18. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus (GBA)

Battle Nexus is a stealth-focused action-platformer which features storylines from season two of the 2003 animated TV series, and includes both solo and four-player local co-op. On Game Boy Advance, it's a very different game to its console equivalents, and features the voice talents of Sam Riegel (Phoenix Wright in the Ace Attorney games, and Donatello in many TMNT incarnations) and Michael Sinterniklaas (Leonardo, and Taki Tachibana in Your Name).

17. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Mutant Nightmare (GCN)

Based on the third season of the 2003 TMNT TV show, Mutant Nightmare features four chapters of turtle-based beat-'em-up action-platforming with a host of well-known TMNT villains. The Triceraton army are your first foes, then Baxter Stockman, then the Foot Clan, and finally, a nightmare-themed chapter that makes the heroes in a half-shell fight off dream enemies. You can also unlock a version of the arcade game, Turtles in Time, also made by Konami.

16. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (NES)

One of Konami's early TMNT games, Tournament Fighters is a single-player title in which the Turtles fight amongst themselves to decide who is the best of them to take on Shredder. The gameplay is heavily inspired by Street Fighter and was one of only a few fighting games released on NES in the fighting game boom of the early '90s. Fun fact: This NES version was never released in Japan.

15. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up (Wii)

Ubisoft hired Game Arts, a Japanese studio that had worked on Super Smash Bros. Brawl, to make this 2.5D four-player fighting game. Each stage has traps, interactive elements, and items to power-up and heal the players, much like Smash Bros.

Unlike many other TMNT games, Smash-Up is not based on any particular TMNT series, but it does feature many of the cast of the 2003 animated TV show.

14. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES)

Konami's first crack at the heroes in a half-shell on NES, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles can be tough to go back to if you don't have nostalgia for both the cartoon and the game. Like many an 8-bit tie-in, this is a relatively formulaic side-scrolling platformer that relies too heavily on its licence to power you through its unforgiving stages.

Konami would refine things further in the sequels, but if you were there in the beginning and invested time and effort in TMNT, you'll likely have fond memories of this debut entry. If you're looking to dip your toe in the Turtles pool, probably best to start elsewhere and circle back to this one.

13. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (GCN)

Konami's 2003 take on the TMNT games was — to no one's surprise — another beat 'em up, in which you can play as any of the Turtles (or all four in the Versus mode). It's based loosely on season one of the animated TV show, with plotlines cribbed straight from some of the show's episodes. Repetitive voice lines and simplistic gameplay meant that this one got mediocre reviews despite its slick presentation.

12. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus (GCN)

Battle Nexus, a 2004 sequel to the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on GameCube, has a lot in common with its predecessor. It's based on the animated TV show, it's a third-person beat 'em up, and it's about several teenage mutant ninja turtles. You can even unlock the original 1989 arcade game within this incarnation of the Turts, and watch several animated cutscenes borrowed from the TV show. This game also features a multiplayer co-op mode, with each member of the Turtle team having unique powers to help complete levels all together-like.

11. TMNT (GBA)

TMNT is a hack-and-slash brawler developed by Ubisoft Montreal, the same year that they also worked on and released the first Assassin's Creed, in fact. Despite having the same title as the Wii, DS, and GameCube version — which is fantastic fun when you're trying to find TMNT games in our database — the GBA game is quite different. The others are all 3D action games, whereas this one's a side-scroller — and a decent one, too!

10. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants (Switch)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants is not the steaming cash grab that you might have assumed by seeing the publisher involved. Neither is it anything close to the action-packed highs that we have seen from the heroes in a half-shell in recent years. Instead, we are left with a game that is perfectly serviceable but ultimately forgettable, let down by repetitive levels and combat and lacking any reason to go back for more. If, for some unknown reason, this is the only Turtles beat ‘em up that you can access, then you will likely have a perfectly fine 90 minutes of playtime. But the alternatives on Switch deliver much more memorable, satisfying TMNT experiences.