I love Gameboy games because imo they straddle the line between fun and challenging flawlessly. Too fun and there is no challenge, too challenging and you sacrifice fun. Gameboy gives you both effortlessly.
@@matthewb9955 True. Although I found a lot of gb games got extremely hard as you progressed, much like NES games do. A few were just too difficult for their own good, like The Simpson's Escape From Camp Deadly. But the good ones are so well designed they keep you coming back even years later.
Imagine having only Tetris and Super Mario Land for almost a year and playing them over and over and then someone gives you this game as a present. My kid mind was blown away back in 1992....!! sweet memories
What a coincidence, I’d spend my holidays and summer in San Diego with my cousin in the 90’s and she had a gameboy with 3 games: Mario land, Tetris, and ninja turtles. I played ninja turtles and Mario land non stop since she didn’t care about that gameboy lol.
Short, simple, and sweet entry. This is like the antithesis of the first NES game where once you know everything you'll get through this game pretty easily with no trouble at all. The music is fantastic, it sounds straight out of a MSX game.
I played my Game Boy more than any other console I owned. Fall of the Foot Clan was a perfect game in my opinion when I was 9 years old and still is today. I still love the metallic sound of chopping your enemies.
Oh man...Shredder was really hard for me. Have owned a Gameboy and NES since 1990 or so but somehow never had this game. So happy to be playing it after all these years!
Ah yes, Fall of the Foot Clan...One little story, one of the many embarassing, proving that I was not too much of a smart kid: When being in the 2nd sewer level of stage 1, you get to the entrance to the boss Rocksteady, which is blocked by two barrels. As a kid, I did not see that arrow pointing right and did not realize I needed to smash those barrels in order to proceed. So what did I do? Turning off the game, laying down the gameboy and basically saying to myself "Well, nothing more that I can do, I guess I beat the game! Yeah me!". Yes, I was only 7 years old at that time but also dumb as a brick! Corrected it soon enough and beat the game, but damn, I am certainly not proud of that moment. To my 7 year-old safe: You were one simple, sweet kid!
Every time we were planning a long road trip, I made sure to take this game and enough batteries to keep me entertained on the backseat. Very good game
Impressive graphics for a Gameboy game. I love the cinematic scenes using actual stills from the classic cartoon, and the parallax background trick is nice.
This game was expensive back in the day - think my mother bought it for £50 in UK back in the 90's. Definitely worth every penny - kept me quiet for the longest time but fuelled my gaming addiction though lol. Music is so good - came back to hear the credits music.
I played this game a lot when I was 12. I still own it 30 yrs later. My brother and I would take turns playing this game and the first time someone took damage you had to give it to the other person to play. Eventually we both could beat this game without taking damage. Fun times.
Aww seeing this so many memories come flooding back to me from the year 1990. The TMNT movie, Batman 1989, my gameboy. This game , Tetris and Mario Land... and my older sister had her NES. I turned 9 that year. Take me back 😢
I just found my uncles old game boy and he had solarstriker, marioland, Metroid II, and this. Awesome game. Can’t wait to play it on the tv with the cowabunga collection
Had this game when I was a kid, loved it and it was still fun to play on the Cowabunga Collection just on pure muscle memory. The mystery number bonus always confused me because the labeling was counterintuitive. When it says "bigger", what that said to my seven and eight-year old brain was that the mystery number was bigger, not the number I just guessed.
Played it for the first time ever. A pretty decent 2D Beat Em' Up. It's kinda like TMNT 1 on NES, but *much* easier... And more fun. The music is pretty good, too. The theme from the '87 cartoon sounds great in 8-bit. I found the bosses to be a bit underwhelming. They go down in like 3 hits if you just keep hitting them with your jump kick. Only Baxter and Shredder gave me trouble... But not for too terribly long, though.
1:55 That first mini-game I could never win because I didn’t understand the mechanics. Now that I have seen it played, I may go dig this game back out and try it myself.
As a kid I loved ultra games and Konami. I always thought they were part of Konami because of the music they used sounded similar and the games felt the same quality wise. Awesome to see this game again after so many years. Totally tubular, cowabunga dudes!!
The image of the game is so small on my phone because of the border it's not comfortable to watch. Maybe transition away from it after 10 seconds to full screen.
A Fun yet a Surprisingly Easy TMNT game for the Game Boy. Its really rare to have that! At least the Soundtrack has the TMNT 87 Theme on it. Mini games of Splinter are okay. The Number guessing game is quite the roll of the dice for it! Well thats one game i never looked into cleared! On to the next for this Cowabunga Collection!
Weird, I undoubtedly had this game and played it all the time but I don’t recall the numerical bonus game at all. But I have definitely blocked out a lot of my childhood, so who knows 😂
SOMEONE's excited for the upcoming collection. Which one will you play first? Me, I'm going to play the Genesis Tournament Fighters; my brother and I haven't seen or heard of that game since we rented it back in the day.
I'm thoroughly excited, how about you? Looking forward to it? Ooh, that was a good one. I used to rock that game by trapping everyone in the corner with Casey's bombs.
@@NintendoComplete Hahaha, "So long loser!". I just remember thinking how ridiculous April looked doing combat moves, like scratching her opponents. Good times to be had by all. Yeah, I'm definitely looking forward to it.
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The first TMNT game for Game Boy is as simple as simple gets, but it was always so much fun to play, and it had an incredible soundtrack
I love Gameboy games because imo they straddle the line between fun and challenging flawlessly. Too fun and there is no challenge, too challenging and you sacrifice fun. Gameboy gives you both effortlessly.
Easy fun. Love it aswell.
I liked it better than the 1st nes game.
You can thank Michiru Yamane for that soundtrack. She was behind it.
@@matthewb9955 True. Although I found a lot of gb games got extremely hard as you progressed, much like NES games do. A few were just too difficult for their own good, like The Simpson's Escape From Camp Deadly. But the good ones are so well designed they keep you coming back even years later.
I loved this game as a kid in the 90's!! It's incredible watching this and remembering everything from the soundtrack to the levels!
Thanks for sharing, this was my first video game in 1991
They don’t make em like this no more…
Man I forgot all about this game. This took me right back to sitting on the couch watching tgif and playing gameboy under the lamp
Imagine having only Tetris and Super Mario Land for almost a year and playing them over and over and then someone gives you this game as a present. My kid mind was blown away back in 1992....!! sweet memories
damn good present 🎁
Literally me with super Mario land paperboy donkey Kong & Tetris...this changed everything lmao
My 2nd game after Tetris , I can relate !
What a coincidence, I’d spend my holidays and summer in San Diego with my cousin in the 90’s and she had a gameboy with 3 games: Mario land, Tetris, and ninja turtles. I played ninja turtles and Mario land non stop since she didn’t care about that gameboy lol.
That's funny those were the only 2 games I had for the og gameboy
Along with Tetris, DuckTales, and Super Mario Land, this was one of my favorite go-to games back when I was a kid.
Same.
I always stole the GB from my older brother to play this.
@@schlamuffenimperator9460 lol, it's definitely worth it. I may not have any siblings, but I have cousins who LOVE to "borrow" my games. Lol
One of my first games for the Gameboy.
Same. I also had DT 2, SML 2, and TMNT 2 later on, though.
@@gypruzzcaccamo6586 Good times, huh? It's nice to meet you, btw.
Holy crap I have not heard these sounds in forever. What a nostalgia trip
Short, simple, and sweet entry. This is like the antithesis of the first NES game where once you know everything you'll get through this game pretty easily with no trouble at all. The music is fantastic, it sounds straight out of a MSX game.
I still love all the NES ,GB, SNES TMMT games over 35 years later . I'm 38 now going to be 39 in May and I still love the OG TMMT cartoon and games.
This game was my favorite as a child. A true classic
This hits me right in the feels. And the GB outline is perfect. Thank you very much for uploading this.
I played my Game Boy more than any other console I owned. Fall of the Foot Clan was a perfect game in my opinion when I was 9 years old and still is today. I still love the metallic sound of chopping your enemies.
Oh man...Shredder was really hard for me. Have owned a Gameboy and NES since 1990 or so but somehow never had this game. So happy to be playing it after all these years!
As somebody who never played this, the fantastic description gives me so much context why this game is beloved. Thanks!
I'm very glad you found it useful. Thanks!
This takes me way back.
Ah yes, Fall of the Foot Clan...One little story, one of the many embarassing, proving that I was not too much of a smart kid: When being in the 2nd sewer level of stage 1, you get to the entrance to the boss Rocksteady, which is blocked by two barrels. As a kid, I did not see that arrow pointing right and did not realize I needed to smash those barrels in order to proceed. So what did I do? Turning off the game, laying down the gameboy and basically saying to myself "Well, nothing more that I can do, I guess I beat the game! Yeah me!". Yes, I was only 7 years old at that time but also dumb as a brick! Corrected it soon enough and beat the game, but damn, I am certainly not proud of that moment. To my 7 year-old safe: You were one simple, sweet kid!
Nice 😂
I think this was the first Gameboy game I bought with my allowance. It was only a few bucks at Funcoland I think. And yeah the soundtrack is great.
Is that the Skate or Die shop music during the bonus game? @3:03
I love the presentation, with the game boy. It's rare to see something new and original on RUclips. Subscribed!
Tyvm! :) glad you liked it!
Loved this game growing up. I will have to dig up in my collection.
Thank you so much. This was one game I have played hours together. The audiotrack is so fresh in mind.
Every time we were planning a long road trip, I made sure to take this game and enough batteries to keep me entertained on the backseat. Very good game
Impressive graphics for a Gameboy game. I love the cinematic scenes using actual stills from the classic cartoon, and the parallax background trick is nice.
10:35 enemy jumps down hole🤣
Incredible, the graphics are even better than in the original NES version, and the stereo soundtrack is superb.
Getting us hyped I see. I love this game a lot
It’s neat to see parallax scrolling in 8-bit games.
I forgot i even had this game until i saw this video. wow.
I had NO idea that Michiru Yamane did the music for this game!
Man, this looks so much better than the game and watch-like sprites I remember. Must've had a Gameboy with a shit screen and not known.
One of my favorite memories is when i got in trouble playing this game in church. Love this game.
Can't wait to play this again on the Cowabunga Collection.
same here
Looking forward to the Cowabunga Collection? So am I.
That Goes For Me!
Played it! It's bodacious
This game was expensive back in the day - think my mother bought it for £50 in UK back in the 90's. Definitely worth every penny - kept me quiet for the longest time but fuelled my gaming addiction though lol. Music is so good - came back to hear the credits music.
I wore this game out as a young lad.
the soundtracks on one and two still hold up. the good ole days....
Loved this game so much seems so easy now but great game and challenging as a 10 year old!
Fire! I will be playing this later on my PSP emulator. i still remember all of the secrets! Nostalgia at its finest.
Got this game including Game Boy at X-Mas 1991 in an age of 12. Feeled I played it thousands times. I was never bored of this game.
Christmas ❤
This was my second game boy game when i was growing up
Slappin those pelican big beak things with a sword sounds amazing
Good YT algorithm got me here. Great memories to this awesome game… it’s been a while though, lol
I played this game a lot when I was 12. I still own it 30 yrs later. My brother and I would take turns playing this game and the first time someone took damage you had to give it to the other person to play. Eventually we both could beat this game without taking damage. Fun times.
Amazing that it holds up so well.
So true
Some excellent trickery used by the developers to fake some parallax scrolling. I remember that really impressing me back in the day.
I have played this game through when I was kid. I didn't find those bonus games then. :O
Aww seeing this so many memories come flooding back to me from the year 1990. The TMNT movie, Batman 1989, my gameboy. This game , Tetris and Mario Land... and my older sister had her NES. I turned 9 that year. Take me back 😢
Thank you for keeping the peasoup color scheme!
👍
Original quality filter? Impresive, I like it.
Yeah, it's a Retroarch shader. I love the way it looks. Thanks!
And very soon, this will be played on home consoles via the Cowabunga Collection. Be kinda odd playing Game Boy and NES games on a PS5.
Right? Using a $700 box to play what you could play thirty years ago on a $99 handheld lol. I'm totally down with that.
Thanks for sharing! I was unaware about a collection release . Hopefully we see it soon since we still haven’t got a Shredders Revenge
The music in the 1st half of stage 5 always gets me pumped!
I just found my uncles old game boy and he had solarstriker, marioland, Metroid II, and this. Awesome game. Can’t wait to play it on the tv with the cowabunga collection
That crazy bonus game with Splinter: Bigger was smaller and vice versa xD
Had this game when I was a kid, loved it and it was still fun to play on the Cowabunga Collection just on pure muscle memory. The mystery number bonus always confused me because the labeling was counterintuitive. When it says "bigger", what that said to my seven and eight-year old brain was that the mystery number was bigger, not the number I just guessed.
Played this on my original Gameboy tonite ❤
Played it for the first time ever. A pretty decent 2D Beat Em' Up.
It's kinda like TMNT 1 on NES, but *much* easier... And more fun. The music is pretty good, too. The theme from the '87 cartoon sounds great in 8-bit.
I found the bosses to be a bit underwhelming. They go down in like 3 hits if you just keep hitting them with your jump kick. Only Baxter and Shredder gave me trouble... But not for too terribly long, though.
I have it, it is pretty good, but kinda short. It'll be in the upcoming "Cowabunga Collection."
I bought a Classic gameboy 3 days ago just so I can play this and Ninja Gaiden. Takes me back memory lane.
1:55 That first mini-game I could never win because I didn’t understand the mechanics. Now that I have seen it played, I may go dig this game back out and try it myself.
As a kid I loved ultra games and Konami. I always thought they were part of Konami because of the music they used sounded similar and the games felt the same quality wise. Awesome to see this game again after so many years. Totally tubular, cowabunga dudes!!
Ultra was a sub division of Konami, mostly used to ultimately produce more games since there was a limit on how many one company could make each year.
So did anyone notice the music when Splinter is talking to you is the same music in the first “Skate or Die” on NES when you’re typing your name?
The image of the game is so small on my phone because of the border it's not comfortable to watch. Maybe transition away from it after 10 seconds to full screen.
Preparing for the Cowabunga Collection? ^^
Gladly will play this one when I get the chance!
27:00 love this endtromusic of the tmht theme. Played it in the early 90‘s. Never know what to do in this larger and smaller numbers bonus game.
I played the hell out of that game when my parents and me were driving in the car.
Can i play any of the ninja turtle Games on the game boy color
Game boy advanced still my favorite franchise, but this looks pretty awesome games.
I used to play this game a lot on my Gameboy when I was a kid 👍
*I had and loved this game I know all the secrets too!* ❤️
The presentation is awesome thanks for this ✌️
Definitely a top tier GB game.. nice to see again
Love this game and the soundtrack! (But still don't know how to beat that numbers mini-game with Splinter...)
Destroyable environment assets on a gameboy blew my mind as a kid. Had 0 idea how those mini games worked haha
This is the one I had growing up. I hated that damn number guessing game with splinter
Dude, can you share the shaders parameters settings that you use?, please man :)
This game was my first game of all time!!
I can’t believe that I never found those mini games in this game when I was a kid.
When I was seven, I didn't realise how remarkably easy this one is.
I think this was one of my really first game ever in 90s. Born 1985...i think with age 6-7 arround got my first gameboy 😂
god i remember playing this with the volume down in math class and getting yelled at lol
I had this when it was new, it was so awesome. I wish I still had my original Gameboy. :(
A Fun yet a Surprisingly Easy TMNT game for the Game Boy. Its really rare to have that!
At least the Soundtrack has the TMNT 87 Theme on it.
Mini games of Splinter are okay. The Number guessing game is quite the roll of the dice for it!
Well thats one game i never looked into cleared! On to the next for this Cowabunga Collection!
just imagine playing this portable in 1990
Loved this and mario as a kid
Awesome and easy game, and the soundtracks, Damn, i love it
One of my first games for the Gameboy.
As a kid let me tell you I hated those darn motorcycles lol.
Wonderful video.
I feel like every TMNT was so good back in the day. I loved every entry. Never played this one but look forward to when the collection comes out
OMG NOSTALGIA
Weird, I undoubtedly had this game and played it all the time but I don’t recall the numerical bonus game at all. But I have definitely blocked out a lot of my childhood, so who knows 😂
I liked this game better than the NES game as a kid. Probably cause I was actually able to progress lol
SOMEONE's excited for the upcoming collection. Which one will you play first? Me, I'm going to play the Genesis Tournament Fighters; my brother and I haven't seen or heard of that game since we rented it back in the day.
I'm thoroughly excited, how about you? Looking forward to it? Ooh, that was a good one. I used to rock that game by trapping everyone in the corner with Casey's bombs.
Imagine if there’s online play with that and guys are fighting each other on line
@@NintendoComplete Hahaha, "So long loser!". I just remember thinking how ridiculous April looked doing combat moves, like scratching her opponents. Good times to be had by all. Yeah, I'm definitely looking forward to it.
wait until you get to radical rescue
I could never beat this game.
my favorite gameboy game
This was a frequent weekend rental back in the day. I don't think I ever managed to beat it though.
Wow, you had somewhere that rented Game Boy games? I never saw any places that did near where I lived. Neat.
@@NintendoComplete Yeah it was a locally owned video rental store called Sight and Sound. They had Game Boy rentals.
4:55 Jumps to the top and lands in the sewer :)
I would like to use that overlay gb. Name? Where? Or who can hook me up?
This is how the first NES teenage mutant Ninja turtles game should have been like
Epic Soundtrack !!!!!
I remember playing this as a kid back when it first came out....all these years later and I STILL don't understand the number guessing minigame