Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan

Game Boy - USA - 1st edition.

Developer Konami Publisher Ultra Published 1990-08-03 Platforms Game Boy Genres Beat 'em up, Licensed, Platformer, Platform shooter, Shooter Themes Action, Cartoon, Martial Arts, Ninjas, Science Fiction, Superhero Series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Distribution Commercial

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan is a video game developed by Konami and published by Ultra and released on the Game Boy on 1990-08-03. Like other games in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, it is a beat 'em up, but, because you also have unlimited long-range throwing stars, it can also be viewed as a platform shooter.

Personal

Own?	No.
Won?	Yes.
Finished	2015‎-01-22.

I first saw this game in a hint book and thought it was pretty cool looking, but I never played it when it was popular. I first played it around 2015 and beat it in about a half hour. Had I spent money on this game I would have been pissed!

Review

2	5	6	6	2

Best Version: Game Boy

— This section contains spoilers! —

Good

• The graphics are large, well-drawn, and thematic to the series.
• The soundtrack is pretty expansive for a Game Boy title, and it fits the game nicely with various up-beat numbers including the TV show's theme song which is nice.
• The game makes use of the Konami Code for those players who find it too difficult.

Bad

• There are several non-TMNT-related monsters in the game that could have easily been replaced with something from the series.
• Although each scene does have its own unique look, the game is painfully repetitive.
• The game is too short and too easy, especially since there is a built-in feature to warp directly to the final level! It's as if they left in a debug menu.
• The turtles are effectively identical. Their weapons look different, but they all function alike, even to the point of having the same collision-detection.

Ugly

• The overall game play is tedious and not fun. Most games can't easily be reduced to "reacting to stimuli by pushing buttons," but this one can.

Media

Box Art

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  The US box has the four turtles striking a battle pose while surrounded by Foot soldiers.

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  The Japanese box removes the painting's background, and focuses only the turtles with a eye-popping magenta backdrop. The subtitle is also gone.

Documentation

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  Manual - Japan.

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  Manual - USA.

Maps

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  Stage 1.

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  Stage 2.

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  Stage 3.

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  Stage 4.

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  Stage 5.

Videos

Review - Game Boy Works.

Longplay.

Play Online

Game Boy (Europe), Game Boy (Japan), Game Boy (USA)

Representation

Strong female character?	Fail	The only woman is April O'Neil, and she's just a damsel in distress.
Bechdel test?	Fail	There is only one woman.
Strong person of color character?	Fail	Shredder is Japanese, but he's not strong in this game.
Queer character?	Fail	There are no queer characters.

Titles

Language	Native	Transliteration	Translation
English (Europe)	Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan
English (North America)	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan
Japanese	ティーンエイジ・ミュータント・ニンジャ・タートルズ	Tinneiji Myutanto Ninja Tatoruzu	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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