Some NES arcade ports are utter shit, lets not kid ourselves, N.A.R.C. was a joke. Back in the day, taking a game that was built for arcades and throwing the code at much simpler tech was not an easy or pretty task. Not that I’m saying arcades were amazingly top of the line back then. If you go download the trial Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game from the Xbox Live Arcade, there isn’t much eye-candy, that’s for sure. But that’s the exact reason why gameplay was the focus. Normal mapped character models were just a twinkles in dev’s eyes back then.

I present: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game. The arcade to NES translation is amazing. The dev’s got rid of the small amount of voice clips that were in the arcade version, toned down the graphics a bit, and shortened some of the levels. But the thing they maintained in entirety is the amazing brawler gameplay. Going through the game with my little brother is one of my favorite memories of the NES days. Check this one out, remember the quarter-munching days.

NES – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game