{"id":125053,"date":"2022-05-22T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-131774"},"modified":"2022-05-22T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T13:00:00","slug":"feature-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-on-nintendo-systems-a-half-shell-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/05\/22\/feature-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-on-nintendo-systems-a-half-shell-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles On Nintendo Systems – A Half-Shell History"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With the upcoming bounty of TMNT goodness heading to Switch this year in the form of Konami’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection<\/a> and Dotemu’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge<\/a>, we thought it the perfect time to take a look at the history of Turtles games on Nintendo systems…<\/em><\/p>\n

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You could say that the Turtles, Konami, and Nintendo were something of a holy trinity, if you wanted to get thrown out of your church. The (very) late ’80s and early-to-mid ’90s were pretty much festooned<\/em> with high-quality Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games on Nintendo systems (and elsewhere), so we begin in that early, evergreen era…<\/p>\n

The Golden-Green Era<\/h2>\n

We begin with the rather unfairly-maligned 1989 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles<\/a> for NES, a game that is often highlighted for the second stage, which has you swimming underwater and defusing bombs. Funnily enough, this level isn\u2019t particularly difficult compared to later stages, and overall the experience is rather better than its reputation may have you believe. It doesn\u2019t have the accessibility of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game<\/a> (1990, NES) but it could be convincingly argued that it\u2019s the more interesting experience.<\/p>\n

1992 was the golden year for Nintendo and TMNT, with the brilliant Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project<\/a> hitting the NES and improved arcade port Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time<\/a> blessing the Super Nintendo with one of its very finest games and surely the centrepiece of the upcoming Cowabunga Collection. To this very day there are few side-scrolling beat-\u2019em-ups<\/a> as good as Turtles in Time, which marries simplicity, variety, and challenge as expertly as you could ever ask from the genre.<\/p>\n