The most notable would be four player coop which is understandable as the Super Multitap would not come out for another year. Very little is missing which is surprising for such an early release. The Foot clan are a varied bunch but it gets old seeing them over and over. Instead it falls back on the standard foot soldiers and rock men for the entire length of the game. The designers had a chance to add all sorts of era specific enemies and traps. If there is one criticism it is that the game does not make the most of this element. The time travel theme allows for a wide variety of settings as you visit prehistoric times, a pirate ship, the Wild West, and even travel to the future. Turtles in Time is a lengthy game at ten levels which is almost double the length of most brawlers. This move was random in the arcade but is easier to pull off here. Tossing them into the screen grants three points which is crucial to earning extra lives. Grabbing a foot soldier and body slamming them into multiple enemies will quickly clear the screen but awards less points.
Two of the most critical attacks are the over the shoulder throw and the body slam. All are simple to execute using just two buttons and in fact Konami have made a few easier to pull off. Unlike the majority of brawlers all Turtles have a wide variety of moves which keep the action from becoming stale. Leonardo is well rounded and Donatello has the longest reach but is supposedly slow but hell if I noticed. Michaelangelo is a little better in that regard. Raphael is the fastest but of course has the shortest reach. There are some slight differences between all of the Turtles but none so major that I noticed. And that continued when Konami unleashed this fantastic Super Nintendo port. But I didn’t care, I was having the time of my life. While my peers were trying to hold hands and skate with girls I divided my time between this and Revenge of Death Adder, which sounds kind of lame. So the only time I had to play the game came with my Middle School roller skating trips at United Skates of America. Unlike Konami’s first arcade effort I was not lucky enough to find it in a store around my area.
Honestly the amount of hours I’ve spent on this game in the arcade and at home should be illegal. I can easily say that Turtles in Time is one of the games I have spent the most time with. Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Released: AugGenre: Beat ’em up