TMNT IV : Turtles in Time
 

Ya know, I played this as a kid and I purchased it again a few years ago when the 2003 series debuted. Even in these times of graphical and technological enhancement, it still plays well today and is one of THE definitive side scrolling 2D beat 'em ups of all time IMO, along with the likes of Final Fight and Streets of Rage. A true testament to gameplay over graphics. Still love it. What does everybody else think?

My favourite characers to use are Raph and Leo. Donnie is too slow and Mikey, just dont like playing as him. Great game

I always preffered either Don or Mike myself. Don has the long reach, and Mike is just Mike. lol. Leo was too average, I didn't like how if he misses with his jumping slash finish he's left wide open and Raph just seems to take damage too easily.

i absolutely hated that fact about leo!! it made me mad when he would jump up and try to slash, only to come up short , leaving me wide open to get nailed by the bad guys, grrrrr...very frustrating, haha.... mikey is obviously my favorite, but i didn't use him as much as don, because dons moves just seem to be the best

I've always liked Turtles in Time, but nowhere near as much as I do the original Turtles arcade cabinet. If you'll permit be to be a bit biased, I've always favoured the original game's levels and boss characters. Seriously, wasn't Shredder in TiT just a big pushover?

How cool is the level where you have to throw foot soldiers towards the screen, in order to defeat Shredder in his robot thingy? too cool!! my personal favourite TMNT game i must say. when i first had it, it was in japanese import for the snes (my dad used to get the imports in for us when i was wee, from a cool shop called 'solid gold', and for a fiver you could swap a game for another... we had an adapter in order to play the imports.) i dunno what happened to that version, but about for or five years ago i found a copy of the UK version, and it was strange seeing the intro in english! i completed it that night too...

Oh man, I loved TIT. My favs were Leo & Mikey, despite his slowness. I liked the Neon Night Riders stage and I used to get really mad at Slash on Hard mode; he was almost as hard as Super Shredder.

oh this game is so awesome. its weird how huge of a turtle fan i was as a kid but i never had any of the games. but about a year ago me and a friend of mine went out looking for snes games and bought TiT for $1 and we played it over and over again, it is so much fun throwing foot soldiers into the screen.

If you read my post in the 'Enemies' thread, you'll notice I mention this real psychopathic teen that tried to kill me alot when I was a kid. Well, ironically, the first time I played this game was with that psycho at his house. The only fun thing we did together, before he started trying to kill me alot O.o But yeah, we spent hours trying to figure out how to beat Shredder, then Slash O.o

I only played as Raph back then, due to him being my favorite turtle. Now, these days I play with Don alot.

I paid 40 for this sucker back in the day and I still got the cart to his day in mint. I love this game.

The SNES version actually has better balance than the Arcade game. I love how each turtle has their own strengths and weaknesses. You can see them if you look at the instruction manuel.

Just put Turtles In Time into my Original TMNT Cab.. played it earlier with the Mrs.

Still fantastic after all this time.

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It may be because I didn't have a SNES of my own when I was younger but I would have said the Megadrive/Genesis Hyperstone Heist was a better game.

They are good in their own ways.

Hyperstone took alot from turtles in time, but added alot of its own content too.

I personally prefer the look of the rock soldiers in hyperstone, and its cool to see Baxter the way he was in the original TMNT Arcade.

Sorry bro, but Turtles in Time was only on the SNES, not NES.

Your so right. Not only better balanced, but all the added content! Not just the versus mode, but the addition of the Technodrome level, and all the extra bosses: Bebop and Rocksteady, Slash, The Rat King, and the popular Shredder fight where you toss Foot Soldiers at him. All only on SNES. The only boss that was dropped from the arcade version was that weird "Cement Man", but who really cared about him? He was like in one episode of the cartoon for all of two minutes.

Other than some very slightly nicer graphics on the arcade version, the SNES version is overall the way to go. Hyperstone Heist doesn't count IMO. It's basically a totally new game that ganked the gameplay engine from Turtles in Time.


Oh and Jason; that picture is awesome. You're my hero.

Ah I see. I stand corrected.

wait, Cement Man was actually in an episode? i don't remember that, which one was it? cuz the only blob i can think of is the Blobfather...

Curse of the Evil Eye. The glue monster was one of the monsters that Baxter Stockman created using the Eye of Sarnath.

Ok good, I feel better knowing that I'm not the only guy scratching his head when I saw Cement Man.

What I loved about the SNES is that the plot actually made sense. I know, who cares about plot, but it does make more sense than Shredder just suddenly appearing in the Sewers and sending the turtles back in time. The SNES version actually cleared the plot hole.