TMNT Video Splashscreen

[edmaul69]

@tmntturtlguy i was so happy that my godson got into ninja turtles. He would watch the old and the new ones with me. From the new nickelodeon series i bought him about 50 of the action figures and some of the lego sets. He has a lot of turtles stuff. He even has one of the like 3-4ft michaelangelo figures. His room is even painted to match the ninja turtles. He took down all his posters though. He is all about stephen curry now.

[pjft]

@tmntturtlguy I'm disappointed there's no mention of the first ZX Spectrum TMNT game. I spent ages on it and finished it quite a few times. I think it's similar-ish to the NES version, though...

[TMNTturtlguy]

@pjft I have it on my pi! I had never heard of the zx version before you asked me to create the theme for it. I played the zx version for a few minutes and it appears to be almost exactly the same as the original nes game.

[edmaul69]

@tmntturtlguy i went through hell trying to find the c64 version of the original tmnt. Almost all of the tmnt roms for the c64 on the web are the tmnt ii/arcade style game. I dont have the zx spectrum roms but i might have to just for tmnt.

[ruckage]

@tmntturtlguy

I'm so jealous of you TMNT arcade cabinet, I was a young teenager when that was released and I have really fond memories of playing it with my friends. And then when Turtles in Time came out , well that was just a classic (gotta love throwing foot soldiers at the screen :D) - it's a shame they've never managed to recapture what was great about those games.

We got a little bit stitched up regarding some silly censorship in the UK though - nothing that really affected anything, but for some reason all the old farts in the UK at that time didn't like the word ninja for some reason so they had to be called the 'Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles' instead. That was literally the only change - thought it was dumb as a kid and think it's even more dumb as an adult.

[lilbud]

@tmntturtlguy Turtles in Time ranked #1

Also, Mutant Nightmare 3 should up there with the worst games. The only good thing about it is that you can unlock the arcade version of Turtles in Time after the 1st level.

[TMNTturtlguy]

@ruckage i have some "heroes" stuff as well....I always thought it was crazy. Did you know that Mikey's nunchucks were also a major issue, they were considered worse than sais and katanas! A little trivia for you, in the second movie, secret of the ooze you barely see the turtles weapons, and they rarely use them. To make the movie more marketable to other markets Michaelangelo uses sausages instead of nunchucks in the opening scenes.

[ruckage]

@lilbud
I'm a little surprised none of the GBA games were in that list either - they were pretty good, particularly TMNT which was obviously inspired by the arcade game/turtles in time. Not as good as it's inspiration but still fun and has a cool art style.

[ruckage]

@tmntturtlguy said in TMNT Video Splashscreen:

@ruckage i have some "heroes" stuff as well....I always thought it was crazy. Did you know that Mikey's nunchucks were also a major issue, they were considered worse than sais and katanas! A little trivia for you, in the second movie, secret of the ooze you barely see the turtles weapons, and they rarely use them. To make the movie more marketable to other markets Michaelangelo uses sausages instead of nunchucks in the opening scenes.

Yeah, I remember :D, Michaelangelo was my favourite character and the whole nun-chuck thing was all over the news. Usual witch hunt that happens repeatedly, some isolated act of violence happens and games or TV/movies get blamed for it. Still happens now. Street fighter 2 caused massive controversy when that was popular as well (I think they were worried we might start hurling fireballs at each other :D).

[edmaul69]

@ruckage good thing a capcom / neo geo theme came out. I might of had to start handing out some hadoukens if it didnt... :) i love how we like to blame media for our actions instead of parents taking responsibility for being crappy parents.

[lilbud]

@ruckage said in TMNT Video Splashscreen:

some isolated act of violence happens and games or TV/movies get blamed for it

That happens all the time, something bad happens and they start to come up with a logical explanation for what happens...until they find out that he/she played video games, and then video games are called the devil.

[EctoOne]

@pjft said in TMNT Video Splashscreen:

Is that a Ecto One? Good choice:)

Have i heard my name? :D

Anyways, i never heard the US theme of TMNT before but now i can see why the German version is so popular in the states.

[TMNTturtlguy]

@ectoone that is pretty awesome!

[pjft]

Wow. I hadn't played Hyperstone Heist yet - what an enjoyable game. I had played the arcade ones, but this is a lot more easy going - single credit, still surviving at the end of stage 2-3, fighting Rocksteady, had to pause it to look after the kids. Still, great 30 mins or so.

Thanks!

[cyperghost]

@pjft You never lived :) Man I remember hours on hours in teamplay! It's one of the best game in the series. The series on the GameBoy was also not bad - and I got also Turtels III on the GameBoy and I played it through

Passcode for last stage: 1HHHHHHHH2
The last number is the number of continous :)
That was really fun that time :) and one of the best puzzle games adventure games at that time!

[lilbud]

@cyperghost

walks up to microphone Turtles in Time had the better sound track

[cyperghost]

@lilbud I made it through all 3 titles of Turtels in the GameBoy series on the original mashine (for about 25 years now). Don't tell me about quality soundtracks :D
It was always a nice time ... lots of fun. But I think in mid 90s my console time ended. And now 201x it's a bit reborn, thx to those people here :)

[TMNTturtlguy]

@pjft @cyperghost @lilbud Regardless which is better, I am not sure that many other beat-em up games of the era could beat Turtles in Time, Hyperstone heist or TMNT arcade. They are all classics (yes i know there are others out their that are just as great @meleu.....battle toads on nes!). Especially if talking about 4 player beat-em up games from the early 90's - both turtles arcade games are top notch. X-men and Simpsons are right up there as well, but TMNT brings back so many memories.

@pjft i am glad you got a chance to play hyperstone heist, one of my all time favorites and I have a hard time picking between Turtles in Time and Hyperstone when talking consoles, Turtles in Time wins out because of the 4 player standup arcade game!

For all 3 of you, there is an alternate japan version of hyperstone heist called "return of the shredder" I believe it is basically the same game with a few slight tweaks, i intend to play it through in the next couple of weeks.

[pjft]

@ectoone Haha!

From my very little german comprehension, I love the "mega starke hero Turtles". It sounds like Rammstein's lead singer is screaming the lyrics an octave higher than the original one, probably because the "bass" voice line is either too low or missing.

But thanks for sharing - learned something new today :)

[lilbud]

@tmntturtlguy Turtles in time is just plain awesome. I've been playing it for around 2 years now, and I actually attempted to race a friend in the game, but we never finished.

We had this race in 8th grade on emulators during free time between finals. I think he won cause he beat the train level before me :)