#tmnt arcade

[hillsidecomics]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles blank sketch cover drawn by me!

Check out the speed drawing video below!

[tyeballz]

Turtle Power!

[writebackatya]

Shoutout to the random dad at the free play arcade who saw me playing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade Game and asked me if he could hop in as he saw me playing Leonardo

He played as Raphael at first but then switched to Donatello for better range attacks and then back to Raphael at the final battle with Shredder cause the attack button just stopped working for Donnie

It was great cause I’m sure at first we were both had the mentality of “Until I get a game over” but then at the second level we were both like “Nah we’re finishing this”

This is why I love arcades

Also if you ever see me playing any Beat-Em-Up game in an arcade please join me, that’s how they’re meant to be played

[ask-the-toy-box]

Do the toys play video games or is that impossible due to their size? Maybe some games that use less buttons are still doable?

@archer-bro

[tmntuk]

Two of the greatest arcade cabinets of all time!

[marron121]

The new TMNT game based on the arcades (which are based on the 1987 version, I think?) looks real cute. You can check the full trailer here.

[godahlpresentslizziesmithson]

Still gotta play Turtles in Time... I'm probably going to credit feed my way through that one too lol--classic era beat-em-ups are hard! From what I hear, Turtles in Time is one of the best ones though. I think, hmm, I think I'll play it after work tomorrow, I'm not in the mood right this second (playing too many old beat em ups all in a row is kind of dangerous haha)

[godahlpresentslizziesmithson]

Since I'm working on and off on a beat-em-up of my own (I mean, of a sort), I decided to finally sit down and credit feed my way through the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game (the first one).

It's actually not that bad! My favorite part was that weird parking lot area where you keep on having to fight off Foot Clan soldiers--I thought that level had a really nice flow to it. I also really liked this game's design for Krang, I thought his actually body looked way cooler and sleeker than it ever looked on the show, and Krang himself was weirdly adorable? I couldn't even be mad when he punched me, cause the sprite seemed so happy about it. My least favorite part was any time the game asked me to fight flying enemies.

I will say, the game was a much gentler quarter muncher than I'd anticipated--I think it took me like 15 or so credits to beat it. That's not too much by 80s arcade standards! Most of my credits were spent on the last handful of bosses, whose patterns I was unable to discern during my playthrough (I was kind of expecting to see a level where you fight them all again, but I guess that wasn't a genre trope at this point in time? I'd have liked to see it, though). Kind of wacky to me that if you beat the game with unused credits, they don't carry over to a second playthrough or anything--they're just gone, lol. Evil shit! But hey, not as evil as I was expecting, points for that.