Episode
352 – The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is quite the enduring franchise, and it spawned a ton of different videogames for about every platform you can imagine. So let’s take a look at a bunch of the games released on various consoles and handhelds.
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This is just me guessing about the "heroes in a half-shell" part, but I think the lyric comes from the fact that now the Turtles are mutated into humanoid state, they can't hide themselves entirely into their shells like normal turtles would.
The TMNT action figures always had a gross, kinda janky feel to them, yet you could play hard with them…. You always seemed to wind up acting out video game type scenarios…. only natural games translate well….
Epic! Love a lot of these games. And I'm surprised you didn't talk about Turtles in Time: Reshelled for PS3/360…??
I love your drawings of the Turtles, Joe, they look fantastic.
With the exception of the movie tie-in game on GBA, pretty much every game from the '03 Turtle era up to Shredder's Revenge might as well not exist. I guess the Turtles just weren't big enough during that time for 4Kids or Nick to put some serious cash into the games. I know younger folks have fond memories of the '03 gang and their related games, but as someone who grew up with the '87 bunch, that might as well have been a Turtle winter.
Again….idk how u got into my algorithm but I'm glad it did
Incredibly harsh on Hyperstone Heist for some reason…
Where is the other guy?
I think I may have had to watch this a second time now because I am putting together my Retro Cherry Popper list together. Once a certain other project is closer to completion.
its cuz they have arms and legs like a human hence half there body is a friggin shell hence Heros in a Half-Shell bub Peace Y'all
I've heard a few people talk about Shredder's Revenge now and it gets praise pretty much across the board including the graphics. I've not played it, so I don't have an opinion as far as gameplay goes, but I really don't like the cutesy look of the in game sprites. The Arcade Game and Turtles in Time absolutely nailed the look of the show as well as being great games.
Three plug'n'play games you didn't mention: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Battle for the City; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant and Monster Mayhem; and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Way of the Warrior. They were all developed in 2005 and published the company I worked at, Tech2Go, which was a subsidiary of SDI/KIDdesigns, known for clock radios, iHome, and virtually all Barbie electronics. I don't know when they were released because Tech2Go was dissolved March of 2006. I just did an internet search and some places say 2008.
Battle for the City was developed and programmed by Wayford Technologies. It is a platformer. I think Mutant and Monster Mayhem was too. It is a light zapper title. I may still have a copy of the design doc laying around somewhere. Way of the Warrior was designed and had graphics done by Zombie but was programmed by me under Tech2Go and the music was contracted. It was a motion capture game. After my layoff, Penguin gave me a copy of Way of the Warrior. It was a fun project getting to work directly on the hardware, despite the poor hardware documentation and some questionable game balancing decisions. I never saw the games for sale, but searching the internet they are out there. Rerez did a great review of Way of Warrior tearing it completely to pieces. I've never been so honored to be torn down.
Man…TMNT just hits my right in my inner 5 year old.
Cowabunga!! 🐢
Just here for the extra sack
If they ever make an open world TMNT game that will be awesome!
You forgot Reshelled
I’m glad they didn’t include that mess that red fly put out in 2014
Odd that TMNT:OOTS isn't on there. It's Literally the best tmnt combat I've played.
– Upgradeable powers and weapons. Dojo for practicing combat. 4 player combat takedowns.
My favorite TMNT fact is that the 80s cartoon theme song was written by Chuck Lorre, the guy who made The Big Bang Theory.
Regarding the 2nd turtles NES game: it appears that all the on screen enemies are the same sprite, the same fault of double dragon!
I always thought the "half-shell" lyric was to represent that their shells are only on the top half of their bodies, who knows?
It’s a real shame that the games based on the 2012 series are not as good as the ones based on the ‘87 and 2003 series, as the 2012 series is my most favorite one.
Funny story: When my younger brother was adopted, he was allowed to pick a new name for himself… Loving TMNT, he picked “Michelangelo”, but the folks at the adoption office said that would be too weird, so it was shortened to “Michael “… I was adopted at birth, so I couldn’t choose mine… I’m just glad that I didn’t end up like Goo from Foster’s…
Slick transitions to ads. Thx for that. Love the vid as always 🙂
You missed the out of the shadows game???..its a good game
Wow those TMNT drawings are on point man! Had no idea you were a great artist.
5:45 …I like that reference to Splinter's famous line in the first TMNT NES game.
great drawing
My All-Time Favorite TMNT Game was TMNT 4 Player Arcade, TMNT 2 on NES, TMNT 3 NES, TMNT 1 and 2 on Game Boy and Especially my all-time favorite TMNT Shadder's Revenge on PS4
Radio buddy 4evah!
A beautiful time travel, great video, nice choice and very good edition. Do you know how the transition with multiple decomposed layer of the image was done ? What is the name of this effect ? It is a beautiful effect.
Shredder's Revenge is great, but the gameplay kind of has a problem. The special moves are far too effective, last too long, render you invincible and can be charged up at any time by performing a short animation that takes less time than the move itself. In co-op this means that one player can execute his move and protect the other who's charging theirs, so you can effectively special move your way through the entire game completely untouchable, and renders all your other moves pointless.
TMNT3 on the NES is probably the first game I played. Ever. Yeah I've seen my big bro playing Mario and other stuff it was kinda interesting but seeing TMNT on screen I was immediately like "I want to play that!"
I remember playing that first Ninja Turtles. The underwater area was the vain of my existence
Your intro is incredible !
love tmnt
My guilty pleasure is Tmnt out of the shadows😊
24:56 tmnt 3 came out on ps3? In 2005? How that possible?
Shredder’s revenge is available to Netflix subscribers. I play it on the go on my iPad and 8bitdo lite controller.
He missed covering Battle Nexus on the GBA right?
I definitely remember using that coupon for my free pan pizza… they wouldn't deliver it, because we lived too far away… so my mom brought me to the damned place the next town over just so I could get it.
Then I went home, ate my pizza, and played TMNT II.
That was also the day I learned about food grease on my controller… always wash up before you play!
Why buy the collection when you can just emulation and destroy for free😂😂😂😂
I think this makes the first time i've heard someone on youtube actually pronounce Lunar the usual way, and not with a odd " Lu-NAR" emphasis
I unironically love the first turtles game on NES. When I recently bought a new NES it was the first game I bought for it. I think a lot of people pretend they hate it because the AVGN pretends to hate it.
That being said: it's nothing compared to Turtles 2, which is maybe the best NES game ever made.
very weird that TMNT Smash Up was released on PS2 and Wii but not PS3
Once you reach a certain level playing battle nexus on the ps2 theres a way to unlock the full 1989 tmnt arcade game to play not sure if you can on the gamecube version tho. The only problem is the level you can do this on is late in the game so you have to play through most of this awful game before your able to unlock thr arcade game tho
The end was hilarious
This episode is a classic, I wish I could drop a like for each time I've watched it.
I was right in the target demographic for peak Turtlemania. The cartoon was my gateway but I did discover the comics, video games, toys, a tabletop RPG where you could make your own mutants. I miss the days when anthropomorphic wisecracking turtles qualified as serious business.
I dropped out sometime after the first movie. I wanted to like it, acted like I did, but by the time I saw the other two I realized that I really only loved the show. And some of the games.