NES Longplay [009] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (US)

[@VahanNisanian]

AVGN: You can just walk over it. First episode I ever watched with him.

[@JohnSkellington]

I love AVGN too! I think the first episode I saw was Bart vs. the Space Mutants and the World.

[@heavy4956]

Why can’t a turtle swim?

[@JohnSkellington]

@@heavy4956 Why can’t I land a plane?

[@pappatrue4015]

Why don't the weapons do anything?

[@BoboBreez]

Same, before youtube!

[@Dynaman21]

I think it’s telling the Cowabunga Collection has both save states AND a rewind feature.

[@johnedwarddowney]

Cowabunga Collection is up there with the Namco Museum Collections in terms of value. It deserved way more love than it got.

[@ZEKESPILLEDINKMUSIC]

The Cowabunga Collection also has button input lag problems, unless there was an update/patch that fixed that.

[@rowtow13]

Props to the player for letting the overworld music play for a bit before going into the first sewer section.

[@der_Alptraum]

Ah yes, my childhood pain.

[@mikedski9698]

The Video Game For The Nintendo Entertainment System From Ultra Games That Started It All! TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES! LET'S KICK SOME SHELL!

[@knuclear200x]

For me, the final level was the swimming one. And I was happy when i beat it

[@chengfu7063]

Excellent gaming at it's finest the Brillance of the 8 bit era & game genie the best of times well done

[@RhinoKaus]

Psychiatrist: So where did your anxiety issues start? Me: 14:19

[@BoboBreez]

The riff on rhe opening song sounds just like Queen Stone cold crazy

[@bradhedgehog12]

I’m glad I was able to watch this and figure out the way to past the under water lvl. And won this game

[@andykishore]

Finally, a proper longplay of this game and not a speedrun like your old video of this game.

[@darkerfalcon3747]

In Japan this is called: *Gekikame Ninja Den* rather than TMNT, like the sequel.

[@FancifulDancingStar]

From what I remember reading, the reason for that is because TMNT was pretty unknown to Japan at the time (it may have even arrived there before the cartoon did?). By the time the sequel came out, TMNT was definitely well-known in Japan, though.

[@LITTLE1994]

AVGN's video of this tough game is hilarious.

[@bligamerplayer3299]

Played this one during childhood somewhere in 1990 after I became a huge fan of The Original 1987-1996 TV Animated Series Version, along with it’s Movie Versions, Other Video Games and Next TV Show Versions where The 2003-2009 Anime Version and then got owned by Nickelodeon when we had The 2012-2017 Computer- Animated Version, follow by The 2018-2020 Newer 2D-Style Animated Version and now a Whole Newer One based on last year 2024 Movie is coming this year 2024… However this one is so frustrating that I couldn’t beat it at all nor got through The Underwater Dam Level by disarming all 8 Bombs within 2mins in 20secs at all back then… True Story though I liked the others the most. But thank goodness for Emulators and The Cowbunga Collection for Save States and Rewind Feature though…

[@l.rudge1993]

Happy 40th anniversary to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!

[@Rocket1377]

It's also the 40th anniversary of Transformers, Ghostbusters, Terminator, Beverly Hills Cop, Gremlins, Karate Kid, and Police Academy.

[@BOG0690]

Ayo LFG

[@l.rudge1993]

And Voltron Defender of the Universe ​@@Rocket1377

[@bruceleroy562]

I remember my neighbor had a Game Genie and after an entire summer dedicated to this game and only going so far. I begged my neighbor to let me use the Game Genie. Finally was able to see the ending but never felt more empty for cheating.

[@danc3488]

For all the hate the underwater level gets, I actually remember passing it my first time. Frustrating, sure. But i saw it as just another part of the game. I sensed the difficulty level as soon as I started the game.

[@BrianCarreraShaw]

Ah, rhe game everyone wanted to play then but got ptad after lol.

[@bradhedgehog12]

I hope you get boomerangs there the best secondary weapons by far

[@thestormofwar]

I'm still baffled by how many weeks this game spent at #1 in Nintendo Power's rankings. It was literally years.

[@hydrapower9850]

I got curious about those rankings again (I also grew up with Nintendo Power) and found an archive. Looks like it was #1 for two issues in 1990 (Jan/Feb & Mar/Apr) before Super Mario 3's dominance began. There was one month where TMNT 2 was #1 before Mario 3 took back the top spot again. TMNT 1 still remained quite popular for a while though. Us kids didn't care about the quality at the time lol

[@DarkwingDude-f8w]

Those eyeball things in the first level still gross me out.

[@joaquinolivares7371]

best part 11:51

[@rucu8311]

Hang on....i may be wrong here but in first few seconds after going down very first sewer you took no damage when that enemy hit you. How come?

[@AlienNiNo]

Любимая игра на nes!

[@tjthewizard2002]

This is a minor nitpick, I don't really care that much, and you don't even have to answer but why are y'all redoing the longplays out of order? I remember this being NES longplay #4 for example, by the way keep up the good work, been watching y'all since 2010

[@Rocket1377]

2024 is the 40th anniversary of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' debut in the Mirage comic books. They also released a Cowabunga Collection of all of the Konami TMNT games in 2022, so it's now possible to replay them on modern consoles. That is why they are revisiting them.

[@tjthewizard2002]

@@Rocket1377 I know about the anniversary, I was asking in general why the NES longplays were redone in a different order, contra for example was the first longplay but now it's super mario

[@channelsoji86]

I played this game. but not all clear because​ too hard.

[@rickn4301]

Probably one of the few that wasn't much on this game. Liked the arcade beat-em-up ones better

[@tomekorzechowski5852]

You can just walk over it

[@ernestlemmingway1124]

You can tell the creators of this game had no clue what sai are for. They're weapon catchers and any attacks made with them are strikes with the butt of the handle so not to break the prongs.

[@juanmanuelpintozaccari8900]

Juego del cartucho color gris.

[@kosin356]

FUCK THIS "GAME"!!!🤣

[@NikolaosGiannakidis-mu6cy]

Ee und die anderen zu sehen ob es möglich dass sie sich nicht mehr so gut wie möglich zu Z und die Arbeit mit dem Zug und bin auch nicht mehr so viel zu tun und die Arbeit mit dem Zug und bin auch nicht mehr so viel

[@OfficialSNMvids]

I never knew this game was so hard until more recently with the release of the Cowabunga collection? I had copy and thought the difficulty was on par with most NES games of the time. Cool game, but never understood what was up with all the crazy looking enemies that were never featured in the show? lol

[@ZombieFlanders]

Damn Electric seaweed

[@mikedski9698]

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES For The Nintendo Entertainment System 35th Anniversary 1989-2024!

[@anthonycraig1995]

I have this game

[@Digital_Necromancer]

One of the hardest games I ever played. No one in my family beat it and we spent weeks at it.