Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game (1990)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game is a 1990 platform video game made by Konami and Ultra Software Corporation.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game brings Konami's quarter-gobbling beat 'em up to the NES, letting up to two players pick Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, or Raphael and brawl through the streets of New York and beyond. The NES version expands on the arcade original with two exclusive stages and new bosses, including Tora and Shogun, built specifically for this release. Foot Clan soldiers, mousers, and a parade of Shredder's lieutenants stand between the turtles and their friends in classic side-scrolling fashion.
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What is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game about?
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game brings Konami's quarter-gobbling beat 'em up to the NES, letting up to two players pick Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, or Raphael and brawl through the streets of New York and beyond. The NES version expands on the arcade original with two exclusive stages and new bosses, including Tora and Shogun, built specifically for this release. Foot Clan soldiers, mousers, and a parade of Shredder's lieutenants stand between the turtles and their friends in classic side-scrolling fashion.
When was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game released?
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game was released on 1 December 1990.
Who made Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game?
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game was made by Konami and Ultra Software Corporation.
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The cartoon's scrappy, colorful energy carries straight through into Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, which shares the same four-turtles-versus-everything attitude. The 1987 animated series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is the natural companion for anyone who grew up with this game's Saturday-morning aesthetic.
Beat-em-ups and shonen arcs built on wave after wave of masked henchmen
This NES brawler sends four turtles through Foot Clan grunts, mousers and a parade of Shredder's lieutenants toward each stage boss, the same escalating gauntlet that powers the original Turtles comic and its live-action sequel Out of the Shadows, plus Rurouni Kenshin's sword fights, My Hero Academia's villain arcs, One Piece's crew battles, Attack on Titan's hopeless odds and God of War's monster-crowded path to its own final confrontation.
Saturday-morning shows and comics where a new masked villain shows up every week
Long before this cabinet let four friends button-mash through New York together, the turtles were Saturday-morning heroes suiting up against a new villain each week, the same rhythm that drives Kamen Rider's transforming knight, Miraculous's masked teen duo, Astro Boy's robot champion and Ranma's chaotic martial arts throwdowns.