I Beat A TMNT Game Thread

[MikeandRaph87]

A suggestion of the eternal wisdom of oldmanwinters inspired the idea of 'Dromers having a thread to tell us when they beat a TMNT game. A few through the years took ages to beat. Not just the first wave but the second wave had a few trying times for us gamers too. I am lucky enough to beat all of them except the original NES game. How about the rest of you? Did it take you until your high school days or even young adulthood to beat one? Share your stories here and be sure to drop by when you do to share your triumph!

[nickn]

man I had a rough time with the first NES game too, as a kid. I never have finished it still. I got pretty far, once the city opened up but some of the things were just to hard, and the controls do kinda stink imo.



BUT I LOVE THE MUSIC FROM THE NES GAME lol

[oldmanwinters]

I still need to spend a few hours on TMNT2: Battle Nexus.

Not that I think it's an especially good game, just that I probably owe it to myself to play every turtles game I can get my hands on.

[DonatelloDomeHead31]

Well, where do I begin. I have beaten ninja turtles 4: Turtles in Time (with all 4 turtles individually & on the Hard difficulty).

I beat the arcade game...on the Nintendo Wii though--but i think that still counts.

and for the tournament fighters, after many attempts, I beat Karai for the SNES with Donatello (i didn't cheat, but I had to find some way to beat her).

That's my victories, and I'm sticking to them.

[Cowabunga Carl]

I just got done playing Turtles in Time that is unlockable on Mutant Nightmare. Beat it with Raph so I could just kind of chill and relax. Only died 7 times during the play through.

[oldmanwinters]

Back in the day, I thought I'd never be able to beat Tournament Fighters on Genesis. I was fairly new to the fighting game genre, so I thought it was so cheap that the CPU could pull off special moves instantly while I had to do complex button combinations and even "charge" certainly moves for a precious couple of seconds.

I had yet to learn the meaning of the term "broken," but it was an apt description for Triceraton and Karai. I finally beat them with April O'Neil's equally cheap sliding foot sweep (CPU doesn't always account for the sliding momentum and fails to block it). It set up a series of close-range German suplex slams.

Even today, I can't say that I've beaten that game with many characters, even on normal difficulty. Raphael is about the only other character with which I've had great success, but his power drill technique can leave him open for a devastating grapple by the stronger characters.

[Killer Moth]

Back in the day, I thought I'd never be able to beat Tournament Fighters on Genesis. I was fairly new to the fighting game genre, so I thought it was so cheap that the CPU could pull off special moves instantly while I had to do complex button combinations and even "charge" certainly moves for a precious couple of seconds.

I had yet to learn the meaning of the term "broken," but it was an apt description for Triceraton and Karai. I finally beat them with April O'Neil's equally cheap sliding foot sweep (CPU doesn't always account for the sliding momentum and fails to block it). It set up a series of close-range German suplex slams.

Even today, I can't say that I've beaten that game with many characters, even on normal difficulty. Raphael is about the only other character with which I've had great success, but his power drill technique can leave him open for a devastating grapple by the stronger characters.

Try this:

"Play as Ray Fillet. Crouch. Use his strong kick. Win game. (He slides forward and the AI doesn't recognize the sliding part, so it never blocks)"

TV Tropes put that out there, recently, so see if it works.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTournamentFighters?from=M ain.TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTournamentFighters

Been working on the Super NES version, myself. Thus far, I have achieved on the highest setting (7) and no continues (or, actually, to beat 500,000 in order to get the "King of Kings" graphics) with War, Chrome Dome, Leo and Don. Working with Aska and Shredder, next. And by fluke, I'm sure, I actually managed to get a "Perfect" on Level 7 Karai with Armaggon. I have no idea how I did this, but it happened. I'll try to work on the other TF games in the ensuing days, weeks, etc.

I'll mention about the NES games in another post, but I wanted to get this tangent out of the way, first.

[Filespit]

I havn't played all the games yet, but I've finished a few. Turtles in Time is my favorite, I've finished it countless times. I've also finished TMNT 2 for the NES a few times (I think), as well as Re-Shelled and the TMNT Arcade Game for the XBLA. I've also finished Battle Nexus, with all missions complete and all treasure chests found. I actually wrote a complete walkthrough for that game, it's up on GameFAQS if anyone would like to check it out. Oh, and I've played Smash-Up quite a lot as well, but I wouldn't say I've "finished" it. Also, I do own Fall of the Footclan, Tournament Fighters (SNES version) and the original NES game, but I've never finished them.

[Biffard]

I've beaten TMNT 4: Turtles in Time and TMNT 2. I have never made it pass the water level on TMNT 1 on NES. However, I plan on spending trying to beat it if I can get the patience and spare time.

For those that want to play, here are links to play several of the games on VirtualNES.com. Enjoy!

TMNT 1: http://www.virtualnes.com/play/?id=NES-U2

TMNT 2: http://www.virtualnes.com/play/?id=NES-2N

TMNT Tournament Fighter NES: http://www.virtualnes.com/play/?id=NES-TF

TMNT: Turtles in Time: http://www.virtualsupernes.com/play/?id=SNS-TM-USA

TMNT Tournament Fighters SNES: http://www.virtualsupernes.com/play/?id=SNS-KY-USA

[tmnt transformer]

I beat all 3 GB tmnt games.

[MikeandRaph87]

I've beaten TMNT 4: Turtles in Time and TMNT 2. I have never made it pass the water level on TMNT 1 on NES. However, I plan on spending trying to beat it if I can get the patience and spare time.

For those that want to play, here are links to play several of the games on VirtualNES.com. Enjoy!

TMNT 1: http://www.virtualnes.com/play/?id=NES-U2

TMNT 2: http://www.virtualnes.com/play/?id=NES-2N

TMNT Tournament Fighter NES: http://www.virtualnes.com/play/?id=NES-TF

TMNT: Turtles in Time: http://www.virtualsupernes.com/play/?id=SNS-TM-USA

TMNT Tournament Fighters SNES: http://www.virtualsupernes.com/play/?id=SNS-KY-USA

A couple of quick questions:

First of I am always weary about playing online games because of problems and viruses that usually come. Is it safe?
Secondly,is that the SNES Turtles In TIme or the inferior Arcade version? Got Manhatten Project? Thanks in advance.

[pannoni1]

NES 1989: Made it to the room before Shredder without cheats, beat it using Game Genie around high school a dozen or so years ago.

NES II: Beat it about six months after I got it, and then beat it most of the time thereafter.

NES III: Made it to the first battle with Shredder and lost without cheating, but only started playing last year and only played several times.

SNES IV: Only played a couple times and have not played all the way through, but made it as far as the first fight with Shredder.

I've never played any other versions except for Tournament Fighters, which I'm still trying to figure out.

[Xav]

A couple of quick questions:

First of I am always weary about playing online games because of problems and viruses that usually come. Is it safe?
Secondly,is that the SNES Turtles In TIme or the inferior Arcade version? Got Manhatten Project? Thanks in advance. Yes it's safe, It's the SNES version, and here's Manhatten Project http://www.retrouprising.com/game-menu/game/4201/

[Jester]

I've beaten Fall of the Foot Clan for the Game Boy...

What?

[rufus]

I've beaten Fall of the Foot Clan for the Game Boy...

What?


The only Turtles Game I have beat.

[Killer Moth]

I've beaten Fall of the Foot Clan for the Game Boy...

What?

Don't mind them. It's a hoot, and a great way to kill an hour. (I play it just for the Technodrome graphic at the end.) Conversely, "Back From the Sewers" I almost want to throw it into the sewers. I can't beat it in Hard mode, as I usually do. Bah. So, I go with Normal mode, and leave it at that.

More impressive is beating "Radical Rescue" several times in recent years. I understand the frustration as I've read in comments on other TMNT blogs, as it isn't a cakewalk, but it isn't Nintendo Hard, either. (Although, that may be my gamer experience talking, and what is easy for one player can be quite difficult for another.) Besides, you have to like a game where Mike is the center star, and you need him most. You're dead against Cyber Shredder if you don't use Mike's hover ability constantly. Learned it the hard way.

Plus, it is the most ambitious of the GB games, and the closest we got to an early TMNT version of Metroid.

[MikeandRaph87]

Fall of The Foot Clan for Gameboy was the easiest of all the TMNT Games with exception to story mode of TMNT:Smash Up. Its the Technodrome gang and Baxter Stockman, The Fly. If memory serves any level could be selected and the settings were unique. I think Shredder was fought in the Hudson Bay and Baxter The Fly was fought outsdie a warehouse after going through traffic. It is pure fun!

I tried the links above and its complicated as far as the controls are concerned but fun nonetheless. After I died the first time at Rat King I had to stop. Are there unlimited continues on Turtles In Time? Anyone aware if Manhattan Project is available on that site. I could not find a list of games for the NES port.

[Biffard]

Yeah, the controllers can be a pain on the vnes site. It takes some getting used to. As for the extra lives I think you can adjust the number of lives in the options up to a max of 7 (I think). But I believe you still get just the 3 continues which equates to 21 lives in total. Playing on vnes I made it to Leatherhead and used up all my lives. It's harder on a keyboard when compared to a controller.

There is a way to buy a SNES USB controller on ebay and then download a 3rd party software to configure it with VNES.com. However, I'm a little hesitant to do so until I find out some more info on the software.

[Killer Moth]

Fall of The Foot Clan for Gameboy was the easiest of all the TMNT Games with exception to story mode of TMNT:Smash Up. Its the Technodrome gang and Baxter Stockman, The Fly. If memory serves any level could be selected and the settings were unique. I think Shredder was fought in the Hudson Bay and Baxter The Fly was fought outsdie a warehouse after going through traffic. It is pure fun!

After I died the first time at Rat King I had to stop.

I'm curious about Smash-Up, if only for the underground level. Gee, wonder why. Heh.

It may be an unspoken rule that Rat King in video game form is hard. He's more of a pain than I thought in "Turtles In Time," and in Super Nes Tour Fighters? Oh, dear God. Not impossible, as if you have a wider range of attack, like Leo's katana, Don's strong punch or Chrome Dome's limbs. Or hey, just keep him pinned and blocking until you can do your Super Desperation move. I've done that plenty with him.

Anyway, I finally beat the Level 7 Tour mode as Shredder, yesterday, with no continues... and was only 2,900 points short of beating the 500,000 marker and getting the "King of Kings" graphic. Rats.

[MikeandRaph87]

I'm curious about Smash-Up, if only for the underground level. Gee, wonder why. Heh.

I am a harsh critic on Smash Up because of the false advertising on Ubisfot. I remember looking weekly throughout the summer of 2009 for the characters involved and all we got was the 2007 movie with a suped up utrom and Fugitiod. Not to mention those Rabbids something I never heard of before and the needless cross promotion. I was disappointed in the character roster and the ease in beating the story mode. The graphic were great and all but not benig one to play online and feeling lead on it was only The Technodrome in my favorite location that was fun in that game. :( Despite all that and the fact it was Ubisoft that put out promotion not Mirage venom got spat on Dan Berger. I wrote in to to counter the emails he was getting. I appreciate the idea and concept but did not care for the product because of expectations.

[shuriken]

Let's see, in no particular order...
1-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles(1989) For Nes was by far the hardest game I've beaten, excluding Batman for Nes. Loved the music, the levels and the trippy random enemies (flame guy, meiosis-man, and chainsaw guy take the cake). I hate some of the jumps and the hallway of death right before Shredder.

2-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade or part 2 for Nes was pretty fun, both which I have beaten. I liked the Shogun level the best with the foot zombie things.

3-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Manhatten Project was by far the most fun side scroller one. Dirtbag being my favorite villain to shell shock.

4-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4: Turtles in Time on both the Arcade and Snes were fun, I like the Snes one better, although it seemed a bit short to me.

5-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist was kind of a Turtles in Time clone, although I think it plays a lot smoother and is a bit harder.

6-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the footclan was fun to play if you had half an hour to kill.

7-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Radical Rescue is probably the best TMNT Gameboy game IMO, for the simplefact that it was not only difficult, but each turtle had to be utilized to get to certain areas and rescue your allies, even if the boss fights were few and far in between.

8-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles tournament fighters(Genesis) Is by far the cheapest game on this list. The best thing about it was taunting and seeing an instant replay of your defeat or success. The 3 bosses were either really easy, or impossible. I've only ever passed it with April using only the slide kick and suplex. It wasn't as good as the Snes in my opinion.

9-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles(2003) GBA Pretty fun game, love the fact that each TMNT gets different levels and bosses. The final level with the Elite Gaurds, Hun and SHredder is my fave

10-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 Battle Nexus(PS2) Kind of cool to sift through each turtle. Playing with a friend was a hit or miss, depending on how much your buddy sucked. The camera was your worst enemy, and fighting against Usagi and Unlocking the original arcade game(albeit with terrible music) was pretty awesome.

11-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 Battle Nexus(GBA) It was nice to actually be a ninja for once and use guerilla tactics to take out foes and find your weapons, but after the 6th world of having to do this it got kind of tedious, I did enjoy the battles mode and boss fights though.

12-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3(Mutant Nightmare PS2) Much of the same in terms of gameplay and enemies, it was cool to have computer operated TMNT to back you up but sometimes they also took much needed pizza and drinks. Unlocking Turtles in Time was cool too.

13-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Smash Up. What could I say that hasn't been said? Roster sucked, movesets were fairly limited as were the stages. But it's not a bad game overall IMO, it's fun to play with a few buddies, just like Smash Brothers. Plus I always get a kick seeing enemies get eaten by that damn crocodile (or is it an alligator?)

The best TMNT game that I never completed was Manhatten Missions. truly underrated game.
Sorry about that little rant there, I think I went overboard.

[MikeandRaph87]

Question: How do throw foot soldiers at Shredder in the Technodrome? I tried it on the link and killed 140 robots before I died and only hit him by luck three times.

[Killer Moth]

Question: How do throw foot soldiers at Shredder in the Technodrome? I tried it on the link and killed 140 robots before I died and only hit him by luck three times.

Ram or run into the Foot Soldier and press the attack button as you connect against him. Usually, the controller will interpret as "Throw at screen," though, it may also knock the Soldier down if you don't press the attack button at the right time. It works even against the tonfa Soldiers, as you'll be dealing with them in Hard mode against Shredder. Besides, throwing at the screen gets the most points per Soldier (3), so I do it a lot, anyway.

Hope that helps, as the throwing techinque isn't as hard, once you master the ram technique first.

[Slade]

Well, I've only played 3 turtle games my entire life. One was for the Nintendo, but I was so young I barley got past about the third level. I did beat Turtles in Time for the Super when I was about 8. Took a few tries.

Now the one game I owned on the SNES was Tournament Fighters. I beat that game so many times. Hardest thing to me was fighting Karai and having the speed and the difficulty all the way up. My main was Raph. I'm actually going to have to go find that game at my mom's house.

I could look it up, but I never figured out how to accurately do Leo's front flip sword slash move..still don't know how to this day.

[TurtleTitan97]

I played TMNT 2: The Arcade Game with my bro at Chuckie Cheese. It took awhile, but we were finally able to take down Shredder. We had a lot of fun playing that game. :) Also beat Turtles in Time on medium mode.

[MikeandRaph87]

I beat Turtles In Time off the SNES virtural simular this morning. In the arcade version Krang in Neon Night Riders gave me a fit but was pretty easy if I am able to get out of the way the swift kick. Super Shredder was surprsingly easy to beat if with that cheap trick that takes a full life. He was much hearder in the arcade game. The hardest part was beating Shredder when throwing foot soliders at him is the name of the game and Slash with his blocking technique. Pure fun! I have played the arcade game several times and beat it but its been years since I played the superior SNES version since I never have owned a SNES.

[Shreddhead]

Hey if youre still having trouble throwing the foot soldiers at Shredder in Turtles in Time, try this:
Hit them with a normal strength attack once so they kind of bend over and stop moving for a second. Then while they are hunched over press and hold the attack button again. This will result in either the back and forth smash or the flip throw up to the screen.

I hope you know what i mean, its kind of hard to describe. But playing on the snes i can get through that boss level by throwing practically every foot soldier i come in contact with using this strategy. Hope it helps :tgrin:

[DonatelloDomeHead31]

I just remembered a story from long ago.

Years ago, my friend would come along with my family and i and we'd go to florida to see some friends of my folks.

Anyways, that's not the point of the story.

On the last day...my friend and I would go to a holiday inn with my folks' friend and after breakfast, we'd play at the arcade.

At the arcade, they had Ninja Turtles Turtles in Time! We played it (my friend and i) but could not get past the Prehistoric Turtlesaurus level.

Ah memories.

P.S: That game (Ninja Turtles Turtles in Time) had more of those yellow foot soldiers with the green boomerang-things. I HATED that type of the Foot.

[Memphis]

The only turtles game I haven't beaten yet is tournament fighters. Snes and genesis. The stupid ridiculous difficulty will haunt my dreams forever...

[TurtleTitan97]

I remeber beating Hyperstone Heist awhile back.

[MikeandRaph87]

The game was fun even if short but I loved the Guantlet level at the end. The biggest complaint is why have Rocksteady and not Bebop?

[TurtleTitan97]

The biggest complaint is why have Rocksteady and not Bebop?

I was wondering the same thing. Fighting Rocksteady, I was thinking to myself, 'Where the heck is that crazy mutant warthog'? But I was actually kinda glad he didn't show, when playing Turtles in Time and fighting them both, it took me forever to beat them. I had to call my brother to help.

[MikeandRaph87]

I was wondering the same thing. Fighting Rocksteady, I was thinking to myself, 'Where the heck is that crazy mutant warthog'? But I was actually kinda glad he didn't show, when playing Turtles in Time and fighting them both, it took me forever to beat them. I had to call my brother to help.

Slash is the headache. I found them easy to beat. Last week when I played it on the simulator I hit Rocksteady 3/4ths of the time and both were beaten when Rocksteady fell. The hardest boss I ever faced was Super Shredder in the Arcade version. If it was not for the life draining shot the SNES version would be almost easy.

I forget that a new generation has not had much exposure to Bebop and Rocksteady. They are cult favorites but were denied exposure due to Laird. Would you like to get to know these two through future use or have them confined to one version?

[TurtleTitan97]

Slash is the headache. I found them easy to beat. Last week when I played it on the simulator I hit Rocksteady 3/4ths of the time and both were beaten when Rocksteady fell. The hardest boss I ever faced was Super Shredder in the Arcade version. If it was not for the life draining shot the SNES version would be almost easy.

I forget that a new generation has not had much exposure to Bebop and Rocksteady. They are cult favorites but were denied exposure due to Laird. Would you like to get to know these two through future use or have them confined to one version?

Oy, Slash, yeah I remember that level. Took longer then Bebop & Rocksteady, but then again, it was easier to beat them in Normal mode than hard.

I belive they could make a comeback, Eastman did so with them in the new comics. Make them like they were in the OT mini-series, and BAM, you got some pretty awesome Hench Mutants.

[MikeandRaph87]

Question 1. Any chance of Manhattan Project being uploaded on the Virtural NES?

Question 2. What is the hardest TMNT game to beat? I would say Ninja Turtles (1989) for Nintendo. The very first was also the hardest one to beat.

[Icebot]

I beat TMNT 2 The Arcade Game, Turtles In Time, TMNT: Fall of the Foot Clan for Game Boy, TMNT 1 and 2 (Battle Nexus) for Game Boy Advance, TMNT 3 Mutant Nightmare for Nintendo DS, and TMNT 1, 2 and 3 for Gamecube.

I also completely won the Battle Nexus in the TMNT 2 Gamecube game.

I could only beat the first TMNT NES game with game genie, never without it. There's no doubt in my mind that's the hardest TMNT game that was ever made, especially since that's the only game I can think of that the Angry Video Game Nerd complained about.

[Method101]

Beat mostly all the Turtles games. The only one that has an asterisk is the first NES Turtles. The ONLY way I beat it was with the emulator and the oh so wonderful SAVE STATE function.....

[MST3KFan]

Oh, man....

On record I recall from childhood to present...

TMNT - Beat it as a kid (Did the 99 scrolls for all four turtles thing a magazine told me about)

TMNT: The Arcade - Spent like over $5 to do it as a kid, but I did it.

TMNT II: The Arcade Game - Never got past the Polar Bear boss

TMNT III: The Manhattan Project - Still working on it as I never played it much but got to the third stage so far...

TMNT IV: Turtles in Time - Beat it on Hard once many years ago and it was indeed HARD.

TMNT: Turtles in Time (Arcade) - Got to the mud monster boss...

TMNT: Fall of the Foot Clan - I recall beating it as a kid, but it was so long ago.

TMNT II: Back from the Sewers - Pretty sure I beat it...

TMNT III: Radical Rescue - Never played it. >_>

TMNT: The Hyperstone Heist - Beat it on Easy...way harder than TMNT IV on Hard to me.

Never beat any of the modern stuff nor the Tournament Fighters as they didn't interest me as much sadly...

[Redeemer]

Well I am officially done with school for the summer after 2marrow, I think I will try to beat the first three NES games, I beat Manhattan project, but never beat the 2nd with out cheats and never beat the first one period.

[DonatelloDomeHead31]

TMNT: The Hyperstone Heist - Beat it on Easy...way harder than TMNT IV on Hard to me.

Got a question to ask you: when you played The Hyperstone Heist on Easy: did you get the End credits like one earns on the SNES Ninja turtles on the Hard more.

I've never seen its ending so I thought I would ask.

I too played that game (been a long time).

I think I beat it on Easy once. and that was all. I hated its gameplay

[MST3KFan]

Got a question to ask you: when you played The Hyperstone Heist on Easy: did you get the End credits like one earns on the SNES Ninja turtles on the Hard more.

I've never seen its ending so I thought I would ask.

I too played that game (been a long time).

I think I beat it on Easy once. and that was all. I hated its gameplay

Hmm... I can't say... YouTube might show it, but I think all the playthroughs are done on Hard...so it's probably like the SNES TMNT IV and you MUST beat it on hard to get an ending.
I do know the ending is not much different from the SNES game either really it appears from the video I watched.

[Redeemer]

Hey I just watched the TMNT in time ending for the snes and at the end it say "you have completed your training, now you are true ninjas"
Do you think they intended for Turtles in Time to be the last game ???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY1rIkEmcq0
Very end 5:30 or so

[joetheripper]

NES
tmnt 1- impossible
tmnt 2 - arcade - beat
tmnt 3 - beat
SNES
tmnt 4 - beat all modes

[Roland]

NES
tmnt 1- impossible
tmnt 2 - arcade - beat
tmnt 3 - beat
SNES
tmnt 4 - beat all modes

tmnt1 - You can beat it you just need to believe you can. Be the ninja turtle!!

[billbot85]

Here's what I've beaten:

NES:

TMNT II: The Arcade Game (used Konami code)

TMNT III: The Manhattan Project (used Konami code)

SNES:

Turtles in Time (Beaten on all modes)

XBOX:

TMNT Arcade 1989 (that's a given since they let you keep re-spawning)

Turtles in Time: Re-Shelled (most people were disappointed with this game, but I enjoyed it)

I still haven't beaten the first TMNT game for NES, though. Hoping to do so one of these days.

[pannoni1]

Since I lasted posted on this thread, I beat the first NES game about a year and a half ago, and it sure helped having those "scrolls" to make the first part of that "hall of doom" easier along with fighting the Technodrome boss beforehand.

But today for the first time I beat Manhattan Project for the first time today! I'll have to admit the "Down + B" attack not only makes it faster, but more fun compared to the A+B attack on Turtles II. I had to burn one continue after losing to Super Shredder once, but defeated him with still a little over a life to spare the second time. I even got as far as Leatherhead (stage 5 boss) without losing a life. I tend to find the first half of Stage 7 (the elevator) the most difficult non-boss stretch, though a portion of Stage 6 (the Technodrome) is pretty tricky while you dodge the electric shocks on a moving conveyor belt. Overall I find it similar in difficulty to Turtles II, and is a very beatable game. Timing the electric shocks that Super Shredder brings along with avoiding the anti-mutagen blasts (at least its not instant kill as in Turtles II) is the key to beating Super Shredder. Krang is pretty tricky similar to Turtles II, with lots of tricky maneuvering necessary. The ending isn't quite as good as Turtles II, but still is cool to see the final "Cowabunga!" along with the nice credits music.

[Donatello19]

I never beat the original arcade games in person (just one more quarter mom, PLEASE? :lol: ) but I did beat the first on Xbox live arcade. I have turtles in time for SNES but I don't think I ever beat it (I did beat Re-Shelled, though). I beat the original 2003 game on the gamecube and gameboy, but lost interest in the others and never played through them fully. The 2007 game I never beat, but got pretty far into it (it's not that it was too hard it was just really annoying and boring to play) and as for TMNT smash up...I WAS going to beat all the mission but I remember getting so frustrated on one mission where you had to knock Foot soldiers off the building. I tried that at least 75 to 100 times...used every trick (using the utrom!), watched every tutorial...that got me so frustrated that I never touched that game again. I never got OOTS, and although I do have the Nick game for the Wii, I don't have a working nun chuck to play it...need to buy a new one.

[Whatswiththeheadbands?]

I have never completed a single TMNT game ever.

[MikeandRaph87]

I have never completed a single TMNT game ever.

If you had Battle Nexus or Mutant Nightmare for Gamecube you would have the perfect opportunity to beat the slightly condensed Arcade versions of TMNT II:The Arcade Game and TMNT IV: Turtles In Time. You get infinity lives in both. If you have/had those two you can beat them without much trouble.

[TurtleTitan97]

I managed to beat Out of the Shadows back in January, so I've been trying to beat the arcade mode. Only managed to get up to the Cerberus Mousers fight and took off one of its heads before I lost .

[DonatelloDomeHead31]

Earlier I mentioned that I beat the SNES Tournament Fighters & Turtles in Time for the SNES, but I forgot to mention that I have yet to beat the NES first one, Arcade game, and Manhattan Project.

In fact, I remember playing the Manhattan Project and got as far as facing Tokkar...before being defeated.

For the Arcade game, I kept losing to Shredder...cause I didn't know who was the clone and who was the real Shredder.

And NES game...kept losing after saving the water dam.

If I could, I would go back and try to beat those games...but haven't found the time.

[kolaida]

The only one I've played was the NES version. And we played that game like it was our job, LOL! Sometimes played it on single player, but we usually played it on co-op. Played through it several times. That game was so much fun!

[Tora]

Never beat any of the NES titles but have beat TIT.

[NiNi]

I've beaten most of the 2003 series based games, actually. Hmm... the 2007 movie game, TMNT Tournament Fighters (SNES) only once though sadly, Out of the Shadows, all modes in TMNT Smash-Up, Turtles in Time Reshelled...

But I've also beaten the 1980's series arcade game.

However, the biggest moment of beating a TMNT game was when my brother and I were little kids and we'd play the Turtles in Time arcade machine at a small arcade near a restaurant my family and I would go to on occasion. He played as Donatello and I was playing as Leonardo. He ran out of quarters and I was down to my last few and I ended up beating Shredder at the very end all by myself! We spazzed like crazy for doing that! LOL

[Nameless]

i've beaten all i've played except for the infamous turtles 1 on the NES and turtles 3 on the NES. got to the dam and keep dieing on turtles 1. can't remember how far i got in turtles 3 but i do remember i lost because the game crash and i was so pissed i didn't try again and then forgot about it. lol

[Leo656]

Back in elementary school, I used to rent the first three NES games all the time (we were kinda poor so I only had a few NES games, most of which were gifts). I don't dislike the first one but I swear, some games are just too hard for no reason. I'm actually a little surprised that the dam level is so infamous for being so difficult, it's tough but if you know exactly where to go it's not that bad. I, personally, could never get past one specific spot where you have to jump over a narrow gap with a very low spiked ceiling right above you. Either I miss the spikes but fall in the pit, or hit the spikes and die. The ONE time I made it over, the very last time I played it like ten years ago, the f*cking game glitched out and reset. My then-girlfriend-now-wife looked at each other in total despair and disbelief, as I had committed myself to that time being the time I finally beat it. Instead, I just declared "That was a sign," sighed, took the game out and put it back on the shelf. I'll probably never beat it, or even ever play it again. I wasted too much time and frustration on it as it was, beating it now wouldn't even bring me any joy. Maybe a slight sense of "F*CK YOU, game!" vindication, but that's hardly worth the stress. It's not awful, though, it had some neat ideas. It just had the common NES difficulty trap of "We have to kill the player constantly. They'll never play these games for months and years on end if they realize they're really only about an hour long."

Turtles II and III were no real problem. I haven't played either in a while, but I think I liked III a little better. My friends and I used to love playing and beating II co-op, but eventually I was able to beat it alone. I don't think I ever beat Manhattan Project co-op. Pretty sure I always did a solo mission on that one. I know I played it with friends but can't remember beating it with friends, maybe once. It's fuzzy. I know I beat it several times alone and got pretty far with my buddy, but I can't remember if we finished it together.

Turtles In Time for SNES was always my go-to. I beat the f*ck out of that game countless times. Last time was right after Christmas, twice, back-to-back, to celebrate hooking up the SNES for the first time in a while. Definitely my most-played TMNT game.

I played Tournament Fighters for SNES when it came out and was able to beat it on Normal but not Hard. The one time I made it to Karai as a kid, she beat my ass so fast I barely knew it started. I finally corrected that in 2009.

Played and beat the 2K3 game for Gamecube when it first came out. I actually like that game a lot. Finished it several times.

I definitely would have beaten Battle Nexus by now, but I swear my copy is glitched, as during the second Hun fight, at one point he would go all red/invulnerable and completely stay that way instead of eventually "cooling down", no longer receiving damage at all. This happened every single time I played the game. Eventually I just stopped bothering; I didn't like it as much as the first, but I do hope to finish it eventually.

I remember beating Mutant Nightmare with ease, but only played it once, as I had it on Xbox and my Xbox died shortly after. I remember liking it more than Battle Nexus.

The TMNT movie game was a piece of cake to beat. I kind of like it, it's nothing like any of the other games, but there's not much to it.

I beat the Story mode of Smash-Up in about a half hour and was pretty annoyed there wasn't more to the game in general.

I didn't have a tough time beating Out of the Shadows and I find that one pretty fun as well.

The rest I don't own.

[MartiusR]

The first TMNT game I've played was TMNT: Tournament Fighters for NES/Pegasus (as far as I remember, I've played in this game in second half od 90'). I've beat the story mode probably with Raphael (he had the easiest combo from all turtles), although I must admit, that I had the most fun when playing with Casey or Shredder in other modes. I've also met in this period TMNT 3: Manhattan Project, also in NES version. Although I've never finished it. Don't remember excactly, if there was Krang as boss, but if it's true, so probably I stopped in this moment of game (well, all of these NES games was hard to beat, because most of them you've need to beat from the beginning to the end without turning off the console, with some exceptions like Samurai Pizza Cat with passwords. I only saw one of my colleagues was once playing in first TMNT game on NES, but never had occasion to play in it.

Probably after this I had a loooong break with TMNT games. I've met in the meantime Tournament Fighters in SNES version (never ended it though, this Karai was incredible!) and demo of Teeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from 2003.

And here we are "back", in... 2012 or 2013. I've bought the two parts of 4kids TMNT (first one and Battle Nexus, the second one was quite risky though, because it was in box covered with Italian description, so I was a bit afraid that the whole game will be also in Italian (of course seller didn't know anything about it), but I've tried, bought and fortunatly, the whole game was in english language) The first one I've beat with Donatello. Man, the last level was so annoyingly difficult. But after couple of attempts I've made it. The second was far less frustrating experience, but this time I had to play with totally different turtles, Don and Mike were in this parts far less useful than in the first one. I know that these two are not great games, but for not so demanding fan of TMNT like me it was after all nice experience.

And the last games I've played were TMNT: Smash Up on PS2 (well, I must admit that it was the easiest games with Turtles I've ever played, so it wasn't too hard to beat the story mode.. a couple of times ;)) and TMNT based on movie from 2007, but... I've never ended this one. The reason was quite untypical - polish dubbing. It was so terrible in this game, that I couldn't stand it. Maybe there would be some solution in turning off the speech in the game, but unfortunatly, it was the only way to understand what's going on in the game's plot (yep, no trace of subtitles).

[MikeandRaph87]

Was Manhattan Project ever uploaded on virturalnes.com or any other legal and safe simulator website?

[Longview01]

I can remember beating the original Nes game.

We got it with our Nes back in the day and I used to play it every day before and after school, then 1 weekend I stayed up late and my brother was watching me play and I finally for the first and only time beat shredder and finished the game.

It was pretty damn exciting at the time.

[shuriken]

Was Manhattan Project ever uploaded on virturalnes.com or any other legal and safe simulator website?

It was on NES-ulator or something I can't recall. I know I had it on an emulator for the longest time, then my PC died. Good times.

[Testudo]

Sega Mega Drive:

TMNT: The Hyperstone Heist (back when games were an expensive luxury and you had to get the most out of the few that you had)

PC:

TMNT (2007)

[swing_kinker]

Turtles in time a whole bunch of times in my youth and a couple since. Tournament fighters with every character I think.....was a long time ago and the arcade version both in the arcades with friends in my youth and on download

[#MechaFresh]

Come on April 15, growing a little tired of beating the NES TMNT 1 as of this afternoon ;) all in all, I'm a happy camper this game didn't get cancelled.

[oldmanwinters]

Come on April 15, growing a little tired of beating the NES TMNT 1 as of this afternoon ;) all in all, I'm a happy camper this game didn't get cancelled.

You sure you got the right thread?

Out of the Shadows discussion is another area:
http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/showthread.php?t=41586&page=101

[#MechaFresh]

Whoops...sorry about that :)

[KirkyMonster]

I have Beat the first 3 for NES but can't get very far in Tournament Fighters on any system. I have beat Turtles in time and Hyperstone Heist as well as Battle Nexus and the first 2 original gameboy games.

[turtlefanforever]

beat it a while ago but hey gives me a reason to post in here

[shihe]

The last TMNT games I beat have been Out of the Shadows (PS3) and Dark Horizon (Web game).

Both really good.
Dark Horizons, for a Flash game, was really entertaining to me.

[Slade]

I have Beat the first 3 for NES but can't get very far in Tournament Fighters on any system. I have beat Turtles in time and Hyperstone Heist as well as Battle Nexus and the first 2 original gameboy games.

What's the farthest you've gotten in Tournament Fighters??

[shihe]

Speaking of Tournament Fighters.

I do best in the Genesis version. It's all about the... well... infinite chaingrabs. XD

Then the NES version. I'm just ok. Raph is a beast, but I rather use Mikey.

And last, the Snes version. I either really suck at it, or the computer is extremely cheap. (Looking at you Armaggon).

[Slade]

That's crazy. The only version I ever played was SNES. I beat the game a million times. Every difficulty and every speed.

[DonatelloDomeHead31]

In my previous thread posts, I mentioned that I beat the SNES turtles game, tournament fighters (only with Don), etc.

I remembered that I played Ninja Turtles 2: Back from the Sewers for Gameboy. I made it to the last level (I forget which turtle I used) and defeated Krang...he was an easy boss to face.

The ending is quick though.

[Prowler]

I've beaten:

- The original arcade game
- Turtles in Time (SNES)
- Tournament Fighters (SNES)
- BattleNexus (GameCube)

Still unable to beat the first TMNT NES game after all these years. And while I have not played much of them so far, I'm yet to beat Hyperstone Heist and Manhattan's Project.

[Shiro Kame]

I beat the original arcade game, and the first GBA game on easy.

[Brianardo]

The Arcade Game, Fall of the Foot Clan, Tournament Fighters, and the TMNT movie games are the only ones I ever remember beating

[Toad64]

I just beat the first TMNT on NES for the first time last December. I snapped a couple of pics to commemorate the occasion, as this was a game I had resigned myself to never beating!

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Apart from that, I've completed TMNT 2 and 3 on NES, IV on SNES, the first two Game Boy Games, the first of the 2K3 games, Smash Up, Turtles in Time Reshelled...I don't know if I'm forgetting any, there's a lot of games!! I'm in the middle of Out of the Shadows (that Mouser Cerberus boss is annoying) and I own but have not played the Nick TMNT game.

[shaunatello]

From what I know, I have beaten all except NES I and NES III. Still working on OOTS and haven't played any of the GB games except arcade attack and finished it.

[Toad64]

Finally finished OotS last weekend (the mouser Cerberus was getting me frustrated and I walked away for a while!). Overall I actually thought it was pretty good! The last level got a bit repetitive with all the fighting, but really I thought the game looked good, and the combat felt very satisfying. Also, stealth attacks! For a team of ninjas, there have not been many stealth moves in their games!

[LittleBlueHero]

I am proud to say after 20+ years of playing it on and off I finally beat Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project! I had seen the ending before but that was only thanks to game genie... its oh so much sweeter when you do it for real.

Games I still haven't beat (mostly because I don't own them):

Tournament Fighters (Nes)(Genesis)
TMNT 3: The Radical Rescue (Gameboy)
Nickelodeon's TMNT (DS)
Out of the Shadows ( I never even downloaded it)
TMNT iOS (halfway or so)
TMNT 2014 Movie Game (picking it up today)

I think everything else I have covered. But seriously Turtles III for NES was SOOOO much harder to me than any of the others to date... the sheer length of the game and boss fights was brutal.

[Donaterro]

Beat TMNT 1+2 and 3 for NES.

Beat Turtles in Time, so many times I can do it without dying now.

Beat Fall of the Foot clan for GB.

Beat the 3 based on the 2k3 series, including two of em for GBA (the second one was good).

TMNT 2007 for 360 and GBA (The GBA version is the best TMNT game since Turtles in time)

Beat OoTS a ton of times, it's a fun game even though it required more dev time.

[ctt4lfecw]

I've beat NES TMNT 1989(very proud of this lol)
TMNT 2 Arcade
TMNT 3 MP(my favorite game)
TMNT IV TiT

[Btown]

while its not much, I went and downloaded Turtles in Time: Re-Shelled on PSN today and beat it.

I actually really enjoyed the game. Next time just gotta do it without so many deaths haha.

[RaphaelinSTL]

I've beaten...

TMNT 2: Arcade Game (NES)
TMNT Tournament Fighters (NES & Sega)
TMNT: The Hyperstone Heist (Sega)
TMNT 2003 (PS3)
TMNT: Smash Up (Wii)

EDIT:

I can now add this to my list!

TMNT (Arcade Game)
TMNT: Turtles in Time (Arcade Game & SNES)
TMNT III: The Manhattan Project (NES)

[ctt4lfecw]

TMNT 1 is not impossible. You just need to train harder! I love that game. So many good memories. Everyone hates the dam, but I mean all you have to do is switch out your Turtles to keep them all alive. Pretty easy.

[Toad64]

I just finished up a let's play of TMNT on NES!
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edit: You can view the whole playlist here: http://goo.gl/qeQ3jh

[oldmanwinters]

edit: maybe I'm embedding this wrong, but the playlist is here: http://goo.gl/qeQ3jh

Yeah, just use the code that appears after the equal sign on the Youtube url between the tags.

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Nice job not freaking out in the Technodrome Death Tunnel. Those jetpack guys are the worst! You gotta inch your way forward very cautiously. I usually like to have two or three turtles equipped with scrolls for that section (in case I accidentally pick up a different weapon or something), but you survived on more meager armaments!

So good to see other folks who really love the first NES game!

[Toad64]

Thanks for the posting tip, oldmanwinters!

Yeah, the jetpack guys are annoying, especially when they spawn slightly too low to duck like they did here!

[Gorilla Grodd]

NES (Played it again yesterday for the first time in probably close to 20 years. Still loved it.)
Arcade
Radical Rescue (Very underrated)
Manhattan Project
Hyperstone Heist
Turtles in Time (The G.O.A.T.)
Re-Shelled
Out of the Shadows (I love this game and think it did a lot of the Arkham combat better in certain respects. Would love a big budget sequel with the kind of polish that this game lacks.)
Tournament Fighters (It's been years and I can't remember if it was SNES or Genesis)

I think that's all of the games I've played and beaten. I have the 4Kids GBA and DS games on tap but haven't gotten around to playing them yet. I've thought about checking out the PS2 versions of those games but to me the handheld side scrollers look way more interesting (and less glitchy/janky) than their 3D beat'em up counter parts.

[snake]

I beat the Nick game in under two days. Bad game.

[nuno]

I've beaten TMNT lost in time a few times, being it on the Arcade or SNES. I don't like the latest version though, I'd rather have the cartoony 2D look.

[nuno]

I've also beaten the old Game Boy game, very simple but also too much fun. I guess it was titled "Fall of the Foot Clan", while it wasn't as good as the SNES one (obviously) it was also fun.

Can anybody tell me if there any contemporary games as good as these I just mentioned?

[Hakase]

I've beaten the TMNT 2: The Arcade Game, TMNT 3: The Manhattan Project, Turtles in Time:Reshelled, 1989 Arcade game on Xbox, TMNT 2k3 GBA, and Battle Nexus GBA :tgrin:

[Taartru]

I beat a lot of them.

I beat:

TMNT Smash- Up PS2
TMNT 03 PS2
TMNT 03 BATTLE NEXUS PS2, GBA
Teenage mutant ninja turtles the manhattan project NES
Teenage mutant ninja turtles arcade game, (Unlockable on Battle nexus for ps2)
TMNT TURTLES IN TIME SNES
TMNT The hyperstoine heist, Mega drive (Genesis)
Both of the TMNT games on dos, Trust me they suck big time.

[JoshDragon]

A suggestion of the eternal wisdom of oldmanwinters inspired the idea of 'Dromers having a thread to tell us when they beat a TMNT game. A few through the years took ages to beat. Not just the first wave but the second wave had a few trying times for us gamers too. I am lucky enough to beat all of them except the original NES game. How about the rest of you? Did it take you until your high school days or even young adulthood to beat one? Share your stories here and be sure to drop by when you do to share your triumph!

TMNT 1 took me a LONG time to beat legitimately. I started playing that game in 1994 and it took me until 2010 to beat it on a Nintendo without save states.

I have proof of it though:

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I started playing TMNT 2: The Arcade Game around the same time as Turtles 1. I was about nine years old when I beat it the first time from start to finish.1995-2000.

I got pretty good at this game over the years and I can now beat it on one life:

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I didn't play The Manhattan Project until I was nine and it only took me about six months to beat it. 1999

Turtles in Time took about 3 years for me to complete on the regular mode. 1995-1998

The Hyperstone Heist I beat on my first attempt. 1997 :D

[DonatelloDomeHead31]

Ninj turtles tournament fighters for genesis...I did beat on easy mode, but not hard difficulty (I mentioned in an earlier thread that I beat Karai on the SNES version).


Side-question: Why take Shredder out of the Genesis version of tournament fighters?

[LeoLover]

Beat turtles in time on SNES....here is a pic of the final screen.

http://i.imgur.com/4zWVR3h.jpg

[Mew]

After seeing TMNT from Michael Bay, I saw Turtles in Time in the little arcade section.
I beat it with Raphael with ONE quarter.

[mrminister4446]

I am in the process of beating the battle nexus game. I've also watched someone play through Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Melee

[Shiro Kame]

I beat all of the first 3 2k3-era video games on normal (although technically on the second one, I still have to win the tournaments). I'm hoping to do the same with the Mutant Melee game I'm expecting this week.

[CowabungaMikey]

I've beaten the TMNT Smash Up missions today. I love this game, although I could do without the Rabbids.