNT NES 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 first TMNT movie initially began funding and planning, the details on the story were 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.

On water stage, I always thought those were air tanks, for the way the turtles look hooked at them, I didn't know English as a kid either or maybe didn't read the text

A jet blimp and Splinter turning back into a human? YOU HAVE MY SUPPORT!!!

The person playing the game is a god. An arrogant god, skipping pizzas. Seriously though, amazing! I only reached Shredder twice, but never beat him.

Even though this game was hard AF never hated it as a kid, love it every time I sit and played it, even today.

This, pac-man, mario, *ick tracy, jurassic park were my first games to play around 3 years old.. Loved this game and once maybe at around age 5 got to some boss after jumping on top of buildings in an outside area and died, but will remember that morning forever.

call me crazy, but judging from this players strategies, im considering getting this game

I grew up with this game and I play the dam level to relax...and still I’ve only made it to Shredder ONE time in all those 31 years.

Amazing speed run! Made it look so easy for a game that was hard to beat! Legit!

Thanks for making this! And you have my support.

This game is Awesome, one of the Nintendo Classics, I had original cartrige and beated up the game all by myself when i Was about age of 10 ;)

Got this for my bday in 91 beat the game in 98😂. And this guy beats the game less then 30mins nice

OMG, this was super cool. I loved watching someone beat this hard game in under 25 minutes!

genial men....otro juego de mi infancia que nunca pude acabar.....despues de ver tu video nunca pense que me falto muy poquito para llegar con shreeder.... gracias por compartirlo.....saludozzzz

"Now I can turn back to human form." Eh? It's like he could choose when. Did he think he'd give better advice while still a rat?

Water Level: F*cking Hardess

Ah, what good memories of youth with this good old arcade game. Sometimes I still play it from time to time to pass the time thanks to an emulator, and I admit I still love it so much.

Great work! I especially liked the way you got through the closing walls bit before the Giant Mouser boss. I hated that part of the game more than the dam stage, back in the day.

When I beat this game as a kid, I felt damn good.

Water stage...that is all

An underrated game in todays world of gamers raised on 360 and PS3. Nice vid. It's great to find play-throughs that don't have voic-eovers glazed across them like so much liquid annoyance which make me want to scoop out my eardrums with a melon-baller. Again, nice stuff.

Boss at 16:46 when his mouth opens, if you push Start to open the menu screen and close it, his mouth will be closed but you will still see a dim light in his mouth where you can still hit the boss. Figured this out when me and my brothers were playing it as elementary kids.

Easily one of my all time favorite classical games. To pull that off in 20 minutes, dang that's something

Man, I never saw someone go through this game so easily...

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 late December 1987.

Fun Fact: game makers purposely made these games extremely hard, becyz otherwize it would take u like 10 minets to beat the game. The cartridge couldn't hold a years worth of game like they can today

TMNT literally killed my friends NES controllers back in the days xD Especially during that part when you have to swim in the lake (sewer system?). I remember something about bombs and seaweed of death? :P

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And at 20:14, on the last level, Mikey finally makes an appearance.

I was about 6 or 7 when i got to play this game. Judging by comments many people couldnt beat the water level. As a kid I beat that but never advanced much further. I am now 33 and got the rom for this and have been able to play it again. I could still beat the water level (barely) but again cant advance much further. Seriously what were developers thinking back then? If you were born in the 80s we had the hardest video games of all time. Come to think of it, almost all the NES, SNES, Genesis games i got to play i would say most were never beat. Back then, i guess i just felt that was the norm and never truly got that upset. Kids today would be crying to their parents how hard it is. Back then with no internet, we just accepted it.

This game was a classic and i even tho it wasn't the way i thought it would be when i brought the game as a kid (i thought it would a nes version of the arcade 89' game) i still had some fun with it and a ton of frustration on the 3 stage aka turtle van level. #ThisGameBroughtMeToGameGenie

I had this game. Dam we’ve come along way in gaming.

I never could get pass that damn ocean level it was too freaking hard.

Clearly hes played this game more then a few time geezz

I played this game to death and became amazing at it, I still play to this day every now and then

14 years and I finally beat it, no gamegenie on my virtual console this year. so satisfying. technodrome is such a headache

That's how it was in the original comic and newer series too.

Wimp Raphaello: Eats pizza and switch. Chad Donatello: Enters the game and rip through enemies.

I used to play this as a kid. Memories are brought back.

some of the GREATEST video game music of all time... When someine says TMNT this is the first thing I think of.

I've never played this, but thought it was longer. Still an excellent Nes title.

You have April's support... Cause she's always helpful and doesn't get kidnapped on a regular...

Shit I remember when there was too many enemies an whatnot on screen the bottom used to flash and the framerate would drop down haha

This game proves why Donny is the smartest. Long weapon FTW! Ahh the Batman cars always roaming the streets!

Giant moths, flying leg creatures, mutant frog-men, human torches, robot samurai with flying heads - what kind of heavy drugs did the programmers do before coming up with enemies for this game?

This is the best Ninja Turtles game EVER!!!! and the hardest!

I love how Shredder's hand looks like it's actually sticking out of the TV in the scene at 6:47.

lol ooohhh yeah I remember this game. I need to get this game it was a lot of fun to play.

I dont care what any shitty game reviewer thinks... I love this game! Its great, one of the first NES games I played back in the 80s, I bought it right away and spent the next year beating it, I got hours upon hours of gameplay and finally completing it felt like an amazing accomplishment... games back then didnt care about holding your hamd, you had to learn to get through it will pure skills and memorization.. ACE

At times, this game comes under attack for not reflecting the Fred Wolf-produced TMNT cartoon all that well, especially by KZfaq 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.

10:32 James L. “Axel Foley” Anderson: But the funny thing about that...hold on one second. Jump already Margo! (Margo is unable to jump because of all the enemies on screen) Margo Litzenberger: I can't! There's too many people on the screen, it's slowing everything down! James L. “Axel Foley Anderson: Who designed these sewers anyway?! Margo Litzenberger: That's your biggest question? There's a guy on fire over there! (One of the enemies is a man on fire) Like Lyon’s Brother From Lionheart Why do they hire these people? James L. “Axel Foley” Anderson: Just jump! (Margo jumps up, only to get hit by the guy on the ledge and fall into the water) Margo Litzenberger: Aww, I'm hit in the water. James L. “Axel Foley” Anderson: Well, swim out! Margo Litzenberger: I can't. It's dragging me away. James L. “Axel Foley” Anderson: What do you mean you can't? We gotta get Jack Gracie And Wang swim through a load of this stuff in order to defuse the bombs! Margo Litzenberger: I'm swimming through right now! 5:06 James L. “Axel Foley” Anderson And after that, they... (He looks over to Jack trying to defuse a bomb while he looks like he's, well....) What the heck are you doing? Jack! Jack Burton: This is just how I defuse bombs, okay James? James L. “Axel Foley” Anderson: Looks like you're punching your munchkin. Jack Burton: Hush up! (The bomb is defused!) James L. “Axel Foley” Anderson: As in Ticking off! Wang Chi: Yeah, yeah, I know what you mean, okay? We only got one more bomb to defuse and it's up that tunnel. (The submarine swim upwards, only to find it's a corridor full or electric seaweed, and QUICKLY decide...) Jack Burton: Oh, come on what thick heck! James L. “Axel Foley” Anderson: Screw that noise! (The submarine back down.) Eddie Lee: You know, it is only water. James L. “Axel Foley” Anderson: Yeah. People could use a good swim. Gracie Law: Yeah, it's not like we're gonna let anybody important die, right? (They're now caught by Joey, who managed to survive being blown up, somehow!) Joanne “Joey” Summerskill: What a story! "Gracie doesn't give a dam!" "James dams us all to Heck!" (The submarine swim away exasperated.) "Darned if you do, drowned if you don't" "Day ruined by dam dirty Foot!" (James Jack Gracie Wang Eddie and Margo are now in the character select screen from the game.) Wang Chi: Zordon , this isn't working! I feel like we're not any closer to the Heart of the Mortal Kombat. Zordon: Hmm. We'll have to go straight for the throat. Go defeat Freddy! If that doesn't lead to the Heart of the Mortal Kombat, nothing will! The heroes has spoken! (One static transition, we get Joey where Master Tang was.) Joanne “Joey” Summerskill: And remember, you have my suppor-- (The screen explodes, followed by a test screen!) James L. “Axel Foley” Anderson: She loves her work.

Wow!!! You actually made the jump at 10:15 with no problems. That jump is SO FUCKING HARD!!!! I'm 14 BTW but I used to play this at my cousins' house. They are 28 and 25 and they used to watch the TMNT in their original days. I used to play this game along with McKids and SMB3 all the time and I always had problems at that GOD DAMN JUMP!

7:10- Holy $#!T, his hand is coming OUT OF THE SCREEN!!!

Muito bom esse game, valeu pelo detonado pois consegui terminar depois de anos, abraços.

8:13 wow, that was an awesome jump! You basically skipped the whole upper floor of that building just by jumping up to the top platform. Awesome!

GG dude :) this game was one of the hardest one in my childhood. i could nevver beat shredder ^^

What the hell are they fighting? I can't identify any of their enemies.

I remember this game when I was a kid, and yet to this day I can still beat this game very easily

I remember getting to the technodrome just once when i was a kid, i got too excited and died instantly, those were the days.

This game was so beautiful, but also hard.

Oh man... I used to LOOOVEEEEEEEEE this game. Never beat it though. Would always get lost in the third area.

I think this is more of a speedrun, but amazing!

The 4th level and the Technodrome were the ones I had the most trouble with as I kept getting lost and those FUCKING rocket pack soldiers.......

Unfortunately never beat the TechnoDrome boss, but now I know how to. Use Scrolls to take out the front claw and the two sentry guns, then use either Leo's Sword or Donnie's Staff to take out the Foot Soldier deploying hatch. With all of those down, putting that eye out of its misery would be as simple as that!

All negativity about "THAT DAM LEVEL!" aside, this game provided a challenge for players back in the 80's. Let's be real, though. If Shredder and Kraang were ever this clever in the 80's cartoon, our heroes in a half shell would've been turtle soup by now.

Master Splinter: Get the blimp to chase the helicopter Me: Are you sure those are comparable in speed?

actually 2 of 5. In the 80's Cartoon we always saw the lovable losers, Bebop and Rocksteady.

I remember so much frustration with this game as a kid. It took so many attempts just to get to the Dam part and would almost always fail at the Dam part. I couldn't understand how a game based on my favorite cartoon show was so bad. Watching this I think part of the problem was my age at the time and being too inexperienced with games, and visually speaking it was apparently modeled after the comics.

Holy shit, that ending. What the hell.

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. Just saying.

What tune they used in that dark stage? Rolling stones no?

Considering how clunky TVs were back then, that's quite the feat. lol But yea, I probably would have done the same myself.

21:13 That's the area that gave me absolute frustration.

What a great game

amazing game

Here's a trick: at the title screen press SELECT a desired number of times to skip to a desired stage (for example, press it twice to go to stage 3)

this is insane -- I can cruise through this game and barely beat it in under 38 minutes. This is like a speedrun.

Let's not forget that by comic book and movie continuity, he was never human in the first place -- he was always a normal rat who turned into an anthropomorphic rat mutant. Also, in the opening cinematic prior to the title screen, Splinter looks like a pink rabbit. That always bothered me ever since I was a kid and first played the game.

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