Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project
TMNT 3: The Manhattan Project box art
Developer(s) Konami
Publisher(s) Konami
Platform(s) Nintendo Entertainment System
Release date JP December 13, 1991 (1991-12-13)
NA February 1992
Genre(s) Beat 'em up
Mode(s) Single player
cooperative
Media 4-megabit cartridge
Input methods NES controller

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project is the third video game iteration in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1991.

The game was released in Japan as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Manhattan Project (ティーンエージ・ミュータント・ニンジャ・タートルズ2 ザ・マンハッタ・ブロゾェク Tīn'ēji Myūtanto Ninja Tātoruzu Tsū Za Manhatta Purojeku?) due to the fact that the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video game for the Famicom had its title changed for its Japanese release, affecting the numbering of its two sequels. No PAL version was released, although this did not affect the numbering of the subsequent game in the series (Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles IV for the SNES).

Contents

[edit] Plot

Title screen
Title screen

The Turtles are vacationing at a beach in sunny Key West, Florida when they turn on their travel TV to see April's latest remote news report. As April reports on the escalating crime statistics, the network's signal goes out. Suddenly Shredder appears on screen with a message directed at the turtles themselves. He raises the entire island of Manhattan skyward and takes April as hostage. Seeing this, the turtles take action and cut their vacation short. As now they must return home, rescue April, and put Manhattan back to sea level.

[edit] Gameplay

This game, like the previous turtles game, is a scrolling fighting game. It can be played by one or two players. The 2 player game has 2 modes of play that labeled A and B. In mode A the players can hurt each other, while in mode B they cannot. In the game, the players move forward, fighting Shredder's minions. When the player loses a life, they can switch characters before continuing. If a player has lost all their life reserves they can make a comeback by stealing one of the other player's life reserves.

[edit] Special attacks

The keystone of the game are new special attacks that are unique to each turtle. These attacks can deal out serious amounts of damage to an opponent, but will cost a player one health point until he has one health point left. These attacks are as follows:

Turtle Attack Inspiration
Leonardo Cyclone Sword Spin From Splinter's advice that the best defense is a sharp offense.
Michaelangelo Kangaroo Kick From comments made by the other turtles regarding his smelly feet.
Donatello Knockout Roll From a late night "Bowling for Pizza" party.
Raphael Power Drill Attack From the conscious decision to start using his head.

[edit] Levels

The game features 8 different scenes. Each scene contains one to three distinct parts and one or more bosses. Three of the bosses used in the game come from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze. As follows are the levels as they were listed in level select in the secret "Teenage Mutant Ninja Options" screen.

Scene Area Message
1 Beach Let's Go Turtles! The Start of A Long Hard Battle is Beginning.
2 Ocean Cowabunga Dudes! Let's Ride The Wave Back To Manhattan.
Battleship
3 Bridge Watch Your Step Along The Bridge of Danger.
4 N.Y. New York Has Been Destroyed! Meanwhile Manhattan Is Suspended In The Sky.
Platform
5 Sewer Going Underground Dudes! This Dangerous Sewer Leads To The Technodrome.
Sewer2
6 Technodrome Let's Find April! Then We'll Get That Bogart Shredder.
Technodrome2
7 Building Hey Turtles, Take To The Sky, We Can't Let Shredder Get Away.
Roof
8 Spaceship Cowabunga! We Have To Hurry In Order To Stop Shredder and Save Manhattan.
Spaceship2
Spaceship3

[edit] Foot Soldiers

Like in the previous game Shredder's Foot Clan automaton army are the player's primary enemy. They always attack in waves of three and they are color coded. Each color uses different weapons and attacks.

Color Info
Raspberry The standard Foot Soldier. This soldier will do basic combat.
Orange These soldiers start off on the beach and throw sand in the players eyes. Later in the game they attack using running jumps.
Red These soldiers will throw large shurikens.
White These soldiers carry katanas.
Yellow These soldiers throw boomerangs.
Royal Blue These soldiers will carry large empty oil drums.
Pink These soldiers will carry long spears.
Sky Blue These soldiers will throw daggers.
Grey These soldiers carry bull whips.
Dark Blue These soldiers carry large bar bells
Orchid These soldiers mostly perform flying kicks.
Violet These soldiers can either carry or ride on huge cannonballs.
Light Blue These soldiers do barrel rolls.

[edit] Bosses

The bosses come mostly from the 1987 cartoon show, and include Dirtbag, Groundchuck, Slash, and Leatherhead, as well as Tokka and Rahzar (from the second TMNT movie), and of course, Rocksteady, Bebop, Krang, and Shredder. Triceraton appears on the box, but is not actually in the game.

Boss Info
Rocksteady Rocksteady carries a harpoon gun this time. He bum rushes the player like in the previous game.
Groundchuck Groundchuck will start off charging back and forth. Later he will rip out a piece of nearby pipe to use as a bat.
Slash Slash will move about swinging his Katana. He will then he will lay down on his back and go into a spin and move all around.
Bebop Bebop uses a ball and chain attached to his head. From time-to-time he will swing it at the player.
Dirtbag Dirtbag uses a lightwave from his miner's helmet and his mining pick.
Mother Mouser This is simply a larger version of a Mouser ridden by a Foot Soldier. It hops around dropping Mousers everywhere it goes. It will also shoot fireballs from its mouth.
Leatherhead Leatherhead will start off with a shotgun. He will rush up and grab the player up by the throat, trying to strangle them.
Rahzar Rahzar will start off swinging his paws. He will then move to the edge of the screen and blow cold breath that will turn the player into a rock of ice.
Shredder Shredder will hop from wall-to-wall swinging his sword. He will also use the sword to lift the players into the air.
Tokka Tokka will mostly use his free fist. If the player get to close he will give a right hook that knock them into a neon billboard, instantly electrocuting them. He will also dole out rapid punches.
Mother Mouser Same as the first Mother Mouser.
Krang Krang will start with missiles from his chest. Then he splits in two. His lower half will hop around kicking, while his top half tries to strike the player with a mallot. He then pulls himself back together and uses electrical currents to shock the player.
Super Shredder Super Shredder will fire bolts of plasma into the air that fall to the ground and run across the screen. He will be plagued with hickups that randomly teleport him. He will also fire a a blast that will regress the player into an ordinary turtle for a short period.

[edit] Trivia

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  • The game's box art is by Michael Dooney.
  • Despite appearing on the box-art, Triceraton do not appear in the actual game.
  • Out of all the closing credits, director Kuuneru Asobu is the only one who's credit appears in Japanese hiragana, くうねるあそぶ.
  • The game misspells Rahzar's name as "Rahzer".
  • When the game was reviewed on the short lived syndicated TV series GamePro TV, host J. D. Roth stated that the turtles were vacationing in Miami.

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