No Love for Turtles 3 the Manhattan Project?
 

I've always wanted to own and play this game growing up and thanks to the eBay I now own a copy.

Anyone have some childhood memories I can live vicariously through?

I LOVE this game. Its my co-favorite alongsdie Turtles In Time. Tere are two reasons for that. First of all its the bosses,nearly all of my favorites! Secondly,its the amazing locations for the levels. I never seen anything better. I beleive its because of the side scrolling beat'em ups fading into the past so we don't fight 75 foot soliders and then a boss and repeat it until the end. The other reason being nearly all of my favorites are in the '87 cartoon timeframe and have not made it in a game because its been the 2003 cartoon adapted into games instead for obvious reasons. Another game with Shredder,Rat King, Slash, and Leatherhead,please!

I didn't enjoy this game as much as tmnt 1 and 2

The only credit I can give to this game was the music in some of the levels. First level had some good music and when you were traveling in the water to the submarine in the distance.

As far as the levels go, I liked them until you faced Dirtbag. He was the hardest boss I had ever faced.

Lastly, the farthest I got with that game was when I had to face Tokkar on the rooftop.

I too had trouble facing him.

Overall, good game--wish I could play it again.

Are you kidding me that game is amazing... Tough as nails and beautiful. Its graphics are such a step up from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Arcade Game. Plus rather than use obscure or made up mutants, I'm looking at you Shogun and Tora. The creators went deep into the Playmates toyline for bosses, thank you spinning head Bebop for making an appearance. Top that off the game feels like the longest of the three beat 'em ups and has a great story if you're able to get past the whole it starts in Florida and they surf back to New York bit. I would love it if they gave TMNT III the Remake Treatment

All you have to do for dirtbag is jump up and down between the track and platform until he gets close to you and then strike!!!!

I like this game and I've made it as far as Super Shredder on around the third attempt, but I never played this game until last year. I like the points system that does not give equal score to each enemy, and preserving lives/health is really dependent on how well you use your weapons. Fighting both Shredder and Super Shredder is a treat, and I like the second to last level involving the elevator. Because Turtles in Time was already out in the Arcade when this was released and was soon to be released on SNES, this game hardly had enough time to appreciate, and remains a $15-$20 title on eBay.

The game is fairly loved, it just doesn't have an arcade counterpart like II and IV did.

yeah! :D that game is beast.

i had a poster of the box art on the wall of my room when i was a kid, but never got to play it until i was in my early 20's (thanks to emulation).

tough and tuff.

The game came out near the end of the NES' life not to mention after the SNES had already come out and a TMNT game for the SNES came out just months after TMNT III. So it's the reason it's not as well known, however it brought plenty of improvements and had it been released a bit earlier it would've been just as well remembered as the other turtle beat em ups.

I remember playing it as a kid thinking it was awesome and much better than TMNTII only to forget about it as soon as I saw turtles in time. Having a SNES and limited choices of games to get I clearly chose TMNT IV as my present that year and not TMNT III. I'm guessing that's what happened to most people.

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When was he ever in Manhattan?

Wow never even realized that typo!! Feel like an idiot now

This is probably my favorite TMNT game. It's what got me back into Turtles in 2002, before I even realized a new show was on the way. Played it so much with my sis and cousins, I'm surprised the cartridge still works.

The boss roster was absolutely fantastic:

- Rocksteady
- Bebop
- Leatherhead
- Rahzar
- Tokka
- Groundchuck
- Dirtbag
- Slash
- Krang
- Super Shredder
- Foot with Big Mouser

Oddly enough the game didn't include Baxter or Rat King, I guess they saved them for Turtles in Time.

Its a shame Rat King is only a boss one time. He would have been a great addition to Shredder,Krang and the evil mutants. This game shows how important evil mutants are to the franchise.

As for Baxter I could see him as a human in the place of the foot soldier. I think it would have worked better.

Konami really seemed to like the movie characters. Rahzar and Tokka are used in two games, Tatsu was in Hyperstone Heist, and Super Shredder is in III and IV as well.

Slash being in two games was fantastic as well.

NES TMNT 3 was great. As most have said before, since it was released in 1992 for the NES and the SNES was already out. The game was living under the shadow of Turtles In Time's graphics and sound improvements for the arcade and SNES.

It probably would have been just as memorable as TMNT 4 if they actually created a SNES version of TMNT 3.

TMNT 3 was a difficult game (not to mention better improvements to TMNT 2), but if it was too easy it wouldn't have been as fun/exciting to play.

Love this game!!! Played it all the time back in the day. I had the first '89 game and the original arcade along with the Manhattan Project. For some reason I never came across Turtles in Time and I haven't played it until recently, so the Manhattan Project remains my all time fav! :D

I actually found TMNT3 to be a lot easier than TMNT2. The only thing that made it tough for me was how your health drained when you used the specials. Because of that I just kept jump kicking everything to victory. Well Super Shredder was hard too but Shredder has always been a hard boss no matter what the game.

Oh man this was such a great game. I have fond memories of my friend and I playing the heck out of it every day after school until we finally beat it. Such a great time.

I loved this game. I remember trying to avoid spoilers and putting the instruction book away so I can be surprised with each new boss the game would throw at you as we played the game (Gamepro already spoiled Leatherhead and I think Dirtbag). But yeah, it does become easy to forget since it wasn't based on an arcade game. My bro and I used to call the Fugitoids 'Urkelbots'.

I can never kill Shredder. He always comes back to normal health after glowing red again and again and again.

I watched a youtube video recently and Shredder only glows once and he got killed immediately after that.

What the hell??? :tmad:

I remember you have to drain all of his health and then you have beat again later.

Since my son is getting into the Turtles now we sat down and tag teamed this game over the weekend and beat it.

Don't forget about Rat King from Tournament Fighters.

Yeah, its great to have him and Armaggon in that not to mention as playable, but I meant as a boss to face at the end of a level. It would have been nice for him to fit somewhere into Manhattan Project.

Having the 'Mother Mouser' twice was a waste of time. Totally should have went with the Rat King in the sewer level.

It's been years since I played that game. Sadly I no longer own my original NES console and all the games I had for it are long gone. I had a lot of fond memories playing in the basement and the living room.

This was by far my favorite TMNT game as a kid. I had a NES and Genesis so Turtles in Time wasn't an option for me. And as far as the Sega was concerned, Hyperstone Heist was just too short and was a wannabe TMNT in Time. So I would spend hours playing TMNT III on the NES. The Genesis was in my bedroom but the NES was hooked up to a large old console TV in the basement. I remember it was on its last leg when I was into this game and whenever I turned it on, I needed to smack the top of it to get the picture to come in LOL.

I agree it was easier than TMNT II, especially with the secret menu option at the start screen (I think up up down down left right left right a b start). And I loved the special moves. They took life away UNLESS you were almost dead at which point you could use it unlimited without losing any life. That came in real handy with bosses.

Man, this was easily one of my favorite games as a kid! I'd play it with my brother (and occasionally my sister) all the time. I liked it because, frankly, I wasn't that great at video games, and the special moves really helped me out in a pinch. We would sometimes argue who got to play Raph (as we all thought he had he best special move), but the other would almost always take Leo. Only once we got a little older did my brother start challenging himself by playing with Don or Mikey.

Unless of course we would choose them on accident. I remember when that happened to me, I would pretty much just give up because of how terrible I was without Raph or Leo's special moves. ^_^;; ...yeah, I mostly stuck to puzzle/racing games as a kid, but I still loved this and TMNT II because two people could play at the same time, and the person I played with would make up for my sucky skills.

I seriously doubt this game was released out here...

Back in the day I played the heck out of every single Nintendo Turtles game on NES, SNES and Game Boy. I'm sure that I would've picked this one up if I'd seen it in stores...

A current gen remake anyone? :p

Are you kidding? I loved this game. Best rogues gallery ever.