TMNT (NES) Speedrun

Pretty good run, thanks to everyone for all of the new strats. Good to see this game active with runners, I am guessing this run won't stand for too long. Timed to 17:17.714

[@TraumaER]

Only people that played this nearly impossible game realize how insane this video is. 💯

[@charleslangley2685]

That’s a fact

[@TraumaER]

@@charleslangley2685 haha I remember getting to the water level and dying, but being satisfied, and then going outside to play basketball LOL! I was more of a Genesis person anyways. Nintendo seemed super hard for me.

[@TraumaER]

@@k33p1tc00l I would watch my friend get to the water world and die. To us, that was beating the game lol.

[@NuBeatzNumuzik]

Love how Konami thought 8 year olds could beat this game 🙄

[@kendrickcooperimmarshallte2142]

He made it look too easy bro!

[@BM-wh5qk]

Imagine playing like this as a kid in 1990. Everyone would think you were possessed.

[@dwoodstwin]

I was obsessed with this game and never saw 95% of it

[@asawhitemanidjustliketosay]

Fucken water bombs

[@odeleon24]

The water level!!!

[@IbizanHound2]

This should be called "Donatello kicking ass for 17 minutes"

[@ChicagoRetroGamer]

For real

[@Tabbimura]

I never passed the damn dam.

[@jstn9914]

I remember Donatello's bo staff taking out enemies from a floor below. XD

[@Tabbimura]

@@jstn9914 Ahhhh,,, the physics of NES games.

[@Prodawg]

or just the normal game

[@kenndemoll7859]

Imagine being the foot clan. You spend billions on hiring and training an army, developing technology, acquiring weaponry and building bases. You spend years perfecting your nijistsu. Then one turtle with a stick ruins the whole thing.

[@Prodawg]

a minuscule amount to trolling

[@st4nt]

30 years later I finally see the whole playthrough and I'm glad I didn't try further than I did 😂

[@michaeldriver127]

Never passed the underwater level also huh?

[@st4nt]

@@michaeldriver127 I clearly have absolutely no memory past this part^^

[@CheeseSarny]

My inner 7 year old is crying at how easy you did this

[@Strideo1]

Paul L Seriously. The hours of frustration I endured.

[@YamatoFukkatsu]

Same. Almost 30 years, and I never even got past that stupid dam. Granted, I never bothered picking the game back up again since my early childhood, but still, he got to the point where I was in less than 5 minutes.

[@Kagebushin01]

well until he started using glitches then it was just "meh its using glitches"

[@mortonfizzback1125]

So siiiick 😱

[@TheRealGoopyGoop]

I also came here to see the ending lol I Never made it passed the big ant part

[@rightfulfuture4]

"don't tell me you can just walk over it"

[@DavidJimenez-xc3lt]

AVGN!! 😂😂😂

[@Tabbimura]

The most frustrating point of the game. Makes you wish save scamming was possible on NES.

[@suchiuomizu]

"Don't let the Foot Clan destroy the dam". Screw that dam and especially screw the water around it. It deserves to be destroyed.

[@JRHYTNATIONS]

Omg all those years as a kid trying to beat this game, and that’s the ending... I feel like I need to channel my inner James Rolfe sometimes.

[@Mr_Stanley888]

The adventure of the teenage mutant ninja turtle is concluded.

[@adagiogames457]

that ending is HYPE. I don't know what you're talking about.

[@mafmaf82]

@@adagiogames457 Agreed, I mean we got to see Splinter

[@JadenMoon1475]

@gdh1984: What are you on about?! In the cartoon series, she goes on Channel 6 News and publicly acknowledges they saved Earth from Shredder and Krang *All The Time!*

[@persona83]

You think this ending is crap? You didn't play much arcade games, did U?

[@absentehhh8263]

I beat the water level once. And that was the end of the game for me

[@henshimai]

Same bro. I got to the ride once and died and never got to that part again.

[@TruthGatherer2013]

i got lost as 2 where 2 use the rockets and ran out

[@mistresskixen6142]

Back when I was a kid the furthest I ever made it was the second to last stage AKA the Technodrome stage.

[@absentehhh8263]

@@mistresskixen6142 I never even saw those levels until youtube got around lol

[@jacobpeters5458]

I hated that water level. Hated. It.

[@amso7169]

Now try doing it without April’s support.

[@suchiuomizu]

If she wants to 'support' me, she can go swim and disarm those bombs.

[@mihail263]

lmao

[@E.Johansson]

Impossible

[@TheRealGoopyGoop]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@nathanrosario4814]

Impossible

[@ristuksenvittu]

I remember i could barely ever get through the water level and once my 9 years older big brother had left the game on pause, pretty far on the game and i started playing it and ruined his game so he had to teach me a lesson and spank the hell out of me 😂 he told me he was near the end but by watching thos video i know he was not even half way there 😂

[@LokiSavage1]

This brings back painful memories of aimlessly driving around in the turtle van and trying to conserve those precious 10 missiles. Never made it to Splinter. Damn this game to hell.

[@TopOyster]

Only people who have played this nearly impossible game realize how incredible this video is! ⁉️‼️❗️⁉️

[@joselitorosal]

Respect to this guy, I remembered playing this game when I was 6. Never beaten this game :(

[@dsreview129]

It erked me that you weren't grabbing all the pizzas

[@harry_burnsworth]

That's what I kept thinking all the time, lol. Go back, refill all health and grab the damn pizzas, dude!!!!!

[@djlancematthew]

There is nothing better than watching a successful speed run without having to listen to the guy or girl playing with comments and having to see them. Just gameplay. It’s the best!

[@METAL-ADDICT]

I'm speechless. I remember begging my mom for this game and immediately throwing it at my older brother because he could make it to the dam. Lmfao. Props to this dude.

[@dsuess]

Never knew this game was so short!! 9 yr old me is still trying to get past the underwater stage without the help of my big sister

[@trishamel1828]

I want to marry the person who did this walkthrough. Felt like reliving my childhood all over again.

[@LavishButtocks]

MAN this game's got some awesome music though

[@brandonfouts4074]

amazing because I remember playing this game and it was crazy hard, especially water level. Much props to speedrun

[@right_hand_power7960]

A single clipping glitch that ended up being extremely useful in general vertical movement. Highly impressive run, and speed (17 min.). Thanks for doing, and uploading this.

[@CHillTennisEntertainment]

You made a challenging game look incredibly easy. Great job, man!

[@squonk2630]

I loved this as a kid - I couldn't get anywhere in it, but I still loved it.

[@TheComedyVan]

This guy is NASA material. Seriously. I'd be more impressed with this guy than someone that has gone to the moon. FR. Holy shit, that was absolutely amazing! They always taught you that you can choose not to fight, but I didn't know you could just run away from 85% of the villains and still beat the game. Am I the only one?

[@JBird401]

Finally just beat this game today on an original nes. No save states or rewind. I felt like I won the superbowl. Took me a solid week of practice. Kudos on the speedrun

[@marqueonmauldin9095]

I use to get migraines as a child trying to beat this and battle toads

[@orlandomasise]

the yellow room before Shredder is very hard, brutal I might say! I know this game is unfair in concept of programing, but is part of my childhood!

[@kendrickcooperimmarshallte2142]

After smashing several copies of this game I must say well done.

[@bboysupes]

The ending really hits you right in the feels.

[@VladSandu]

Nice gaming. I couldn't finish it when I was a kid and now it's on speedrun. Yeezy

[@blightedgrounds]

The music goes so hard. My friend has this on vinyl, and it sounds incredible

[@Arthur-bz9ps]

Everytime hes about to die a pizza is right there waiting for him.. this guy is good!

[@thepolacek]

I can understand people struggling with the technodrome, but I’ll never understand people’s struggle with the dam. It requires very little memorization, and the timer is not an issue

[@rossrobertson674]

Me too dude, of course the first few time you're gonna die but there's only like 1 bomb u can miss and after like 10 tries you should be able to swim like a champ

[@Karll541]

Exactly I don’t get it 🤷‍♂️

[@JAPelicano1]

The dam always gave me insane anxiety. The sounds when you get hit by anything are just so jarring and heavy!

[@kidgrave]

Wow. Amazing game play. I still have this game and my parents bought it for me when I was 5 years old. I used to be stuck at the dam area lol.

[@pete9369]

Don’t curse.

[@Karll541]

🤦‍♂️

[@JohnDeBruyneNetherlands]

Amazing how this person finished the game in 17 minutues, it took me ages to complete this game haha.

[@thesmockinggunYT]

And this was programmed with a computer. The way to tell is at 13:35. On NES up and select use similar algorithms, and since the secondary weapon kept being selected when hitting up, shows it's programmed. Same thing at the battle with the Technodrome.

[@MatthewFoos]

I remember that last hallway before Shredder.... 16:41 ...if I was out of scrolls, I would just reset and start over.

[@zedstreams4765]

Actually that hallway is so easy. Just crouch as soon as the jetpack guy shows up on screen, and they'll back off, keep doing that, and voila.

[@Professor_Gamble]

Takes damage on purpose, ignores the pizza, beats the game in under 20 minutes. What a psycho

[@brockenrat4684]

I've seen boards in this game I have never seen once. This guy is TmnT god.

[@TheWaynelds]

4:59 “This is Uncle Phil.. I mean Shredder. Listen to me Will... uh Turtles!

[@shadow_ax]

Shredder’s hand is sticking OUT of the TV screen! 😱 “He’s right there, you fools! Get him!”

[@ethancrawford9461]

I love how he purposely killed mikey just to exit a building faster! 😂

[@6thCircleTattoos]

WOW! I've never gotten past the damn dam level. I've never even seen anyone else beat the water level. This dude is badass

[@Karll541]

lol

[@Mandalore646]

Congrats. Played this game many times as a kid. Always thought it was hard as nails.

[@dirtysanchez5154]

Sure as shit it was very difficult

[@rcyoung86]

@Whitman Price You are a BEAST at this game. The last time I played this game, was back when I was really young, around 1993 lol! With that said, the farthest I got was the water level with the bombs.

[@lukedaniell]

The pizza at 13:20 always bugged the crap out of me 😂

[@howardkoslov1702]

TMNT is short for “Donnie curb stomps the entire foot clan while his brothers die trying to defuse bombs”

[@puvlea83]

OP donny. I had too much anxiety to find a way out of the water lvl

[@Uneke]

Did you see that!?!? You have April’s support! No need to worry, you’re unstoppable now lol

[@caddieblood5446]

Dude I’ve never seen anyone jump across like that without a rope

[@psychedelicartistry]

This game kicked ass 90s nostalgia right here!!!

[@agilis1]

“You guys are great!” ... Oh how I just love the crappy endings of some of he hardest NES games. Such a total let down.

[@hueysharapova7175]

Comments section is completely unaware of what a glitchless speedrun category is. This speedrun is perfectly legal.

[@danjbundrick]

That car part after the dam is as far as I ever got. After seeing how far you had to drive through that maze, I now understand why.

[@BangBang-hk4rg]

30 years later and I still have nightmares about that damn dam level

[@Karll541]

lol

[@TurboThunderGaming]

I'm surprised we got to see most of the game even in a speedrun. Every singel turtle is used in the dam level, then Mike is used in one short stage only to die for quick respawn. We see a pizza heal a turtle back to full and we also rescue Mike, and the hallway of hell + shredder is killed by sub-weapons. Neat. :)

[@sk-rx1yt]

wow...just wow. Respect. I've beat that water lv like a dozen times but always died right after. And only seen shredder twice... both times with a game genie and still his gun is one shot= insta death!!! Thirty years later and today I got to see the end. Just damn.slow 👏............👏............👏

[@GlizzyMan445]

Alternative title: Donatello solos NES TMNT for 17 minutes straight

[@Engineers1985]

Donnatello was SO FKN OP in this game… I used to sacrifice ALL my other turtles in order to keep Donny for as long as possible! And yes I played this game from the time it came out til about 1994 when I finally gave up! I’m 39 years old and I’ve Still NEVER beaten this game!! 😩

[@Laminator9999]

HOLD UP!! Has there always been a human Master Splinter!? Mind blown!

[@granpeeps1665]

The final level of this game is almost impossible to beat. By that point all of your turtles are dead already and there is no pizza in sight, plus it's full of spikes, things electrocuting you, deadly sandpits which kill you immediately upon contact, and flying dudes shooting at you =(

[@MrStabby19812]

The secret was to stock up on scrolls and spam them

[@gretttt33323]

THAT SHREDDER FIGHT. ive played this game so much when i was 10, never saw shredder once

[@hagerdhotrodz]

I'm glad I gave up on this game as a kid now that I've seen the ending. #Lame I think you know where you can stick that pizza April, thanks for the help. 😂

[@paulcampbell8696]

Boy do I have a love/hate relationship with this game, maybe more than any other...

[@Marciiitoo]

It starts here guys 2:44

[@kennyfresquez7019]

"You guys have excelled my skills."

[@capswole81]

I was disappointed at how easy shredder was when I beat this game as a child.

[@raccoonstarsmember]

We are both impressed and jealous XD

[@SvendleBerries]

5:00 Shredders hand lol that always confused me.

[@granpeeps1665]

what was confusing about his hand? Because it's like coming through the TV, right?

[@SvendleBerries]

@@granpeeps1665 Yup, that's it.

[@shadow_ax]

“He’s in the TV! Get him!” 😂😂

[@Skunky48]

Good run man. At the rate I'm failing rope skip and everything to do with the technodrome, this will stand for a while. Unless Peckerwood isn't as burned out as I hope he is. :-)

[@ExistentHope]

This game is freaking tough.

[@christopherareed]

That poor rat, I literally was never able to save him as a kid.

[@tino9117]

Imagine being a kid and beating this game and seeing Splinter go back to normal in the ending, something he never got to do in the series

[@jleg1104]

The underwater got me every time

[@jarosawsobinski1928]

Dorkly described this game well in one song.

[@Lertifuse]

Beast! Now that’s skill

[@kelly862]

I remember getting to the shredder done once when I was younger. I really though that was the final battle 😢 this game was tough

[@galloe8933]

Did they hide the actual ending of the TMNT saga behind a stupidly difficult game? Great job Mr.Whitman. My little brother and I gave up on this game about 22 or 23 years ago.

[@MrMarket1987]

Okay, I'm never gonna pretend to be any good at replicating glitches, but in all these years I never knew there was a damage boosting bug involving the Scroll select.

[@friendofvinnie]

If the hours wasted playing this game were spent on medical school i would be a top surgeon 😂

[@darthmalignous6586]

I will never understand why people had such a hard time with the water level. I mean sure, the first couple of times I went through it, it wrecked me, but if you just have a little patience it really wasn't that hard. I say this as someone who in general is pretty bad at video games.

[@stevebald3560]

Masterful. Great run in an extremely difficult game. I really liked the use of glitches.

[@Flargenyargen]

This game ruined my childhood. I hate watched this speedrun. You rule.

[@HvyMetlAlchemist]

Soundtrack brings back memories.. I miss classic games as a kid :0 Id do it again if i could. along with double dragon 2, Street fighter 2 and MK2

[@n1lknarf]

There are so many similarities to the contra games, sound effects mostly, but some of the animations too

[@Erekai]

Wow, April is so supportive.

[@357Franknitty]

Was anybody else screaming at em like "GET THE F****IN PIZZAS!! 🤣

[@jjmalm]

Donatello, and three turtles in a penal battalion

[@danjbundrick]

Oh, Splinter is back to his real form.... pizza anyone?

[@zeroonezero6270]

Good night. Forgot how OP Donatello was compared to the other turtles.

[@EndOfScrutiny]

Wow, awesome gameplay. Never beat that underwater level as a kid.

[@MonsieurMauMau]

5:59 the jump is practically impossible, either by using a mod, can you explain how? Its not a speedrun if it has been tweaked. Thanks.

[@Pukuotukas]

While facing rigth, stand in front of the door that the band on the knee shall cover the lower hinge of the door, but white frame of the door still seen. Then jump. When you in that gap, press and hold to the left. It's doable on actual console with no problems.

[@rossrobertson674]

The key is to not hit left until you're almost at the highest point of the jump

[@ThisIDig]

Ballsy moment at 7:42...RESPECT

[@banyarling]

He knows there's a pizza literally ten seconds later

[@VivaLaTony06]

Could never get beyond that jump.

[@ChicagoRetroGamer]

WOW, congrats. Keep it up, and just subbed. Cheers!

[@_BASIC_INSTINCT]

best video game ever made

[@theStonehouse]

Dark Souls of my childhood

[@slimbroco572]

Well I'm trying this glitch in the final area. If it dont work, I'm taking my like back 😂