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Konami Year: 1989 Class: Wide Release Genre: Scrolling Fighter Type: Videogame Monitor:
Number of Simultaneous Players: 4 Maximum number of Players: 4 Gameplay: Joint Control Panel Layout: Multiple Player Controls:
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel) |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles DescriptionThe famous four turtles fight incredible numbers of bad guys to save April O'Neil and Splinter and to defeat their arch-enemies Krang and The Shredder. Uses the Konami two-and-a-half dimension approach to horizontal scrolling games. All players can join in on the game at any time.Know anything more about this game? Game IntroductionPlayers can choose to play either Leonardo (blue, katana blades); Raphael (red, sais); Michelangelo (orange, nunchakas); or Donatello (purple, bo staff). The game uses Konami's 2.5 dimension perspective. Any number of players can join the game at any time.MiscellaneousThere is also a two player version of this game.CAPS/VAPS Arcade CensusThere are 6,451 members of the Classic Arcade Preservation Society / Video Arcade Preservation Society, 3,703 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 60,890 machines (3,615 unique titles).Very Common - There are 166 known instances of this machine owned by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collectors. Of these, 30 of them are original dedicated machines, 17 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 119 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. This game ranks a 79 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records. Wanted - Popular - There are 14 VAPS members currently looking for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. There are 5 VAPS members looking for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles board sets. This game ranks a 50 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records. For Sale - There are 4 VAPS members with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles machines for sale. There are 4 VAPS members with extra Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles circuit boards for sale. VAPS members are totally independent of VAPS and the International Arcade Museum, and we are unable to recommend, endorce, or guarantee any person or company selling games or game parts.
TechnicalUses a 68000 running at 8 MHz for a CPU, along with a Z80 running at 3.58 MHz. Uses 5 different sound chips, they are 1 YM2151 running at 3.58 MHz, an 007232 chip, a uPD7759 at 0.64 MHz, analog sound samples, and a custom chip.TriviaThe UK title for this game is Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles I.The pizzamunching turtles originally appeared in a black and white comic book that debuted in 1984. They were so popular that they immediately spawned imitators with colorful names such as ArmorPlated Adolescent Aardvarks and Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters. A cartoon series based upon the Turtles adventures debuted in the United States on the CBS television network in 1987.The first names of turtles Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, and Donatello are the names of Italian Renaissance artists who lived between 1386 and 1564. Three of those artists had full names which were respectively Michaelangelo Buonariti, Raphael Sanzio and Leonardo Da Vinci, but as for Donatello, that was his only name.Legacy
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