Well, I played every damn game on here, and it's once again time to celebrate Digital Eclipse for making compilations like this. Nobody touches them when it comes to this stuff - nobody even comes close.

The games themselves are fine. It's fun to look at the early history of the Turtles in video games and chart the progress (or lack thereof) of Konami's approach and how they evolved it based on the smash hits that were the arcade games, specifically. There's nothing earth-shattering in here, but that's not really the point, at least for me. This is a historical document.

And actually, that brings up this compilation's weakest aspect. It's got all the options and save states and rewinds and filters you could ever want, as well as a huge amount of behind-the-scenes documentation (translated design docs!), but it's all just kind of barfed out at you and you have to sift through it. Some of the other Digital Eclipse packages had interactive timelines and other elements that put the games into a bigger context, and all the pieces of that are here, but you have to put them together yourself. That's fine, but I really enjoy a more guided experience.

I will continue to buy all of this company's output, even when, as in this case, the subject matter isn't something I'm all that invested in.