Jeremy Parish
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NES Works 131: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
🕑 Added 2024-03-13 13:00:18 +0000 UTCI keep telling myself that I need to get my scripts under control. These videos get longer and longer with each passing year. Remember when I was publishing five-minute weekly videos on Game Boy games that no one wanted to hear about? I do! And now, here we are: Despite my reworking my production schedule to keep video lengths manageable by breaking more individual games out into standalone episodes instead of doubling them up (hence the incorrect episode number citation in the host intro), this video ended up being nearly half an hour long. Imagine how long this would have been if I had stuck with my original plan to pair it with California Games!
Oh well. If I've done this correctly, my folly is your entertainment. If not... well, I'll go live in the sewers with the Turtles, or something.
Comments
Kevin Quillen
I think the difference though is Batman, connected close to the 89 movie or not, was still a great game in its own right. Sunsoft was on a roll. It felt great to play, the soundtrack rocked. TMNT was way way rougher around the edges and far more difficult than it really needed to be.
Sven Mascarenhas
Also, there's some weird issues with the script - I think you forgot to edit out a couple of alternate takes on lines.
Sven Mascarenhas
Gotta say Jeremy I think the thesis of tie-in games being less out there doesn't QUITE hold up, given that Batman is every bit as insane as the Turtles and it's about six months away in the release schedule. Sure, it's got some closer ties to the movie, but only BARELY; everything from the power ups to most of the bosses are out of a weird anime fever dream (or incredibly random comic book pulls), as you talked about when you jumped ahead to it. PS - Don't think I didn't catch that Contra Force namedrop. Anyway, we both know that a certain Taxan licensed game did the "switching between team members" formula way better than Konami did....
