193 episodes in total), including Slash, Bebop & Rocksteady, Baxter Stockman, The Rat King, Krang and a few others. You will see many familiar faces from the old popular cartoon (which ran from Dec.
It’s simply their strength in numbers that does you in.Īt the end of each stage you will fight a boss, and these guys are obviously much tougher than the regular enemies. Rock Soldiers are slightly tougher than standard Foot Soldiers, but none of the enemies pose much of a challenge on their own. Other enemy types include various robots, such as Mousers (made famous from the cartoon) and Rock Soldiers, which are stronger than standard Foot Soldiers and sometimes come with weapons of their own: flamethrowers, rocket launchers, electric guns or construction rails. These enemies will also gain up on you, attacking from the front and behind. Harder ones include a yellow soldier that throws a disc that flys across the screen and comes back, to a common pink-colored soldier that can actually block your attacks and usually has to be destroyed in a more specific manner. These foot soldiers carry many different weapons, and they attack in different ways: Jumping up and throwing down knives, swinging chain whips to hit what’s in front of them, melee attacking with three-section staffs, throwing Chinese stars, or just punching you. Each level has you fighting groups of enemies (as stated above), the majority of which will be multi-colored Foot Soldiers (who are of the robotic variety, as seen in the classic 90’s, late 80’s cartoon). You choose to play as one of the four Turtles through 9 levels (10 if you include the final boss fight). Obviously the plot is just an excuse to have the player fight against gangs of enemies and the story never comes into play outside of the opening and closing sequences. Of course in the process they are eventually sent back in time as they chase Shredder, and this results in some diverse levels that include dinosaurs and even a few levels set in the future. So naturally the Turtles set out to get the statue back and save the day. The game’s story sees the Statue of Liberty being stolen by Super Krang (who comes in and swipes it in broad daylight) while April is reporting the news. All these classic games have a side-scrolling viewpoint, but you can move up or down the playing field in most of them, as you travel forward through the levels. It follows in the vein of the two NES Turtles games before it ( Turtles 2: The Arcade Game and Turtles III: The Manhattan Project) which were of the same “beat-em’ up” style, which has you fighting against hordes of enemies by jamming on the attack button. TMNT IV: Turtles In Time is a side-scrolling beat-’em up for the Super Nintendo that was developed and published by Konami.