While fighting them off with their Ninjitsu talents, the ceiling collapses separating the turtles from Master Splinter. A horde of dog-looking robots burst through and begin attacking the turtles. While training with Master Splinter in their domicile one night, the walls burst open and the turtles are confronted with some strange looking enemies.
The story of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles closely follows the plot of season one of the 2003 TV show. This Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game (often known as TMNT 2003) follows a similar structure and pattern of its 8 and 16-bit counterparts, yet has plenty of variances to make it a new and entirely different video game. The popularity of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the NES and Double Dragon on the Arcade are the probable causes for the hordes of the beat ‘em up games that came out in its wake, such as Altered Beast, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, Final Fight, Knights of the Round, Battletoads, and so many more. HOW FRIGGIN’ DIFFICULT IS THIS GAME?!” Back in the ‘80s (I feel like I say that a lot), the beat ‘em up genre was just starting to pick up steam and really hit the mainstream at home. HOW FRIGGIN’ AWESOME IS THIS GAME?! And 2. I recall playing the first TMNT game as a child and vividly remember thinking, “1.
It wouldn’t be long, however, before another TMNT television series made its way onto the screen, and what better way to kick off a TV show than to have a coinciding video game? But first, let’s take a quick glance at TMNT’s brawler roots. The TMNT video game franchise saw no less than 17 releases before the show went off-air. The Turtles were going strong eating pizza and jump-high-fiving their way across Shredder’s face from their television debut in the mid ’80s until the show’s cancellation in 1997. Konami has been the longtime developer and producer of every major TMNT release, not counting the oddball LCD handheld games that we loathed when our parents bought those instead of a Game Gear. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) video game series was one of the most popular video gaming franchises of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. Reviewed by Nerdberry “If all else fails then it’s time to kick butt.” – Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesĬowabunga dude! Nobody knows weapons, surfing, neon bandanas, pizza, or one-liners better than the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.