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OpenBOR NES homage — 60 characters, 17 stages, four pads on one couch.
That One Thing
You unlock the cast by beating stages — villains included — until the roster looks like the entire toy aisle.
Sixty characters and four pads on one couch still feels like the NES TMNT cabinet — without inventing online netcode OpenBOR does not have.
Worth the cost
Free, or regularly available for $15 or less. Good developers deserve to be paid, and optional cosmetics, expansions, and premium extras are welcome. But we won't list games that sell competitive advantages, disguise a trial as free, or charge again to finish the core experience.
Ready to play
Playable and satisfying today. It can be unfinished; it cannot be unfun. We love supporting indie developers, but prototypes, broken releases, and promises of a future game do not make the cut.
Tested by PlayBound
We install it, launch it, and play it ourselves. We've spent hours building definitive editions and making multiplayer work, because a store-page claim is not the same as a game we can confidently put in front of you.
That One Thing
Every game needs that one thing we'd excitedly tell our friends about. It might be the mechanics, story, art, soundtrack, controls, community, or the way it brings people together. If it doesn't have one, it doesn't make the catalog.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Rescue-Palooza! last verified against the bar on . Read the full standard →
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Rescue-Palooza! is Merso X's free OpenBOR homage to the NES TMNT beat 'em ups. Story mode sends you across seventeen stages to rescue everyone Shredder kidnapped; clear a stage and you unlock more characters until sixty fighters from cartoons, comics, movies, and toys are on the select screen. Arcade mode opens once story is done.
Co-op is the pitch. Up to four players share one machine with combo setups, rideable vehicles, and voice clips from the show. Controllers are first-class; two players can share a keyboard if pads are short.
It is a fangame. Nickelodeon and Konami did not publish it. PlayBound lists it as freeware fan work from Game Jolt (project 39658), not as an official product. We host a PlayBound Windows package for one-click install after you upload the zip.
Online is honest: OpenBOR here has no native netcode. Friends who are not in the room use PlayBound Couch / phone-as-controller so remote pads appear as local players on the host PC — the same path as X-Men Arcade Remake and other local-only remakes.
We carry it because free four-pad TMNT co-op still clears the bar for couch parties, and because Couch mode covers remote friends without lying about LAN.
We picked Rescue-Palooza because it is a finished, free OpenBOR TMNT co-op remake with an absurd unlockable roster and real four-pad sessions. PlayBound can install it in one click once the package is hosted, and Couch mode covers the friends who cannot sit on the same couch.
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Minimum
Windows 7 · Dual-Core CPU · 2 GB RAM · DirectX 9 · 250 MB storage
Recommended
Windows 10 · Dual-Core · 4 GB RAM · USB gamepads for 2–4 players
No. It is a free OpenBOR fangame by Merso X. Nickelodeon and Konami did not publish it.
Yes. The Game Jolt release is free. PlayBound's one-click path uses a hosted Windows package of that freeware build.
Not natively. Multiplayer is local 4P co-op. Remote friends use PlayBound Couch / phone-as-controller on the host machine.
Yes. OpenBOR binds pads natively for up to four local players. PlayBound does not rewrite a config file.
OpenBOR (Open Beats of Rage).
More screenshots and trailers live on the official Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Rescue-Palooza! site.
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