The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game on the NES was the best selling game on the system that wasn’t published by Nintendo themselves! Despite it being such a huge success, it was never as popular as the incredible arcade game that was released in the same year.
So how did Konami bring the successful arcade game home to the NES? We’ll find out in today’s episode, then we’ll dive deep into the game where we’ll learn:
* The best way to do your devastating SPECIAL ATTACK consistently!
* How to CRUSH all of the game’s basic enemies easily!
* The SECRET to farming enemies for EXTRA LIVES!
* How to avoid the dangerous hazards in the NES EXCLUSIVE levels!
* AMAZING strategies for STUN LOCKING the game’s challenging bosses.
* SECRET CODES for extra lives, a stage select, or BOTH!
* The ULTIMATE strategy for defeating Shredder without taking a single hit… AND MORE!
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I never had to use two fingers to hit the special. I just used the butt of my thumb (first knuckle) to hit the A button and then immediately hit B with the main part of my thumb (basically rolling my thumb in one motion). I hit it reliably every time.
No, I'm not a dog. 😝
Original TMNT sucked. It feels a bit like festers quest. Filled the amout of playtime needed through stupid difficulty and gameplay quirks. This one was top teir for a NES.
I'm surprised you didn't mention how, in Scene 2, you can deflect the manhole covers back to the Foot that threw it at you.
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do a turtles in time one
Loving this channel…
WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I WAS 10?!
Is it bad I still play TMNT 2 the arcade game?
Good run! Waiting for Manhattan project next 😆
I remember this was $72 when it came out. That still feels like so much money, especially adjusted for inflation. Lotta fun with this one tho 🙂
Please do TMNT 3: The Manhattan Project and the Kirby games for NES!
I remember being able to hit the manhole cover back at the enemies.
Wow some stuff I didn’t know as a kid, but I’m surprised you didn’t mention that you can hit the man hole covers back at the Foot soldiers that throw them at you.
Baba up down ba left right ba start
Cool video! TMNT2 was one of my favorite childhood games. It was considered an easy and fun NES game, beatable in a short time – which I did many, many times. I can recognize all your strategy advice from my own experience. If you pick up TMNT2 now, you shouldn't play alone however – one of the clear strong points of this game is the two-player mode, it was great with a friend.
I never used the two-hand technique you describe for the special move though, I just quickly slid my right thumb in a certain way over from A to B. When you played the game for countless hours you got really good at this. 🙂
Just watched Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Be nice if they released a physical collection of the Turtles beat em ups. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the arcade game Arcade and NES, The Manhattan Project, Turtles in Time Arcade and NES and Hyperstone Heist.
Everytime you said "Karate foot soldier" my brain had to jump in with Adolescent Radioactive Black belt Karate Hamsters. How fun would it be to fight them in a TMNT game?
So I found a secret in this game as a kid that no one ever talks about … I wonder if I’m the only one who’s ever come across it
I used to put tape on my thumb and glide it across the buttons to do the special attack. Nice walkthrough!
I love your dog❤️ he or she is a perfect mascot for your channel. Nintendo Gamer Dog rules!🤘
I thought there was an actually golden retriever Sprite in the game, lol!
It would be nice to see a video about Yume penguin monogotari. But this game was newer released on NES.
This was the last turtles game I bought for the Nintendo after that I just went and bought the arcade machine I no longer bought anymore turtles games until Xbox was here now with the Nintendo classic and Super Nintendo classic I can hack them and add every game I played all the turtles games they do suck 8 bit made my favorite games play stupid
I just spammed the ab buttons for the strong attack.
This was one of my first games I got along with Ironsword. Still have them as well as all my nes games but its of course one of my favorites.
I was a huge fan of the arcade game when I was a kid, and the nes version was such a disappointment lmao better than nothing though 😁
Fantastic. Love these retro game play throughs. Although I would love to see more SNES games. Any chance you'll cover Donkey Kong Country?
29:22 – Dad joke
Boom. The extra levels
on the sewer stage if you walk along the edge of the walk way (almost falling into the water… enemy's cant hit you but you can hit them
I wonder if pizza hut got their cut.
You know….
The turtles CAN actually deflect manhole covers when the foot soldiers throw them and if you plan it JUST RIGHT you can deflect the manhole covers RIGHT BACK at the foot soldiers
Thereby KILLING them
I believe you ALSO CAN deflect the tires that the red foot soldiers hurl at you and hit THEM back as well
I haven't seen that cheese strategy for Shredder before. Good find!
At 14:11, it is possible to hit the manhole and send it flying right back at the enemy if you're fast enough with those types of enemies.
Two finger style aka arcade style. I could never play with thumbs only. But then again it depends on the game. For instance, I play SMB with thumbs only. But TMNT, yeah I gotta play arcade style with 2 fingers.
When the foot soldiers throw manhole covers think of baseball ⚾️
I hope they keep the near death flashing on bosses.
You can actually hit the manholes and kill the foot soldiers that throw them,
An easy way of doing a quick B,A input is to place you thumb on the right edge of the B button then slide it over to the A button as if you were swiping your phone's screen right, only with slightly more pressure applied.
In actuality the standard NES controller's buttons don't need to be pressed too hard for the input to be registered.
This trick is often used to perform the helicopter kicks in Double Dragon, hope it helps.
Loved playing this game on the nes and arcade.
The Xbox 360 remake was nice, it had the arcade graphics but lost the bonus nes levels.
These video's are great, I hope to see more classics like Rush'n Attack and Shadow of the ninja
on that A+B attack.. i just roll my right thumb from right to left… works flawlessly aswell and doesnt require a weird grip 😛
Fun Fact: The jump kick was invented to knock samurai off their horses.
Great Game!! Remembering childhood!!!
If I may- as far as holding the controller and doing the quick A-B: I like to hold the controller like I'm playing Mario and running and jumping, but do that in reverse- instead of holding B to run and A to jump, roll your thumb from the A to the B button. Classic arcade players will have no problem using 2 fingers as shown, but for we who are used to holding B with the tip of our thumb and laying the larger part down on the A button (or on Y and B on the SNES) I feel like this can be easier. Practice your thumb roll and you'll be one-shotting those foot soldiers in no time.
Btw I'm only part of the way through and this is super awesome. Great video so far! Just wanted to offer my perspective for the thumb-stubborn among us. This was the first game I ever played and still I love it, and now I play it with my kids, who love it as well.
Il y a un tableau de plus dans la version NES que dans la version arcade. C'est plutôt rare. On voit l'inverse d'habitude
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