Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Arcade
Alternative title: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Coin-Op
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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US version.
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April O'Neil, the reporter friend of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, is kidnapped by the villainous Shredder and his two goons, Bebop and Rocksteady. The four ninja turtles: Raphael, Michelangelo, Donatello and Leonardo fight their way through hordes of Foot Soldiers in order to rescue April. They battle familiar foes such as the mad scientist Baxter Stockman, General Traag from Dimension X and the evil alien brain Krang, up to the final showdown with Shredder himself.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Arcade Game is a port of the popular arcade game made by Konami during the height of the cartoon series' popularity. Depending on the version of the game, up to two, three or four players can take part in the action. The game plays like a simplified Double Dragon. While most of the standard Foot Soldier enemies are easily dispatched, some attack with knives or ray guns and are thus more dangerous. At the end of each level, players encounter a boss (or in certain cases two bosses working in tandem, such as Bebop and Rocksteady).

The NES version of the game features additional content not present in other versions of the game: two new levels (Snowy Central Park and The Dojo), new bosses (including Tora, Shogun and Baxter Stockman as a fly), additional music tracks as well as more variations of Foot Soldiers.

Trivia

Freebies and Offers
 The 1991 original release came with: 
Buy one get one free pizza offer 
Chance to buy an LCD Turtles game 
Free Turtle's Snapper camera (if the purchaser joined the Turtles Fan Club) 

Manual
 The 1991 original release had a manual that was printed on the back of a large Turtles poster that would look great on the wall. However the game also used a copy protection system and all the codes were on the back of the poster, so while playing one couldn't really have the poster on the wall at all.

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Description from the packaging:

The Turtles mutate your home computer into the original arcade game!
Now for the first time ever, you can experience all the shell tingling action of the Turtles original arcade game on your computer. Shredder's gone fishing for Turtles and he's using Splinter and April O'Neil as bait. The lean green fighting machines must put it in high gear to save them without ending up as stuffed shells.

Shredder has recruited and trained his toughest forces yet, including 700 Taekwondo turtle terminators and a new more merciless breed of Foot Soldiers.
All the shell squashing stages come straight from the arcade game, including Vinnie's Valet "Stalking" Lot and the Soho Sewer System.

Master the skills of the ninja, flying kicks, side kicks, flips and somersaults to battle your way to the ultimate forum, the Technodrome.
Avoid open manholes, collapsing grating, sudden laser beam and enemy fire and always get your fill of pizza to earn bonus points.

Bring the exciting turtles theme music to life with optional sound boards.
Two players can simultaneously do ninja damage to Shredder and his bullies.
The Turtles try to rescue April from her flaming condo but things get hotter when Shredder's thugs show up and kidnap both April and Splinter.

If the green gladiators make it through the ultimate criminal lair, the Technodrome, will that be the last of Shredder's sinister plots?
The fight really gets rolling on the Rocka-A-Fella Expressway. Caution: Bumpy Road Ahead!
Kick it into overdrive against a fleet of enemies in the "Stalking" Lot.
At the end of each level, the toughest enemies await including Stone Warrior, Bebop and Baxter Stockman.


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