Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles No-Death Playthrough (Actual NES Capture)
18This is a capture of me playing through Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the NES. This is not an emulator. This footage was recorded directly from my front-loading NES using a real TMNT cartridge.
I was born in the mid '80s, so I naturally grew up with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, movies and merchandise. I spent a lot of time watching the cartoon series as a kid (I even had some VHS tapes that were given out by Burger King back in the day), and I had a few of the action figures as well. I even recall wearing a Ninja Turtles costume to school for Halloween around first grade.
The first Ninja Turtles game came out for the NES in 1989 and my brother and I probably received the game during that year's Christmas, or the following year. My brother and I played this game quite a bit but we never could beat it due to its high difficulty level. It was certainly an iconic part of my childhood, but the first TMNT game had a ton of flaws that were appropriately (and hilariously) lambasted by the Angry Video Game Nerd, such as clunky controls, terrible enemy spawns, suicidal designs and confusing stage layouts. I was actually a much bigger fan of TMNT II: The Arcade Game, which I used to rent occasionally.
Despite my love of the NES and my childhood experience with this game, I have never beaten it until now. This game wasn't that fun for me and I was just never motivated to beat until I started my Youtube channel. I've already posted footage of TMNT II, III and IV, so this is the remaining Konami/Ultra Turtles game that I need to upload. I'm actually using the very same cartridge from my childhood.
For this playthrough I stocked up on 40 scrolls before rescuing Splinter since they're really useful for the Technodrome. I actually got lucky in finding the Technodrome on my first attempt, so that made this playthrough much easier. Also, this was a no-death run, although I came really close to dying at the end.
Recorded with the Hauppauge HD PVR and a composite connection at 60 frames per second. I used a Toshiba model D-R550 DVD Recorder to upconvert the NES's native 240p signal to 480i so that the Hauppauge could capture the console's audio/video signal.
I'm using an NES Max turbo controller.