TMNT: Tournament Fighters is a strange thing: 3 different consoles, 3 different games. I mean not just stylistically speaking or considering the limitations of the NES. The 3 games are completely different in story, gameplay, and obviously graphics.
Story:
As I said, each version has a different story:
On SNES, There's a fighting tournament going on and Shredder enters, so the Turtles enter to watch Shredder and stop any possible plans the ol' Shredhead might have... but the game also has a Story Mode, which is different from the standard mode. Here, Karai kidnapped April and Splinter. It's up to the TMNT to rescue them.
On Genesis, Karai and Krang have cloned the turtles and other fighters and they're wreaking havoc on Dimension X. It's up to the Turtles to stop the Clone madness, break the unholy alliance of Karai and Krang, and rescue Master Splinter, because April's tired of being a damsel in distress this time.
On NES, the Shredder challenges the Turtles to a final fight, so the Turtles fight amongst themselves to see who is worthy of defeating Shredder once and for all.
TMNT games of this era were somewhat lacking in the story department... looking at them from a logical point of view the NES game has the best story. In a close second place we have yhe Genesis game, and in last place the SNES game.
NES: 6.5
Sega: 6.0
SNES: 6.0
I know what you're thinking: why does the SNES rates the same as Sega? The Story Mode story compensates for the lackluster "Arcade Mode" and the difference is too minuscule for my scoring system.
Music and sounds
Right out the bat, we know that NES is inferior here, since both Sega and the SNES have better sound cards. I'm not even going to pretend that I'm a musical expert. All I can say is that all 3 Games have very different styles of music, but the SNES version is slightly better than Genesis. It will force another tie here because the difference is less than 0.5 and my ratings only work with half points or full points.
NES: 6.0
Sega: 7.0 (more like a 6.88)
SNES: 7.0 (more like 6.9)
Graphics
Yes, the NES Game loses here as well for obvious reasons. The SNES pulls the win by a bit over the Genesis version. I mean look at them. Once again, thanks to VCDECIDE for the gameplay comparison between Sega and SNES.
For a NES Game, the NES gets a 7.0
The SNES and Sega Genesis are both 16-bit consoles so they don't get an unique category and they shall be rated in an equal manner.
SNES: 9.0
Sega: 8.0
Controls
3 different consoles, 3 different controllers. The truth of the matter is that all 3 are responsive as their consoles allow. The NES feels the worst, because it is a lot weaker than the SNES or Genesis. But for a NES game, this game is far more responsive than I expected... and I have played the bootleg SF2 NES game and the official Gameboy game... playthroughs on links are not mine.
NES:8.0
Sega:8.5
SNES:9.0
Gameplay:
3 fighting games, 3 completely different games, but they're still 1v1 games.
The NES version feels the most rushed and unpolished. Not sure if it was rushed at the end of the NES era or if the hardware limitations had something to do with the roughness. I'M going with Being an end of era game of an obsolete console that got a small team with no budget as the reason.
The Genesis version feels a lot more polished than the NES, but with 2 attack buttons it feels severely limited.
The SNES Version is the most polished of them all and it's a decent fighting game... but unable to compete with the king of fighters... Street Fighter II...
NES: 6.5
Sega:7.5
SNES:8.5
Fun Factor:
These games are uhhhh... not quite as fun as I hoped. They have SNK Boss syndrome and some versions are broken AF...
The nostalgia factor is what keeps the SNES version above the other two... to be fair, I played the Genesis game as a teen and hated it then... I don't like it now... The NES Version I'm not feeling it.
I Really hate to do this:
NES: 3.5
Sega: 5.0
SNES: 7.0
Overall:
These aren't GREAT games, but they aren't AWFUL games... at best the SNES version is barely above average...
NES: 6.25
Sega: 7.0
SNES: 7.75
It's kinda sad that we got barely average games, when the material has the potential of being amazing... Imagine if 90s Capcom had been behind Tournament Fighters...
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