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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time box art
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Instruction booklet · August 15, 1992

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time

Hack and slash/Beat 'em upArcade1–2 playersPre-ESRB

The story

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time, developed by Konami, is a side-scrolling beat ’em up for up to two players. It is the fourth game in the series, following Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Originally released as an arcade game, it was later ported to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1992.

Specifications

Released
August 15, 1992
Developer
Konami
Publisher
Konami
Players
2
Genre
Hack and slash/Beat 'em up · Arcade
Rating
Pre-ESRB
Series
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Themes
Action · Science fiction · Comedy
View
Side view
Multiplayer
Co-op · 2+ players

What the magazines said

9
9
9
9
EGM · four reviewers
7
7
6
6
Famitsu · four reviewers
Players
85/100 (168 ratings)
Nintendo Power
4/5
GameRankings
83% (7 reviews)
Mean Machines
80%
BE KIND, REWINDThe week it came out
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Vol. 2 · No. 52Omaha, Nebraska · Late edition25¢
The Omaha World-Pixel
Week of August 14, 1992
Aug. 20

The Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas re-nominates U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle. Pat Buchanan, one of Bush's opponents in the primaries, delivers a controversial convention speech, in which he refers to a "religious war" in the country.

💵 $59.99 in a 1993 catalog · about $134 today

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Data: IGDB · Wikipedia · libretro-thumbnails · Charts: Billboard · Box office: Box Office Mojo via Wikipedia. Today’s money uses US CPI-U, 2025 dollars.