HANDHELD TOMY WIND UP TURTLES GAME 1982!RARE!

[Kenny G.]

I have here a very rare non-electronic HANDHELD game made by TOMY in 1982. The title is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Leonardo's pizza vault. It's a non electronic game but a windup game!!

 

It looks good (minor paint damage) and the game works perfectly!!! LOOK AT THE PICS

 

 

Ver nice item guys!! Interested ??! Let me know!

 

 

Greetz from Belgium

KEnny G

[Zwackery]

copyright on back says 1990

[Lurker]

I don't ever post here, but this is a 1990 game, not a 1982 game. The copyright date is clear in the pic and TMNT was first published in 1984.

[djpubba]

Are these worth anything? I've got one that's a space game.

[SRGilbert]

Well, you can't deny that it would have been rare in 1982!

[Kenny G.]

copyright on back says 1990

 

 

Well this is strange !! Look at this pics very carefully (copyright 1982) and look at the following link http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Tomy/TMNT.htm

 

I think this is a rare game!!

[SRGilbert]

copyright on back says 1990

 

 

Well this is strange !! Look at this pics very carefully (copyright 1982) and look at the following link http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Tomy/TMNT.htm

 

I think this is a rare game!!

Tomy is quite a prolific toy maker. The mold for the part was almost certainly re-used from a older toy. Even the original comic book wasn't published until 1984.

[Michael_]

copyright on back says 1990

 

 

Well this is strange !! Look at this pics very carefully (copyright 1982) and look at the following link http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Tomy/TMNT.htm

 

I think this is a rare game!!

 

I´m sure that´s a generic Tomy shell (pun intended ) you´ve got there. The Turtle games were introduced in 1990 to coincide with the first TMNT major motion picture.

As someone else mentioned, the TMNT didn´t see the light of day until 1984, so there´s no way TOMY could´ve created this in 1982.

 

EDIT: Damn, too slow!

Edited August 19, 2007 by Palmer Eldritch

[Zwackery]

copyright on back says 1990

 

 

Well this is strange !! Look at this pics very carefully (copyright 1982) and look at the following link http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Tomy/TMNT.htm

 

I think this is a rare game!!

 

This game was made in 1990. The shell was cast from a mold originally made in 1982.

 

The curator of the handheld museum who put that page together even says at the bottom that he doesn't own the game. Anyhow, Tomy - http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Tomy/index.html - had been using the wind up timer model, which you can see in their 1982 Toy Fair catalog: http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Tomy/Tomy1982/Tomy1982Cat4.htm

 

some more info:

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/terrible2z/379657041/

 

and

 

"Tomy TMNT: Pocket Arcade Games Wind up games, part of the Pocket Arcade series (also called Technoboy series in Japan). This was a sub-series of 4 games based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, one game for each of the turtles (they were sold separately). Donatello's Sewer Seltzer Canon, Leonardo's Pizza Vault, Michaelangelo's Tunnel Trap and Raphael's Sewer Battle."

 

The only thing that would make this game unusual to North American collectors is that the name of the characters were changed from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles.

[SRGilbert]

The only thing that would make this game unusual to North American collectors is that the name of the characters were changed from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles.

Wow, nice catch, I hadn't noticed that. Geez, I thought we were uptight in America.

[Kenny G.]

The only thing that would make this game unusual to North American collectors is that the name of the characters were changed from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles.

Wow, nice catch, I hadn't noticed that. Geez, I thought we were uptight in America.

 

 

Well Guys,

 

I'm willing to sell! If anyone is interested or knows someone who's interested! Give me a good price anthen we'll see!

[Michael_]

The only thing that would make this game unusual to North American collectors is that the name of the characters were changed from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles.

Wow, nice catch, I hadn't noticed that. Geez, I thought we were uptight in America.

 

Ninjas are evil.

 

Here´s an excerpt from Wikipedia:

 

Upon TMNT's first arrival in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Germany, the name was changed to "Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles" (or TMHT, for short), since local censorship policies deemed the word ninja to have excessively violent connotations for a children's program.[9] Consequently, everything related to the Turtles had to be renamed before being released in the UK. The lyrics were also changed, such as changing "Splinter taught them to be ninja teens" to the "Splinter taught them to be fighting teens."

 

The policies also had other effects, such as removing use of Michelangelo's nunchaku (which were at the time banned from appearing in even 18-rated movies) and generally toning down the usage of all the turtles' weapons. After many seasons of never using his nunchaku, they eventually disappeared entirely, replaced by a turtle shell shaped grappling hook called the "Turtle Line".

[Kenny G.]

The only thing that would make this game unusual to North American collectors is that the name of the characters were changed from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles.

Wow, nice catch, I hadn't noticed that. Geez, I thought we were uptight in America.

 

Ninjas are evil.

 

Here´s an excerpt from Wikipedia:

 

Upon TMNT's first arrival in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Germany, the name was changed to "Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles" (or TMHT, for short), since local censorship policies deemed the word ninja to have excessively violent connotations for a children's program.[9] Consequently, everything related to the Turtles had to be renamed before being released in the UK. The lyrics were also changed, such as changing "Splinter taught them to be ninja teens" to the "Splinter taught them to be fighting teens."

 

The policies also had other effects, such as removing use of Michelangelo's nunchaku (which were at the time banned from appearing in even 18-rated movies) and generally toning down the usage of all the turtles' weapons. After many seasons of never using his nunchaku, they eventually disappeared entirely, replaced by a turtle shell shaped grappling hook called the "Turtle Line".

 

Nice info