When I bought this game, it was basically around the time when I was completely hyped for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the late 1980s.  It was one of the coolest things going on around that time.  This game plays completely different than pretty much all of the other games in the series.  This game was developed by Ultra Games and was a platformer unlike the arcade style beat 'em ups that you see in the sequels.  Admittedly, I had more fun playing the arcade games with complete strangers at a local Pizza Hut compared to this game, but I had fun with this game nonetheless.  One of the more memorable stages is Stage 2 which was the Hudson Dam and when you have to go through the underwater section of the game.  I grabbed the theme mainly because it is pretty soothing for a section that is supposedly rather tense.  In this section, if memory serves me, you had to disarm eight bombs in 2:20 while swimming through areas of electric seaweed and electric zappers.  It's pretty funny when watching a first timer do it and get to the end of the disarming section only to realize that he/she forgot a bomb.  Although a lot of people hated this section, I found it pretty fun.