Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: The Manhattan Project
hi, everyone!
Its a new week, which means that its time for a new game. This week, i'm playing through the first 3 levels .of tmnt 3 for the nes.
For many people, teenage mutant ninja turtles 2 the arcade is the best nes beat em up ever, but because tmnt3 came out so late for the Nintendo entertainment system, many are not aware of its existence. To me, this is the game that takes the cake and holds the most nostalgic value. It plays great, and sounds great, too!!
We didn't have a lot of money growing up, so i never had a copy of tmnt 2 when it was still hot. My cousin had it, though,, and I remember being totally jealous because I didnt have the game to play on my own time. All of that changed when high school came around, and one of my friends would decide to sell his nes with some games, and having some extra money on hand, I picked it up because our nes wasn't working anymore. One of the games that came with the nes was teenage mutant ninja turtles 3: the Manhattan project. I spent many days playing this with my baby vrother who was around 5 or 6 at the time, and we had a totally tubular time! This game, along with turtles in time for the super nes were among my favorite brawlers growing up, because of their excellent sound design, radical rocking soundtrack, and fresh, satisfying gameplay.
In this game, the turtles are on holiday in Florida, watching April O'Neal on the newscast when suddenly it is high jacked by the shredder, who threatens to take Manhattan for himself, literally.. In this demo, the turtles will fight their way through the beach, surf their way through the Atlantic, and brawl their way accross the big bridge as they rush to help their city. You will hear enemies popping out of the sand, collapsing signs, opening manholes, and all kinds of other stupid obstacles obstruct my way as I bruteforce my way through the game. Before my baby bro discovered that this game had a hidden cheat menu, I could only get to the halfway point of the third level solo before running out of lives and continues. So for this run, I set the difficulty to easy and give myself a few extra lives, though I have beaten it on normal before. Also, when you run out of lives, you are sent back to the start of the current level on your next continue, so i habe edited out where I ran out of lives near the end of the third level so you dont have to hear me play through it a second time. With that out of the way, grab a pizza, your beverage of choice, and check out my ausio demo of tmnt 3 below!
If you have a copy of the game and want to try it yourseld with the cheats, the code for the western release is as follows:
At the title screen, press up up down down left right left right a v start. You will be taken to the cheat menu after pickimg your turtle, who from left to right are Leonardo, Raphael, Michaelangelo, and Donatello. In the cheat menu, the first option is scene select. Under that is difficulty, with normal and easy. Under that is lives, with default of 3, but you can increase it to 5 or 7. Under that is music, and under that is start game. Press a on it to begin playing. Use left and right to adjust the options or change the music, and a to play the music. The menus do wrap.
Let me know if you guys want to hear me finish the game from where I left off, and I'll make another recording. Otherwise, we'll switch genres to something less violent next week.
Enjoy!