Debunking the Difficulty - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES)

[@JohnBender1313]

I just understood the dad from "The Wizard" saying he got the scroll weapon and beat the mega turtle. I thought he was always talking nonsense. Turns out he got further than I ever did and knew what he was doing. Now I know which parent Jimmy got his talent from.

[@sassytroy8282]

I was thinking of that scene too lol.

[@DadaPoopoo]

Mecha-turtle?

[@chubzero7342]

That movie was so ahead of us that we didn't even know Tobey Maguire was in Lucas Barton's gang of friends at Universal Studios until you read this comment.

[@dynamicsketch]

That dad had the power--Nintendo Power!

[@osurpless]

It’s nice to see some actual consistency in the writing, but such moments still fly under the radar when you have stuff like “he hasn’t even been hit!” (when the Ninja Gaiden lifebar clearly shows damage taken) or “50,000 in Double Dragon!”

[@dprggrmr]

i remember being haunted by this game at 6 years old. my best friend and i vowed to beat it at 12 with zero insider knowledge. i took the controller at the underwater zone and died in the electric plants. he was so pissed at me that we got into a pretty heated argument and stopped being friends. these secrets have been long awaited.

[@chesspunk489]

Hey, this is your old buddy. Long time no see. I just wanted to say that it wasn't the argument that made me not want to hang out with you anymore. It was because your house smelled like dog feces and your dad would always stare at me creepily. I was also disturbed by your infactuation with the New Kids on the Block. Maybe I should have kept talking to you. It was wrong for me to judge.

[@empire0]

Damn dude, thats a sad ass story

[@JBKiser]

Anyone that wants to get far in this game, Ryu's rules are: 1. Get the scrolls 2. Get the scrolls 3. Get the scrolls

[@kitsunami7251]

You forgot: Taking your time & Resetting the pizzas

[@JBKiser]

@@kitsunami7251 It's just a reference to an old Angry Video Game Nerd quote.

[@Oakshield2]

0.5 - Reset the Pizza

[@omi6816]

I've been trying to get a fully functional rom for this game but i'm sadly out of luck, everytime i get to the technodrome it just blacks out and never returns, does any of you know of a good copy?

[@neilgilham4120]

1. Get the knife 2. Get the knife 3. GET THE KNIFE

[@Devilkin]

On the PC port of the game, that tight jump at 4:15 is literally impossible, meaning the game cannot be beaten.

[@globalistgamer6418]

Rebunking the Difficulty

[@charlesajones77]

I knew there was an impossible jump in the game, but I didn't know where it was. Fantastic playtesting guys.

[@christianlynch1424]

The "just walk over it" gap is even more cheesable. You can actually jump from the ground and reach it. You jump and hold left at the peak of your jump.

[@skuzzbunny]

i sometimes would have trouble making that jump, and sometimes hit it right away, usually well worth the skip tho, the jumping and hitboxes in this game, everything is so jank.....D

[@matthiasplatz5919]

Fun glitch I discovered years ago: as long as one turtle has scrolls, every other sub-weapon can do scroll damage. To do this, have your turtle of choice throw their sub-weapon, then switch to the turtle with the scrolls before the star, boomerang or whatever hits its target. (The scrolls must be turned on too, or the sub-weapon will only do as much damage as the base weapon). That midair shot will do as much damage as a scroll.

[@flewis02]

BADASS!

[@ratamacue0320]

Haha, cool! Can you do it with boomerangs? Infinitely returning scrolls. 😈

[@albertkim7882]

Holy shit!

[@puddlestheninja]

Finally beat this a few years back. Felt like I redeemed my entire childhood!! Great Video.

[@jacobpeters5458]

that level 2 dam level was the rosebud of unpassable levels for me

[@muddyboots7753]

It has also haunted me for nearly 30 years

[@ryanc2115]

Man! I was so frustrated as a kid playing this. Defintely want to give it another shot.

[@NorthernWind0]

You HAVE to make "You'll probably die a lot, but you'll eventually beat it. I believe in you." a tagline for the series, Ryu. You HAVE to do that. Edit: Thanks for the heart, man. Love your content, longtime watcher. Hope you have a wonderful day.

[@Minelucious]

100% agree, should be the outro everytime 😂

[@raymxslappedyall3660]

DONT TELL HIM WHAT TO DO!!!

[@PianoHypnoshroom]

rip dont edit your comment, removes the heart

[@NorthernWind0]

@@PianoHypnoshroom Good to know! Glad he rehearted it then. Didn't know it did that.

[@JBKiser]

@@PianoHypnoshroom I didn't know that. It makes sense though. Otherwise, someone could make a really good comment, Ryu hearts it, then the OP edits it to say something triflin and it looks like Ryu hearted the triflin comment instead.

[@angermanagementstudios]

My mate’s dad beat this when we were about 8 years old. We watched him in absolute awe from start to finish. I still remember hi fiving him in the living room and heralding him as a hero for the next ten years.

[@moebino2685]

what a legend

[@chocolateface8664]

And then he finally got a job

[@angermanagementstudios]

@@chocolateface8664 Strangely enough he managed to squeeze this game session in between 12 hour shifts at the local copper works. He’s dead now but a great memory of a great bloke.

[@SUB2-TypicalCity]

Rumours has it his old man's score is still top score

[@ericolson1430]

He used scrolls? 99 per turtle? I don't see another way

[@peekitty]

Ryu at beginning: "This isn't very hard, we're gonna debunk the difficulty." Ryu half a dozen times: "Now this stage/part/boss is hard as hell, you've gotta be super careful."

[@BryanM86]

Ya but this is an easier classic game compared to the others is what I think he was meaning

[@boydstephensmithjr]

Yeah, maybe "Demystifying the Difficulty" is a better, still alliterative, name. Even at the end, Ryu's like: this game is still f'n hard.

[@BryanM86]

@@boydstephensmithjr well actually he showed how you can just spam win the game so I wouldn't really call that hard not to mention almost every boss has an exploit so unless you are just so bad at games you can't get to the 3rd part which I did that even as a ~8yo and I'm not that great at games I would argue that the hardest part is the janky jumps

[@mistertagomago7974]

I think he just wants to show that anyone can beat these games. They're not all omg impossible.

[@chawneecoleman2933]

There is a difference between hard, but beatable versus hard and impossible. Which is the distinction he is trying to make with this series I think.

[@Btobebone]

if you lose a turtle on the damn section, you do go back to the start and your timer is reset but any bombs you disarmed will stay disarmed. my overly cautious younger self used that trick to not feel the pressure of the timer, and level 3 has a turtle rescue point that's easy to get to

[@Pixel-dan]

This was insanely fun to watch!

[@tdog5993]

Wow you a big KZbinr and no one comments?

[@metalheadgamer665]

They were too busy watching The Video Game Years

[@tisdue]

@ROFLCOPTERLOL whats yours?

[@jacobpeters5458]

29:20 - to be such a pro that with half a square health you confidently know where to align your turtle within a pixel's reach of the hardest boss of the game. I only wonder how many millions of times this man beat this game to improve so much. pure dedication.

[@hypnos9336]

hardest boss in the game? lol you can literally stand on the ledge above and attack straight every time he jumps up to you. he's the easiest boss in the game for me.

[@jacobpeters5458]

@@hypnos9336 yeah if you don't miss. kind of like how you can win the lottery just by filling in the numbers. they just have to be the right ones

[@Lastjustice]

Shredder is not a tough boss. He can be easily beaten with any turtle as he's one enemy in the game that suffers from knockback damage when he's hit. He's quite anti climatic infact. If you don't have any throwing weapons to spam, just wait for him to drop down, and hop back up once he comes down, and just keep hitting him as he leaps back up. He will get knocked down and keep running into your attacks.

[@Lastjustice]

@@hypnos9336 Exactly, Shredder is a scrub in this game. The fact he suffers from knockback, unlike the rest of the bosses makes him a joke.

[@Lastjustice]

@@jacobpeters5458 No, Leo swings quickly and has a large area of coverage you can easily swing rapidly and not miss Shredder. It doesn't matter what hits him, he always staggers from the hits. It just takes longer than using Donnie who you could potentially miss time since he has a slower swing. Shredder isn't that fast of a boss, so you shouldn't have that much trouble landing your swings on him. It's not like he's a floating skull in Castlevania 3 or something that has a hard pattern to guess.

[@zax2004]

This was one of the first games I had on NES. I never thought it was that hard until the technodrome with a couple parts of some levels being BS and glitchy but still not that bad until the last level.

[@Nick-jb4xi]

Right! It's funny how people say the bomb-defusing is so hard, when that's still on easy street compared to what's coming! :^D

[@kylerobinson6102]

A lot of us are going to be reliving these frustrating controller breaking moments on updated hardware this Christmas !!!

[@hypnos9336]

it was tough getting to the final level at the beginning, but eventually I was able to get there consistently. the final yellow hallway was the part that always got me because I didn't know about the ducking trick to make those astronaut guys fly away

[@zax2004]

@@hypnos9336 I had to overcome the hoarder mentality to finally beat it. Kept trying to go through without using the scrolls and such. Never knew about the ducking trick though. Lol, would have been so helpful.

[@ChairmanMeow1]

As a kid my friends older brother got to the technodrome once, with all of us watching in amazement. he died, and I never saw the technodrome again or anything farther on in this game as a kid. :(

[@sab0t642]

Absolutely love the new series bud. Really enjoy your style of explaining as you play. Looking forward for more! Btw, in the scroll farming section, before dropping in the water to reset the cycle, there's a full pizza one screen over to the left that's basically free. hit that one up anytime any turtles' health gets low while farming, and when you're finished farming scrolls you can leave the area with full health!

[@adamklein4151]

I like how your video is honest. You show mistakes instead of "Just speed run this without any issues, you should be able to beat the game in 1-sec and never take damage or die". Right now, I'm trying to show my son the difference between games with a timer and games without. The scroll tip is really good. I'm one of those weirdos who beats games without using limited items, which is never a great strategy.

[@Karlos.Fandango.]

He's still an arrogant prick with this game though

[@Lastjustice]

If you're trying show people how really play a game, showing a speed run isn't a great learning tool. Speed runs do alot of fragile strategies that new players shouldn't be pushing. They lack the knowledge pool of how bounce back if the speed run path goes south. Most players are better off being on more conservative paths which you can outlast the onslaught if you know where and what to farm. I am not as good at this game as when I was 12, and could swim thru the dam barely getting hit at all, but I farm my way thru this game in my rustiness. Knowing really is half the battle for this game.

[@nesmandan1037]

20:20 These aren’t useless buildings, they are the most important in the game. The one in the top left holds quick and easy scrolls and unlimited easy pizza refills in the other.

[@pungisotu]

Easy? The scrolls are guarded by those pain in the ass spider things. Level 3 is infinitely easier to get those scrolls.

[@nesmandan1037]

@@pungisotu You simply walk right by them for the most part. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqvInYOKjtaUmMU Not to self promote, but on my other channel it shows how to walk right by them for the most part. 37 min in for the health refill and 40 min in for the scrolls even with a mistake they are easy.

[@osurpless]

@@pungisotu Not really, as it’s the building in which Raph most excels in the game, as he can kill everything with one hit. So can Mike at half health, but this vid reveals how easy it is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fofQmoOso82ngqM

[@pungisotu]

@@osurpless good stuff. I’ll try it next time.

[@jiayouchinese]

I was stuck in the final hallway, watching this video, and the last little bit was so easy after learning the tricks. Finally I beat it!

[@christianlynch1424]

The big mouser boss can be cheesed by pausing when it's mouth is fully open. The hit box will stay active when you resume, regardless of whether the mouser opens it's mouth or not.

[@OregonPacifist]

This video was a great help in teaching me strategies for finally beating this game. I played through it yesterday on a live stream (which was a total blast) and gave this video a shout out. 👍

[@calemr]

Never seen your work before. This grabbed me pretty much immediately. Chill, detailed, interesting topic with a touch of nostalgia... I shall follow your career with great interest.

[@5izzy557]

You should check out his main channel, he's a super mario pro. kzbin.info

[@JBKiser]

Cheese is a huge part of Ryu's whole presentation, so I hope you aren't lactose intolerant.

[@Matthew10950]

Enjoy his back catalog my friend, hundreds of great videos.

[@snoozbuster]

welcome to the channel 😄

[@mattydips2887]

Welcome.. i recommend subscribing to his first channel and checking out the “extraordinarily hard games” series. Enjoy

[@Keithnicity]

I remember playing this as a kid and hating how frickin’ hard it was. But as much as I hated the difficulty, I enjoyed all the different modes and the variety in the gameplay. I often wondered why more Nintendo games didn’t mix it up like this.

[@kitsunami7251]

The glitch demonstration at 24:00 was pretty funny, I love that you completely forgot about how people could get softlocked until the last second

[@Minelucious]

Yeah that « keep pressing right » info came a bit late, gotta say 😂

[@codyd6515]

Pretty sure I remember in the city portion there's a non-useless building, where you can get back your defeated turtle. Was hoping when Ryu killed Raph, he would show that building.

[@Lastjustice]

It's on the other side of the river across from the bottom left of the map. There's a barricade you need destroy with missiles to reach it, but you can then walk across this narrow path that only a turtle can go thru on foot. There's two buildings there. If you cross from left to right, you can use ropes to get over, if you go to the right building, which is where a half pizza and the rescued turtle is. You can't cross to the roofs from right to left, as you won't be able to make the jump. You will fall to the street and take damage.(you can't die from falling off a roof though.) It's easier to just exit the front door as there's no reason to cross between the buildings other than to explore the place for the heck of it. I know this game too well as I explored all the map as a kid. I got stuck on the 3rd level for way longer than I should have. I would always fall into the water in the sewer part before the boss's building. I didn't hop, I would always do a full jump and fall into the water, which put me outside.(why the turtles magically can't swim anymore is anyone's guess.) To be certain there boss wasn't elsewhere, I tore apart the stage to avoid doing what I kept failing at. Once I figured I could do low hops I quickly beat the lvl, and advanced thru rest of the game in a few days.

[@themouselessdev8655]

I had the exact same strategy when I was a kid. An important difference: I was calling the scrolls the "onion slice", 'cause let's face it: it's an onion slice. Finished the game multiple times. It's more a question of problem solving than raw platform skills to me. And trial and errors of course. Here's another NES game I was very proud to finish too, in the good old days: Solstice. If you want something hard, you won't regret it.

[@feenix219]

oh god.... that game is sooo intricate and tricky, I remember pausing and having to put in those long annoying codes so many times lol.

[@acidwizard6528]

Solstice is a really good puzzle game. My brother and I rented it as kids. We had it for 3 days or something and didn't beat it, but still had a good time.

[@feenix219]

Solstice has the best soundtrack of any NES game in my opinion. Even with the codes I don't think I beat it. I'm not sure I had good enough 3D awareness for that type of game back in the 90s.

[@eric_welch]

It was never the enemies for me, it was always the jumping. I always got stuck in the sewers trying to jump over gaps with low ceilings and failing over and over and over

[@JustChrisTM]

9:26 - I never beat the game, but I very much remember getting the 20 boomerangs and throwing 3 at a time, pausing, switching turtles so that each of em had 5.

[@NintendoFuse_Greg]

I did similar, but usually passed off to a turtle that would need them like Raph or Leo. Like trade all 20 to that turtle. I consider the boomerrang to be the second best item after the scroll since they are basically infinite unless you fail to catch them. They do decent damage and helps more in the airport and town levels. But by the dark stage you want to be using scrolls on those ultra hard enemies.

[@JustChrisTM]

@@NintendoFuse_Greg Sadly I didn't realize scrolls were S-tier until this video.

[@NintendoFuse_Greg]

@@JustChrisTM I learned a location to farm them from this video lol. So used to speeding past the van level in my play throughs. As a kid, I was able to get to the dark level and never knew the technodrome thing was random. I'd randomly get scrolls as drops, and usually try to grab a set from airport level, but normally left it to chance. I often got boomerrangs and worked for me and was always excited for those to drop. They do good work against the town area's double boss rush.

[@twostop6895]

the Cowabunga collection has a rewind option if you screw up a jump or fall, I abused the hell out of it

[@hellsing3062]

I LOVE YOU ryu! With what's all happening in my life, it feels just so awesome to view such amazing content, to see obstacles getting cleared :) Thank you so so much!!

[@B3Band]

What's happening in your life? Just kidding, i don't care

[@sonicmario64]

The other Ninja Turtles besides Donatello are not completely useless at all (especially my favorite hero, Michelangelo), since certain enemies can actually be defeated by certain Ninja Turtles easily, which many players always tend to forget.

[@moebino2685]

there is some hidden stats for each turtle, some turtles will deal more dmg the lower their health goes or something I don't really remember, I once saw an in-depth video about it.

[@GameTacoFTW]

Haven't played this game in probably 25 years but I still sat through the whole video; it was very interesting. I was too young to really get anywhere in the game. Lots of nostalgia.

[@chitlitlah]

There's also a place in level 3 to recover a lost turtle. It's a little out of the way, but if you really need him back, it's worth it.

[@beatchef]

With the underwater section in the dam, there's a critical concept I didn't realise as a kid. You can obviously change your turtle immediately, so if you get bodied by the electric seaweed you can switch so you don't die. When I was a kid, I stuck with a turtle until they died making it a ton harder.

[@xTBrown13x]

Fuck me!!!! Are you serious?!?!? 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

[@Karll541]

lol

[@dannyt9744]

24:30 Raph is literally down the ladder to the right, with not many obstacles in the way, disappointed that his bros didn’t bother to save him. 🤣 Great video! Always fun to see this game dissected. You mentioned speed runs, I’ve gotten my speed run down to 19 minutes, 50 seconds

[@nephilimshammer9567]

Exactly wtf

[@Alayric]

I cringe HARD at people who say the dam level makes TMNT one of the hardest game ever, it's so easy 😓 I've never beat the pre-shredder hallway without scrolls though. I liked that you kept the small fails in your video, it's more entertaining

[@jizzaymz]

Love the new series!!! Hoping to see Contra 3: The Alien Wars (SNES). Obviously on Hard Mode cuz Easy & Normal are very beatable

[@1990heaven_]

+1

[@PSBore]

I usually have a good run with that game, but lose a lot of lives on the helicopter fight.

[@jizzaymz]

@@PSBore yeah for me it's the level right after (level 5 aka: the 2nd of the top down view ones) The boss destroys me every time.

[@mistertagomago7974]

That game makes Dark Souls look like Kirby.

[@CailMacDonald]

Extra challenge, beat the game first on medium difficulty. If I remember right, lives will carry over from medium to hard mode if done correctly, netting some much needed bonus lives for the hard mode play through.

[@valdish9620]

2:03 it's because back in the day, game devs didn't know crap about making characters balanced.

[@justsayin4632]

18:34 summarizes this whole game. I laughed so hard 😂😂😂

[@tim72184]

As a kid, I Game Genied my way to EXACTLY that moment, and my invincibility caused the game to glitch and freeze. I was very, very unhappy.

[@michaelscott4909]

​@tim72184 yesssssssss I specifically remembered this happening to me. I learned my lesson after the first time and in every playthrough after that, I was laser focused during that part.

[@jwilliams7554]

The only thing I hate about the scrolls is that another weapon can still appear out of nowhere and if you get it by accident, your no longer have scrolls. I wish this game allowed you to store weapons for later

[@guidofedeli851]

Man, this was one of my very first games as a child. Such nostalgia.

[@kennym.4664]

When I was a kid, I always got stuck on stage 3. The underwater bomb diffuse part was always pretty easy. I just never got past stage 3. I haven't played this game since I got the SNES in the very early 90s.

[@magyaradam8957]

Most people will never cook this game it is very very hard to beat.

[@roosarobin3383]

Aww I'm sorry you gave up so easily

[@matthewfath1561]

One of my favorite turtle games as you can get better with practice . I would like to contradict Ryu claim that only Donatello is useful without scrolls as I found each turtle has situations they are useful in that makes the game more fun to play.

[@rossrobertson674]

There are certain enemies that Raph and Mike can kill in 1 or 2 hits where Don and Leo take 2 or 3

[@pigeonsil240sx]

4:35 i think you can actually jump up there in you jump where your kinda glitched in the wall,i recall somthing like that here,i know this also works for the part you walk across the hole in ground

[@williamsmith666]

Anyone claiming The Dam is difficult has never played this game.

[@chevy2die]

My dad had this on the actual floppy floppy disc back in the day. I remember playing this once in a while on his PC.

[@Breakbeat.]

I would love to see an "Adventures of Dino Riki" debunking. I had it as a kid and I remember it being incredibly difficult. Thanks for this series, highly entertaining.

[@blaylock1978]

Nice video. Not only did I think that this game was very hard when I played it as a kid, but I literally just learned that you can actually change your turtle in the middle of a mission. I had literally no idea you could do that. That’s how novice I am. But, apparently the new turtle compilation game that is coming out later this year will allow you to pause and rewind if you make a mistake.

[@PaulSman123]

Lol this is one game from my childhood that i will never forget as being one of the HARDEST games I ever played.

[@ajaxamsterdam1365]

X2 I remember only one time that I fight shredder when I was a kid but he kills me, many years later I beat the game. But the last part before shredder is insane 😵

[@nathanhorne1]

You can also stand on the ledge and kill shredder with Don. Shredder keeps jumping up and you just hit him until you beat him. Cool video!

[@Ketis1985]

You can do it with all the turtles...

[@brentdriskill3301]

Love this! Massively helpful! I’m hoping to see Ghosts ‘n Goblins in this series as I’ve never figured how to beat that one.

[@NeoEvincar]

You got a new sub for the very simple reason of making a playlist, and putting it in the watch order, not reverse order of newest first. IT makes it so much easier to new viewers to consume content, and its so hard to find on youtube nowadays. thanks for the consideration!

[@riversart2030]

Cool idea and great walkthrough- very to the point. Would love to see you do one for Zelda 2.

[@pointedspider]

I literally just left this exact comment. I love Zelda ll. And have never found it difficult!

[@thenonexistinghero]

@@pointedspider I dunno how. Every time I try to get through I have to resort to save states once I start approaching the late game. You literally need pixel perfect precision and timing for many enemies/rooms.

[@bengarcia8552]

@@pointedspider nah, too easy

[@Donnerpartyof5]

I played Zelda 2 for a podcast episode I did. I actually ended up enjoying the game

[@pointedspider]

@@thenonexistinghero it's entirely too easy. I guess I just know where everything is. I've never beaten it less than 100%. And can do it in 2 hrs!

[@erikfldt390]

Games like TMNT were hard back in the day because you didn't have the internet or save states to help you 'get gud.' A Gen Zer giving simplistic walkthrough help doesn't do much nowadays as there's fifty walkthroughs just like it. Back in the day, if you didn't have the Nintendo Power issue covering the game you want to beat or a Game Genie, you had to do it completely on your own without any help. That's what made the games hard. No internet, few chances to find Nintendo Power back issues, and since we rented more than we owned back then, you only had a couple of days before you had to return it to the video store and on top of that you'd have to share with your siblings so grinding was largely out of the question.

[@JrRebel1984]

After 30 years I finally beat this game, thanks to Ryu!

[@KennyJordana]

The only TMNT game that I thought was horrible. Good video man👊🏿

[@jaffaesque]

God, this brings back memories. Not all pleasant either.

[@andysierra6934]

Go back to 1989 and have no internet to help you and you will want to punch your TV after playing this game for a while

[@richmccann2052]

Love this series idea. Where did you get those moving frames with FF1 and Megaman?

[@B3Band]

online

[@runnersdialzero1244]

would _you_ eat half of a pizza you found lying around in the sewer? one that seems to reappear every time you go back down there?

[@AugieMcCloud]

I would love to see more of this series. Do some more Ryukahr it was enjoying to watch.

[@stylis666]

**does more ryukahr** **shits punctuation** ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[@bmibudstermaverick5511]

The main jump for the tank level used to piss me off hard jump to do but after playing this for so long it’s easy now

[@clinton6087]

Thank you for doing this. Because of this video I went out and picked up cowabunga collection so I can finally put this game under my belt have a blessed day.

[@Jeri0ux]

Next one of the list : Bucky O'hare? Amazing game. Great soundtrack. Not as hard as the hardest ones but definitely a challenge for most.

[@melloyello8787]

I may have missed it but each turtle also gets a damage boost once they are below 50% HP. Don starts to do 20 damage and that kills most enemies one shot.

[@Ketis1985]

Raph doesnt

[@LandStalkerNigel]

12:51 the ninja stars aren't actually dinky. I found out as a kid that you can stun lock Shredder into dying just using the ninja stars against him.

[@rafecolii]

The turtle sprites for this game are so endearing... especially, in the over-world.

[@agonleed3841]

it was my favorite. I remember being young...enough to understand BUT I wasnt as versed in games enough to understand that the game I rented from.blockbuster once, looked like this. and I LOVED it. Then I went back, and rented another and it wasn't this good. I liked it..but it wasn't this. then I went back ans rented it again, sisjt mean to. grandma asked if I was sure. played it again...not this one though. went back and rented another...not this. took me to FULLY pay attention and READ and remember the next week and eventually I got this one.. I was 6 when this game came out so I was about 7 when I was renting this and Megaman from blockbuster. it was one of those things thst taught me, from my own experience, to STOP, pay attention, read and understand. anyhow, yes, the character looks..the sprites, is something I loved since WAY back then

[@Dodger77]

I hated the fire pit in the airport so much. When I was a kid I would play with game genie and infinite energy. But if you get caught in that stupid fire pit the game basically locks up and you have to RESET. ugh.

[@LarsSveen]

Man, I have so many strong childhood memories of this game. Not sure if they're good memories... but they're memories.

[@x3nowildfir3]

Watching you play this game made it look easy. I figured out about farming for scrolls back in 90 when I was 14, I first bought my NES and this was the game I bought with it. I feel so old lol, I would like to add that some of the jumps you have to tap the jump button to get across the tight jumps, if you hold the jump button you will always fall.

[@gregbullington891]

I was about 13 when this game came out and was a huge TMNT fan. I was so excited to get this game. I don't think I ever made it past the dam. I completely gave up on the game Of course you would make it look easy. You make the craziest Kaizo levels look smooth.

[@muddyboots7753]

Ohman! Thank you so much for doing this. This unfinished game has been haunting me for nearly 3 decades now. Now I can die in peace. 😇

[@GazaAli]

Cool series. Regarding this game in particular, it's not that it's impossibly difficult; it's just that the game is absurd. The mechanics and the overall feel of everything are out of whack.

[@cclizarkb]

This game is a classic NES platform hybrid game, if you think about it as far design this game is criminally underrated. I love Arcade beat em ups and the level of detail and fan service but watching this video reminds me that at one point this game and Mega Man 2 were my daily driver games for like a year and a half

[@PassportBrosBusinessClass]

RAPHAEL comes in handy during the underwater level as a sacrificial lamb, but during later levels against flying enemies, both of them are very powerful. RAPHAEL’s sai kills in just one hit but Leo takes 2. Raph and Michaelangelo both come in handy to save Donatello for the Technodrome. I equip Leo and Ralph with throwing stars, Michelangelo with boomerangs and Donatello with Scrolls. Leo is weaker than I remember- but it probably has a lot to for with LCD lag vs. the absence of lag on CRT.

[@chibiacer]

Ooh, sounds like a fun series! I beat TMNT game back in the day. It's really not too bad. The main difficulty is getting through some of the tricky jumps, and that losing Donatello is basically the end of a run.

[@TheeArtfullyAwkward]

I passed this, a long time ago, on MAME but I used saved states. I didn't know about the certain one hit kills (other than Donatello) or the scroll farming. It really is pretty easy to keep farming, plus get some health before you dive in the sewer. 😂 Thanks for the tips! I honestly don't think TMNT is a bad game. It's challenging and even somewhat strategic but it's fun once you get the hang of it. Plus the soundtrack is amazing!

[@solesoulsorrow]

I was one of the few that did beat this as a kid, but you actually did show me a few things I didn't know.

[@robertpennington1019]

Good tips in this video… like a most videos I’ve seen they don’t give the full break down of each turtles advantage and disadvantage in their attacks. But, still something that could probably help anyone who hasn’t beaten it yet.

[@jangleleg117]

I suggest beard wax instead of beard oil when your beard reaches that length. My beard is right at the length of yours, I keep it this length and trimmed. I get those crazy flyaways and stragglers poking out too but Honest Amish beard wax fixes me right up.

[@shampp5411]

I haven't even watched more than 1 min and I can tell you I want more of this. I trust you to make amazing content and I am so ready to watch these games get squashed.

[@SebastianSynn18252]

Man this brought back a ton of infuriating memories. I'd LOVE to see you do a debunking vid for Foster's Quest. Arguably one of NES's most difficult games ever!

[@Assyrianmikey]

Some of the reason we thought these games were so hard was the fact we tried rushing thru them with no patience lol.

[@BloodiedHorror]

No one seems to realize that different turtles are strong against specific enemies

[@frankschuler2867]

The hardest part for me was the underwater section. But shit, I beat it when I was a kid and I wasn't even a good gamer. I was just obsessed and persistent!

[@Brashnir]

"This game isn't that hard guys, really!" *if you have memorized every strat by looking them up online and know exactly the perfect route through the game.

[@deckzone3000]

I didn't have the internet 35 years ago.

[@ryanmiddleton109]

Loved the cheese shredder line at the end

[@xIronwafflexx]

34 years of hindsight later, and abusing cheese strts, "DeBuNkInG tHe DiFiCulTy - TeEnAGe MuTaNT NInJA TuRTleS (NeS)"

[@chinafuture6484]

Raph is actually better than Leo in many places since he can also one shot certain enemies since he's the second strongest.

[@Ketis1985]

Yes Raph is second strongest when everybody has more than 4 bars of health. When Mike and Leo get 4 bars or under they get stronger. Especially Mike get very strong with fast attack(almost as strong as Donatello)

[@turbokiller]

Excellent episode! :D I love Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles :D It was the first game that I played and finish from the cowabunga collection :D I never really had problems when I played it back in the day so it was a cake walk to replay it :D love the music and the overall experience. Many of my friends hate this title but meh...I love it! :D

[@jsands7]

“This game isn’t that difficult.” Proceeds to explain how you urgently need to farm these unlabeled scroll weapons and execute a series of 12 to 15 hidden tricks to beat the game. lol :)

[@beatchef]

There's usually two different sets of enemies that can spawn in each building and you can switch between them by leaving and coming back to get the set you prefer. Often one is way more difficult than the other.

[@reshmariju5283]

0p

[@olliehays3206]

You have to remember for us kids then we were having to learn everything by trial & error. There were no youtube guides. Actually was more fun that way.

[@fresnokila3]

For the last stage ,I was reading a walkthrough to see if I can finally beat this game, and it says the enemies spawns you get depends if you kill that one foot soldier who starts behind you. If you kill it, you get the jetpack enemies, if not just normal foot soldiers.

[@holoemiter]

I just like that the video is about debunking how the game is not hard, meanwhile saying all the different punishments the game throws at you if you miss a single jump.

[@bottomtiercollector]

My first video from me. I've been concentrating on rebuilding my SNES and N64 collections. I need to get an NES and this game. I have it on my phone on an emulator, but it's impossible to play correctly.

[@mailmanbob5838]

Speed run tip: the spot you said you usually take damage in the van. If you move left, next to a building and fire a missle. It will destroy both trucks and break the off center barricade. You just have to keep up with the missle, don’t stop once you fire it. 11:30 in the video

[@adrianmurguia2486]

My only gaming flex when I was a kid was beating the water dam. However I would end the level so exhausted I just didn't want to continue playing so I have no idea what the rest of the game looks like 😅

[@Roman.Knight]

In 7:25 its easy to get the top edge without any trouble, just jump in te middle in straight line and on the top push left (or right) and stop pushing before the edge stop you movement, then fall in straight line and jump straigh again and push the same side, repeat until you climb the top edge. Nice vid, good memories :)

[@Kawlinz]

At 7:31 you can get to the missiles without going thru the level. Any ground that is 1 unit high you can push into slowly. Make your jump, press left while you're touching the ground and release when you're moving down. It takes 3 or 4 reps but you end up popping up top.

[@VidiverseExplorer]

Let's see Ninja Gaiden, don't think there's no way to debunk that game.