This was a bit of an odd duck. I can see what Konami were going for and as a last hurrah for the NES it works. But the NES simply lacks the horsepower necessary to do a fighting game justice, leaving this 8-bit version in a weird place. It’s decent for what it is but […]Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Tournament Fighters (NES)
This was a bit of an odd duck. I can see what Konami were going for and as a last hurrah for the NES it works. But the NES simply lacks the horsepower necessary to do a fighting game justice, leaving this 8-bit version in a weird place. It’s decent for what it is but […]
When you think about it, of all the obscure licenses that were turned into fighting games in the mid 90s the Ninja Turtles made the most sense. Between the two comic book series and the cartoon there are a wealth of characters to throw down with. While the Sega was a valiant attempt the SNES […]
Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting! At least in the mid 90s they were. From big publishers to small, everyone wanted a piece of the fighting game pie. While some like SNK were able to make an entire cottage industry out of it (seriously, if you like fighting games the Neo Geo is an all you […]
I never really thought about it but Sega owners back in the day must have been envious of Nintendo players when it came to Turtlemania. Konami wasted no time exploiting that license in a wide range of products, exclusively for Nintendo. This was a bitter pill to swallow, as the TMNT arcade games especially […]
Ah Turtles in Time. It’s a bit of an understatement when I say I spent illegal amounts of time playing it back in the day. The original Turtles arcade game was awesome, and in my mind that meant this would be too. I wasn’t fortunate enough to have an arcade or mom and pop store […]
TMNT III will always have a special place in my heart. You see, the February 1992 issue of Gamepro is the very first gaming magazine I ever bought and this game adorned the cover, starting my magazine collecting habit that persists to this day. And the game itself? A pretty well done exclusive that refines […]
After the crushing disappointment of the first Ninja Turtles game for NES Konami had to make it up to gamer’s big time. What made it even worse: the first arcade game had been released around the same time, giving gamers the exact gameplay they were expecting. So it makes sense that for the […]
In the 80s the Ninja Turtles were ……the shit. From the comics to the cartoons to the action figures Turtle mania was in full effect. The apex of it all came with the movie in 1989, introducing the “fad” to everyone in the nation. At the crest of all this anticipation of the NES game […]
