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RAD Episode 275: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Arcade game (NES), 
It’s the year of the turtle as far as Birdman is concerned and it’s time for yet another TMNT game!
We move things up to the winter of 1989 and Birdman is in grade 6 and he’s about 9 or 10 years old and with a new Turtles game! In today’s RAD we look at the NES port of the classic Konami beat ‘em up. We once again have to save April and Splinter from the Shredder and his goons but this time we’re up against more then balloons with bombs attached to them! How does this 8-bit rendition hold up against a full arcade experience?
The answer may just surprise you!
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This game is great
The maximum is 9 lifes. And there is actually a way to get it without codes and such. You mentioned Stockman but you are bound to hit him by accident enough to kill him. Also mousers are kind of high risk targets so you might also loose lifes in the process. There is a spot on the highway where infinite footclan motorcyclists will spawn and they are way easier to kill than mousers. I grew up with this game and I had very few games to my NES. It was TMNT 2, Mario, Top Gun, a Robocop game and Ice climbers. Needless to say the Turtles where my go to game.
Now that I didn’t know about!
Have you ever managed to beat it in a single continue?
No. Firstly because the first two bosses in the Tecnodrome is such a beast and secondly, I haven’t got the patience to grind my way up to nine lives. I was watching someone playing TMNT 2 on YouTube and they used the Konami-code and after that you begin every stage with 9 lifes, I assume that’s the limit.
No I don’t think I have beat the game without continuing. Nowadays I can usually make it to the Technodrome without loosing all my lifes. But after the stage witch in all honesty isn’t that hard, the second stonesoldier and Krang decimates me. In my opinion Krang is the hardest boss in the game because of his unpredictability, his numerous different melee and ranged attacks and his very short retaliation time after he’s hit. And most of his attacks sends you flying. The Shredder is easy, I just always attack a guy with his helmet on. When both he and his clone has lost his helmet I just attack anyone. If his clone is the one to die first than his new clone will have a helmet on. Now it’s really easy to spot the real one. I can only remember two attacks, he swiped with his sword and the one that takes one whole lifebar in one. But both those attacks are pretty easy to avoid. Oh and my main turtle was always Raph, from time to time I tried to use other but if felt all wrong usually. The timing on all the super hard swiped where all off. Against bosses range does seldom matter though, since all the turtles have the same range on the jump-kick and that’s your main weapon against them. Except for Fly Baxter, for him I just got to the top of the screen and do the super hard swipe (if I directly translated my word for it, it would be the “superstrike”) and it would barely be close enough to hit him, but it did. Because if you are always standing under him, he will never move and the only way he can hit you is if you move from the spot or time it bad and he can target you in the air with his energy balls.
By the way, do you see or get notified when someone comments on your stuff here on BT? Or do you manually have to look it up as I had to now?