1997: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles \\ Arcade \\ Michaelangelo playthrough! (Steam ROM in MAME)
2Playing through Konami's 1989 "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" arcade game as Michaelangelo on the default difficulty! I extracted this arcade ROM from the Steam version of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection," and am running it from the command line of the current version of the emulator MAME, version 0.267.
My other beat-em-ups playlist: • smbhax's Beat-'Em-Up adventures!
0:00 - start
1:53 - allez
7:55 - billboards
18:22 - April frees herself
18:49 - oh wait the turtles aren't adults! = ooo
19:03 - car bumper stuck at left screen edge
24:16 - they wreck the Party Wagon
40:58 - ending & credits
43:03 - wrap!
I seem to be liking this game more as time goes on, which I did not really expect. The bosses, especially later, are the usual Konami will-just-hit-you variety, which isn't all that fun really, but the rest of the game is so well done that that's mostly bearable.
I think I got stabbed about twice by every spear. = oooPP Really sucked against the helicopter carpet bombing. 8_8 Dunno if I noticed that white number above your health meter before, showing how many enemy KOs you have--ended w/ 349 (did time out vs Baxter Stockman though ;_;;).
April frees herself from the ropes after you beat Bebop and Rocksteady. ; )
Forgot at first Shredder's devolvo-ray is an insta-kill. ; D
How is Leonardo a year older (16) than the other turtles? : PP (Eh later in the TV show they were just four unrelated turtles--even diff species--grabbed from a lab: https://turtlepedia.fandom.com/wiki/R... . A bit diff than the original 1984 comic, where, on a city street, a canister of radioactive ooze smashed a fishbowl containing 4 "infant" turtles, held by a small boy. HM but it does take turtles 5-8 years to grow to adulthood, so POSSIBLY they weren't quite the same age as "infants," even though they were drawn as the same tiny size--still feels like a stretch to put Leonardo a year older. : P)
(Oh say, Turtles co-creator Peter Laird is 8 years older than co-creator Kevin Eastman.)
OH MAN I forgot (I looked this up back when the Cowabunga Collection first came out on PS4 : P) this came out not just in the same year as Final Fight, but BEFORE: Oct 11 1989, vs FF's Nov 25 1989, says Wikipedia. Easy (for addled me) to forget as TMNT feels more advanced--not better, necessarily, just further along a general game development continuum--in terms of presentation and gameplay.
I extracted the ROMs from the Steam TMNT Cowabunga collection with a program from https://github.com/Masquerade64/Cowab... , and converted them to MAME format with this script: https://github.com/farmerbb/RED-Proje... (put in extracted roms/Konami dir and run in WSL w/ "./[script name]").
A bit of a pain to get the turtle you may want to use in MAME as you have to set your controls to a specific MAME player controls 1-4: P1 = Leonardo, P2 = Michelangelo, P3 = Donatello, P4 = Raphael. And while the game says to press "START" after pressing the coin button bound to whichever player's controls, the MAME button you actually press is that player's "Button 1," the TMNT jump button--so I bound their MAME Start button to that button as well. : P
Michelangelo's name was spelled "Michaelangelo" when the game came out, as that's how it was spelled in the original comics; it started to change in various Turtles products in the late '90s and early 2000s, says Wikipedia.
The term "cowabunga" was invented by writer Eddie Kean for the children's TV show "Howdy Doody" in 1954, as an exclamation for a stereotyped Native American character. It was subsequently used by surfers, appeared in surfer movies, and was even used by Snoopy while he surfed in a 1965 Peanuts cartoon panel. It became a catchphrase of Cookie Monster on the Sesame Street TV show in the '70s and '80s. TMNT Michelangelo used it as a catchphrase in the 1987 TV show, where he was given a "surfer" personality. Bart Simpson first used it as a skateboarding catchphrase in a 1990 episode of The Simpsons TV show--a year after the TMNT game. (Sources: • Writer Eddie Kean on the origin of "C... , https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Append... , https://www.oed.com/dictionary/cowabu... .)
Started to think maybe I'd play through the NES version but eh the movement speed there is a lot slower. = P
7/28/24
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