What's your favorite TMNT game based on the '87 series?
 

Hey, what's your favorite Turtle game from the 1987 series?

From Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES) to Tournament Fighters.

Mine's would have to be Turtles In Time. The game was just down right perfect, to controls, THE MUSIC, and the enemies, I just love everything about it. I also love how Konami took almost of everything directly from the show. A follow up would have to be Manhattan Missions for the PC.

Tournament Fighters for SNES for the wow factor.
The Hyperstone Heist for story/adventure.

How many, if any, were solely based on the 'toon? TMNT1 (NES) was mostly original enemies. TMNT2 (NES) was partly as well. TMNT3 (NES) was Playmates-heavy. TF (SNES) was Archie-heavy (with that 1 then-Mirage-exclusive, Karai and the 1 all-original, Aska). Even The Hyperstone Heist (Genesis) had Tatsu from the movies. What about the others? I don't recall.

Turtles in Time (SNES)

I'd also say TMNT (NES) but as Gobo said it had mostly original characters. And had a comic cover as game cover, that's awesome

Very true, but I think the original Gameboy titles were mostly based on the show, don't recall to well. :ohwell:

The original TMNT ARCADE GAME FTW!

Oooooh man, soo many quarters well spent at Chuck E. Cheese!!

Turtles in Time followed by the original arcade game.

While I can't speak of the current generation TMNT games (for Wii and such), the only good TMNT game I've played, in my opinion, was the first. From exploring various sewers, exploring various maps, even driving the Turtle Van, and swimming sequences, it was the most diverse game. A lot of it required you to be quite strategical in the way you'd approach different situations and bosses. People complain it was too difficult... boo-hoo.

TMNT II - IV, Hyperstone Heist? Lame, brainless button-mashers... poor man's Final Fight clones, with even less diversity in villains (mowing through different rainbow colored Foot Clan members gets real old, real fast). And Tournament Fighters, just a poor man's Street Fighter II.

The Gameboy games were a bit fun. More in line with that first TMNT game, but far less involving.

Anything to go against the grain, eh, Andrew? ^_^

I stated my case.

I sense defensiveness there. No offense was intended by my remark. Just observing patterns...

Agreed! The button-mashing. The levels. The music. The perfect timing in its release during my early years as a fan. The Engrish character profiles!!!

One of these days soon, I'm gonna own a TMNT arcade machine.

In the meantime, maybe the lightest incarnation of the Xbox 360 that can support it will do.

Never heard of emulation? Could download MAME and the ROMs for it and be playing it on your computer in arcade-perfect "glory." Could even buy a PC arcade controller/stick to complete your trip down nostalgia lane, if you so desired.

Are you just not a fan of those genres or something?

I really liked re-shelled, but it's a fun game. And i managed to get my girlfriend to play with me couple of days ago.

as soon as the 4th member of geek floor comes home I'm gonna propose a 4 player match combined with a 4 player game of mario and movie night.

we're moving out soon... end of school year

I have to go with the Turtles in Time for the SNES. Also the NES ninja turtles arcade game because it has the Pizza Hut sponsor in some of the levels.

I'm always like that.

In moderation. I just liked TMNT II-IV and Hyperstone Heist when they were called "Final Fight" and "Streets of Rage." But maybe you're right... the walk-to-the-right-of-the-screen-mashing-two-buttons-against-the-same-enemies-over-and-over genre isn't something I have a great deal of patience with. Not because it's difficult or taxing, but rather the opposite... it's not creative, it's not immersive, it's not anything but repetitive and uninspiring.

The first TMNT game made a genuine effort to draw us into the world of the TMNT. The other games, you could replace the TMNT with the Double Dragon brothers, the Battletoads, Cody, Haggar, the Simpsons or just about anybody and they'd be exactly the same games.

Sometimes a game doesn't need to be inventive.

Sometimes you just need to hit stuff.

that comment with your current avatar is golden:lol:

Golden Retriever, maybe...

TMNT IV Turtles in Time for SNES. The gameboy games are fun to, simple walk and hit.

Don't worry. I'm more in-the-know than that. I've emulated the game (and many, many others) plenty of times and have had a lot of fun with it. It's not just some nostalgia trip I'm after. I legitimately like the game and would like to own it for real. Sure, it's not the most explosively mind-blowing and diverse game in the history of ever, but I don't need it to be. I have other games if I need something more than a fun beat-em-up to kill an hour of downtime.

For example, staying with TMNT, I'm also a fan of the first TMNT game On NES that everyone bitches about. I like the fact that I have to use a bit of strategy and there's no guarantee that I'm going to eventually beat it. I own a copy of the game that still has the box and instruction booklet if that tells you anything about how much I like it.

I just happen to like the Arcade Game a little bit more because I don't have to invest much of myself into it and I can have a little bit of mindless fun before moving onto whatever else I'm doing that day.

1. TMNT IV:Turtles in Time
2. TMNT 3:TMP
3.TMNT 2: the Arcade game
4. TMNT 1: tough, fun and who doesn't like driving the Party Wagon around
5.TMNT:Turtles In Time re-shelled
And the best of the rest were TMNT the original arcade game and TMNT Turtles in time arcade game.

the ones i played for NES and Genesis are the ones i liked the most.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II the arcade game for NES & Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tournament Fighters

i'd love to one day own all the ones for NES, SNES, and Game Boy

1.TMNT 3: Manhatten Project
2.TMNT 2 arcade
3. TMNT 4:Turtles in Time
4.TMNT: Hyperstone Heist
5.TMNT (G-Cube)

For me it's definetly TMNT: Turtles in Time.
Then it would be TMNT III on NES, and probably TMNT III on Gameboy afterwards.
TMNT II on NES would be fourth.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time
 

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time

I am still wondering if they will re-make anymore games?

After seeing Turtles In Time:Reshelled, I hope not. I think Ubisoft have the license for Turtle games now, and after seeing what they already did, I keep my fingers crossed they won't remake any of the Turtles games.