Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (Arcade) Playthrough

A playthrough of Konami’s 1991 license-based arcade beat ’em up, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time. Played through as Michaelangelo on the default difficulty setting. Once the game ends at 35:45 I let the attract sequence play on loop to show the different character profiles. Finally, at 41:07 I load up the service menu to run the machine’s diagnostic sound test. Any excuse to blast more orchestra hits, you know? Konami created a lot of arcade classics back in the late 80s/early 90s. Contra, TMNT, Sunset Riders, Asterix, G.I. Joe, Bucky O’Hare, X-Men, Vendetta, Violent Storm, Metamorphic Force... the list goes on and on, but few of them are held in quite as high regard as Turtles in Time. It looked like a playable version of the cartoon to my eyes in 1991, and it knew how to kick things off with a bang: the intro plays a lengthy digitized clip of Pizza Power, a song from the TMNT album that was featured in Pizza Hut’s Coming Out of Our Shells tour. What k