Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (arcade)/Versions

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game (ティーンエージ ミュータント ニンジャ タートルズ) is a 1990 Atari ST and NES port from the arcade game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (arcade). The game was developed and published by Konami who licensed the TMNT rights from Mirage Studios (a comic book publisher). At the time, Konami used their subsidiary, Ultra Games, for their North American distribution.



The name "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game" was used to disambiguate it from the previous Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game released for the NES. The Japanese Family Computer version retained the original title since the first game was titled differently in Japan. This would later affect the numbering of the game's immediate sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project, which was titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 in Japan.

Differences from the arcade version
The two ports of the arcade game include:
 * Different graphics.
 * Longer stages.
 * Two new levels with bosses Tora and Shogun.
 * In scene 4, the boss is the mutated form of Baxter Stockman instead of Bebop and Rocksteady.
 * Boss fights that extended across multiple screens are now limited to just one.
 * Advertisements for Pizza Hut (the game's manual also included a Pizza Hut coupon).
 * Enemies that cannot be hurt by dangerous objects (i.e. rolling balls, the bars in the sewer, etc.).
 * The screen does not scroll vertically.
 * Foot soldiers of different types do not (or cannot) exist at the same time.

Other info
The game was ported to the NES and the Atari ST in 1991 under the title Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game due to the fact that an unrelated game called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had already been released on these systems. These ports included two new levels for the benefit of home players. Most of the original stages from the arcade game are extended as well. Also, at the end of the parking garage stage, instead of fighting the combined duo of both Bebop and Rocksteady, the player must fight the fly form of Baxter Stockman. There are also some altered graphics that include advertisements for Pizza Hut, in addition to the game's manual including a Pizza Hut coupon.

The game was also ported to the Commodore 64, MS-DOS, the Commodore Amiga, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, and the Amstrad CPC. However, it was the NES version that became extremely popular among players, and was followed by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project for the NES and MS-DOS in 1990 and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1992, with a Sega Mega Drive variant under the name of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist.

The original game was later ported as an unlockable extra in the multi-console game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus, but featured different music and most of the voice clips edited out.

It has recently been announced on the ESRB Website that the NES port of TMNT II: The Arcade Game will be on the Wii's Virtual Console. It got an E-10 Rating.

TMNT 1989 Classic Arcade
An Xbox Live Arcade version of the game was released under the name TMNT 1989 Classic Arcade on March 14th, 2007. Like other classic arcade games on the Xbox 360 platform, portions of the original arcade game are emulated with network code and other new features added. Players can earn achievements as well as play 2-4 player co-op (both online and offline). The game costs 400 Microsoft Points ($5 US) and is not currently available in Australia.