Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles In Time is itself a 1992 SNES port of the beat 'em up arcade game produced by Konami and released in 1991. While some simplifications were made to bring the game to the console, some other elements like the Mode-7 scrolling effect were utilised to create new elements unique to the title. In the vein of the original arcade game, the four Turtles make their way through streets of bad guys, brawling their way to the Technodrome and beyond, time-travelling to other eras. Turtles in Time became Konami's best-selling arcade title and in the U.S. the home console conversion was the top-selling SNES game of September 1992.

Teenage mootant neenja toitles - heroes in a half shell, struggle power! Yes they are the world’s most fearsome fighting team, and they’re green - even the allegations against Michelangelo are true; he was found by a jury of his peers to indeed be a party dude. If you’re of a certain age, you grew up on this stuff and art lessons on Renaissance painters left you doodling tridents and nunchucks. Maybe hypothetical you gazed out of a hypothetical art class window and thought about this game - the very un-hypothetical and real zenith of Turtlemania: Turtles In Time?

Jump, kick and aggravated-assault your way into this side-scrolling brawler in the vein of Streets Of Rage, itself an SNES port of the arcade classic. Choose your favourite pizza-loving Footclan fighter and take to the streets of New York City to stop the evil Krang’s devious time-travel shenanigans. He and Shredder have only bloody nicked the Statue of Liberty! Splinter raised four martial-arts enthusiasts with a deep sense of civic-duty so through the time portal they must go, all in the name of returning the missing Madame.

Scoring:

Hard Levels Complete > Normal Levels Complete > Deaths Across Both > Time

Normal difficulty, 4 Continues, Rest set to 7.

Yes you read that right, having a lower death count is better than being a fast turtley-boy. You MUST play and complete Normal mode before beginning Hard - any submissions not observing this rule will be cast through a time portal directly into the Big Bang.

Some helpful information from Quantum_P1:

"Level 4 has a boss that requires you to perform the throw move to damage him, and on hard difficulty, the foot soldiers in this fight block attacks which are usually the opener move to perform a throw. This quirk may create a gulf between ppl who have played the game and ppl who havent so wanted to give a pointer here. To perform a throw normally, you attack once to stun, stop briefly, then push forwards and attack again to throw a blocking opponent, you cannot do the attack once to stun part, so instead you need to swap that out with a shoulder charge to stun (shoulder charge breaks through block). To shoulder charge, you dash then attack. Default setup for dash is hold a direction and it kicks in halfway across the screen. in options before you start you can change dash to manual which means you double tap a direction to dash. Highly recommend this change to enable shoulder charges without having to wait for them to kick in while holding a direction. With dash set to manual you are now equipped to throw blocking enemies at the boss of level 4. I hope this made sense, good luck."

1st) Quantum_P1 - Hard Levels: Complete - Normal Levels: Complete - Deaths: 10 - Time: 1:20:16
2nd) wugga - Hard Levels: Complete - Normal Levels: Complete - Deaths: 22 - Time: 1:27:54
3rd) Krameht - Hard Levels: Complete - Normal Levels: Complete - Deaths: 55 - Time: 1:59:21
4th) DMAC - Hard Levels: Complete - Normal Levels: Complete - Deaths: 56 - Time: 1:58:52
5th) shmumbler - Hard Levels: Complete - Normal Levels: Complete - Deaths: 63 - Time: 1:53:12
6th) Big Captain - Hard Levels: Complete - Normal Levels: Complete - Deaths: 74 - Time: 2:06:38
7th) Lovenfloofen - Hard Levels: Complete - Normal Levels: Complete - Deaths: 79 - Time: 2:10:07
8th) NerdyFiona - Hard Levels: Complete - Normal Levels: Complete - Deaths: 110 - Time: 3:15:11
9th) RaefGall - Hard Levels: 9 - Normal Levels: Complete - Deaths: 54 - Time: 1:57:53
10th) HexTree - Hard Levels: 9 - Normal Levels: Complete - Deaths: 188 - Time: 4:59:36
11th) enbyzee - Hard Levels: 5 - Normal Levels: Complete - Deaths: 73 - Time: 1:54:06
12th) Mr Matt Internet - Hard Levels: 4 - Normal Levels: Complete - Deaths: 70 - Time: 1:43:53
13th) Stephen's Rocket - Hard Levels: 0 - Normal Levels: 5 - Deaths: 34 - Time: 1:18:00
14th) Stormfeather - Hard Levels: 0 - Normal Levels: 3 - Deaths: 15 - Time: 0:27:25