Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV - Turtles in Time (Australia)
Super Nintendo (SNES)
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Reviewed in 1992
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✪ Reviewed on May 15, 2025
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The full title of Turtles in Time, identical in content. Konami brawler peak, essential for Turtles coop fans.
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Category
Beat-'Em-Up4 players7+
Description
Beat-'em-up featuring the Ninja Turtles battling through time, Australian version. Published by Konami, released in Australia in 1992. Australian version of Konami's Turtles in Time on Super Nintendo.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV - Turtles in Time review
MAX
Art direction
★★★★★
"Iconic"
MAX
Music
★★★★★
"Legendary"
2/5
Story
★★★★★
"Classic"
Colourful sprites faithful to the cartoon, New York streets and spectacular Mode 7 effects: Konami unfurls a beat'em up of delightful liveliness. The roundness of the design and the energy of the clashes overflow with cartoon charm. This visual direction, polished and dynamic, illustrates the golden age of the Konami beat'em up.
Funky and rousing, Konami's music electrifies the Turtles' fights with nervy urban themes, from the famous "Big Apple, 3 AM" to the time travels. Each level pulses with an irresistible groove perfectly in tune with the action. This sonic vitality gives this peak of the beat-'em-up on SNES all its charm.
Gameplay
"Excellent"
Fun
"From the very first seconds"
Dishing out staff and nunchaku blows, hurling enemies toward the screen and travelling through the ages with the Ninja Turtles: this Konami beat'em up overflows with energy and fun. The four-player co-op, snappy pace and cartoon humour make it a gleeful blow-off. Colourful, spectacular and bursting with personality, a peak of the genre to savour among friends.
The Australian SNES edition of Konami's TMNT IV Turtles in Time, distributed under the full 'Ninja' name (not 'Hero' as in British PAL). The Australian cart is rarer than the European PAL version due to the small regional print and stands as an identifiable piece for Konami SNES collectors focused on territorial variants. PAL boxed CIB in the original cardboard box climbs steadily, sustained by this regional singularity.
Better with friends
A licensed beat'em up benchmark where two turtles pound in concert through varied settings, in co-op as smooth as it is spectacular. Mutual aid gives the adventure its spice: splitting enemy waves and chaining throws creates shared moments of bravado. Colorful and readable, it favors immediate fun and makes two-player evenings a party paced by well-landed blows.
Is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV - Turtles in Time still worth playing in 2026?
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV - Turtles in Time, released as Hero Turtles in Europe, is the SFC peak of the Konami beat them up, namely a polished port of the arcade board with fully functional local two player co op. The handling stays precise, signature attacks such as throwing enemies into the screen still feel great and the soundtrack is among the most pumping on the system. Recommended for the best SFC beat them up, especially as a duo, and to nostalgics of the 90s Turtles cartoons.
