Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (arcade game)

This article is about the arcade game. For the console game, see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES video game).
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Promotional poster
Developer(s)Konami
Probe Software (Amiga)
Publisher(s)
Konami
  • Image Works (computers)
    Ubisoft (Xbox Live Arcade)
Director(s)Hideki Ohyama
K. Takabayashi (Arcade)
H. Toyoda (NES)
Producer(s)Masahiro Inoue
Programmer(s)Gen Suzuki
Sadaki Matsumoto (Arcade)
Kouki Yamashita
Yūji Shibata (NES)
Artist(s)M. Moriyama
K. Hattori
Yuji Asano
Kouki Yamashita (Arcade)
Junko Maruo
Masaaki Kishimoto (NES)
Composer(s)Mutsuhiko Izumi
Miki Higashino (Arcade)
Kozo Nakamura (NES)
SeriesTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Platform(s)
Release
October 11, 1989
  • Arcade
    Famicom/NES
    • JP: December 7, 1990
    • NA: December 1990[7]
    • EU: November 14, 1991
    Home Computers
    Xbox Live Arcade
    • NA: March 14, 2007
    • AU: October 31, 2007
Genre(s)Beat 'em up
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, released in Japan as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Super Kame Ninja[a] and in Europe as Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, is a 1989 beat 'em up game developed and published by Konami for arcades.[9] It is based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise, including the first animated series that began airing two years earlier. In the game, up to four players control the titular Ninja Turtles, fighting through various levels to defeat the turtles' enemies, including the Shredder, Krang and the Foot Clan. Released during a high point in popularity for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise, the arcade game was a worldwide hit, becoming the highest-grossing dedicated arcade game of 1990 in the United States and Konami's highest-grossing arcade game. Versions for various home systems soon followed, including the Nintendo Entertainment System.[10] A sequel, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time, was released in 1991.

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  5. ^ "The Bondeal Chart". RePlay. Vol. 15, no. 4. January 1990. p. 148.
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  7. ^ "All NES Games" (PDF). Nintendo. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 11, 2014. Retrieved August 9, 2015.
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  9. ^ "Every Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Game By Konami (1989-2005) Review - Dubious Gaming - Blog by Ledjar". IGN. Archived from the original on 2017-09-26. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  10. ^ "Hardcore Gaming 101: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles". www.hardcoregaming101.net. Retrieved 2018-07-24.


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