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The first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video games by Konami being based primarily on the 1987 TV series, Splinter made some occasional appearances in the video game adaptations either to give advice to the player (as befitting his role as the Ninja Turtles' mentor) or being held captive by a level boss.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles[]

In the first home console video game, Splinter would sometimes appear on the pause menu giving advice. He would later be seen as a captive of the boss Mechaturtle and is rescued after the boss is defeated.

The ending of the game has the Turtles using the Shredder's Life Transformer Gun to restore Splinter to his human form Hamato Yoshi.

In the manual of the Japanese version of this game, Splinter is portrayed as April O'Neil's father.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game[]

Splinter is saved after defeating Granitor and thanks the Turtles for saving him in a brief cutscene after the battle.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder Gets Shelled![]

Splinter is held captive and Leonardo must free him by deflecting bombs into a wall while also preventing Mousers from attacking him.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time[]

Splinter appears in the opening cutscene and in the ending. In the arcade version, he appears onscreen to encourage the Turtles to fight when the player characters are idle; if the player idles too long, they will be attacked by a bomb. In the SNES port, he also hosts the 2-Player Versus mode, but his idle-animation appearance is replaced by an appearance of April O'Neil.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan[]

Splinter appears to explain the rules of the hidden minigames.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back from the Sewers[]

Splinter briefly pops out of a pizzeria in the first stage to give the player a pizza power-up so they have a chance to heal before the fight against Rocksteady.

He later appears in a level transition cutscene riding the Turtle Blimp.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue[]

Splinter is the penultimate captive needing to be rescued, the key to his cell guarded by Scale Tail.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Manhattan Missions[]

Splinter is featured in this DOS computer game. Oddly, the game's incarnation of Splinter seems more based on Splinter's Mirage counterpart than on his 1987 counterpart, as he opens the game by narrating the Turtles' Mirage origin while the game itself uses characters and elements from the 1987 cartoon as well as the live-action films.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters[]

In all three versions of the game, the story mode involves Splinter being kidnapped by either Shredder (NES version) or Karai (SNES and Sega Genesis versions).

Splinter's role in the NES version is ambiguous, as his face appears upon a drone that hovers across the screen during fights and drops the fireball projectile which can be used by either combatant. After defeating Shredder at the end of Story Mode, the drone bursts open to reveal Splinter, who commends the turtles for their performance and victory.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Madness[]

Splinter is an unlockable 2-star character, classified as Support/Brawler. In addition to being unlocked by random chance with in-game currency, he is also offered as an incentivized paid-content pack.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge[]

For the first time, Splinter appears as a playable character in a beat-em-up game. He has three stars in power, two in reach, and one in speed.

Trivia[]

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See also[]

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