I’m not good at beat ’em ups or fighting games, but I do find them often fascinating and fun. Maybe it’s due to the fact that I was growing up when those genres were extremely popular. Or maybe because a lot of great beat ’em up titles just don’t care about being serious, realistic or anything other than stupid explosive fun. And I did love the home port versions of the fantastic Konami Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles titles, even that weird first NES one that is objectively not very good. Yet, something about it still feels awesome.
But it’s been a while, the beat ’em up genre fell out of favor, Konami turned to crap and even the TMNT franchise was changing and mutating with each new iteration, becoming much less popular than what it was during the 80s TV show and the first live action movie. But the fans are still out there (not of Konami, they suck). So with the revival of the beat ’em up genre in recent years and never fully fading popularity of the turtles, it’s only natural for Shredder’s Revenge to exist. And it’s pretty neat.
Read more“Happy about: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge”