I finally beat TMNT and it is horrible!

[lechat]

yup for 20 years TMNT has been my white whale and yesterday with the help of an emulator and enough save scumming to fill the grand canyon with a scum ring I finally beat it.
As a kid i would have racked up hundreds of hours on this thing and I think the furthest i ever made it was the technodrome. Also i beat battletoads a half dozen times as a nintendo kid so I wasn't exactly a softie.

If i had to review it without the rose coloured glasses and for it's time it would have to be what? about a 2 out of 10? I mean there is hard, there is intentionally hard, there is broken hard and then there is broken (lets pretend that's why it's hard), the game follows almost no logic by real world or even game world standards, enemies just pop in out of the side of the screen there is no flow to the levels apart from "run around and hope that's the right door", enemies randomly drop game breaking weapons and the "choice" of turtles is pretty much shit, shitter, shittest and this one is needed to win.

so discussion value. ever been punched in the face while wearing rose coloured glasses?

 

[Dalek Caan]

The only experience I've had in recent memory is Command and Conquer 3. I used to own it on my 360 during the days when it had that really shitty Dashboard. I remembered spending a lot of time on it and so when it went on sale on Steam I decided to pick it up again along with the DLC. Younger me must have been more easily amused because it wasn't that fun. The story behind it was kinda feh. Base building and management was too easy, as was building units.

The only part I liked was when Michael Ironsides showed up at the beginning and I went "Oh hey, it's the guy from Starship Troopers".

 

[Fappy]

Yeah, the original TMNT game is total ass. I remember busting my balls endlessly on the water level as a kid. I managed to get further later, but it wasn't worth it.

TMNT Arcade and Turtles in Time are infinitely better.

 

[Something Amyss]

I actually enjoyed the first 3 levels or so. Yes, including the water part at the damn.

 

[JimB]

Ever been punched in the face while wearing rose-coloured glasses?

Most recently, busting out on Castlevania: Curse of Darkness. I remember liking the hell out of it, but the combat is crap (hit detection and aiming are all over the place), the camera is actively against giving the player necessary information, and there are puzzles only solved by specific evolutions of Pokemon but that give no indication of the Pokemon needed. It's frustrating when it's not boring, and obtuse when it's not a total coaster.

 

[lechat]

Ever been punched in the face while wearing rose-coloured glasses?

Most recently, busting out on Castlevania: Curse of Darkness. I remember liking the hell out of it, but the combat is crap (hit detection and aiming are all over the place), the camera is actively against giving the player necessary information, and there are puzzles only solved by specific evolutions of Pokemon but that give no indication of the Pokemon needed. It's frustrating when it's not boring, and obtuse when it's not a total coaster.

castlevania pokemon edition? vampokemon?

 

[Bad Jim]

I seem to remember actually beating that game as a kid, albeit the Commodore 64 version. And Ecco the Dolphin on the Game Gear. My own personal nemesis is Rainbow Islands.

 

[Drathnoxis]

Man that game sucked so much. As a kid we'd play that one for a couple minutes before getting bored switching to Mario Bros. 3 again.

I used to like Back to the Future (NES) as a kid, but it's really quite a terrible game. A couple months ago I made a serious attempt to beat it and made it all the way to the dolorean scene, which I failed spectacularly. Oh well, I thought, I still have a couple of lives left. "Too bad Marty, looks like you're stuck here." WHAT, game over? Now's the time you decide to be faithful to the movie? The whole game I've been running around throwing bowling balls at bees and hoola hoop girls, what's the movie got to do with anything in this game? It's not even fair because the dolorean scene controls completely different to anything else in the game and lasts about 20 seconds. So I figured who cares, I'm not replaying the whole game for a chance to be able to see the one sentence victory screen.

 

[JimB]

Vampokemon?

Pretty goddamn much.

 

[Ima Lemming]

Fun fact: As hard as the NES Ninja Turtle game is, the MS-DOS port is literally unbeatable [http://www.scary-crayon.com/games/tmnt12pc/].

Those closest I think I've come getting my teeth kicked out by nostalgia was Garfield: Caught in the Act. As a kid I loved the PC game, but some time last year played Genesis version and realized the game is unbelievably broken. Enemies that blindside you and hurl projectiles at you from off-screen because the developers thought showering you with health refills meant they didn't have to balance the game, levels like the Catsablanca level that are structureless messes that can be cleared in 10 seconds once you know the way through, and the vapid bosses.

Soundtrack was decent, though.

 

[lacktheknack]

Yes, including the water part at the damn.

I choose to believe that wasn't a typo.

OT: I've played a few adventure games that enraptured me as a kid, notably Jewels of the Oracle, and have discovered that they suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. ;_____; Jewels of the Oracle has a brilliant conceit and atmosphere to cover up the fact that the game proper just isn't fun.

 

[Something Amyss]

Yes, including the water part at the damn.

I choose to believe that wasn't a typo.

OT: I've played a few adventure games that enraptured me as a kid, notably Jewels of the Oracle, and have discovered that they suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. ;_____; Jewels of the Oracle has a brilliant conceit and atmosphere to cover up the fact that the game proper just isn't fun.

It was less a typo and more a brain fail.

 

[Redd the Sock]

Ah TMNT. The first NES game I owned other than Mario bros. Since that was the case, I did play the crap out of it and much to most people's surprise, actually was good enough to beat it just about every time at one point.

I've managed to avoid replaying a lot of the NES era travesties in my old age. Playstation era however. Got 4 Tomb Raidr games for 9 bucks and I'd forgotten how slow and clunky those were, not to mention touchy on timing of jumps.

 

[baddude1337]

Honestly aside from Turtles in Time, was there any other good TMNT game?

I'm probably in the minority here, but the more modern Out Of The Shadows was a pretty fun Arkham clone, only with all 4 turtles controllable at once for big team battles. Funnily enough they seem to doing the whole 4 at once combat style in Arkham Knight, now. It also had a decent 4 player coop arcade mode.

Mine would probably be Jurassic Park for the SNES. After getting hyped after Jurassic World I plugged the old SNES in to play it, remember how fun it was when I was younger. Yeah. It plays like total shit now, especially the 2 FPS indoor first person mode.

 

[Frankster]

Congratz, even with emulator save states you're a bigger masochist then I could ever be

Good TMNT games.. The 4 player arcade game was good! At least I remembered enjoying it decently enough, been a long while.

 

[Ihateregistering1]

Honestly aside from Turtles in Time, was there any other good TMNT game?

The first Ninja Turtles side-scrolling beat em up was pretty good (I think it was just called TMNT). It definitely wasn't as good as Turtles in Time but it was still an enjoyable quarter eater at the arcade.

Anyway, I think the only game where I clearly got tripped up on nostalgia was "Mutant League Football", for the Sega Genesis. My friend and I used to play that game for hours, and when we downloaded it for emulator, it is still a ton of fun, but I never realized just how poor of a football simulator it was until I played it when I was older. I'd still give my left hand for a remake of it using the Madden engine.

 

[Danny Dowling]

play the SNES games that were ported from arcade... they're top banana

 

[Sonicron]

Honestly aside from Turtles in Time, was there any other good TMNT game?

I'm probably in the minority here, but the more modern Out Of The Shadows was a pretty fun Arkham clone, only with all 4 turtles controllable at once for big team battles. Funnily enough they seem to doing the whole 4 at once combat style in Arkham Knight, now. It also had a decent 4 player coop arcade mode.

You might be right, but at least we can be a minority together. The game does have a few technical issues, but overall it is a really fun brawler, and the combat system has a surprising amount of variety and depth to it, to the point that it only mimicks Arkham combat on the surface.

 

[Jorpho]

Honestly aside from Turtles in Time, was there any other good TMNT game?

I clicked this thread thinking that someone for some reason was talking about the game based on the 2007 animated movie actually called TMNT [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMNT_(film)] for some strange reason. The GBA version is actually quite playable and reasonably entertaining; someone put real effort into that one. Unfortunately, every other version is completely different and is not nearly as good. I would link to the review at http://www.scary-crayon.com/ , but I can't access the site at the moment.

Said site also has pretty good things to say about The Manhattan Missions, an MS-DOS game (not to be confused with The Manhattan Project) that is likewise completely different from every other TMNT game.