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I Think I've Given Up

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

When I played this game as a kid, I was able to pass level 2, the water level, two times at the most. I figured trying the game again 15 years later with more improved game skills and a walkthrough just MIGHT enable me to beat it. Now I'm thinking there's just no way. I've beaten the original Super Mario Brothers, Pilotwings, Zelda 2, Mike Tyson's Punch-Out, Jurassic Park on SNES, and other extremely challenging games, but this one is just too much.

Still, I'm not all that disappointed. I mean, I'm able to get through level 2 at almost any time now, and I actually made it all the way to level 4. So at least I can do better now than I did 15 years ago, and that's why I bought the game. To see how far I've come.

But I'm not going to make it all the way to finishing the game. It's too difficult. There is NO room for error. None. I've never seen a game where you had to be so accurate with your jumps. I mean you have to actually watch how hard you press the button. If you just barely tap it too hard or too soft, you'll miss your jump. Also, you can't be too far on or off the platform you're jumping from. You've got to press the button at JUST the right second and with JUST the right amount of force as you walk off the platform. And when you miss a jump, you have to fight a whole swarm of enemies you just killed yet another time before you get a chance to try the jump again. This wouldn't be so bad if there were a way to actually master jumping in this game. But there's not. You could try the same jump 3,000 times, and after all that, you'd still be very likely to miss your next attempt, even after all that practice.

For the past few days, I kept getting further and further along in the game every time I played, but I think I've finally had enough. I reached this part where spiked walls come at me, and all I have to do is drop down holes to avoid them. But I lost ALL FOUR of my turtles to those spikes. If the spikes touch you once you're dead. And the holes to drop down are way too easy to walk over because you have to be so darn accurate with how much force you use to tap the control pad. Of course, the spikes move fast enough so that if your timing isn't freakin perfect, you're dead. If you walk over a hole by accident, forget it, the spikes are going to get you. And if you try to be careful so you don't walk over the holes, you won't move fast enough to drop down in time, and you'll die anyway. The lack of room for error is just so frustrating, and its present at so many points in the game. You just get sick of trying to beat it.

And just because I can beat the water level now doesn't mean I can't complain about it. I mean shoot, even when you're WAY far away from the instant death seaweed, the stuff pulls you down like a magnet. And if you try to swim off the top of the screen to deactivate a bomb above, you're pulled down before you reach the top. This drains a whole lot of the miniscule time you have to complete the level. If you waste even 10 seconds fighting this kind of magnetic effect, you've lost so much time that you'll have to just swim through all the dangerous stuff in the level and take loads of damage in order to beat the time limit. Again, the slightest error is completely devestating.

It's easier to get a PHD in quantum physics than it is to beat this game. Gosh, it's depressing. But it has some great graphics and sound at least.

(Update - 7/14/07 Okay, I actually, by some miracle, got all the way to the inside of the technodrome; after getting through all the random BS where you have to hunt for it. Unfortunately all that hunting drained the heck out of my life, and I died shortly after entering the final level.)

Difficult, but fun!!!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I first played this game in 1990, when I was 6 years old (ok, I was one year late, but we rented games and tried them out before we go out and spend $50+ on them). I was a big Turtles fan, so I did'nt care. It was fun selecting different Turtles (who varied in speed, damage in Turtle weapons, and range in Turtle weapons), and picking up and using different ninja weapons such as boomerangs, shierikens, and TNT (best weapon), other than your main weapons. Graphics (for its time) were awesome and so was the music score and the controls. I love that. I only gave this game three stars because I do have 3 major complaints about the game.

-1. It was way too difficult. Even with your Nintendo Power Strategy Guide, you had to play this game 50 times to master beating it. I think this game went beyond the levels of difficulty such as how easy it was for the Turtle to die and the random changing groups of enemies throughout the game (making it hard for you to strategize your attack or moves). Even though it had some of the dark elements from the comics, the game was suppose to be for kids so there was no reason for the high levels of difficulty.
-2 Choice of characters was my main problem with this game. The cartoon series was already on their second seaon when they were designing this game. I sense that they were trying to mix in the cartoon series (Bebop, Rocksteady, and The Technodrome) with adding more elements of the darker comics, but when the hell were flying missle balloons, flying robot heads, chainsaw guy, frog man, fireman, butterflies, MechaTurtle and flying astronauts appear in the ninja turtles universe?!? How uncreative!There were alot of Ninja Turtle enemies to choose from, but omitting Krang really took the cake. It was great fighting the moving Techonodrome, but there would be NO TECHNODROME without Krang! I don't think they did the proper marketing research before making and releasing this game.
-3 You don't hear the Ninja Turtles theme music anywhere in the game. What copyright contraints were the developers under!? As a child, I was confused.

Other than the three complaints, the game was playable and it would be much better to use game genie to beat it. I know its cheating, but its more fun that way and it was the only way I was able to beat the game. Although this game was a hit, Ultra/Konami knew they messed up a bit and responded by improving the game play and character selection on the future TMNT titles plus targeting them more for kids because kids were the large fanbase of TMNT.

Be prepared to spend some time on this one.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 24, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Let me start by saying that I grew up in the age of the NES. I got my Nintendo when I was 9 years old, and my brother and I would play all the time. Anybody who was growing up with me knows that games were hella expensive back then. It was easily $60 to buy a new game, and $6 to rent one for two nights. There was no more sickening feeling than saving all your allowance for months, finally bugging your parents into driving you to Child World, shelling out approximately 120 Fun Dip's worth of cash, and then beating your new game that same night. You felt cheated.

TMNT never cheated anybody. I don't think I had cleared the seaweed in the second stage by the end of my first week. It was a game that got more challenging as you progressed. It was a game that required that you develop strategies and skills. It was a game that was difficult as hell, but winable in one sitting, unlike some other saveless cartridges (Blaster Master, I'm looking in your direction.)

I was obsessed with this game for about 6 months as a kid, and I still dust it off from time to time. If you're the type of person who likes to buy a game, look up the walkthrough and cheat codes on GameFAQs, beat it in an hour and then shuffle your diminished attention span to the next distraction, never play this game. Ever. It will only make you cry. If you're the type of person who focuses on one game at a time and doesn't expect everything to be easy, give it a shot. There aren't any fancy 3D spinning, flashing graphics, you won't be able to tell what more than 5% of the enemies actually are, and there will be multiple points that you will feel aren't remotely fair at first, but all in all it is the most engrossing and enjoyable platform game I have ever played.

TMNT

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: June 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Well back in the 80's and 90's, this game was really hot!
Due to the graphic improvement, the old games look kind of crappy but the game is extremely fun and challenging.

too hard!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: July 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Some games have to be hard to be fun, but this game is too hard, which takes away the fun. There isn't much of a plot. Leo, Mike, Raf, and Don look exactly the same, just with different weopons. This is a bad game with great character's, don't get it just because u like ninja turtles, that is why i got it, and i rarely play it. Don't get this game unless u like the accomplishment of beating an extremely hrad game, or if u like old classic's with horrible graphics, no plots, and a game that is TOO HARD. If u are loooking for good ninja turtle game's, please buy tmnt 2 and tmnt 3 Manhattan project, u will be like them.

Strange

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: August 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game back when it was new many, many years ago. My brother and I loved it- the action, the work, everything. But we never beat it. Fast forward to modern day, I played it using NESticle the nintendo emulator, and finally managed to figure out how to get past level 3. But even then, a few levels later, even manipulating the emulator- I still can't beat it! Now look. I'm a good gamer. I like hard games, games that made you really learn how to properly play the game and properly use the characters. I appreciate that in a game. I like it when a game is difficult not just by making more badguys and having them stronger and you weaker, but by making the effort to be genuinly challenging. But this game was just too danged hard. Sorry but there it is. Graphics were amazingly good back in the day. Storyline? Weak at best. Actually, I still am not 100% sure about it. It doesn't folow either the comics or the cartoon, and I have no idea where they pulled most these enemies from. Seriously there are some freaky acid-induced badguys in this game. And there are no hints about where to go or what to do (the "hint" on the pause screen usually consists of April saying "You can do it!" which is useless). Don't just buy it because you like the turtles. Is it worth a dollar? Yea. But I wish I hadn't paid full price for it even back in the day. And in 15 years or whenever it came out, I have not heard of a single perosn beating it, and it's been mostly forgotten by now.

too hard!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: July 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Some games have to be hard to be fun, but this game is too hard, which takes away the fun. There isn't much of a plot, and leo, mike, raf, and don look exactly the same, just with different weopons. This is a bad game with great character's, odn't get it just for it's title. Don't get this game unless u like old classic's with horrible graphics, no plots, and a game that is TOO HARD. If u are loooking for good ninja turtle game's, please buy tmnt 2 and tmnt 3 Manhattan project, u will be like them.

Sorta fun but really difficult

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: November 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game seems like a fun normal game.Until you get the turtle van.Then it just pumps it up like crazy.I have never beati'n this game and have never known anyone who has beat'n this game.Note this is a ok buy if its 40 cents through 1.00 dolar

Sorta fun but really difficult

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: November 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game seems like a fun normal game.Until you get the turtle van.Then it just pumps it up like crazy.I have never beati'n this game and have never known anyone who has beat'n this game.Note this is a ok buy....

Boring?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: September 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This was a rather boring game, and didn't even look like any of the characters from the TV show! Ofcourse this could have been based on the comic book. It is a very challenging game, with the poor gameplay, such as the fact that when you get hurt by an enemy, there is no recovery time, they can bounce you around and kill you quickly! Its unique in the fact that not only is there a bird's eye view map, but most of the action takes place in a side scrolling adventure. It also seems like there are no real ties to the cartoon plotline, its just like the makers of the game made a game involving the turtles. Another odd thing is the fact that some of the bosses are comical, such as the huge mouser and the really small technodrome that yes you must kill. Not a good game at all.

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