For as much as I played this one as a kid, it had to make the list. It has its quirks, and the water level is insane, but it crams a lot into an NES cart. Naturally, it was only a matter of time before a videogame followed the television show and toys. In fact, all the negative feelings around this one almost kept it off the list, but when it comes down to it Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was one of the greats, and a dang good title. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was a smash phenomenon in the late 1980s.

Some people just aren't wired for old school gaming, apparently. Once again I say 'screw you Angry Nintendo Nerd' with this one. Many gamers wanted a port of Konami's arcade beat-'em-up of the same name instead, but had to wait until 1991, when a port of the arcade classic came to the NES under the TMNT 2 moniker. Train and hit objects in the air, trying to Avoid green tokens that you must keep. Unfortunately, this game didn't satisfy everyone. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus. It also had multiple fields-of-view, from top-down navigation to side-scrolling sequences, the perspectives were mixed up considerably at a time when games were usually from one outlook only. The great thing about TMNT was its ability to let gamers use all four Ninja Turtles at will, even though it was only a one-player action game.

Developed by Konami and published by its subsidiary Ultra (a ghost publisher created only so that Konami could publish more games per year than Nintendo allowed), TMNT proved to be a fun, challenging game with crisp graphics and compelling gameplay. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was a smash phenomenon in the late 1980s.

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