Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Konami
Developer: Konami
Distributor: Ecofilmes (PT), Tec Toy (BR)
Licensor: Mirage Studios, Surge Licensing
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1-2
Release Date RRP Code JP 1992-12-22 ¥6,800 (7,004)6,800e T-95013 US 1992-12 $54.9554.95 T-95016 EU 1993-04 T-95016-50 DE 1993 DM 99.9599.95 T-95016-50 PT 1993 MDJ95016 UK 1993-06 £39.9939.99 T-95016-50 SE (Rental) 199x AU 199x BR 199x 045060 KR 199x GM8082JT
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist, known in Europe as Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist and in Japan as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Return of the Shredder (Ｔ.Ｍ.Ｎ.Ｔ. リターン オブ ザ シュレッダー) is a Sega Mega Drive beat-'em-up game developed and published by Konami. It was first released in Japan and the United States in December 1992, and it is the first game in the TMNT franchise to appear on a Sega console.

It is a rearranged port of the developer's July 1992 Super Famicom game Turtles in Time (with additional elements taken from both the 1989 arcade game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the 1991 Famicom game The Manhattan Project).

Story

Introduction

April O'Neil is reporting from Liberty Island when, in a flash of light, she and her audience witness Manhattan Island suddenly start to shrink. Shredder hijacks the airwaves and announces to the world that this was a demonstration of the power of the Hyperstone, the treasure of Dimension X. With the Hyperstone in his possession, he has the power to take over the world. The Turtles have no choice but to stop Shredder.

Gameplay

The game is a belt-scrolling beat-'em-up, similar to Turtles in Time. The player can choose from any of the four turtles at the beginning of the game. Each turtle walks with and and moves in and out of the plane with and . They jump with and attack with . Each turtle executes a unique power technique after landing several successive hits. Turtles sometimes grab enemies and body slam them while attacking them. Each turtle also has a deadly attack that can be performed with +, which attacks enemies all around the turtle at the cost of a small amount of health. Various objects around the level can sometimes be hit and knocked into enemies; some even explode, damaging nearby enemies. Some levels feature traps such as manholes or planks that hit the player when stepped on.

Turtles can dash by holding while walking. While dashing, the turtle can perform a shoulder charge with , a front flip with , a slide attack with then , or a front kick with +. The turtles also have a variety of techniques that can be performed by pressing in mid-air, such as a front kick right after jumping, a diving kick near the apex of the jump, a flying kick near the bottom of the jump, or a weapon swing at any other point of the jump.

Turtles have a health meter that goes down as they take damage from enemies. If a turtle runs out of health, he is stunned momentarily but revives if the player has lives remaining. If the player runs out of lives, the game can be continued from the beginning of the current stage.

The game can be played with two players simultaneously, with each controlling a different turtle.

Characters

	Leonardo
	The leader of the group. Leonardo is the most mature and disciplined. He wears a blue mask and fights with two katana. His power technique is the Bamboo Split, where he jumps in the air while thrusting his sword outward, and his deadly attack is the Spinning Blade, where he spins around with both katana extended.
	Michelangelo
	Michelangelo is good-natured and exuberant. He wears an orange mask and fights with dual nunchaku. His power technique is the Smile Finish, where he spins one of his nunchaku, and his deadly attack is the Kamikaze Attack, where he darts forward while fanning out his nunchaku.
	Donatello
	Donatello is the calmest and most intelligent of the group. He wears a purple mask and fights with a bō staff. His power technique is the Hurricane Attack, where he twirls his bō, and his deadly attack is the Toe Smash, where he uses his bō to do a leaping kick.
	Raphael
	Raphael is short-tempered and cynical. He wears a red mask and fights with twin sai. His power technique is the Vacuum Slice, where he spins his sai around, and his deadly attack is the Jumping Spin Kick.

Items

	Pizza
	Fully restores the turtle's health.
	Bomb
	Makes the turtle spin around and attack enemies in an invulnerable state for a short duration.

Stages

	New York City
	The boss fight is against Leatherhead.
	The Mysterious Ghost Ship
	The boss fight is against Rocksteady (but no Bebop).
	Shredder's Hideout
	The boss fight is against Tatsu, Shredder's right-hand man in the first two Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies (in his only video game appearance).
	The Gauntlet
	The stage contains a boss rush against the three previous bosses and a boss fight against a human Baxter Stockman.
	Technodrome, The Final Shellshock
	The boss fights are against Krang's Android and Super Shredder.

History

Legacy

The game was included in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection, a compilation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games released in late 2022 for the PC, Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Xbox One.

Versions

While the arcade and SNES versions follow a time travel theme, Hyperstone Heist follows an original storyline written for this port. The game shares nearly the same soundtrack and sound effects as Turtles in Time, but the music plays faster in Hyperstone Heist. Though there are fewer than half the levels as Turtles in Time, each level is longer. Furthermore, Hyperstone Heist has a more aggressive enemy AI and faster-moving gameplay. The player can still slam enemies back and forth on the ground in Hyperstone Heist but can no longer throw them towards the screen. Unlike the original arcade and SNES version, whose art style is closer to the 80s cartoon series, the Mega Drive version's art style is closer to the original comic book series by Eastman and Laird (for example, no pupils and overblown muscles).

Localised names

Also known as

Language	Localised Name	English Translation
English	Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist	Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist
English (US)	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist
Japanese	Ｔ.Ｍ.Ｎ.Ｔ. リターン オブ ザ シュレッダー	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Return of the Shredder

Production credits

• Game Programmer: Y. Sasaki, A. Minakata, I. Akada, H. Yamane, O. Maruyama
• Character Designer: T. Miyoshi, T. Nishiwaki, Y. Takano, Y. Kambe, K. Fujioka
• Sound Designer: M. Ikariko, Y. Takamine, K. Kinouchi, H. Inoue
• Products Designer: H. Sumida, K. Nanba, K. Yoshihashi

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In-game credits

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• Cover artist (US/EU/BR): Tom DuBois

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Uncredited

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Publication Version Score 1700 igr dlya Sega (RU) NTSC-U 50 1700 igr dlya Sega (RU) NTSC-J 60 Aktueller Software Markt (DE) 75 Beep! MegaDrive (JP) NTSC-J 68 Consoles + (FR) 93 Cool Gamer (RU) 60 Electronic Games (1992-1995) (US) NTSC-U 88 Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U 78 Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 10 (RU) NTSC-U 80 Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 5 (RU) NTSC-J 70 Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide (UK) 83 Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J 65 GameFan (US) 95 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 95 GamesMaster (UK) PAL 47 Hippon Super (JP) NTSC-J 70 Joypad (FR) 94 Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming (UK) PAL 65 Mega Drive Fan (JP) NTSC-J 74 Mega (UK) NTSC-U 80 Mega Action (UK) PAL 78 Mega Force (FR) 90 Mega Fun (DE) NTSC-U 86 MegaTech (UK) PAL 87 Marukatsu Mega Drive (JP) NTSC-J 73 Player One (FR) 87 Power Up! (UK) 83 Power Play (DE) 76 Power Unlimited (NL) 90 Sega Magazin (DE) 73 Sega Power (UK) PAL 46 Sega Pro (UK) NTSC-J 86 Sega Pro (UK) PAL 86 Sega Zone (UK) NTSC-U 82 Sega Force (SE) 85 Sega Force (UK) NTSC 81 Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J 74 Todo Sega (ES) 90 Tricks 16 bit (RU) 78 Tricks Gold (RU) 73 Video Games (DE) 71

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External links

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist article by Kurt Kalata at Hardcore Gaming 101

References

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games for Sega systems
	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist (1992) | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (1993)
	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1991)
Unlicensed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games for Sega systems
	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Legend Returns (2012)