Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (arcade) — how it played?

How it played: Four players, one turtle each, beating Foot Clan soldiers through the sewers to Shredder.

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What was the four-player Ninja Turtles arcade game?

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (arcade)

Released: 1989
Made by: Konami
How it played: Four players, one turtle each, beating Foot Clan soldiers through the sewers to Shredder
Legacy: One of the best-earning cabinets of 1990; the NES port called it TMNT II

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Four turtles, four joysticks, and a line behind the cabinet at every pizza place in America. Konami's Turtles game arrived at the peak of the craze and was the reason the arcade smelled like pepperoni.

Nobody wanted to be Donatello and everyone ended up as him. The game was designed to be beaten in one sitting with enough quarters, and it usually was, by four kids who'd pooled their allowance.

Sources: Wikipedia — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (arcade game)

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