Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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Manufacturer: Konami
Year: 1989
Class: Wide Release
Genre: Scrolling Fighter
Type: Videogame

Monitor:

Orientation: Horizontal
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color
25-inch

Conversion Class: JAMMA+
Number of Simultaneous Players: 4
Maximum number of Players: 4
Gameplay: Joint
Control Panel Layout: Multiple Player
Controls:

Joystick: 8-way
Buttons: 2

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

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Description

The 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.

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Game Introduction

Players can choose to play either Leonardo (blue, katana blades); Raphael (red, sais); Michaelangelo (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.

Miscellaneous

There is also a two-player version of this game.

Scarcity in collections (VAPS.org)

Very Common - There are 113 known instances of this game owned by one of our 900 members. Of these, 18 of them are original dedicated machines, 12 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards have been placed in another game cabinet, and 83 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Of the 42,694 video games (3,154 unique) tracked by the Video Game Preservation Society, this game ranks a 60 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on ownership records.

Wanted - There are 10 VAPS members currently looking for this game.

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Technical

Uses 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 YM-2151 running at 3.58 MHz, an 007232 chip, a uPD7759 at 0.64 MHz, analog sound samples, and a custom chip.

Trivia

The UK title for this game is Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles.

The pizza-munching 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 "Armor-Plated 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 -- Michaelangelo, 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.

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Legacy

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Title screen image

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