Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

NOTE: This is the original 4-Player Arcade release, not the NES Title. The player chooses from one of the four Ninja Turtles: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael. After Shredder kidnaps the Turtles'…

45 15 November 1989

Adventure Arcade Fighting Hack and slash/Beat 'em up Action

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an adventure developed by Konami, released 15 November 1989 on Xbox 360, Amiga, Amstrad CPC and Arcade.

Verified 27 Sep 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an adventure game developed by Konami and released in 1989. It was published by Digital Eclipse. It is available on Xbox 360, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Even though Splinter defeated Shredder and Casey Jones attempted to crush him in a garbage truck, Shredder's titanium helmet protected him from certain doom. He awoke on a garbage ship and floated back to land on a raft made out of styrofoam cups that were non-biodegradable. Once on land he began training stronger Foot Soldiers, but they alone were not enough. Shredder, using his translocation matrix beam, then travelled through the universe in search of stronger allies. He recruited a member of the Ultimate Galactic Sword residing in Sector Six of the Oead Star Zone and on the ice planet of Traglodoon he found a bounty hunter named Tora. Together, Shredder, his minions and his two new…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It supports multiplayer and includes co-op. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is the second of 118 entries we hold in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. It arrived 6 months after Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The next entry was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in 1989. Its critic score of 45 is 14 points below the series average of 59. The highest-rated entry is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown at 90.

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How it was received

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles holds a critic score of 45 out of 100. That places it above 6% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Players rate it 63, 18 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

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