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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (PlayChoice) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (PlayChoice) - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (PlayChoice) - Cabinet - Video Game Marquee

Description

April has been kidnapped. Play one turtle at a time in an effort to rescure her.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (PlayChoice) was produced by Nintendo in 1989.

Nintendo released 107 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1970. Nintendo was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Nintendo during the time period Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (PlayChoice) was produced include: Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario Bros. 3, Pinbot, Vs. Freedom Force, Double Dragon PlayChoice, Baseball Stars, Ninja Gaiden PlayChoice, Dr. Mario, F-Zero, and Vs. Dr. Mario

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (PlayChoice) - Cabinet - Machine
Cabinet

Specs

Name Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (PlayChoice)
Developer Nintendo (Japan)
Year 1989
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 10053
Class Wide Release
Genre Platform
Monitor
Conversion Class Nintendo PlayChoice
# Simultaneous Players 1
# Maximum Players 1
Gameplay Single
Control Panel Layout Single Player
Controls
  • Joystick: 8-way
  • Buttons: 2 [Jump|Fire/Hit]
Sound Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard

Game Play

You start above ground with a top down view where there is no jumping. You must enter the sewers where your view is side scrolling. Fight non-stop waves of enemies until you find April. The boss enemies include Bebop, Rocksteady and Shredder. Each turtle has his own weapons like katana blades, sais, bo staff and nunchukus.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (PlayChoice) KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 0.00 (0 votes)

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Miscellaneous

LICENSOR: Ultra Games

This game is not the same as the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game. This is the same game as was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System home console.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (PlayChoice) Census

There are 14,717 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,456 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 164,294 machines (6,886 unique titles).

Common - There are 27 known instances of this machine owned by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (PlayChoice) collectors who are active members. Of these, 2 of them are original dedicated machines. 25 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with an extra Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (PlayChoice) circuit board for sale.

Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list.

This game ranks a 8 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

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Technical

The control panel layout on the cabinet is multiple player but this game is single player only. The cabinet that houses this game houses a number of different games for you to choose from.

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