Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Videogame by Konami

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Name: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Developer: Konami

Year: 1989
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Scrolling Fighter
Monitor:

Orientation: Horizontal
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color

Conversion Class: JAMMA
Game Specific: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pinout
Settings: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Dipswitch Settings

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

Joystick: 8-way
Buttons: 2 [AttackJump]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

Cabinet Styles:

Upright/Standard (Weight 320 pounds)

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles PCB Image

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 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.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was produced by Konami in 1989.

Konami released 433 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978.

Other machines made by Konami during the time period Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was produced include Gradius III, Cue Brick, Bottom Of The Ninth, Crime Fighters, Block Hole, '88 Games, Chequered Flag, Akumajou Dracula, Crazy Cop, and Contra (PlayChoice).

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.61 (12 votes)

Personal Impressions Score: 3.78

     Overall 'Like': 4.09
     Fun (Social): 4.09
     Fun (Solo): 3.45
     Collector Desire: 3.42

Technical Impressions Score: 3.67

     Gameplay: 3.82
     Graphics: 4.30
     Originality: 2.64
     Sound/Music: 3.91

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, "Like" carries a little more weight than the other factors.

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Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard (Weight 320 pounds)

Game Introduction

Players 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.

Miscellaneous

There is also a two player version of this game.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Census

There are 12,007 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,525 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 161,152 machines (6,786 unique titles).

Very Common - There are approximately 489 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 169 of these machines are owned by our active Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collectors. And of these, 72 are original dedicated machines, 8 are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 89 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 3 active VAPS members with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles machines for sale. There are 2 active VAPS members with extra Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - There are 9 active VAPS members currently looking for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. There are 4 active VAPS members looking for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles board sets.

At any given time, our active members are listing on VAPS on average of 4,400 games they are looking for, and 3,600 games for sale.

This game ranks a 79 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 53 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are NOT necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

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 YM2151 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 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

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles In Time (1991)

Manuals

4 player Instruction Manual 25 Pages, 1.3 MB File.

Video Clips

Konami Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TMNT 2 Player

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade gameplay

Konami TMNT Arcade Video Game Overahul

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Additional References
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The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Flyer #1179
The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Flyer #3352
The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Flyer #4184
The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Flyer #6417

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