Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time
Introduction
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time was developed and published by Konami, released on the SNES in August 1992 as a home conversion of the studio’s own 1991 arcade game of the same name. Up to two players simultaneously control Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, or Raphael, fighting through waves of Foot Clan soldiers and other classic Turtles villains across stages that send the team traveling through time via a broken time-scanner, from prehistoric jungles to the old west to a shrunken battle inside a sewer pipe. The SNES port added new content not found in the arcade original, including additional stages and boss encounters, while preserving the arcade version’s satisfying enemy-tossing combat, in which defeated foes could be hurled directly at the screen for extra points. Its faithful translation of the arcade experience combined with genuinely well-designed new content made it one of the most highly regarded licensed beat ’em ups ever released, still frequently cited today as a high point of both the Turtles franchise and the home-console beat ’em up genre as a whole.
