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Now, let's get one thing straight from the outset, Turtles is neither the most complicated or involving game in the world. However, Probe's conversion of what could best be described as a fairly basic coin-op beat-'em-up is admirably close to its coin-gobbling dad, complete with all the regular Turtles and their opponents.

Catering for one or two players, the game leads the Turtles through a brace of increasingly dangerous screens, gradually leading up to a climax involving rescuing the glamorous April from a building, set alight by the evil Shredder.

Turtles suffers from two distinct problems. The first is that one feels Turtlemania is definitely on the wane, and there is no longer the public fever guaranteeing that anything green will sell by the bucketload. The second is that, despite Probe's pretty sound conversion, the game's quite easy, and even the coin-op itself wasn't that incredible.