The game holds up well and offers a creative vision of the TMNT universe. Overall I enjoyed this game because it felt like you were in the cartoon.
The screen would scroll to one side but also down which added a sense of bigness to the levels. You can team up with three of your friends and each take on a turtle persona. The coolest thing is perhaps the 4-player action. This game is similar to Ninja Gaiden when in comes to game-play and attention to detail. I enjoyed the cartoon and the game, and I had one of the toys…but I generally kept it quiet so as not to risk being dorky (teenagers are silly that way, or at least I was). Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Konami – 1989) I was starting high school by the time the Turtles hit big and didn’t think it would be cool to become too big a fan. It wasn’t Ninjitsu but it would have to suffice. Is it just me or was there a Martial Arts explosion in the mid eighties? Was it because of the Karate Kid? Well, my brother and sister were signed up so that meant I had to try it too. It was sort of an outdoor area behind my grade school with several shops, a grocery store, a theater, and a few restaurants. On certain weekday mornings, I would get up, get ready, hop on the old 10-speed and head to North Park Shopping Center. I grew up in a typical midsized Midwestern town and the best times were had during summer vacation. Enter “The Two-Bit Bandit”! Picture any nice summer day in the 1980’s. My parents had made it clear that a Nintendo was too expensive and game machines in general were a waste of time and money. My love for the Commodore is everlasting, but there was a time in the later half of the 80’s where other technologies surpassed the graphics and game-play possibilities of the great C64. I did get it going on my C64 emulator, but I guess my brain has been poisoned by modern graphics and gaming technology…and I had trouble controlling the thing with the arrow keys on my laptop. There are several great reviews over at a site called and I urge you to check them out. The Last Ninja was the first of 3 games that are considered to be the best games ever released for the Commodore. When we went to the store to return it, I got The Hobbit instead (also a good game). The problem is…I never had this game! I asked for it for Christmas one year but my parents accidentally purchased the IBM version. The Last Ninja (1987 – System 3) You simply can’t talk about C64 ninja games without mentioning The Last Ninja.
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