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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Description

The famous four turtles fight incredible numbers of bad guys to save April O'Neil and Splinter and to defeat their arch-enemies Krang and The Shredder. Uses the Konami two-and-a-half dimension approach to horizontal scrolling games. All players can join in on the game at any time.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was produced by Konami in 1989.

Konami released 434 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978. Konami was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Konami during the time period Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was produced include: Vulcan Venture, Thunder Cross, Super Kontora: Alien No Gyakusyuu, Super Contra, Ring No Ouja, Block Hole, Bottom Of The Ninth, Crime Fighters, Cue Brick, and Gradius III

Specs

Name	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Developer	Konami (Japan)
Year	1989
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	10052
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Scrolling Fighter
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	JAMMA
Game Specific	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pinout
Dipswitch Settings	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)
# Simultaneous Players	4
# Maximum Players	4
Game Play	Joint
Control Panel Layout	Multiple Player
Controls	Joystick: 8-way Buttons: 2 - AttackJump
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard - Weight 320 pounds
Instructions	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Instructions Image
PCB	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles PCB Image

Video Clips

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade gameplay

Konami TMNT Arcade Video Game Overahul

Konami Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TMNT 2 Player

Game Introduction

Players can choose to play either Leonardo blue, katana blades Raphael red, sais Michelangelo orange, nunchakas or Donatello purple, bo staff. The game uses Konami's 2.5 dimension perspective. Any number of players can join the game at any time.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.61 (12 votes)

Fun Factor: 3.78

Overall Like	4.09
Fun (Social)	4.09
Fun (Solo)	3.45
Collector Desire	3.42

Technical Rating: 3.67

Gameplay	3.82
Graphics	4.30
Originality	2.64
Sound/Music	3.91

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

Images

Trivia

The UK title for this game is Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles I.The pizzamunching turtles originally appeared in a black and white comic book that debuted in 1984. They were so popular that they immediately spawned imitators with colorful names such as ArmorPlated Adolescent Aardvarks and Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters. A cartoon series based upon the Turtles adventures debuted in the United States on the CBS television network in 1987.The first names of turtles Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, and Donatello are the names of Italian Renaissance artists who lived between 1386 and 1564. Three of those artists had full names which were respectively Michaelangelo Buonariti, Raphael Sanzio and Leonardo Da Vinci, but as for Donatello, that was his only name.

Miscellaneous

There is also a two player version of this game.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Census

There are 15,264 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,669 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,973 machines (7,000 unique titles).

Very Common - There are 512 known instances of this machine owned by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collectors who are active members. Of these, 208 of them are original dedicated machines. 33 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 266 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 14 active VAPS members with a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles machines for sale. There are 14 active VAPS members with a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - Very Popular - There are 32 active VAPS members currently looking for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. There are 6 active VAPS members looking for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles boards sets.

This game ranks a 79 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 53 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Flyers

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

1989 / 2 Pages

Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles

1989 / 2 Pages

Technical

Uses a 68000 running at 8 MHz for a CPU, along with a Z80 running at 3.58 MHz. Uses 5 different sound chips, they are 1 YM2151 running at 3.58 MHz, an 007232 chip, a uPD7759 at 0.64 MHz, analog sound samples, and a custom chip.

Legacy

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles In Time

Manuals

4 player Instruction Manual - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Manual — **4 player Instruction Manual**
(25 pages, 1.3 MB File)

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

3D Model (External): Upright (9d1a4f5f985516cdd06e6be4f8954ac)

Arcade Map - Play This Game

Our members have reported that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is playable at 3 locations:

Name	Location	State	Country	Details	Check-ins
8-Bit Beans	100 Brock St South, Whitby	Ontario	Canada	Unknown	0
PinBar	501 17 Ave SW, Calgary	AB	Canada	Arcade	2
Upstate Pinball & Arcade Museum	109A West Trade St, Simpsonville	South Carolina	United States	Arcade	2

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