The Spectrum version surprised me. That thing struggled with colour , most games being in black and White ( well blue and green) but that was impressive.
Most people probably don't understand the technical achievement to avoid color clashes in the ZX Spectrum. That version was also very enjoyable. I played it a lot.
No. NES has only better frame rate but it's just way worse than Amiga or DOS version. Amiga and PC have better sprites and animation. More frames, better designed characters. DOS port has good Adlib music, but it's not in the video unfortunately. Even though other ports have lower framerate, they have better gameplay. TMNT on NES is just way to hard, while DOS port is much more enjoyable. DOS port can also save game at any point. There's game breaking bug in US DOS release with impossible jump on map 3. It was fixed for EU release. US and EU have same port for DOS (unlike Amiga). Anyway I had DOS port back in the day and 10 years later I've played NES version. I didn't liked NES version at all. Same game, but worse, despite smoother FPS. Overall it's not great on all platforms, but it seems like publisher forced developers to not fix NES issues in other ports. For example DOS port has the same enemy respawn mechanic when you go back. Uncommon on PC, since computers already had more RAM than SNES + Sega Genesis combined. Yet in this game someone (probably publisher) forced such respawn that can spawn unlimited enemies like on NES that had just 2 KB of RAM and relied on read-only DATA from cartridge.
For sure the NES was the best version. I'm cracking up laughing at the Amiga ... tmnt looks some how like a downgrade Bootleg lol sadly I was the only kid in my neighborhood who own a *Sega Master System* ever kid and there dam grandma own the NES with TMNT so I did get to play it atleast...
Splinter: "We must save April! We as in you and me, ...but excluding me" That pretty accurately depicts Master Splinters involvement in the 87' cartoon! 😆
He actually did the same thing in the latest tmnt2 movie, I noticed leo tells him Shredders possibly on the loose and splinter lets the turtles go totally without him
Had this back in the day in Amstrad CPC and like it as captured the NES port very faithfully.The 16 bit ports are absolutely crap.Thanks for the video.
@@julienbraudel7109 Take for what it is, the CPC version is very nice, with the same gameplay and partly same level design as NES. And the colours are so vibrant.
Had the DOS port as a kid. Without the ability to save, it would have been nigh impossible. As it was, I only got to the technodrome level but never beat shredder.
I think it's because msx was limited to Japan, America outsourced games for franchises that way. I think kojima saw the writing on the wall about pc gaming and that's why metal gear 2 was one of the best games made on it, honestly the best tactical top down game made at the time. If it was msx and an original game for the console and not a port, who knows, maybe it could have been groundbreaking
PAL does have an incredibly small frame rate increase. I actually think Mikey doesn't use nunchaku, he's supposed to use tonfa or something, so I think his weapon is slightly different.
i had the c64 and NES versions, NES was better but not great at all IMO, the underwater levels just destroyed the game, it was also the most expensive NES game back then ..we played double dragon II instead in circles day in day out 🤣
Translation= nes game was too hard and you gave up. Back then there were 2 types of gamers.. the hardcore gamers and the casuals. Still hold true to this day with the casuals begging developers to make elden ring or other souls games easy 😂
@@Turbo-Dthat may be so but I can easily beat the water stage easily 😂. But can't argue comparing it to double dragon 2 that's classic... Double dragon 3... That's another story 🤣
Played a PC port (spanning four floppy discs) of the NES version, with the rereleases on Wii and the Cowabunga Collection. The theme, overworld and sewer music were always my favorite level music from the game.
According to "The Cutting Room Floor", the game was localized for the Japanese market before any other form of TMNT media (such as the movie and the animated series) reached the country. As a result, Konami decided to rebrand the game under a completely different title, GekiKame Ninja Den, which literally translates to "Radical Turtle Ninja Legend". Subsequent games in the series released in Japan stuck to the franchise's actual English title.
A friend had he C64 version. It was awful due to the fact that on original hardware, the menu screen had to load off the disk drive every time you brought it up. It took like at least a solid minute to change turtles every time
Would LOVE to see a SEGA Genesis/Mega-Drive tackle a port for that console! W/today's dev tools, it should be much easier than it would've been back in yhe day. Question might be, which version of the orginal game should it be based on?
@@jasonlee7816 - Or better yet, why not on both? 😉 Of course, SEGA discontinued the SEGA Genesis & have no say on what gets published for it - so they can't exactly refuse it either. 🤭
@@Guernicaman because Sega Genesis/Mega-Drive had the inferior (weaker) hardware vs SNES + MD might’ve been less popular with the game developers / unpopular with the game publishers
@@jasonlee7816 - Reason I suggested the SEGA Genesis/MegaDrive over the SNES in the original post, was b/c SEGA Genesis / Mega Drive has a very active, tho small, homebrew development community making brand new SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive games & ports to this day. There are new dev tools specific to the hardware, which makes SEGA Genesis / Mega Drive game development easier than ever. Just look up "brand new Genesis / Mega Drive WIP games" for some examples. While there are some homebrew SNES games being developed today, there aren't (to my knowledge, at least), anywhere near as many as there are being developed for the SEGA Genesis / Mega Drive.
@@jasonlee7816 Genesis hardware wasn't much weaker. It had different strengths compared to the SNES. There is a reason that the Genesis tan neck and neck with the SNES in the US for many years and the Mega Drive outsold the SNES in Europe. In no was was the Genesis/Mega Drive unpopular with publishers or developers. You clearly have no idea of the actual era.
The European Amiga version surprised me! I'm guessing it's dev team had more time to work on/enhance it. The art is more defined, and it's surprisingly faithful to the NES despite the new coat of paint.
And i thought that NES version is bad because it is unbalanced and not fun to play. Looks like NES version is masterpiece in comparison to other ports of this game.
The other version make the NES version look like a masterpiece! Well... Unless you like instant damage as the screen loads.
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NES version has lots of programming flaws, like some bad hit detection, 30 fps lock (and still has slow downs), and balancing issues (there are many good videos on RUclips about the programming part of this game), but it's not a bad game in overall. It's just tough. The other versions are ear and eye cancer compared to the NES / FC versions.
@ the FPS hits are so common for older games I rarely notice but crappy hit detection on top of a brutal difficulty made me hate this game as a kid. Seeing now makes me want to try again though.
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@@f.k.b.16 FPS drops are common, but they already sacrificed a lot by making it running at 30 fps instead of 60 and still the NES suffers running it. Some games like Contra with large amount of bullets on screen barely has slowdowns. TMNT for NES is just not well optimized and there are other coding issues. Delayed attacks, some hitboxes being totally offset, bizarre triple jump mechanics (there is a video about that, I didn't even realized the game basically has 3 specific jump heights, and really crappy low gravity physics)...
Good HEAVENS, I have no memory of the CGA graphics being that AWFUL! Did I only ever play it with EGA graphics? BTW, fun trivia: the IBM versions (CGA and EGA) are unbeatable; in one of the missions (I believe the third one), there's a jump over a bottomless pit where, in the IBM version, the ceiling is too low, causing you to bonk your head and fall into the pit. It's impossible to cross the gap.
One of the first dos game I bought* when my dad purchased a PC for his CAD stuff. A very lazy conversion that does not even feature adlib support and was released badly bugged (there's an impossible jump in one stage ) *luckly I had the chance to return for a decent game
@@federicocatelli8785did it take 3, 5, 7 days, weeks, months, years to fix the PC DOS version? if not how long? what was the end result after it was fixed?
I really love Spectrum version, played it to the end many times 😃 CPC version looks also very good, fast and in the same engine. MSX is a ridiculously slow version of Spectrum. I don't like the other engine version used on NES, C64, Amiga (where it's just a stupid conversion from the ST) etc.
Fun Fact: In the EU C64 version, it plays the US C64 intro on disk but the title is changed to TMHT, once you actually play it, it's the worse EU C64 version in it's entirety.
This game is good even though it's a pain to get through. Like area 3 is where it really gets difficult. Area 1 & 2 are like a no Brainer compared to later areas of the game.
LOL wow.... Whoever did the spritework for the Amiga version needed to be fired... That is god awful! Specially the title screen scroll (look @ April's face! Nightmare!) They should have modeled those games after the NES version.... What a huge mistake!
I never seen over half these versions. The nes/ famicom is the absolute best version of the game. I'd hate to see April's portrait in the amiga & atari st versions. Most likely she looks like the dos port. Nice work on playing all these versions I had the dos port growing up and it was as bad as I remember it being. Cga graphics as a choice was surprising to see since they used pretty decent 4 color use. Normally most of the time its the standard cyan magenta white and black. Here they seemed to use several different 4 color combinations. Also the pc speaker music is pretty good but the dos port has options for tandy 3-voice and adlib. The only problem with the adlib being selected is it sounds incredibly rushed. The dialog in the europe c64 is hilarious on the subscreen
Thanks for the comment! I wasn't aware of these settings in PC. I remember trying to run the game with the Tandy option in DOSBox but I believe It didn't load properly.
@@retrosutra to get tandy sound to work without running the machine type as tandy you need to manually edit the configuration file for dosbox and scroll down to "tandy=auto" and switch auto to "on" but when you do that it also breaks soundblaster speech so it's a bit of a balancing act if you want to stay out of 16 color tandy graphics.
Probably an ST port to the Amiga, it was quite common to see that at the time, which is a shame because it wasn't taking advantage of what the Amiga could do and we saw more of that in the early 90's, which those games blew away the early Amiga games in tech and quality level.
Why didn't Konami just share the sprites and assets with the other people porting the game? Seems like a lot of work to re-engineer the game from scratch.
@@JD-mz1rl No, but they could easily import the raw binary files and convert/retouch them as necessary. It was common practice with home computer ports at the time.
Agree with others - 16-bit versions are crappy and NES is optimal. c64 probably looks much prettier on CRT than this. CPC, ZX, MSX are all cheating on the screen size and MSX has no reason to be so much slower than CPC, at lest on the surface (same CPU and same frame buffer size- 16kB).
Cuál es la diferencia entre la versión de 48 K y la de 128 en el Spectrum y no entiendo por qué tantos juegos de 128 K siguen sin usar Música! Después parece bastante superior la versión de Spectrum a la del resto de las adaptaciones de computadoras de 8 bits solo que sin Música !
I feel so bad to those that had CGA MS-DOS PCs and saw the terrible graphics of the PC TMNT port, seeing red, orange, green and black. And, Exclusively on the PC MS-DOS version, the Impossible Jump.
I can’t believe they managed to produce MSX version worse than ZX version. But looking at the Amiga version worse than NES, I guess this game was cursed 😂
I played this game on both the Amiga and the Nes, the Amiga version could have been a lot better than the Nes version considering the hardware difference but I felt the Nes version was better. It was the frame rate that was weird on the Amiga, it should have been slick smooth but it wasn't, it was basically a poor port, probably from the ST version.
The music is much better on the EU Amiga & Atari ST versions, as it translates the NES versions soundtrack faithfully, though it's lacking a ton of tracks like the Underwater Maze music
It's almost that bad. The DOS version actually does support Adlib/Sound Blaster so you don't actually have to put up with the earsplitting PC Speaker audio, but it's still a horrendously awful port.
It has been decades since I played this on NES. Why were the mousers and foot soldiers replaced in some ports? Are those giant eye balls and flaming men enemies that appear elsewhere on NES or were they completely made up for Amstrad, Spectrum and MSX? Also, I always like the look of CPC games as long as nothing moves. They always look much nicer on screenshots than other 8-bit home computers. But in motion it seems a lot smoother on C64 as usual.
WOW. Hard to beleive that PC's of the 80s sucked this hard. NES beaten them all in graphics, gameplay and music. Some of these looked barely playable, others were a combination of EAR and EYE rape. XD
It's so weird that the nintendo version was the best. It usually would be the arcade version. I know its subjective, some had better graphics, but the performance was also significantly reduced in them.
Uhh... How come all but the NES version suck? Amiga could do so much more than what it did. And what's with the two versions for Amiga and C64? I never got that.
Rushed ports. That's not only why they're all a bit terrible, but also why there's different ports for Europe and the US for the Amiga. While Konami (under their Ultra Games label) published the three home computer versions in the US themselves, they licensed the European rights to Image Works (a label of MirrorSoft). Being they were making versions for a bunch more platforms that were much less popular or outright non-existent in the US, they needed to have them developed anyway. So they just ported the Atari ST version (which wasn't released in the US) to the Amiga (a common practice) instead of waiting for the US version, which was developed by USI (later renamed Distinctive Software and now part of EA Canada), who would later make the PC-exclusive TMNT: Manhattan Missions (which always felt more like a direct sequel to this game than any of the arcade beat-em-ups). MirrorSoft was notorious for that sort of thing. Since they spammed ports of games to every conceivable computer, they often rushed out entirely separate ports to platforms instead of using existing ports. They did the same for the original Western European releases of Tetris, resulting in some platforms, like the Amiga, getting a different version than the US. Worst part is the US versions were made by Spectrum Holobyte, which was a sister company to MirrorSoft at the time, so the redundancy was even more pointless.
The NES versions are the best here hands down. Oh DOS.... I'm embarrassed for you. The C64 versions made me laugh! It looks like you are swatting flies! The Amsterdam versions looks like obese Ninja Turtles... But why do all the non-NES versions look like they have midget legs?
7:57 This picture... will haunt me the rest of my days... 👽
I can see why. 😮
The Spectrum version surprised me.
That thing struggled with colour , most games being in black and White ( well blue and green) but that was impressive.
Most people probably don't understand the technical achievement to avoid color clashes in the ZX Spectrum. That version was also very enjoyable. I played it a lot.
There are more similar full-colour games on Spectrum, like Astro Marine Corps and others.
No other version could beat NES. It had better graphics, animation, frame rate, more enemies, better sound proper colors
No. NES has only better frame rate but it's just way worse than Amiga or DOS version. Amiga and PC have better sprites and animation. More frames, better designed characters. DOS port has good Adlib music, but it's not in the video unfortunately.
Even though other ports have lower framerate, they have better gameplay.
TMNT on NES is just way to hard, while DOS port is much more enjoyable. DOS port can also save game at any point. There's game breaking bug in US DOS release with impossible jump on map 3. It was fixed for EU release. US and EU have same port for DOS (unlike Amiga).
Anyway I had DOS port back in the day and 10 years later I've played NES version. I didn't liked NES version at all. Same game, but worse, despite smoother FPS.
Overall it's not great on all platforms, but it seems like publisher forced developers to not fix NES issues in other ports. For example DOS port has the same enemy respawn mechanic when you go back. Uncommon on PC, since computers already had more RAM than SNES + Sega Genesis combined. Yet in this game someone (probably publisher) forced such respawn that can spawn unlimited enemies like on NES that had just 2 KB of RAM and relied on read-only DATA from cartridge.
@@Leeki85 False
@@jedimastayoda112what part of what Leeki85 said is false? why is what Leeki85 said false?
@@Leeki85 wrong. The Amiga one looks awful! The tmnt look like aliens. Nes was far superior. And hard? Lol give me a break snowflake.
For sure the NES was the best version. I'm cracking up laughing at the Amiga ... tmnt looks some how like a downgrade Bootleg lol sadly I was the only kid in my neighborhood who own a *Sega Master System* ever kid and there dam grandma own the NES with TMNT so I did get to play it atleast...
Splinter: "We must save April! We as in you and me, ...but excluding me"
That pretty accurately depicts Master Splinters involvement in the 87' cartoon! 😆
He actually did the same thing in the latest tmnt2 movie, I noticed leo tells him Shredders possibly on the loose and splinter lets the turtles go totally without him
Never in my life have I seen clearer examples of "those stupid kids won't know the difference".
Had this back in the day in Amstrad CPC and like it as captured the NES port very faithfully.The 16 bit ports are absolutely crap.Thanks for the video.
Not really, the CPC version is a totally different game. The c64 version seems to be the closest version.
@@julienbraudel7109 Yes C64 port is closer to the NES
@@julienbraudel7109 Take for what it is, the CPC version is very nice, with the same gameplay and partly same level design as NES. And the colours are so vibrant.
I had that one too.
Loved it but I was disappointed you didn't have directional attacks like in the NES original.
@@chumorgan443 Yes, the game has been simplified on CPC, clearly. Conversion from Probe. So as usual, there is nice things and some flaws 😌
MSX, Spec & Dos are brutal.
The MSX capabilities were seriously overlooked
for alot of ports.
Had the DOS port as a kid. Without the ability to save, it would have been nigh impossible. As it was, I only got to the technodrome level but never beat shredder.
I think it's because msx was limited to Japan, America outsourced games for franchises that way. I think kojima saw the writing on the wall about pc gaming and that's why metal gear 2 was one of the best games made on it, honestly the best tactical top down game made at the time. If it was msx and an original game for the console and not a port, who knows, maybe it could have been groundbreaking
Now I like NES Europe Version than Original Version.
PAL does have an incredibly small frame rate increase. I actually think Mikey doesn't use nunchaku, he's supposed to use tonfa or something, so I think his weapon is slightly different.
@TheVoltDenatsu Yes.
i had the c64 and NES versions, NES was better but not great at all IMO, the underwater levels just destroyed the game, it was also the most expensive NES game back then ..we played double dragon II instead in circles day in day out 🤣
Translation= nes game was too hard and you gave up. Back then there were 2 types of gamers.. the hardcore gamers and the casuals. Still hold true to this day with the casuals begging developers to make elden ring or other souls games easy 😂
@@avalond1193 translate you own stuff also please 😂🤷
@@Turbo-Dthat may be so but I can easily beat the water stage easily 😂. But can't argue comparing it to double dragon 2 that's classic... Double dragon 3... That's another story 🤣
@@avalond1193 😂👍
15:32 They knew what they were doing when they drew April's ass
She got a dumper!
My 1st NES game as a kid. So many memories of me using my 1st curse words lmao.
Seems like a couple other versions tried to present better graphics, but the NES version has the best frame rate seemingly & the most fluid gameplay
Played a PC port (spanning four floppy discs) of the NES version, with the rereleases on Wii and the Cowabunga Collection. The theme, overworld and sewer music were always my favorite level music from the game.
this version of MSX, has any human being on the face of the earth managed to play this until the end?
Love the NES version the best but also that game gave me video game PTSD lol 😆
Not just you. :D
@@Jayteaseepiirturi Good to know haha
Had no idea that TNMT were Gekikame Ninja Den, in Japanese.
According to "The Cutting Room Floor", the game was localized for the Japanese market before any other form of TMNT media (such as the movie and the animated series) reached the country. As a result, Konami decided to rebrand the game under a completely different title, GekiKame Ninja Den, which literally translates to "Radical Turtle Ninja Legend". Subsequent games in the series released in Japan stuck to the franchise's actual English title.
I found this game on IBM PC with all 4 5.25 floppys complete in box, manuals at Goodwill yesterday. Is this a rare find? I have no idea.
A friend had he C64 version. It was awful due to the fact that on original hardware, the menu screen had to load off the disk drive every time you brought it up. It took like at least a solid minute to change turtles every time
The versión of NES is very beautiful 😍
Watching this video looks like the only playable version of this game ...
Yes
Would LOVE to see a SEGA Genesis/Mega-Drive tackle a port for that console! W/today's dev tools, it should be much easier than it would've been back in yhe day.
Question might be, which version of the orginal game should it be based on?
or a SNES port if Sega didn’t want it on the Genesis/Mega-Drive
@@jasonlee7816 - Or better yet, why not on both? 😉 Of course, SEGA discontinued the SEGA Genesis & have no say on what gets published for it - so they can't exactly refuse it either. 🤭
@@Guernicaman because Sega Genesis/Mega-Drive had the inferior (weaker) hardware vs SNES + MD might’ve been less popular with the game developers / unpopular with the game publishers
@@jasonlee7816 - Reason I suggested the SEGA Genesis/MegaDrive over the SNES in the original post, was b/c SEGA Genesis / Mega Drive has a very active, tho small, homebrew development community making brand new SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive games & ports to this day.
There are new dev tools specific to the hardware, which makes SEGA Genesis / Mega Drive game development easier than ever. Just look up "brand new Genesis / Mega Drive WIP games" for some examples.
While there are some homebrew SNES games being developed today, there aren't (to my knowledge, at least), anywhere near as many as there are being developed for the SEGA Genesis / Mega Drive.
@@jasonlee7816 Genesis hardware wasn't much weaker. It had different strengths compared to the SNES. There is a reason that the Genesis tan neck and neck with the SNES in the US for many years and the Mega Drive outsold the SNES in Europe. In no was was the Genesis/Mega Drive unpopular with publishers or developers. You clearly have no idea of the actual era.
Good job. May I add, the handheld game also had sounds from this game. I’m certain for example the game over music was the same.
The European Amiga version surprised me! I'm guessing it's dev team had more time to work on/enhance it. The art is more defined, and it's surprisingly faithful to the NES despite the new coat of paint.
The artwork in some of these is some straight nightmare fuel
14:40 splinter looks like he took a huge b0ng rip lol
Japan always better because of originality and game accuracy
Lol why does April look like Ronald McDonald in the Amiga version? 😆 I love the new version personally, an underrated game for sure
Shredder: "I've kidnapped April!"
Turtles: "You can keep her."
Amiga version be like "Teenage mut-ninja Turtle"
Whoever designed that aggravated assault on the ears for the Speccy versions should be shot.
The DOS versions music and sound effects sound really good.
Me quedo con la versión del NES. Excelente comparación. Saludos colega gamer.
Sim
And i thought that NES version is bad because it is unbalanced and not fun to play. Looks like NES version is masterpiece in comparison to other ports of this game.
The other version make the NES version look like a masterpiece! Well... Unless you like instant damage as the screen loads.
NES version has lots of programming flaws, like some bad hit detection, 30 fps lock (and still has slow downs), and balancing issues (there are many good videos on RUclips about the programming part of this game), but it's not a bad game in overall. It's just tough.
The other versions are ear and eye cancer compared to the NES / FC versions.
@ the FPS hits are so common for older games I rarely notice but crappy hit detection on top of a brutal difficulty made me hate this game as a kid. Seeing now makes me want to try again though.
@@f.k.b.16 FPS drops are common, but they already sacrificed a lot by making it running at 30 fps instead of 60 and still the NES suffers running it.
Some games like Contra with large amount of bullets on screen barely has slowdowns. TMNT for NES is just not well optimized and there are other coding issues. Delayed attacks, some hitboxes being totally offset, bizarre triple jump mechanics (there is a video about that, I didn't even realized the game basically has 3 specific jump heights, and really crappy low gravity physics)...
@ the foundation is there... Seems a remake, update, hack is in order! At least the music is good!
Good HEAVENS, I have no memory of the CGA graphics being that AWFUL! Did I only ever play it with EGA graphics?
BTW, fun trivia: the IBM versions (CGA and EGA) are unbeatable; in one of the missions (I believe the third one), there's a jump over a bottomless pit where, in the IBM version, the ceiling is too low, causing you to bonk your head and fall into the pit. It's impossible to cross the gap.
Hey, you keep in mind my list? You're the best! I remember when i requested to you this game.
Yes, but unfortunately i didn't found the australian nes version.
@@retrosutra It's because weirdly is known as Italy version.
Ohhh, lol
i like turtles
I want to scrape my eyes out with a fork looking at that Amiga “art”
Thats the worst use of the PC Speaker i have heard in a long time
One of the first dos game I bought* when my dad purchased a PC for his CAD stuff.
A very lazy conversion that does not even feature adlib support and was released badly bugged (there's an impossible jump in one stage )
*luckly I had the chance to return for a decent game
@@federicocatelli8785 I had it for PC too, although I don't remember that bug. I guess when I was a kid I wasn't able to get very far in the game...
@@retrosutra
It was fixed in later batches
@@federicocatelli8785did it take 3, 5, 7 days, weeks, months, years to fix the PC DOS version? if not how long? what was the end result after it was fixed?
@@jasonlee7816
I discovered this fact years later....I traded the game the day after I bought
I really love Spectrum version, played it to the end many times 😃 CPC version looks also very good, fast and in the same engine. MSX is a ridiculously slow version of Spectrum. I don't like the other engine version used on NES, C64, Amiga (where it's just a stupid conversion from the ST) etc.
Fun Fact: In the EU C64 version, it plays the US C64 intro on disk but the title is changed to TMHT, once you actually play it, it's the worse EU C64 version in it's entirety.
This game is good even though it's a pain to get through. Like area 3 is where it really gets difficult. Area 1 & 2 are like a no Brainer compared to later areas of the game.
It’s crazy how I thought that this game
Only existed on the NES. I just found out today that’s it on multiple consoles 😂.
First thing when i saw the Nes gameplay: "He played the shit out of this game."
LOL wow.... Whoever did the spritework for the Amiga version needed to be fired... That is god awful! Specially the title screen scroll (look @ April's face! Nightmare!) They should have modeled those games after the NES version.... What a huge mistake!
Nes
So the Amiga EU version is the best looking version but the NES EU version definitely looks the smoothest
I never seen over half these versions. The nes/ famicom is the absolute best version of the game. I'd hate to see April's portrait in the amiga & atari st versions. Most likely she looks like the dos port.
Nice work on playing all these versions I had the dos port growing up and it was as bad as I remember it being. Cga graphics as a choice was surprising to see since they used pretty decent 4 color use. Normally most of the time its the standard cyan magenta white and black. Here they seemed to use several different 4 color combinations.
Also the pc speaker music is pretty good but the dos port has options for tandy 3-voice and adlib. The only problem with the adlib being selected is it sounds incredibly rushed.
The dialog in the europe c64 is hilarious on the subscreen
Thanks for the comment! I wasn't aware of these settings in PC. I remember trying to run the game with the Tandy option in DOSBox but I believe It didn't load properly.
@@retrosutra to get tandy sound to work without running the machine type as tandy you need to manually edit the configuration file for dosbox and scroll down to "tandy=auto" and switch auto to "on" but when you do that it also breaks soundblaster speech so it's a bit of a balancing act if you want to stay out of 16 color tandy graphics.
Probably an ST port to the Amiga, it was quite common to see that at the time, which is a shame because it wasn't taking advantage of what the Amiga could do and we saw more of that in the early 90's, which those games blew away the early Amiga games in tech and quality level.
OMG lol the amiga version sounded creepy
I had it for the C64, and my copy didn't run _nearly_ that quickly. Did I have a defective copy of the game?
While this video showed the game's speed correctly, the music and gameplay in the PAL version actually runs slower.
Really neat comparison tho!
Likely using a 60Hz NTSC patch for the PAL NES version
The ms dos sprites look great
Goes to show how good the c64 was
The title song riff sounds a lot like stone cold crazy from queen.
Ah, so many versions of his one game.... and not a single one of them are any good.
Man when I see the amgia version it felt like they just didn’t true to make it have smooth platform info at all
Why didn't Konami just share the sprites and assets with the other people porting the game? Seems like a lot of work to re-engineer the game from scratch.
Haha like they could just copy and paste them in right? Using jpgs and whatnot
@@JD-mz1rl No, but they could easily import the raw binary files and convert/retouch them as necessary. It was common practice with home computer ports at the time.
Agree with others - 16-bit versions are crappy and NES is optimal. c64 probably looks much prettier on CRT than this. CPC, ZX, MSX are all cheating on the screen size and MSX has no reason to be so much slower than CPC, at lest on the surface (same CPU and same frame buffer size- 16kB).
Cuál es la diferencia entre la versión de 48 K y la de 128 en el Spectrum y no entiendo por qué tantos juegos de 128 K siguen sin usar Música! Después parece bastante superior la versión de Spectrum a la del resto de las adaptaciones de computadoras de 8 bits solo que sin Música !
The only difference is that the 48K version was a multi-load, while the 128K version had enough memory to load all the levels in one go.
I feel so bad to those that had CGA MS-DOS PCs and saw the terrible graphics of the PC TMNT port, seeing red, orange, green and black.
And, Exclusively on the PC MS-DOS version, the Impossible Jump.
8:13 OHHH NOOOOO
I had the PC DOS version I remember their were different codes you had to put in to start the game.
Yes, it's correct . I still have the original PC game with those codes.
BEST VERSION NES
How do we change weapons
Only nes!
My fravote Version Of TMNT is MSDOS Boiiii
GD those DOS versions' music was worse than fingernails scratching a chalkboard
I can’t believe they managed to produce MSX version worse than ZX version. But looking at the Amiga version worse than NES, I guess this game was cursed 😂
I couldn't understand what Shredder was saying in Amstrad CPC because he kept farting 😝!
I played this game on both the Amiga and the Nes, the Amiga version could have been a lot better than the Nes version considering the hardware difference but I felt the Nes version was better.
It was the frame rate that was weird on the Amiga, it should have been slick smooth but it wasn't, it was basically a poor port, probably from the ST version.
You either had an Older Amiga model or you never ran the EU Amiga version on your PC which is twice as powerful
From the Atari ST footage, i see what you mean
The music is much better on the EU Amiga & Atari ST versions, as it translates the NES versions soundtrack faithfully, though it's lacking a ton of tracks like the Underwater Maze music
That PCDOS version - Yikes!
Was it really THAT bad originally ? Or is that an emulation issue?
It's almost that bad. The DOS version actually does support Adlib/Sound Blaster so you don't actually have to put up with the earsplitting PC Speaker audio, but it's still a horrendously awful port.
Poor Amiga. Either getting a poor NES port, or a poor Atari ST port.
I mean, it's not a great game in any respect but at least the music kicks ass
TURTLE POWER!
Honestly, I love the NES Turtles game, so it’s a pure fucking shame every port of it (not counting PlayChoice-10) is absolute shite.
The nes did it best!
Other than the nes it's looks like a nightmare
It has been decades since I played this on NES. Why were the mousers and foot soldiers replaced in some ports? Are those giant eye balls and flaming men enemies that appear elsewhere on NES or were they completely made up for Amstrad, Spectrum and MSX?
Also, I always like the look of CPC games as long as nothing moves. They always look much nicer on screenshots than other 8-bit home computers. But in motion it seems a lot smoother on C64 as usual.
Perhaps for licensing reasons?
They were in the NES version. They're called Blood Eye and Fire Freak.
So many ports i didn't knew existed... And they are all sh¡t.
Spectrum and amstrad CPC seem the most decent ones out of all.
The ZX Spectrum version is the best of what I've played. The NES version is downright awful.
Jesus the Amiga US version is so disappointing. 😅
Who decided to smear feces on the turtles of the first Pc Dos port?! You really need a stern talking to!
Amiga looks almost unplayable..
Amega ewww has to load for everything
Man that color palette on the Playchoice-10 was garrish. Just awful lol.
Never liked even the Nes version, imagine playing the other versions, ufh...
The Amiga version appears to be a chunky and jerky disappointment.
Amiga EU or Amiga USA?
@@jasonlee7816 Both. Neither is a particularly good port.
WOW. Hard to beleive that PC's of the 80s sucked this hard. NES beaten them all in graphics, gameplay and music. Some of these looked barely playable, others were a combination of EAR and EYE rape. XD
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The Amiga versión looks like complete crap...
Amiga EU or Amiga USA?
🤣😂🤣😂
It's not a good game.
It's so weird that the nintendo version was the best. It usually would be the arcade version. I know its subjective, some had better graphics, but the performance was also significantly reduced in them.
In this case, the Arcade hardware is actually a slightly modified NES (called PlayChoice-10).
@@retrosutra OH! Thanks for the explanation. :D
the game is a big JOKE !!!!!! 😈😈🧨🧨🤬🤬☠☠
As much as I hated the bloody Turtles, I alwalys liked this game.
Uhh... How come all but the NES version suck? Amiga could do so much more than what it did. And what's with the two versions for Amiga and C64? I never got that.
They might’ve only been able to find a distributor/publisher in EU Europe and USA America
Rushed ports. That's not only why they're all a bit terrible, but also why there's different ports for Europe and the US for the Amiga. While Konami (under their Ultra Games label) published the three home computer versions in the US themselves, they licensed the European rights to Image Works (a label of MirrorSoft). Being they were making versions for a bunch more platforms that were much less popular or outright non-existent in the US, they needed to have them developed anyway. So they just ported the Atari ST version (which wasn't released in the US) to the Amiga (a common practice) instead of waiting for the US version, which was developed by USI (later renamed Distinctive Software and now part of EA Canada), who would later make the PC-exclusive TMNT: Manhattan Missions (which always felt more like a direct sequel to this game than any of the arcade beat-em-ups).
MirrorSoft was notorious for that sort of thing. Since they spammed ports of games to every conceivable computer, they often rushed out entirely separate ports to platforms instead of using existing ports. They did the same for the original Western European releases of Tetris, resulting in some platforms, like the Amiga, getting a different version than the US. Worst part is the US versions were made by Spectrum Holobyte, which was a sister company to MirrorSoft at the time, so the redundancy was even more pointless.
@@davezanko9051 OKay. That clears it up a little bit. Thanks.
The graphics sound and music just progressively got worse! This compilation is so criminal! 🤢🤮
The NES versions are the best here hands down. Oh DOS.... I'm embarrassed for you. The C64 versions made me laugh! It looks like you are swatting flies! The Amsterdam versions looks like obese Ninja Turtles... But why do all the non-NES versions look like they have midget legs?