OMG! OMG! YES YES!!! I finally beat TMNT 1 for the NES!!!!

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Thanks everybody for all the comments. I am so happy it's rediculous. Let me say how I did it. I beat the game on Thursday night. I had previously tried to beat the game after I got home from work in the afternoon, but failed as I died at he blue floating soldier guy with the laser jet pack right before Shredder's room. But it wasn't as bad as the failure that had happened to me on Monday night, when I got to Shredder and died because I FORGOT TO TURN my Kia weapon on which I was so bummed. I have been studying a YouTube walkthrough for a week trying to build my Turtles up to the max with weapons, and going in and out of buildings in earlier levels to replenish my health with infinite pizzas , coming closer and closer but failing at different times for different reasosns. Wether it was not making the jum over the fire pit in one of the airport base buldings or getting smushed by the rooms with the closing walls with spikes. Some how, some way I would fail. The hardest part for me was the hallway right before Shredder's room. I can tell you that honest to God without YouTube I never would have beaten this room. Basically there are blue floating soldiers that shoot lasers at you, coming at you from the right of the screen, you must some how avoid them by ducking directly underneath them and letting them pass you. Then you run until they are behind you so they don't follow you. Then you must have some kind of weapon, like a throwing star to throw at the upcoming blue floating soldier. Throw only one at him, and let him back off screen. Then slowly move up forward. Repeat the process with him until you get to the ladder that takes you to a mini-boss fight with a blue floating soldier which you must defeat to progress to Shredder. This was the part like I said that I died on Thursday afternoon. But after coming home from the gym at about 9:00 at night I said **** this game Im beating it! So I played the game perfectly once again, I didn't make one mistake, I even picked the right sewer hole that had the Technodrome in it on the first try surviving the porcupine monsters. I played perfectly stocking up on weapons, like 99 Kia weapons for Raph(there like the best weapn) and like 40 throwing stars for the other Turtles. The key is to save Raph for the end if you can so you don't accidently lose your Kia weapons for something else. Anyway, I WAS SO CLOSE TO FAILING AGAIN. I messed up the blue floating soldier hallway trick and they nearly killed all of my Turtles, but somehow, I regained control of the hallway, and mastered the trick(keep in mind I have like no health for all my Turtles and those soldiers give so much damage its pathetic) I kept cool and with Michelangelo threw a throwing star at the upcoming blue floating soldier following the trick, with my heart going a million miles and hour. For such a short hallway, it feels like an eternity because at this point, I've been within an inch of dying, but I made it, two more battles left.

I come up to the mini boss fight with one more of these ****** blue soldiers, as he stands between Shredder and I. I had to pich a Turtle that had the most health left. And in this case Leo, had like 3 or 4 bars left. I thew 2 stars at him, but he touched me, almost killing me, but I quickly swithced to Raph after he hit me. I hit the soldier with a Kia, KILLING HIM. YES! I was back where I wanted to be since Monday night, at Shredder's lair. Where I had failed many times before in the past. I remembered this time to switch to my Kia weapon with Raph before I entered the room. I let Shredder jump from his platform as stood beneath him. He jumped to the left of the screen. I SHOWED NO MERCY as I didn't give the SOB time to even breath, I ran to the right of the screen and UNLOADED on him with every half moon weapon I had. I felt like I was in the first issue of the Mirage comics when I was doing this. I was relentless on Shredder, when at 10:30 he couldn't take it anymore, HE BURST INTO FLAMES! I HAD FINALLY DONE IT! I HAD BEATEN SHREDDER!!!!!! As the underwhelming cut scenes ran by, I knew that no cut scene could do this victory justice or serve as a pay off. The pay off was knowing that I had beat a game that my cousin gave to me back in 1990 when I was 4 years old. A game that I loved to play because of my love for TMNT. A game that 's difficulty has become legendary. I got it done. As Leo said when they killed Shredder, "Our mission is accomplished...our Master's Master is avenged!"