Game Grumps - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The Game Grumps full playthrough of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for NES.

I think their debate about whether TMNT is a classic is worth noting. Arin argues that it is but Dan argues the opposite. I think it's the case of someone who didn't live it and wasn't there, having a different view from someone who was there.

TMNT (the game) was massive, it was a huge seller, every kid owned it (loosely speaking - I didn't own it, but you know...), and no one liked it aside from the fact that it was TMNT and that carried a whole lot of weight. I watched my friend play it and saw him unable to get past the Dam Stage (it's a cliche but it's a true story) and realized this game isn't fun, it's not at all in keeping with the fun/crazy spirit of the show. Konami/Ultra made a cartoonishly difficult game and tortured a generation of kids. 

So it's a popular game but not Great game, and not a Classic.

The perfect TMNT video game would come a bit later in the form of TMNT The Arcade Game (both the arcade and NES versions).

Anyways, they set out to beat the game and that was the draw to me and also made it worth posting. I don't believe I've ever seen anyone beat it or even get close to beating it. I may have never seen anyone get past the Dam Stage, in fact. I'm not sure.

Re:View - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

 

A round-table discussion of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie from 1990.

I learned about TMNT from a friend showing me the cartoon and, like Jay, I decided that would be my thing: I would collect all of them. Of course I never had a shot at accomplishing that goal, the corporations were amazing at pumping them out at a torrential pace, but I probably had more TMNT toys than any other "line" at any stage of childhood.

Earlier this year I found in an old box the TMNT movie novelization book that you would buy from Scholastic in those years. And I read it in present day and then I re-watched the movie. But I didn't come up with any original or interesting angle to take to create a worthy blog post about it. But I still remember going to see the original movies in the theater right when they came out and having every pleasure center in my brain firing off at the same time.

Game Grumps - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade Game