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DF Retro Let's Play: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - NES Turtlemania Revisited!
Ban Puncher
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Crew 511A
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Master System?
JunkerWoland
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I agree with the vid that its music is an earworm, but have never enjoyed actually play the game.
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Fake
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Yeap. Can you believe is the first time I played a TMNT game?
Btw, Master System its a home console release in Brazil by Tectoy, its a 'game gear-like' home console, but a little more powerful.
They came with Sonic 1 8-bits pre-installed on the system.
Its actually one of the most popular consoles in Brazil at 90, because its cheap and Brazil was a very poor country (still is a poor country, but not so much).
My father rent TMNT for Master System for 3 days.
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cryptoadam
Banned
Only played up to the water part and gave it up.
In the end the arcade games, and the eventually ports/reimagining on SNES and Genisis make this one a neat novelty in history but there are better games.
In the end the arcade games, and the eventually ports/reimagining on SNES and Genisis make this one a neat novelty in history but there are better games.
petran79
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Somehow TMNT 1 on various systems and tmnt3 on Gameboy were the most difficult and frustrating games but for different reasons. Former for bad and unforgiving gameplay and difficulty, the latter for Metroidvania aspects.Now I see director was also the producer of SOTN
Finish both but I'd rather not repeat that experience
Finish both but I'd rather not repeat that experience
nkarafo
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I'm not aware of a TMNT game existing on Master System, even in Brazil.
Even in the full goodmerged ROM collection (that includes all regions and versions) there isn't one.
Maybe you had a multi-system that could also play Mega Drive games?
EightBit Man
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This game was really huge back in the day. Lots of my former school buddies owned the game. I played it at theirs and rented it too. Was not good at it at the time (I was very impatient for most games). I did get the (first) Game Boy game though, which was really easy, but nevertheless great. Also, the music from that title was done by Castlevania: Bloodlines composer Michiru Yamane.
From the book Game Over by David Sheff:
"With the help of the Ninja Turtles, Konami, which had earned almost $10 million in 1987, took in $300 million in 1991. It became the largest of the NES licensees, the eighth-largest software publisher (Microsoft was number one), and the ninth-largest toy company in the United States—almost all based on the Turtles, who also starred in hugely grossing arcade games."
One can understand why Konami was putting Castlevania a bit to the wayside at the time, prioritizing the Turtles-craze.
From the book Game Over by David Sheff:
"With the help of the Ninja Turtles, Konami, which had earned almost $10 million in 1987, took in $300 million in 1991. It became the largest of the NES licensees, the eighth-largest software publisher (Microsoft was number one), and the ninth-largest toy company in the United States—almost all based on the Turtles, who also starred in hugely grossing arcade games."
One can understand why Konami was putting Castlevania a bit to the wayside at the time, prioritizing the Turtles-craze.
Fake
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Was a ported version of the arcade for Master System. I don't even know if was official or bootleg version. Was a long time ago.
nkarafo
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This intrigued me, i really want to see it.
Can't find anything about it online so far.
As you say, it was a long time ago. Maybe you remember it wrong?
Fake
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Maybe. As I said, rent Master System games was far less expensive, and bootleg games was very popular in Brazil.
I dunno, maybe I can be wrong too, but in that day I played Mortal Kombat 2 too, so is very unlikely being NES. MK2 was one of my most played games on Master System besides Turma da Monica, aka Wonderboy Dragons Trap.
Impotaku
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Got it bundled with my nes, the game is grade A shit. Stupid floaty controls and annoying level layout make it a frustrating and unrewarding playthrough, i got all the way to Shredder at the end on sheer determination to see that ending. And finding his bullshit gun that one hit turns you into a tiny turtle and you lose a life and have to restart the whole chore of getting back to him through that bullshit level.
Fuck that, after that bullshit i never played it again. Konami made some amazing games, then they made this shit.
Fuck that, after that bullshit i never played it again. Konami made some amazing games, then they made this shit.
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