Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (arcade game)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles in Europe) was a beat-'em-up arcade game released by Konami in 1989. Based on the comic book and cartoon series of the same name, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles supported from one to four players. Players could choose from Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, or Raphael. The Turtles' friend April, and their sensei Splinter, have been kidnapped by the villainous Foot Clan leader Shredder, and the Turtles lead the charge to rescue them.

Each Turtle has their own slight advantages and disadvantages. Raphael has the shortest range, but is the quickest to attack. Leonardo and Michelangelo are mid-range and have average speed, and Donatello is the slowest, but has the longest range. Pressing the Attack and Jump buttons simultaneously allows the chosen Turtle to execute a special attack.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game
The most well-known port of the game is on the Nintendo Entertainment System, known as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game. This is also the title in which it is known on the Atari ST. The port was released in 1990, and although featured reduced graphics and only supported two players, it also added two new stages that were not present in the arcade version, and replaced the Bebop and Rocksteady boss fight with Baxter Stockman's fly mutation. The NES version of the game has been slated for release on the Wii Virtual Console.

Other Ports
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was also released on Commodore 64, DOS PCs, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, and Amiga. A watered-down port of the game, with edited voices and sound effects, as well as different music was an unlockable in 2004's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus for the Gamecube, Playstation 2, Windows PC, and Xbox. In 2007, a slightly enhanced port, with some graphics from the 2007 TMNT movie in areas such as the border, and online play was released on Xbox 360's LIVE Arcade service by Ubisoft, costing 400 Microsoft Points.