With the new collection coming out I've been successfully Turtle pilled and started going back to a few games I've played from back in the day.
The first NES game is really fucking infamous among NES kids such as myself growing up during the popularity of the 80s cartoon with Uncle Phil Shredder and I feel it's kinda gotten a shit deal and mostly remembered as a bad game. I disagree with the notion, this game is still pretty fun to play even today and I fucking love the hit sound effects.
It's absolutely not perfect though of course, tons of people remember the dam stage but that stage is fucking easy compared to literally every stage afterwards just like the turbo tunnel from Battletoads(hilarious comparison). The enemy respawn rate is unforgiving and a lot of them take way too many hits before dying consider the sheer amount of them that could spawn on screen. The balance of the Turtles is completely biased towards Donnie and poor Raph has such shit range that you'll find enemies bashing into you at the same time as you hitting them.
When did the Foot Clan get so many steamrollers? Did they steal them all from the local road crew? Did they build them from their bottomless money pockets from shady underground business dealings? Why didn't they just build one super steamroller then? Why steamrollers?! Shredder craves turtle soup with a side of asphalt.
Favorite music: Overworld 1, pretty much out of sheer nostalgia. There's a comment in that youtube link that says "theme of cleaning your room on a Saturday in the 1980s" and it's spot on.
The first NES game is really fucking infamous among NES kids such as myself growing up during the popularity of the 80s cartoon with Uncle Phil Shredder and I feel it's kinda gotten a shit deal and mostly remembered as a bad game. I disagree with the notion, this game is still pretty fun to play even today and I fucking love the hit sound effects.
It's absolutely not perfect though of course, tons of people remember the dam stage but that stage is fucking easy compared to literally every stage afterwards just like the turbo tunnel from Battletoads(hilarious comparison). The enemy respawn rate is unforgiving and a lot of them take way too many hits before dying consider the sheer amount of them that could spawn on screen. The balance of the Turtles is completely biased towards Donnie and poor Raph has such shit range that you'll find enemies bashing into you at the same time as you hitting them.
When did the Foot Clan get so many steamrollers? Did they steal them all from the local road crew? Did they build them from their bottomless money pockets from shady underground business dealings? Why didn't they just build one super steamroller then? Why steamrollers?! Shredder craves turtle soup with a side of asphalt.
Favorite music: Overworld 1, pretty much out of sheer nostalgia. There's a comment in that youtube link that says "theme of cleaning your room on a Saturday in the 1980s" and it's spot on.