So I grew up playing TMNT 4 player Arcade cabinet, and LOVED it, had the NES and SNES ports but it always made me wish there was a 4 player option!!!

Recently, I have been putting together a list of 4 player games for SNES, Genesis, Dreamcast, N64, and PS2,

I ran across the TMNT games for the PS2, and found this:

TMNT 1 - average game with only 2 player support

TMNT 2: fun game with 4 player support and (TMNT Arcade 4 player game unlocked after you beat the 9th level!!!)

TMNT 3 : another fun 4 player game with (TMNT turtles in time 4 player arcade game unlocked after you beat the first episode!!!)

So much fun, and I never knew they were released on a home console!!! Maybe you guys already knew this, but it definately made my day!!

Zwario

I did not know this at all, very cool. Thanks for sharing!

Yup the reason i bought it for the gamecube lol

Sweet. Thanks for sharing. I'll definitely be looking into getting one of those. I never know they put the 4 player version on a console.

This is great, as my brother has a Gamecube... Just for my sorry arse, are the Gamecube ones the same as the PS2 versions?
 

Yea its the same. Battle nexus 2 is the game you want. You do have to find an arcade machine artifact in level 9 to unlock it.

Its not perfect though. They cut out some of the voice clips.

Close enough for me. Thanks!

The original TMNT Arcade game was released on Xbox Live back in 2006 for 360. I don't know if it's still available, but just throwing out that the perfect port was released for home consoles at one point.

Honestly, games like that, X-Men, D&D Tower of Doom, Castle Crashers, etc are the main reason I keep my 360 hooked up.

I remember the port that is unlockable in Battle Nexus 2 for PS2 had other major sound issues in addition to losing voice clips.If I remember correctly the port did not have any music .I once had the original arcade TMNT 4 player Jamma board,but I sold it to a buddy of mine who had a SuperGun Jamma board player.

Agreed.  Major sound issues.  It does indeed include it in battle nexus 2 but man oh man what a let down when you get there and unlock it only to find it has glitchy sound!

 

I blew through episode 1 in Mutant Nightmare on easy to unlock Turtles in Time. No sound glitches, but the music/voice samples were removed/changed due to licencing issues. Otherwise the game was exactly like the arcade and MUCH more fun than the main game.

TMNT Arcade and Simpsons Arcade were removed from Xbox Live years ago, you can only download them if you already did so while they were on the marketplace. Thankfully I have both but you don't see many people pop up on co-op anymore.

I wish I would've purchased X-Men and Simpsons arcade when I had the chance. At least I got MK2, marvel vs Capcom 1 and 2, and Turtles in Time though. Wish there was a way to share the downloads with others who missed out

They removed MK2 years ago in favor of releasing MK arcade Kollection, which was so half assed it was a joke. Glitchy and terrible sound. The standalone MK2 was the closest arcade port ever released IMO

Wow, Great to know about those 2 turtles GC games, I'm totally going to have to snag those for the arcade unlocks!

This was the best $5 spent. It came out around the time of the animated movie so everyone was getting super hyped about turtles again.  The online mode limited you to 20 credits so it was quite a challenge to actually beat but we did it a couple times.

I was just thinking about that the other day - I bought The Simpsons in 2013 on a whim after someone mentioned it was on PSN on an episode of Retronauts (somehow it managed to elude me until then), and it's sad for me to think it isn't available anymore. Shit like that sucks about the new digital era.

But yeah, the GameCube Turtles games were decent enough, and right now they're your easiest way to play the arcade TMNTs so I second any attempt to pick them up. I co-oped the first one most of the way through with my cousin around Christmas in...2003-2004 ish and remember it being decent.