![]() You will find weapons scattered all over the place that you can use to expand your set of attacks, and pizzas that will replenish your health.Īpart from the side-scroller or overhead stages, you get to swim underneath a dam and even drive the Turtle Van, which is something you don’t get to do very often in TMNT games. The camera perspective also changes from being overhead at the beginning to a side-scroller view. Since each turtle has their own unique weapon, you will need to know which one to use depending on the situation. The gameplay is a bit complicated, you control each one of the turtles and you can switch between them by pressing the start button. Developed by Konami and published by Ultra, the game holds the title of being one of the hardest games in the Nintendo 8 bit library. Their debut title became one of the best-selling NES games not made by Nintendo, with roughly 4 million copies sold. Here is part 1 of my guide to my childhood in a Heart-Shell, and no that's not a typo! Of course, video games were not left aside and the four turtles whose names are based on painters from the renascence have been featured in 23 arcade and home video games since 1989, on just about every console and computer system imaginable. The TMNT - or Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles as were renamed in some countries - started in a comic book and then became so massive that were seen everywhere, from tea cups and bed sheets to action figures and the big screen. He wrote on the top of the page: Ninja Turtle. The whole idea of four teenage mutant ninja turtles (it sounds a bit weird, doesn’t it?) came up as a joke when Eastman sketched a turtle standing on its hind legs, wearing a mask, with nun chucks strapped to its arms. For me, coming home from school circa 1992 meant two things: I was free from that educational jail and I could watch a new episode of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a series straight from the minds of two struggling artists: Kevin Eastman (a guy I had the chance to meet and he is the personification of awesomeness) and Peter Laird. Despite many difficulties, we had plenty of great things the best gaming consoles ever made, awesome movies, a lot of great metal bands and no internet. With Rogen himself now in charge of spearheading yet another reboot of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" it's hard to tell if the same lightning in a bottle can ever be captured again, but the influence of the original is hard to beat.Growing up in the 80s and 90s was glorious. On the DC side you can also see the "Turtles" influence in films like the kid-friendly "Shazam!" or the not-so-kid-friendly "The Suicide Squad," whose ridiculous King Shark winds up becoming a surprisingly emotional character who could have fit right into the original "Turtles." Even Sega's recent "Sonic the Hedgehog" took its core drama and mythology of the character seriously even while being goofy enough for a three-year-old to enjoy. ![]() ![]() Fox's R-rated "Deadpool" movies in particular are terrific at juggling fourth-wall-breaking absurdity with the elasticity to bounce back into true drama. While not all of Marvel's output can be classified as outright comedy, there are many that can be: "Guardians of the Galaxy" (and its sequel), "Ant-Man" (and its sequel), "Spider-Man: Homecoming" (and its sequel), "Deadpool" (and its sequel), "Thor: Ragnarok" and even the recent martial arts-themed "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" leaned strongly into humor. Even the follow-ups in New Line's original "Ninja Turtles" trilogy went too far over to camp with 1991's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze" and its embarrassing Vanilla Ice cameo, or the 1993 trilogy capper "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III" and its absurd/lazy time travel conceit. This fidelity to the material proved to be much harder than Barron made it look. Their subway lair looked like a real sewer, not something sanitized for children. Casey Jones looked like Casey Jones with his trademark hockey mask. By the time "Ninja Turtles" came to theaters other films had tried and failed to tap into the same kid-friendly comic book tone, namely George Lucas' tone-deaf take on Marvel's "Howard the Duck" and Cannon Films' hopelessly schlocky "Masters of the Universe." The biggest sin both of those efforts committed was deviating too much from the source material, something "Ninja Turtles" took to heart by maintaining the look and feel of the characters and their NYC setting. ![]()
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