Post for: #TMNT ^{(4 Posts)}

There's been a couple more games I've played through in my backlog since my blogging about Little Nemo and The Guardian Legend. Next on my sights was a game that I'd wanted to play through for a long time now, the last Konami TMNT game for the Game Boy, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue. Released in 1993, this was a pretty late title in the original TMNT's popularity, with Turtlemania dying down quite a lot since 1989. That being said, I was still a big ninja turtle fan, I mean I never really have stopped. But I remember seeing this game on shelves when it was new, in Electronics Boutique back in the day, and while I debated getting it, I just didn't want to part with my hard earned allowance, which is crazy looking back considering this probably retailed new for $30 at the time! Game Boy games were pretty inexpensive!

I feel like, as with many games released during the NES's lifetime, there have been these waves of popular opinion, thanks largely to the internet, where a game that was liked at the time is ripped apart, then everyone talks about how awful it is, then later on everyone kind of pulls back and realizes that maybe it's not that bad. The most extreme case of this happening was probably E.T. on Atari 2600, which at the time of its release I used to enjoy playing, but gradually it became known as the 'worst game of all-time'. Now I feel that people have backed off a bit and realized that there are far worse games, and that outside circumstances meant that it merely wasn't the game that was loftily envisioned by Howard Scott Warshaw at the time. I feel like the first game based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has had a similar rollercoaster ride of sentiments, and I'm not sure where people usually fall now on whether it's good or not. I'm not sure if I can objectively say that it's one of the best TMNT games of all time, but it certainly still one of my favorites.

In just a little over a week, there's going to be a major DLC update for last year's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge game. In addition to a new mode, costume options and stages, a new character will be playable, Miyamoto Usagi from Usagi Yojimbo. With this addition, something that started as a playground rumor when I was just ten years old, and something I wanted to badly to be real, will finally happen.

Um, I'll blame Summer Reading Club for the long Summer-long absence from my site? At any rate, I recorded these two videos a while back and it looks like I forgot to put them up on this site, so I just wanted to fix that! Watch me play through TMNT: Fall of the Foot Clan for the Game Boy! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVwTGleK_cQ&w=560&h=315] [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LBMww29Gow?rel=0&w=560&h=315]