{"id":1360,"date":"2012-10-15T11:17:56","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T11:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2012-10-15T11:17:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T11:17:56","slug":"my-top-100-68-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-ii-the-arcade-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=1360","title":{"rendered":"My Top 100: #68 – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1990 – Ultra and Konami (Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Commodore 64, NES, PC, ZX Spectrum, Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network)<\/p><\/div>\n

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My childhood\u00a0was defined\u00a0by\u00a0four things; video games, baseball, ocean liners, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles <\/em>cartoon.<\/p>\n

I could get pretty obsessive about whatever really struck me as fascinating.\u00a0 Games were obviously fun to learn about because I had so much fun\u00a0playing them, and\u00a0baseball was cool because I played it, had a few stats books and\u00a0tried to learn everything about every MLB player and\u00a0team.\u00a0\u00a0As for\u00a0ocean liners, seeing those black and white images of the floating architectural marvels, and reading up on the various stories they all had, was quite haunting to me at the time.<\/p>\n

I was still just a kid, however.\u00a0 I needed that link to other kids in the playground, something I could actually talk about, or\u00a0to play along\u00a0with friends.\u00a0 I couldn’t play with other kids and say “I’LL BE THE EMPRESS OF IRELAND, YOU CAN BE THE LUSITANIA!!!\u00a0 BOOOOOMMMM!\u00a0 CRASSHHHH!”<\/p>\n

Enter TMNT<\/em>.\u00a0 I never missed an episode, I had a ton of action figures, and so many recesses were spent pretending to be Raphael…\u00a0 everyone wanted to be Leonardo, but I always\u00a0wanted to be Raphael.\u00a0 I just thought he was the cooler turtle.<\/p>\n

The Turtles <\/em>had already tested the video game waters with the first TMNT<\/em> released by Ultra in 1989.\u00a0 My good buddy Josh had it, and though it was a pretty fun game, it wasn’t based on the show.\u00a0 The mood was a bit too dark, and very few characters from the cartoon made an appearance.\u00a0 I had played The Arcade Game <\/em>on a ferry ride to Newfoundland, and THAT was a blast…\u00a0 why couldn’t we have that one on the NES?<\/p>\n

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