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Turtles (Magnavox Odyssey²)

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Title Screen

Turtles

Also known as: Tortues (FR box art), Tartarugas (BR box art)
Developer: NAP Consumer Electronics[1]
Publishers: Magnavox[2] (US), Philips[2] (EU/BR)
Platform: Magnavox Odyssey²
Released in US: May 1983[3]
Released in EU: 1983[2]
Released in BR: 1983[2]


CopyrightIcon.png This game has hidden developer credits.
RegionIcon.png This game has regional differences.


Stern's localisation of 600 comes to the humble Odyssey², making use of the system's speech synthesizer add-on to generate background music... by the very loosest definition of the term.

Developer Credits

TurtlesO2 DevCreds.png

Press ? on the title screen after it has finished loading to replace the text with a credit to the game's programmer, Jim Butler.


(Source: Digital Press (Jason Gohlke))

Regional Differences

USA Europe
Turtles (Magnavox Odyssey²)-title.png TurtlesO2 EuropeTitle.png

Rather than try to translate the "TURTLES" title text for every language, the European version simply removes it. The aforementioned hidden credit was unaffected by this change, and can still be accessed.

References

  1. Shared programmer credit with Killer Bees
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 MobyGames
  3. El Paso Times, May 27 1983