As of today, the powerhouse Activision has the license to create new Turtles games. Then there was a brief interlude when Ubisoft was given the reigns to develop TMNT games. The TMNT games have gone through three major eras as of today: First was the Konami era, as Konami was responsible for early classics like Turtles in Time. RELATED: Teenage Mutant CRINGY Turtles: 16 Cringiest Moments Of The TMNT Trilogy Another key quality to a successful TMNT game is to differentiate the four pizza eating Turtles, as the best games give each character different skills and stats, while the worst games make each of them mere clones of each other. The best of them gives players satisfying combat as they tear through legions of the Foot Clan and other enemies. There have been TMNT party games, dungeon crawlers, and even Metroidvania (a genre of gaming that's basically a mixture of the classic games Metroid and Castlevania) style games. Many of these games are in the beat 'em up genre, but some game companies took more exotic routes. TMNT II was known as Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles II: The Arcade Game and Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles II: The Coin Op in Europe due to harsher censorship deeming the word 'Ninja' to carry too many violent connotations (the cartoon suffered similar censorship issues at the time).The first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game premiered on the original Nintendo console in 1989. These were all similar in gameplay to the original arcade game and did not feature the exclusive content seen in the NES port.Ī version of the original arcade game can also be found as an unlockable bonus in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: BattleNexus. In 1992 TMNT II was also ported to a number of home computers including Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari, Commodore 64, PC and ZX Spectrum.

The rest of the levels were also extended with several subtle alterations.

This version features several distinct changes compared to the original arcade game, including two brand new levels ( Snowy Central Park and House of Shogun) that feature several new enemies and two new boss characters designed specifically for the port. Most ports retained the majority of the original gameplay but with more primitive graphics. Originally released as a 2 and 4 player arcade machine and simply called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, TMNT II would also later be ported to several home consoles between 1991-1992. Players take control of the mutated, pizza loving turtles as they fight their way through several scrolling platform beat'em up stages featuring many characters and enemies from the TMNT cartoon series and comics. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles spring into action when their human friend April O'Neil is attacked and kidnapped by Shredder and his army of Foot Soldiers. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game is a side scrolling beat'em up released by Konami in 1989.

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