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  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game (NES)

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    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game (NES)

    I don’t know why they have to be so confusing with game numbering sometimes. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game was in fact based on the original arcade game. However, when the original arcade game was released in 1989, a different Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game was released at the same time for the NES. Hence when they released the one actually based on the arcade game a year later, they put a II in the title. The home computer ports just stuck with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Arcade Game and left off the II.

    The NES version is probably the best known port and included a couple of extra levels with new enemies and also extended many of the original arcade levels. The NES version also added some Pizza Hut product placement advertising. I believe that the computer ports (Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, etc.) were more straight ports of the arcade.


    The original NES version, to the best of my knowledge, has not seen any subsequent releases. A port of the arcade version appears as a hidden bonus in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus for the PS2, Xbox and GameCube and an emulated version of the original arcade game appeared for Xbox Live Arcade in 2007 but if you want to play the NES version with extra levels, you’ll have to track down an NES or emulate.

    The NES and arcade versions were especially good with most of the other versions being worthwhile as well. If you like arcade style games then this is one of the better ones from that era. And who can resist the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?





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  • Boot Camp (Konami)

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    Combat School / Boot Camp
    Publisher: Konami (Arcade, DOS), Ocean Software (CPC, C64, ZX)
    Developer: Konami (Arcade), Ocean Software (CPC, C64, ZX), Banana Development (DOS)
    Platform: Arcade, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, MS-DOS
    Year: 1987 (Arcade, CPC, C64, ZX), 1989 (DOS)

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    Boot Camp (called Combat School outside of North America) was an arcade game released by Konami in 1987. Whether or not you are familiar with it probably depends on what you did your gaming on in that era. If it was the NES then you missed out on this game. Not sure why it was ported to the Nintendo but I suspect it was related to Nintendo’s strict licensing requirements. They only allowed licensees to release so many games a year so I suspect this one just didn’t make the cut for Konami.

    However, if you had a computer then you might be more familiar with this game. It was ported to the Commodore 64, DOS based PCs and other computers. By most accounts, it was a pretty good game.

    Based on the name and era you might think this is some sort of action combat game like Commando, Rambo or Contra but it really plays much more like a sports game. In particular, it is somewhat similar to the Winter/Summer Games line by Epyx. It consists of a number of events to compete in including various shooting ranges, obstacle course, running and even arm wrestling. Not quite olympic sports but the idea is similar.





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  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tournament Fighters (Sega Genesis)

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    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tournament Fighters (Sega Genesis)

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    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tournament Fighters was released on three different systems but it was essentially three different games as opposed to being ports of the same game. While the same basic concept exists in all of them, that is the turtles have to fight in a tournament, the story, characters, locations and controls among other aspects of the game vary greatly between the different versions. This game was released by Konami for the NES (the last Konami game for this system), Super NES and Sega Genesis between 1993 and 1994.

    In the Sega Genesis version pictured above, the player travels throughout Dimension X fighting clones of themselves among other enemies. The general consensus seems to be that the Super Nintendo version is the best by a slight margin and the NES version is not surprisingly the worst but they are really all different games and all worth having if you are a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fan.





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