Video Games
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Release years by system: 1989 – Nintendo Entertainment System 1990 – PC, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MSX and ZX Spectrum 2007 – Wii Virtual Console (removed in 2012) |
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The first TMNT video game. An action adventure game in the player can switch between any of the four turtles at any time. The game involves overhead areas which the player must explore in order to enter the main side-scrolling portions. |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Arcade Game
Original release date(s): 1989 |
Release years by system: 1989 - Arcade 1990 – NES 1991 – Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS and ZX Spectrum 2007 – Xbox Live Arcade |
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A side-scrolling fighting action game |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Original release date(s): 1989 |
Release years by system: 1989 – Handheld electronic game |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Splinter Speaks
Original release date(s): 1990 |
Release years by system: 1990 – Handheld electronic game |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:: World Tour
Original release date(s): 1990 |
Release years by system: 1990 – Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS |
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Part of a series of Electric Crayon coloring book games. |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Manhattan Missions
Original release date(s): 1991 |
Release years by system: 1991 – DOS |
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Released exclusively for PC. This game was unique for giving the Turtles a different "walk mode" and "fight mode", with different offensive and defensive moves in each, and for drawing more heavily on elements from the Mirage comics than its contemporaries. |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project
Original release date(s): 1991 |
Release years by system: 1991 – NES |
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The third TMNT game for the NES. A side-scrolling beat-em-up similar to the previous game, with the addition of each turtle having a new special attack. |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Shredder's Last Stand
Original release date(s): 1991 |
Release years by system: 1991 – Handheld electronic game |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan
Original release date(s): 1991 |
Release years by system: 1991 – Game Boy |
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The first TMNT game for a portable platform. A side-scrolling platform game featuring bonus stages. |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back from the Sewers
Original release date(s): 1992 |
Release years by system: 1992 – Game Boy |
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This is the sequel to TMNT: Fall of the Foot Clan. Like the first Game Boy game, the player could select a turtle between stages, but when a turtle is defeated during a stage, he is captured, like the first NES game. The player can get a chance to rescue a captured turtle after clearing a stage. |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time
Original release date(s): 1991 |
Release years by system: 1991 – Arcade 1992 – Super Nintendo Entertainment System 2009 - XBLA and PSN |
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This is the second TMNT arcade game produced by Konami. It was a scrolling fighting game based on the 1987 TV series. It is still considered one of the great achievements of the TMNT franchise even to this day. The game features a sample of the song "Pizza Power," from the live performance Coming Out of Their Shells Tour. It was ported to the SNES as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time in 1992, becoming the first TMNT game for the SNES. Both the arcade and SNES version contained special moves for each turtle. In 2009, the game was re-released in 2.5D by Ubisoft for XBLA and PSN, it is almost exactly the same, the only difference being the 3D graphics. |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Basketball
Original release date(s): 1991 |
Release years by system: 1991 – Handheld electronic game |
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Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
Original release date(s): 1991 |
Release years by system: 1991 – Handheld electronic game |
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Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: Four for Four
Original release date(s): 1992 |
Release years by system: 1992 – Handheld electronic game |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist
Original release date(s): 1992 |
Release years by system: 1992 – Sega Genesis |
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This is the first TMNT game released for the Sega Genesis. It featured a lot of the same character animations as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time, and some levels were reused from that game with a few minor cosmetic changes. However, there was a completely new plot, some new levels, and one new boss. The Japanese Mega Drive version of the game was known as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Return of the Shredder. |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue
Original release date(s): 1993 |
Release years by system: 1993 – Game Boy |
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This was the third and last game in the Game Boy series. The player begins the game taking control of Michelangelo, who must rescue the other turtles, along with Splinter and April, from their cells. |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters
Original release date(s): 1993 |
Release years by system: 1993 – SNES, Sega Genesis, NES |
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Developed by Konami. It is a fighting game. While the title is the same, the game is drastically different for each console. Like many competitive fighting games of the era, Tournament Fighters borrowed heavily from elements contained in the Street Fighter II video game. The game was released when the popularity of the turtles was slowly decreasing. As such, the game for the most part was ignored and sold fairly, though some players enjoyed the games, particularly the SNES version, which it is considered the superior of the three. It was one of the first SNES fighting games to feature a "super bar" that allowed characters to use a super move when full. That innovation was unnoticed however, due to the game's poor popularity at the time. The NES version was also enjoyed, but is very rare nowadays and costs 80$ on the internet. The Sega Genesis was the least popular. |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Dimension X Assault
Original release date(s): 1995 |
Release years by system: 1995 – Handheld electronic game |
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Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation
Original release date(s): 1997 |
Release years by system: 1997 – Handheld electronic game |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Original release date(s): 2003 |
Release years by system: 2003 – Game Boy Advance |
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This is the first TMNT game released for the Game Boy Advance, and so far the only game released exclusively for that system. This game is unique in that each Turtle has his own unique set of levels to complete. In addition to the traditional side-scrolling levels, there are third-person view races, a shell-glider level for Donatello and a bike race between Raphael and Casey Jones. |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Original release date(s): 2003 |
Release years by system: 2003 – Nintendo GameCube, Xbox, PlayStation 2 and PC |
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Konami was commissioned to transform the current 2003 TV series into a video game franchise, resulting in a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game. The plot of this game follows the episodes of the Season 1. The game was panned by critics as being "uninspired" and not living up to the legacy of the NES and SNES games. Some players have also criticized it for being a button masher. Multiplayer available. |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus
Original release date(s): 2004 |
Release years by system: 2004 – Nintendo GameCube, GBA, Xbox, PlayStation 2 and PC |
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The second of the Konami games based on the 2003 TV series. This game featured many improvements over the previous game. Now supporting four players, four people could play as each Turtle at once. It also featured the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game as an unlockable. Despite this, like its predecessor, it was not well received by critics. Multiplayer available. |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Mutant Nightmare
Original release date(s): 2005 |
Release years by system: 2005 – Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo DS, Xbox and PlayStation 2 |
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This is the third game in the series. It is based on the Season 3 of the 2003 TV series. This is the first TMNT game that is rated E10+. The game also had a port of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time. Multiplayer available. |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Melee
Original release date(s): 2005 |
Release years by system: 2005 – Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC |
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This is a party game spin-off. It received mostly negative criticism from players, mostly due to button mashing, small fighting areas, and repetition. |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Fast Forward: Ninja Training NYC
Original release date(s): 2005 |
Release years by system: 2005 – Mobile phone |
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Produced by uclick and developed by Overloaded, this is a mobile game based on Season 6 of the 2003 TV series, subtitled Fast Forward. It is the first adaptation of the TMNT series on mobile phones, and it includes both a fighting game mode and a platform game mode. |
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TMNT: Battle for the City
Original release date(s): 2006 |
Release years by system: 2006 – Plug 'n Play |
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Based on the 2003 series. |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants and Monsters Mayhem
Original release date(s): 2006 |
Release years by system: 2006 – Plug 'n Play |
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Based on the 2003 series. |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Way of the Warrior
Original release date(s): 2006 |
Release years by system: 2006 – Plug 'n Play |
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Based on the 2003 series. |
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TMNT: The Power of 4
Original release date(s): 2006 |
Release years by system: 2006 – Mobile Phone |
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Produced by uclick and developed by Overloaded, this is a mobile game based on the 2007 CGI movie. It is an arcade game, which combines action-adventure and racing levels. |
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TMNT: Ninja Adventures -Mini-Game and Activity Centre
Original release date(s): 2007 |
Release years by system: 2007 – Windows |
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Based on the 2007 CGI movie. |
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TMNT
Original release date(s): 2007 |
Release years by system: 2007 – Xbox 360, Wii, PS2, PSP, Nintendo DS, Nintendo GameCube, GBA and PC |
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Developed by Ubisoft, this is a game based on the 2007 CGI movie, that was released three days before the movie. It is an single player action-adventure game. Ubisoft released the games on March 20 after winning the rights from Konami, who had produced all the previous games. Reviews for the games ranged from horrible to mediocre to exemplary, due to the vastly different games produced. The home console games were identical, and given bad to mediocre ratings; the PSP and Nintendo DS games were identical to each other but not the home console versions, and were given abysmal ratings; and the Game Boy Advance version was entirely separate, but received good ratings in contrast to the other versions. It was lauded for its excellent use of the side-scrolling beat-'em-up style, which evoked nostalgia for older games in the series such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time. However, there is no multi-player mode in the GBA version. "The TMNT movie is all about the emotions associated with family and teenage angst," said Nick Harper, the game's creative director. "We've taken that philosophy and turned it into gameplay mechanics that will be fun and challenging. The game features collaborative team-ups between the turtles. However, the game also features single-player campaigns for the brothers. |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ninja Tribunal
Original release date(s): 2009 |
Release years by system: 2009 – Mobile Phone |
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RPG based on the fifth season of the 2003 TV series |
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TMNT: The Shredder Reborn
Original release date(s): 2009 |
Release years by system: 2009 – Mobile Phone |
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Sequel to The Ninja Tribunal |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up
Original release date(s): September 22, 2009 |
Release years by system: 2009 – Wii, PlayStation 2 |
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Developed by Ubisoft, the company assembles an all-star team of folks who worked on Super Smash Bros. Brawl and former members of the Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive series to craft TMNT: Smash Up. It is a 4-player fighting game for the Wii and PS2. |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled
Original release date(s): August 5, 2009 |
Release years by system: August 5, 2009 – Xbox Live Arcade September 10, 2009 - PlayStation Network |
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A side-scrolling fighting action game |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Arcade Attack
Original release date(s): November 10, 2009 |
Release years by system: 2009 – Nintendo DS |
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A side-scrolling fighting action game |
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