I beat that game after a month of playing nothing but that underwater level
IIRC, you are rewarded with another underwater level
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Thursday, 22 March 2012 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
you're shitting me
― goole, Thursday, 22 March 2012 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think it's immediately after but I do vividly remember there being two of them because it caused some of the finest cursing of my life
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Thursday, 22 March 2012 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
haha this is a total trigger:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4tc4Jcc1dE
I haven't heard this music in 22 years and all I want to do is shout FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK GODDAMN STUPID FUCKING SHIT-ASS GAME EAT MY NUTS AND BITE MY ASS YOU SHITTY WHOREFACED DICK
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Thursday, 22 March 2012 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
also that insane jump you have to make on the level just before the underwater level used to drive me nuts
― grimes - (the elder scrolls iv:) oblivion (diamonddave85), Thursday, 22 March 2012 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
oh god it's like that platforming element in double dragon 2
― goole, Thursday, 22 March 2012 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
That underwater level is a cakewalk compared to the Technodrome. That game is brutal.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 22 March 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/vALJm.png
― ♆ (gr8080), Thursday, 22 March 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
now the party can start
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 March 2012 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
Vanilla Ice super OTM about this
I've had a few people on Facebook going absolutely bonkers over this (in a bad way), and it's crazy. The last TMNT movie got awful reviews and the franchise has always been commercial as hell so what's the problem?
― frogbs, Thursday, 22 March 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
what if they were frogs
― Lil T the Bowed Jet (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 22 March 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ how some news outlets are reporting on that sarcastic peter laird blog post as a legit endorsement of bay's alines thing
― ♆ (gr8080), Thursday, 22 March 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
maybe they do need a universal sarcasm font after all
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 March 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
I just hope they make April O'Neil super hot, both movie versions were kinda meh.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 23 March 2012 01:14 (twelve years ago) link
alien race of april o'neils
― ♆ (gr8080), Friday, 23 March 2012 01:17 (twelve years ago) link
why would you even announce something that's only happening in 2014 now, that's cruel
― flopson, Friday, 23 March 2012 01:19 (twelve years ago) link
december 2013 now
― ♆ (gr8080), Friday, 23 March 2012 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
ah, ok cool
― flopson, Friday, 23 March 2012 01:26 (twelve years ago) link
; ]
― ♆ (gr8080), Friday, 23 March 2012 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
I beat that game after a month of playing nothing but that underwater levelIIRC, you are rewarded with another underwater level― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Thursday, March 22, 2012 3:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkyou're shitting me― goole, Thursday, March 22, 2012 3:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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irl lolz
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 23 March 2012 05:16 (twelve years ago) link
I didnt even fuck with the first NES game; I went straight to the second one, which was an adaptation of the (first) arcade game...
― waiting in the shadow of the Big Gulp (loves laboured breathing), Friday, 23 March 2012 12:52 (twelve years ago) link
the first NES game is like stockholm syndrome for a whole generation of children
― Nhex, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
It's got great music, absolutely horrible controls. If you lose Donatello/Leonardo you may as well hit reset. The underwater level gave me strife as a kid but i think after 4 or 5 tries I figured it out and it's actually pretty easy to beat once you get through it. Wading through the relentless respawning armies in the following stage, however...
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
^i played through this game so many times
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, it's really the first sewer/city level that's the worst
this is coming from someone who was readily able to beat the speeder stage in Battletoads
― Nhex, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
I salute you. That thing destroyed me
― Number None, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
This is like the zenith of bad remakes
― Raymond Cummings, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
Wow @ speeder stage in Battletoads. You are a god among men.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
my memory of being a kid reading Nintendo Power is that every other issue was about Battletoads (and the rest were inexplicably about Star Tropics)
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
lololol
― dies irate (loves laboured breathing), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe this 300 page TMNT graphic novel I have from 88 will finally be worth something.
― calstars, Friday, 23 March 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
i wonder if this is the reason for all the tmnt references on tv shows l8ly
― Lamp, Friday, 23 March 2012 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
no thats because tmnt is a permanent part of the pop culture zeitgeist
― ♆ (gr8080), Friday, 23 March 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
oh man i had the sickest vocal sample of krang shrieking SHREEEEEEDDDDDERRRR that i used to loop over synth-y noize tracks o i hope i still have it
― Lamp, Friday, 23 March 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
see?
― ♆ (gr8080), Friday, 23 March 2012 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
i have to say tho that the cartoon and the snes game is probably a much bigger part of my pop culture zeitgeist than the og movies as much as i enjoy 'turtles in time'
― Lamp, Friday, 23 March 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlUlEpnBxNg&feature=related
― Lamp, Friday, 23 March 2012 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
(and the rest were inexplicably about Star Tropics)
this game is dope as fuck
― Lamp, Friday, 23 March 2012 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
cartoon was pretty big for me
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 March 2012 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
can't believe there's not a chillwave band called Star Tropics. or Tar Stropics.
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Friday, 23 March 2012 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
lol i have a song called 'star tropics'
― Lamp, Friday, 23 March 2012 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
haha
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Friday, 23 March 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
star tropics is my favorite game of all time most days
― ♆ (gr8080), Friday, 23 March 2012 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
star tropics is good stuff.
was able to get aaaall the way to the technodrome in tmnt and some sadistic shit w an autoscrolling screen where you had to diffuse bombs in battletoads. could never beat either, and man, did i ever waste a lot of time trying.
god, even thinking about these games is basically giving me an aneurysm!!!
― original bgm, Friday, 23 March 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
also getting mad at youtube for not letting me watch 'shredder's many jabs at krang' in my region of the world
― original bgm, Friday, 23 March 2012 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
yes
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 23 March 2012 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
How were you able to beat the speeder stage? That part is impossible. Game-breaking bug and they never expected anyone to beat the game.
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Friday, 23 March 2012 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
the other levels were nearly impossible - i never did beat the final tower, even using the warps to get there. but the speeder stage could be memorized and doable if you did it a million times. i probably still have it committed to muscle memory, considering how many times i died over and over again. i vaguely remember pausing a lot, training to learn the placement of the blocks and such
now the snake and unicycle levels, forget it.. i think i maybe beat them once ever, if that
― Nhex, Friday, 23 March 2012 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c6/Battletoads_cartoon_title_screen.jpg
wtf
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Friday, 23 March 2012 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
I REMEMBER THAT SHIT
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 23 March 2012 23:28 (twelve years ago) link