Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Four for Four

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Four for Four
Game
Developers	Konami
Publishers	Konami
Platforms	LCD
Release date	1992
Genre(s)	Action

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Four for Four is a 1992 handheld LCD video game released by Konami. The United Kingdom release was re-branded Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: Four for Four and revised the game's sticker artwork.

Playable characters are Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michaelangelo, although there are no apparent distinctions in the character sprites or their particular abilities. The game ends once the player has depleted the health bars of all four Turtles.

Enemies

• Rocksteady
• Bebop
• Shredder
• Krang in his Android Body

Gameplay

Gameplay is among the simplest of all the Konami handheld TMNT video games. The player's selected turtle cannot move forward or backward, but he can only attack, jump, and turn around/attack, similar to the gameplay from the other Konami handhelds Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Splinter Speaks and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Shredder's Last Stand.

The only four enemies consist of Rocksteady, Bebop, Shredder, and Krang's Android, making this one of the few handheld games not to feature minions of the Foot Clan such as Mousers or Foot Soldiers.

Levels consist of Rocksteady, Bebop, and Shredder attacking the player either individually or in combination waves. Each enemy is felled by a single hit, but they reappear constantly until the end of the round. Rocksteady and Bebop use the same attack patterns, but Shredder has a craftier strategy to always enter in the opposite direction from that which the player is facing. After a certain number of victories against the enemies, Krang's Android will appear at the right side of the screen and fire off his rocket fist attack continually while the other three enemies continue their own attack patterns. Defeating Krang advances the player to the next level and increases the speed of the enemy attacks.

Scoring

Points are awarded for each successful enemy defeat: 10 points for Rocksteady or Bebop, 40 points for Shredder, and 80 points for Krang.

Trivia

• The LCD background image features the Channel 6 News building from the classic cartoon series but no appearances by April O'Neil or other characters from the show.
• This game only requires a single AA battery, whereas many of Konami's other handhelds required two batteries.

Gallery

"Hero Turtles" version

External links

• Hardcore Gaming 101: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles