Classic Game Room presents a CGR Undertow review of TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES II: THE ARCADE GAME for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). This videogame was released in 1990 at the apex of TMNT popularity from Ultra Games and Konami. You are able to play as one of the four heroes in a half-shell in this side-scrolling action beat ‘em up. It is all about personal preference here. This CGR Undertow review features TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES II: THE ARCADE GAME video gameplay footage and commentary. This review is from Classic Game Room’s Derek.
@skateatburners I don’t know how the confusion for Derek, it’s funny in my country, Turtles are called “Turtle Frogs” let’s say, like Frogs which are amfibiens so if Derek would have spoken other language than English I would have understood that.
I played this one on the Arcades, it was pretty slick!
I still have this game and console omg
After plowing through the actual TMNT Arcade game on XBox Live Arcade several times now, I actually have a new respect for this NES port. It’s far longer, the addition of two bad-assed levels, the cheap arcade deaths were eliminated, and considering the extreme limitations of the NES, this really is an awesome game—as I said in my earlier post lol
PIZZA HUT PRODUCT PLACEMENT AT 3:45 XD
this is a cool fun game its limitations are great to the arcade its soooooo fun
@AlirazaVideoGames Those were disgusting
@DecepticonMecha It certainly isn’t due to his acting “abilities”, or his creativity, since he steals 87% of his ideas from his superior and more well-known counterpart.
Making fun of TMNT 1 on NES is one thing—I always liked it, as did many others, but, flat out, it was an odd game. This game though, this was the epitomy of NES awesomeness lmao
@NWpowerhouse85 How that guy managed to maintain a “fan-base” is beyond me.
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Hey dude shut up!
B A B A up down B A left right B A [select for 2p] start!
Also, this was my very first nintendo game! after SMB/DH, but that doesn’t count
this game was INCREDIBLE when it was released. worth every single penny of the $50 retail price at your local toys r us. i would play this for hours on end on my NES. and that was 1p mode. with 2 players it’s even more fun. the stages are just right in terms of length, with two new bonus stages added in. anyone here remember the vanilla-pudding-filled turtle pies? they had a green hard sugar shell with gooey yellow filling. google them! they were delicious!
I like turtles
Shut up!
Derek, you suck at fighting Tora.
@nintendoboy17 That’s because the Irate Gamer is a fucking moron. The NES was not even close to being powerful enough to make a straight port of the arcade game, and this game is as good as it could’ve been when the NES limitations are taken into effect. Shit, they even added levels, the arcade game was too short, I don’t know what else that chode would’ve wanted.
STILL a fun beat-em up today.
you had to cut out your instruction manual to get the coupon. that’s a stupid idea by konami. they could have just inserted printed coupons like the newspaper circular. this game was AWESOME and still is for the limited power system it runs on – the NES. the best system for the most amount of arcade games though is the sega genesis. well i digress. anyhow great review and great game, even today!
I like the random “Pizza Hut” signs in the background.
This game was hard for me I can’t get past the first boss!Yet I can get to act 3 on Ninja Gaide WTF?
@xzander I was not aware of any existing love for TMNT 1, I usually just hear crap about it. I was 9 when I got it and missed the hype from the release. I expected an adventure platformer, so I was pretty happy with it. There were hardly any acrcades in the Netherlands, so I didn’t “get” the arcade game at all at the time.
@morbozim the same could be applied to all these overhype and overrating for Turtles 1. It’s not bad, but let’s be a little honest with ourselves just for one minute: what the hell were we looking for when we were 6, 7 or 8 years old and were avid NES gamers? right! straight, unpretentious and fun gameplay, and that’s what those games, TMNT 2 and 3 were. Someone that doesn’t appreciate the simplicity of those games is definitely looking on the wrong genre for something that is not.
@stoltobot Not at all. This one, as well as TMP have a gameplay mechanic well established since the beginning, and I don’t see why exploring and going with that dynamic through all the game is adressed to as ‘repetitive’.
What’s with all the hate for Turtles 1. It was stinking hard yes, but more varied than this cut & paste DD type game. Konami would continue to make clones in that easy to produce genre for years after, so not a legacy to be thankful for imo. Turtles Tournement Fighters may have been an SF2 clone, but at least some effort went into it.