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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (ティーンエージ・ミュータント・ニンジャ・タートルズ, Tīn'ēji Myūtanto Ninja Tātoruzu?) is an arcade game produced by Konami in 1989. It is a scrolling fighting game based on the popular comic and animated series of the same name. As with all merchandise relating to the Ninja Turtles, the name of this game was altered to Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles in Europe, due to censorship issues involving the word "ninja." The Japanese release of the arcade game bore the subtitle of Super Kame Ninja (スーパー亀忍者, Sūpā Kame Ninja?, lit. "Super Turtle Ninja"), which was omitted from the later Famicom version of the game.

The player chooses from one of the four Ninja Turtles: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael. After Shredder kidnaps the turtles' friend April O'Neil and their mentor Splinter, they must give chase, save their comrades, and defeat their nemeses.

The majority of the enemies the Turtles must face are the Foot Soldiers. They wear a different colored uniform depending on what weapon they have.//

Gameplay

Up to four players can take control of Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo and Raphael. As usual in the 80s and 90s TMNT games, Donatello has slower attacks but a longer range, Michelangelo and Raphael have fast attacks but a short range, and Leonardo is a well-rounded Turtle with average range and speed.

The controls are fairly straightforward. The eight-way joystick controls the movements of the Turtle, the jump button makes them jump and the attack button makes them hit in front of them using their weapon. In addition to this, some combinations are possible. The Turtles can throw soldiers overhead, and by pressing the jump and attack buttons, a special attack is performed. Raphael rolls along the ground and finishes with a kick, while the other Turtles do a jump attack with their weapons.

Ports

TMNT II: The Arcade Game

Box art for the NES version of the gameThe Snowfield level added to the NES port.

This game was ported to the NES and the Atari ST in 1990 under the title Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game due to the fact that an earlier Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game had already been released on these platforms. The Japanese Famicom version was released simply as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, since the first Ninja Turtles game released for the Famicom had its title changed in Japan. This would later affect the numbering of the game's immediate sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project, which was titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 in Japan. These ports of the arcade game included two new levels for the benefit of home players. Most of the original stages from the arcade game are extended as well. Also, at the end of the parking garage stage, instead of fighting both Bebop and Rocksteady, the player must fight the fly form of Baxter Stockman. There are also some altered graphics that include advertisements for Pizza Hut, in addition to the game's manual including a Pizza Hut coupon.

The game was also ported to the Commodore 64, the PC, the Amiga, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, and the Amstrad CPC. However, it was the NES version that became extremely popular with game players, and was followed by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project for the NES in 1991 and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1992, with a Sega Genesis variant under the name of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters also came out on the Super NES as well as NES and Genesis.

The original game was later ported as an unlockable extra in the multiconsole game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus, but with different music and most of the voice clips edited out.

It has recently been announced on the ESRB Website that the NES port of TMNT II: The Arcade Game will be on the Wii's Virtual Console. It received an E-10 Rating.

TMNT 1989 Classic Arcade

An Xbox Live Arcade version of the game was released under the name TMNT 1989 Classic Arcade on March 14th, 2007. Like other classic arcade games on the Xbox 360 platform, portions of the original arcade game are emulated with network code and other new features added. Players can earn achievements as well as play 2-4 player co-op (both online and offline). The game costs 400 Microsoft Points ($5 US). The game was not released in Australia until November 2007.