@@gameragedad8953 same... why did we never think to take damage on purpose? I guess we took more damage climbing up the dam interior... a few of those jumps were SOOO frustrating! I like the clever use of purposefully taking damage throughout this game... Sometimes to avoid certain enemies, sometimes to make long/difficult jumps easier, sometimes to skip entire sections :D Also a lot of clever use of boundary breaches, especially in that last level! :)
@@thaMANSTA I agree. I loved/hated this game. Never been able to complete it. Sadly his rushing through and taking damage on purpose resulted in him getting further and taking less damage in 5 minutes then I ever could
Yeah, it was the worst. Let alone the enemy unfairly pops up while going for a platform. This and Castlevania II were the worst offenders of that at the time. At least as far as (in)famous games of that generation goes. Honorable mention: BattleToads, though that had a lot more going on with why it was so difficult. Water-levels...the bane of video games, even now. Super Mario Bros was tough at times, but nowhere near that shit.
I was a pro as a kid with this, not now not sure if its the fact im older or I play on a emulator but I could beat the game without losing a turtle even do the dam section hassle free (trick was to keep moving and know the correct order and if health gets low switch out) couldn't get past the notorious sections when I played twice in past year, the sewer jump, the walk over gap, and died at the dam!
I remember the underwater section because a friend of mine couldn't get past it at all ever and for some reason i had no problem getting it everytime so one day he came around to my house and i watched him play up to the water bit, he gave me the controller and i did it for him and then gave it back to him and watched him play the rest of the game and he was like eyes glued to the screen loving seeing the rest of the game for the first time and he finished the rest by himself that night. We always bring it up when we see each other these days. Memories!
Having an entire audience listen, watch, clap, and cheer whilst yoh play a game and explain it to your heart's content? What a dream. I can't even imagine.
Lol, same. Its about good only for firewood. I liked the music back then, and was very good at the swimming part but I seldom got past the technodrome.
I remember playing this as a kid, i was like 4, and it was disappointing because i loved TMNT so much, but this game was impossible. I remember through sheer willpower i got to the technodrome, beat it, and then my game froze during the screen transition. I didn't play it ever again. 4 year old me was crushed. Games used to be stupid hard guys. I did also have TMNT 2 the arcade game for NES, and that game was fantastic, and was probably the first beat'em up i ever played.
I completed this game on my Amstrad when I was under 10 years old. I can't remember exactly how old I was but I remember still to this day how good I felt beating Shredder. My childhood gaming is why I still love 2d platforming.
Dude!! I made it all the way to the part where you fought that big giant robot and i died there. man! watching this video really makes me wanna play it again, I still have the old NES with this game.. awesome video man.
This may inspire me to give this game another shot. I finally added beating this game to my "bucket list" a few years back. I don't know how many hours I've spent playing this game since my childhood.
That was awesome! This was my fav game as a kid. Took me weeks to finish. Other friends all gave up on it. What a blast from the past and done with almost effortlessness 👌👌
Same lol. My young self felt obligated to like the game since I liked the cartoon but looking back I realize it's a clunky game with annoying controls.
I only mentioned it down here because there are *so many* comments bashing the runner for disrespecting donor incentives by using glitches. It could be that English isn't their first language, and they're not picking up the sarcasm, so I pointed out the obvious.
I like this speed run. I enjoy the commentary and tidbits that whitman mentions. More vocal than most speed runners. Im enjoying watching other games than the usual supermetroid/sotn/ and link to the past that i always watch
I really enjoyed this TMNT as a kid. I was in 5th grade when I beat it. There was only one other kid at my school that could beat it. He and I would challenge each other to speed runs over the phone. Super fun times.
Awesome!!! Love this game, but could never get past that damn hallway at the end of the technodrome. After watching this speed run I think I can do it now. So after nearly 30 years I think I can finally beat this game. 😀🐢
Nice to watch this. I have beaten the first turtles game at least twice many years ago. I died alot but i was disciplined enough to keep playing the game.
Man TMNT got me into gaming back in the day when I was like 5. I learned how to beat the game by calling a 1900 number for gaming guides or something and my mom spanked the shit outta me when the phone bill came back at like $1300. Ahhh. Good times.
You're probably referring to the Nintendo Power number. I called them 1 time for the code in Star Tropics and my mom flipped out over the charge - which is funny to think about now considering it was only like $6.
After beating the likes of the soulsbourne games and such, I thought I had become such an experienced gamer that I could return to one of my all time favs in TMNT and perhaps beat it in adulthood... No happy endings here. This game is brutal as diarrhoea!
I enjoyed the commentary. I didn't know about the health/atk boost...this game was sooo hard, but I loved it cause it had redeeming qualities. Like being open world for the day, being able to switch characters and having extra weapons like stars
In the original PC version of this game, this was as far as anyone could get. There was an impossible jump there because one of the blocks were farther apart.
DarcnessTrophies You are absolutely correct! I was watching this, waiting to see how he got past that damn jump. Then he does it, with no fanfare and no issues whatsoever, making me feel even worse!!
So going slow involves having to confront more enemies which results in more damage. So if I rushed through I might of actually been able to complete 40% of the game.
Loved this game!! Also loved the baddest NES game of all time: Bad Dudes! Anyone remember that game?? Loved the Helicopter Spin Kick with the Helicopter sound effect that went with it. Good Ol’Memories!
WOW, I remember renting this game a bunch of times (never owned it), and I never could get past the water level by the dam. This is the first time I've ever seen anything past that. When I tried playing it recently I killed every turtle in the first level lol. So damn hard.
Isn't it funny how we set these barriers? We think it's the end and want to savor the difficulty; the obstacle overcome. Be glad this was your experience with the game. The last stage is horrible.
So does any other Brit always think of Brucie when this happens @ 9.13, ever since I was a kid it always reminded me of him. Sorry very random comment I know, love the uploads guys. Thanks for all you do for the cause.
The only reason I watched this was to see how to get through that one part in the water level. You know the part. Raphael's part. Sure enough, he used Raphael. Well done!
I had this game on the NES as a kid. Memorized EVERYTHING. But I never... not once... got into the Technodrome. I played the game vicariously, but every time I found the Drome, I had like one and a half turtle left. The Foot Lair was were nightmares came true. The Dam was my b**ch, though. Great run!
Did it on the Atari ST. It took forever, especially as the 'rescue turtles' mechanic wasn't in place. Four lives and you're out. On the other hand, you had multiple slots for weapons and items and could switch between them. Ropes were still auto-use. Technodrome was nastier. No added Foot Clan, but the thing is flying back and forth off and on the screen very quickly.
I had this game as a kid and can never get passed the third area. Later to find out this is actually one of the harder games nintendo ever made supposeably
I had to grind at least 60-80 scrolls from Level 3 to beat the game. The Technodrome fight was cake with the scroll weapon! But that hallway tho.. each astronaut takes 2 waves to kill, so you go through them like water.
Yup, I couldn't get past the astronauts until I read in Nintendo Power what their patterns were. Only after that could I get up to Shredder, after which I pummeled him with scrolls from a safe distance.
My butt-hole puckered just a little bit as he was navigating those collapsing walls in Area 4. Those two rooms stop a majority of my attempts to beat this game.
7:06 He could just jump straight up and avoid the whole room, can't he? I remember doing this. He makes a big deal about walking all the way through the room and jumping up the latter instead of climbing it when he could have skipped the whole room. I found this out as a kid because I couldn't make the jump one day, got frustrated and just tried to jump straight up and found out I could do it. Maybe I'm wrong and am thinking about a different part of the game but I'll need to try it.
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The damage taken in the water level makes me so uneasy. Bad childhood memories
I can relate. I only got past water level like a few times and then died shortly after. This game made me go crazy.
@@gameragedad8953 same... why did we never think to take damage on purpose? I guess we took more damage climbing up the dam interior... a few of those jumps were SOOO frustrating!
I like the clever use of purposefully taking damage throughout this game... Sometimes to avoid certain enemies, sometimes to make long/difficult jumps easier, sometimes to skip entire sections :D
Also a lot of clever use of boundary breaches, especially in that last level! :)
It's a mind-torturing experience. This game is for prisoners
@@thaMANSTA I agree. I loved/hated this game. Never been able to complete it. Sadly his rushing through and taking damage on purpose resulted in him getting further and taking less damage in 5 minutes then I ever could
Yeah, it was the worst. Let alone the enemy unfairly pops up while going for a platform. This and Castlevania II were the worst offenders of that at the time. At least as far as (in)famous games of that generation goes. Honorable mention: BattleToads, though that had a lot more going on with why it was so difficult. Water-levels...the bane of video games, even now. Super Mario Bros was tough at times, but nowhere near that shit.
I had so much trouble with this game as a kid. It was awesome to watch a pro playing it.
I was a pro as a kid with this, not now not sure if its the fact im older or I play on a emulator but I could beat the game without losing a turtle even do the dam section hassle free (trick was to keep moving and know the correct order and if health gets low switch out) couldn't get past the notorious sections when I played twice in past year, the sewer jump, the walk over gap, and died at the dam!
I remember the underwater section because a friend of mine couldn't get past it at all ever and for some reason i had no problem getting it everytime so one day he came around to my house and i watched him play up to the water bit, he gave me the controller and i did it for him and then gave it back to him and watched him play the rest of the game and he was like eyes glued to the screen loving seeing the rest of the game for the first time and he finished the rest by himself that night. We always bring it up when we see each other these days. Memories!
This guy skipping all those pizzas was totally stressing me out.
Having an entire audience listen, watch, clap, and cheer whilst yoh play a game and explain it to your heart's content? What a dream. I can't even imagine.
The fact this is explaining this that good while running puts him in his own class
This game screwed up my childhood. Good work dismantling it!
Lol, same. Its about good only for firewood. I liked the music back then, and was very good at the swimming part but I seldom got past the technodrome.
I remember playing this as a kid, i was like 4, and it was disappointing because i loved TMNT so much, but this game was impossible. I remember through sheer willpower i got to the technodrome, beat it, and then my game froze during the screen transition.
I didn't play it ever again. 4 year old me was crushed. Games used to be stupid hard guys.
I did also have TMNT 2 the arcade game for NES, and that game was fantastic, and was probably the first beat'em up i ever played.
I completed this game on my Amstrad when I was under 10 years old. I can't remember exactly how old I was but I remember still to this day how good I felt beating Shredder. My childhood gaming is why I still love 2d platforming.
I'm glad to see this game from my
This is probably the best video for TMNT because he explains why he's doing what.
Dude! A play by play and he's rocking this game like a GOD
These speed run play through are so crazy with all the info tricks and secrets
Dude!! I made it all the way to the part where you fought that big giant robot and i died there. man! watching this video really makes me wanna play it again, I still have the old NES with this game.. awesome video man.
This may inspire me to give this game another shot. I finally added beating this game to my "bucket list" a few years back. I don't know how many hours I've spent playing this game since my childhood.
That was awesome! This was my fav game as a kid. Took me weeks to finish. Other friends all gave up on it. What a blast from the past and done with almost effortlessness 👌👌
I've never seen the end of this game, but now I realise how close I was as a kid. If I only gave it a few more tries I would have beaten it!
Tobias Östh the only way I did it was to load up on scrolls on all 4 turtles from one of the buildings and spam them.
I beat this game a few years ago thanks to save states. Finally, after 30 years or whatever. Loved this game as a kid but was dang hard.
I agree I was so close to
Same here
I love this game. Been beating it for years, learned some new tricks about it I never knew before
I dont think I ever saw past the level when you drive the van. This was my first "hate" game
Same lol. My young self felt obligated to like the game since I liked the cartoon but looking back I realize it's a clunky game with annoying controls.
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Damn, I remember that. But I played this before we had it.
Guys, they're just joking about the glitchless run. If that were actually the category, it would say it in the top left where it says "ANY%"
I WUZ WUNDERIN Y HE KEP SAYIN THAT
Ooooh, so when they were talking about submitting it to speedrunners after glitching/gameover and the mouser battle they were joking. Good joke. :P
I only mentioned it down here because there are *so many* comments bashing the runner for disrespecting donor incentives by using glitches. It could be that English isn't their first language, and they're not picking up the sarcasm, so I pointed out the obvious.
@@Ultracity6060 English is my first language, and I was legitimately confused. So thanks for pointing that out.
I remember playing that old TMNT game! I loved it back in the day! :D
I like this speed run. I enjoy the commentary and tidbits that whitman mentions. More vocal than most speed runners. Im enjoying watching other games than the usual supermetroid/sotn/ and link to the past that i always watch
He has the rare dry, quiet charisma that I enjoy listening to during a speedrun.
Nice job man, i really enjoy this one...
I really enjoyed this TMNT as a kid. I was in 5th grade when I beat it. There was only one other kid at my school that could beat it. He and I would challenge each other to speed runs over the phone. Super fun times.
Awesome!!! Love this game, but could never get past that damn hallway at the end of the technodrome. After watching this speed run I think I can do it now. So after nearly 30 years I think I can finally beat this game. 😀🐢
That technodrome trick you did just ruined my whole child hood thanks a lot...
Nice to watch this. I have beaten the first turtles game at least twice many years ago. I died alot but i was disciplined enough to keep playing the game.
I cant believe how close I came to beating the game when I was a kid. I almost finished it, I died on that final hallway every time.
They literally used history. Thermopoly.
This was the first game i ever owned, nice to see where it all began.
One of the hardest games in my childhood.. never beat that water level
I finally beat this game 6 years ago and vowed I would never suffer through it again.
This was my favourite game as a kid. Remember getting it for my 4th birthday!
Completed this when I was 12 when first released in the UK so proud my mates where so amazed lol.
Raphael's only purpose in this game is to be the one that takes all the damage so that the other turtles can continue on with the game.
Donnie was always Best Turtle. ♡
10:50
You can just walk over it?
You can just walk over it...
Man TMNT got me into gaming back in the day when I was like 5. I learned how to beat the game by calling a 1900 number for gaming guides or something and my mom spanked the shit outta me when the phone bill came back at like $1300. Ahhh. Good times.
Thank you. I've always wondered it those lines work.
Just reading this comment gave me nostalgia and made me laugh at the same time.
You're probably referring to the Nintendo Power number. I called them 1 time for the code in Star Tropics and my mom flipped out over the charge - which is funny to think about now considering it was only like $6.
Haha I was too scared to call any 800 or 1900 numbers.
How long were you on the line for? D:
Legendary run from a legendary runner
I was Today years old when I learned that you could switch characters in the Dam level...
right??
No fucking way!!
You just really hate this game
this was fascinating to watch, this game whooped my ass as a wee lad
After beating the likes of the soulsbourne games and such, I thought I had become such an experienced gamer that I could return to one of my all time favs in TMNT and perhaps beat it in adulthood...
No happy endings here. This game is brutal as diarrhoea!
I enjoyed the commentary. I didn't know about the health/atk boost...this game was sooo hard, but I loved it cause it had redeeming qualities. Like being open world for the day, being able to switch characters and having extra weapons like stars
My version of a speedrun for this game:
Get to 12:22 and get stuck for 4 hours
In the original PC version of this game, this was as far as anyone could get. There was an impossible jump there because one of the blocks were farther apart.
DarcnessTrophies You are absolutely correct! I was watching this, waiting to see how he got past that damn jump. Then he does it, with no fanfare and no issues whatsoever, making me feel even worse!!
Can't believe I forgot about this game, i played it for days as a kid, that damn car missile mission always killed me
James rolf would be impressed
Good sense of humor and great commentary!
4:41
Thanks
One of my favorite games growing up
I'm so happy Goldfish is back on the donation station! Love that guy!
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April says we have her support - super useful, this game is insanely hard.
So going slow involves having to confront more enemies which results in more damage. So if I rushed through I might of actually been able to complete 40% of the game.
Loved this game!! Also loved the baddest NES game of all time: Bad Dudes! Anyone remember that game?? Loved the Helicopter Spin Kick with the Helicopter sound effect that went with it. Good Ol’Memories!
Nice run dude! I been running this game for a long time. ^·^
This game was hard as balls for me as a kid. I still liked it, I just never could get past the part when you get the Turtle Van.
Love the screen name whitmen_price - Running Man! haha!
this was really weird watching because my first name is whitman and its not really common
WOW, I remember renting this game a bunch of times (never owned it), and I never could get past the water level by the dam. This is the first time I've ever seen anything past that. When I tried playing it recently I killed every turtle in the first level lol. So damn hard.
My brother and I could never get beyond the technodrone. We always thought that was the final boss.
Isn't it funny how we set these barriers? We think it's the end and want to savor the difficulty; the obstacle overcome.
Be glad this was your experience with the game. The last stage is horrible.
I miss when these were our best and latest games
The music in this game is so similar to the castlevania 2 "mansion" areas
I remember beating this game as a kid. I remember how hard the last level was and how pissed i was about how easy shredder was.
used to play this with a friend when i was like 8 years old in 1994
This game i made it to last stage and never got to finish as a kid, glad to see this game ending!
I played this back in the day it came out. This game tries your patients to the limit. I eventually gave up on it.
This game had no save feature, so you would have to play from start to finish if you wanted to beat it.
Godbless April for the support!!and God bless MEGAN FOX💖💖💖
So does any other Brit always think of Brucie when this happens @ 9.13, ever since I was a kid it always reminded me of him.
Sorry very random comment I know, love the uploads guys. Thanks for all you do for the cause.
I never finished this when I was a kid. I had to return it and Dragon Warrior II to Blockbuster. Nostalgia? Check!
memories of playing this on an Amiga 500 back in the day.
First time seeing about 65 % of this game - Cool Stuff!
I remember playing this game and being so lost. Fun game though.
Never could get through this! Ridiculously hard!
I always liked leo, he has the 2nd highest range, but also grear coverage, hit basics attacks hit all around him
7:10 The back of the bo actually has a hitbox too, amazing!
Love the Eastman/Laird Shredder sprite in this game.
That was amazing could never beat it as a kid.
Always reminds me of AVGN's review of this game xD
The only reason I watched this was to see how to get through that one part in the water level. You know the part. Raphael's part. Sure enough, he used Raphael. Well done!
Sweet Christmas this game looks hard
I had this game on the NES as a kid. Memorized EVERYTHING. But I never... not once... got into the Technodrome. I played the game vicariously, but every time I found the Drome, I had like one and a half turtle left. The Foot Lair was were nightmares came true. The Dam was my b**ch, though. Great run!
Did it on the Atari ST. It took forever, especially as the 'rescue turtles' mechanic wasn't in place. Four lives and you're out. On the other hand, you had multiple slots for weapons and items and could switch between them. Ropes were still auto-use.
Technodrome was nastier. No added Foot Clan, but the thing is flying back and forth off and on the screen very quickly.
You're using *vicariously* wrong. Not being a dick; knowledge is power.
This game was my favorite
Played this a lot when I was a kid, I finished it a couple of times but it was rough.. especially the water part died a lot there..
I can't be the only one that's turns down the volume because I feel bad about not being to donate to this great cause paired with great entertainment
I had this game as a kid and can never get passed the third area. Later to find out this is actually one of the harder games nintendo ever made supposeably
I never defeated Shredder, those weird astronaut guys with the lasers in the narrow hallways of the technodrome were always too much for me :(
I had to grind at least 60-80 scrolls from Level 3 to beat the game. The Technodrome fight was cake with the scroll weapon! But that hallway tho.. each astronaut takes 2 waves to kill, so you go through them like water.
Yup, I couldn't get past the astronauts until I read in Nintendo Power what their patterns were. Only after that could I get up to Shredder, after which I pummeled him with scrolls from a safe distance.
I remember this game as a kid. It was super hard for a 5-6 year old.
Fun speedrun
This game taugh me some of my first english words. ROPE is one of them
My butt-hole puckered just a little bit as he was navigating those collapsing walls in Area 4. Those two rooms stop a majority of my attempts to beat this game.
This game gave me nightmares as a child. Damn water level could never get past that
One of the few NES games I could never beat..
I remember playing this as a kid but never got very far in it
I just went back in time.
Someone said at the end "also... Splinter's a human."
Seriously, TMNT. How many different stories do we have for Splinter now?
Also, at the end, Splinter himself says he'll turn back in to a human!
The cartoon had more mass appeal than the comic, so they went with the cartoon storyline.
There's actually one more weapon that doesn't get the boost- boomerangs. YES THE SPECIAL WEAPONS HAVE POWER BOOSTS TOO.
I have never made it past level 3. This game is so hard but also so awesome.
7:06 He could just jump straight up and avoid the whole room, can't he? I remember doing this. He makes a big deal about walking all the way through the room and jumping up the latter instead of climbing it when he could have skipped the whole room. I found this out as a kid because I couldn't make the jump one day, got frustrated and just tried to jump straight up and found out I could do it. Maybe I'm wrong and am thinking about a different part of the game but I'll need to try it.
20:21 Underrated strike, hitting both enemies with no audience reaction...
I am sure I was like a lot of you guys. I never was able to pass the level with the van. I never knew where to go.
turnupthesun81 yeah that's about the farthest I ever got as a kid too
I finished that game when I was maybe 10 years old :) It was very interesting :)