COWABUNGA EVERYONE!

This week's contest is gonna be: Teenage Mutant Nija Turtles 3
Here are the rules:

• 1 life only
• Play as whichever turtle you choose
• Highest score wins
• GENRE: Beat ‘Em Up

The contest ends Sunday, 5/26/13 at 10 PM NA time.  Your user name MUST be in the picture for your score to be valid.  The entire TV screen, or computer monitor if you are playing on an emulator, MUST be in the picture for the score to be valid.  No partial screenshots will be considered or accepted.  No screenshots by hitting "print screen" on a computer will be allowed.  You must take a picture of your computer monitor.  There may be instances where this will be acceptable, but it will be at the discretion of myself and the contest organizers.  Also, the use of turbo controllers is forbidden, as well as any cheat codes, Game Genies, or save states if playing on an emulator.  Also, we will only be using NTSC systems for the contests.  The use of PAL systems will NOT be allowed.  Good luck everyone and have fun

Been awhile since I played this one. Love this game and Tournament Fighters.

I've been playing this all week and I can beat it without continuing, but I'm not sure how far I was getting on one life. This should be a good one.

Never played this before either. Going to have to emu it this week....again. The rom I current have is corrupt,so I'll have to redownload it from somewhere else. Won't be able to play until tuesday evening at the earliest anyway.

I hope to get my first score in sometimes in tomorrow. I'll probably just be in it for the participation point.

This is Manhattan Project, right? Might have to dust it off out of the attic.

Since the rules are one life only, should we take our pictures as soon as we lose our one life and the "turtle select" screen comes up at the bottom of the screen?

Yes it is!

I would say it is the best time to take your picture.

Reading this title reminds me of something... oh yeah: Mattel Electronics Presents: BEEEEEEEEE-SHEVENTEEEEN BAWMERRRRRR

Anyway, sounds cool, I haven't played the game before

It's been a while since I played this. I'll probably post a score later in the week to get a participation point when I come up with something respectable.

Sorry I haven't been following things lately. Is Bimmy out sick?

*Ninja

--Grammar Nazi

In all seriousness, I never played this and I didn't like the second one on the NES! Seems like a participation point week

Finally, a game I actually have on my shelf downstairs. I'll be taking part in this one, dudes.

This might be the first week I have to emulate. I don't have a copy of TMNT 3.

Broke 100K last night. Tip, the only boss you really need to be concerned about is the first one. Let's see what I can get today and post a pic.

Score updated.

Good timing, I bought a copy of TMNT 3 last week and it's being delivered today. Of course, I haven't played this game in a good 20 years.

No worry, he's simply travelling for a few days.

78,200 (score updated!!)

Yeah... I suck at like 90% of Beat 'Em Ups.

Got to play this for about 20 minutes tonight. At first glance it doesn't look as good as Turtles 2 but I'm still looking forward to digging into this game tomorrow evening.

I'll give this another go today. Maybe if I try playing it safe by using the throw move more often I'll be able to get farther.

Score: 116,900

I justed watched James and Mike play turtles in time on cinemassacre.com . (avgn)
And while they're are playing they talk about turtles 2 and 3 for the nes.
Guess what? they compared the tmnt 2 nes version with the arcade version.

I'm so sick and tired about this!
People always talk shit about the nes version.
It doesn't look as good as the arade version.Like seriously??

I played the arcade and the nes version back in the day.
And i think the nes port was great!
It doesn't look as good as the arcade.My god people the nes is not a neo geo aes.
The nes version even has extra levels.(but no 4 players)
The programmers did the best the could with 8 bits.
Give the game some credit.so now i can play tmnt 3

Nerd rage unleashed

It's definitely not THAT bad, but I for one was still disappointed in TMNT 2.  Not so much for the reasons others complain about.  I was just expecting a little bit more faithful translation of the arcade game.

For example, one of my favorite scenes from the arcade game was when you're just about to rescue April and you have to fight Rocksteady and Bebop at the same time.  They replaced that battle with Baxter the Fly.  Not only was he a letdown, but he was also a pushover.

Then they changed some of the BGM music.  My favorite track from the arcade was during the skateboard level, but they didn't use the same tune on the NES.

I also didn't like how they made every level longer.  Things like this make the game kinda drag on, particularly near the end of the game.  I would have preferred a few more new levels instead of what they did, but oh well.  (To be fair, TMNT 3 drags on near the end as well [*cough* rooftop] I don't like it in that game either.)

TMNT 2 is still a very good rendition of the arcade.  I just don't like it as much as I wish I did.