Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Coin-Op!

Juanma 2020-04-27
(3/10)
A weak, unfinished beat 'em up.
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Bebokus 2013-11-26
(5/10)
Below average. No music, sound effects suck big time, graphics are not very good (to say the least). I played it when I was a kid and my expression was obviously different (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, radical!) than now.

I gave it a shot and actually had some fun; I reckon the best turtle is Raffaello due to his long rage. Unfortunately after 4th stage I wound up with Guru error (on Winuae...seriously?!) and decided to give up.
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Colonel Kurtz 2013-01-11
(7/10)
I've never been a TMNT fan (they were not badass enough ninjas!), but perhaps out of frustration for the sad fate of beat'em up ports on my favourite platform, I ended up enjoying this for a while. After Golden Axe, Shadow Warriors and Double Dragon 2 and (sigh) 3, there weren't many better games of this genre on the beloved Amiga.

Sure it has its technical setbacks: no music, that constant reverb in the sounds that made no sense, the turtles changing colours between frames, and the reduced game viewport that I don't see why it couldn't have been full-screen. But at the end of the day, it offered a reasonable challenge and the game mechanics kind of worked, at least better than Final Fight (on Amiga, that is).
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TuRRIcaNEd 2012-11-16
This game was never actually finished - Mirrorsoft (ImageWorks' parent) went bankrupt shortly before the intended release date, so the only extant copies are pre-release versions sent to the magazines or cracked copies of the pre-release. I acquired a copy of the latter out of curiosity, and a cursory check with my trusty Action Replay 2 cart revealed plaintext debug info in the code, and more interestingly, Jeroen Tel's music which, while unfinished was pretty faithful to the arcade and contained the promised samples straight from the coin-op.

A real shame - if only they'd had more time.
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PortugueseWarrior 2012-05-23
(4/10)
Hated the sound. Graphics were sort of OK, I guess, but those sounds... The playability was a tad on the slower side, which was not that great either. Even if this is not amongst the worse arcade conversions for the Amiga, it's not amongst the best either...
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arcadeyahoo 2011-12-25
Ive got the Arcade Version on the Xbox 360 which is class,the Amiga Version is ok though.
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stooart 2011-01-18
(6/10)
Although far better than the other monstrosity, thi arcade game looked the part but felt rather clunky and jerky in my opinion. You could get hooked for while, especially with the 2 player mode but it just didn't have enough polish for me.
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vpiezsak 2010-12-26
(1/10)
NES version is far better
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tony day 2010-12-19
(1/10)
Terrible, rotten, garbage, utter, sh*te, crap, bo**ocks.... Get the picture.
Loved the arcade: Waited for this for ages drooling over the CU Amiga previews with the freshly ripped coin op graphics waiting for the minor tweaks for when they could be finally ported the amiga (by GFX master Hugh riley from Last ninja 2 fame no less)
But what we got in the end was this shameful disgrace! Jerky poorly drawn sprites, no music, about 2 crappy sound effects.
I still have nightmare about it to this day.
Shortly after I got turtles in time for the snes (much better!)
And then I brought an Arcade machine and the original Jamma board game. (much much much better!)
This game is a turkey from HELL!!!
GFX 1/10
Sound 0/10
Gameplay 1/10
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TurricanX 2009-09-08
(5/10)
I always go back to this expecting it to be as good as it was in the arcade, I'm usually dissapointed after 5 mins of play yet I still go back for more, plus Raphael is awesome
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nemO 2007-07-16
Looks bad and sad comparing to the jewel that was the coin op...
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Yure 2007-05-07
(3/10)
Away from this, at all costs!
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Stomperud 2007-02-26
(2/10)
Brings a whole new meaning to the word "crap". Hated the way everything seemed to move in slow motion, and the way the sounds echoed. This is a horrible horrible conversion. Still - I played it quite a bit in my youth, as I loved the cartoon.
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Parpala 2006-05-30
(7/10)
Played this with NES only...
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steef-online 2005-09-13
(5/10)
Spend many hours (and money) on the arcade game so I was really looking forward to playing the Amiga-version. How disappointed I was. Bad flickery graphics, no music and terrible sound effects, awful gameplay without ANY special moves... You get the point!

Graphics: 5/10
Sound: 4/10
Playability: 5/10

Overall: 5/10
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morvern 2005-08-11
(10/10)
I loved the arcade version so much that I did not even care how bad this game was and played this one with the same amount of affection
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starvingwriter82 2005-02-27
(3/10)
I loved the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game as a kid... I'd imagine the majority of my allowance ended up inside bowling alley TMNT machines. When I checked out the Amiga port of the awesome arcade, I wasn't expecting perfection, but this was pitiful. No music, no cool moves, couldn't even get the coloring right. I would imagine there are freeware flash remakes of the TMNT arcade that are better than this.
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TWR 2004-12-17
(4/10)
I love the turtles but this game is pretty lame...
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Jim 2004-12-04
(4/10)
The phenomenon that spawned a wildlife disaster (turtles being dumped in rivers/ponds after kids got bored of them) and also crap like this.
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