Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Ultra Games released Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles aka TMNT for IBM PC MS-DOS in 1990. Developed by Unlimited Software Inc., TMNT is a six-stage side-scrolling hack n slash and platform game that features top-down exploration and an information screen.
In PC DOS TMNT players can switch between controlling Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo. Each Ninja turtle wields a unique weapon: katana, sai, nunchaku and bo. The turtles can move left and right, climb ladders, jump, swim and attack with their favored weapon as well as with boomerang, kiai and shuriken. Naturally, pizza restores health. The Party Wagon can fire Vulcan Cannon and Anti-Foot Clan missiles.
PC DOS TMNT features other characters such as Splinter, The Shredder, April O'Neil, Bebop, Rocksteady and Mouser. The object of TMNT is to rescue April, battle the Foot Clan and reach the Technodrome and face off against The Shredder.
The controls, graphics and screen-scrolling of PC DOS TMNT are horrendous. In addition, enemies just appear out of thin air and there was a show-stopping bug in the original U.S. version. Players can save their game at any time via Ctrl+S.
PC DOS TMNT was distributed on 2x 3.5" 720kB diskettes or 4x 5.25" 360kB floppy disks and extracts and installs to hard disk drive via TMNT Installation. The install size is 1.5 megs and consists of 190 files.
PC DOS TMNT controls support joystick and keyboard. PC DOS TMNT displays in 16-color EGA or TGA 320x200, and its audio supports AdLib, Tandy and IBM Internal Speaker.
PC DOS TMNT was programmed by Shawn Rogers, composed by Kris Hatlelid and Michael J. Sokyrka, and drawn by Kathy Whitney, Mike Smith, Gerard de Souza, Tony Lee and Dean Griffiths.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Amiga 1990
Ultra Games of the U.S. released Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for Amiga in 1990. Developed by Unlimited Software Inc., the American Amiga version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was coded by Eric Pauker, composed by Kris Hatlelid and Ivan Allan, and drawn by Kathy Whitney, Mike Smith, Fiona Mowatt, Gerard de Souza, Tony Lee and Dean Griffiths.
Ultra Games Amiga TMNT is almost as bad as Ultra Games PC DOS TMNT. Amiga TMNT takes no advantage of the Amiga's chipset whatsoever.
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles Amiga 1990
Image Works of the U.K. released Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles for Amiga in 1990. Directed by Probe Software and programmed by DaisySoft, the European Amiga version of Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles was coded by Delvin Sorrell, drawn by Mark Knowles and Debbie Sorrell and composed by Sound Images.
European Amiga TMHT is much better than American PC/Amiga TMNT due to its superior graphics, animation, scrolling, controls and speed, but it is nonetheless still abysmal when compared with other platform games on PC/Amiga in (and before) 1990.
On the other hand, the character graphics of American TMNT are truer to the comic books than European TMHT.
Imagine if a software house that understood the Amiga and wasn't just porting an NES game developed a TMNT game in 1990 that employed the original TMNT art of Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird...
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