DEVELOPERS: Konami (originals)/Digital Eclipse (compilation) PUBLISHER: Konami REVIEWED ON: Xbox Series X from a copy purchased by the author. Comic book video games, or really licensed titles in general, are in danger of becoming lost. That’s true for the computer entertainment industry at large, but I don’t think anyone really needs to be afraid that…
It goes without saying that 2022 is a great year to be a lover of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video games. Last month, the game of the year caliber Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge dropped, surpassing 1 million units sold in its opening week. Before anyone could even get a chance to get tired…
Batman Returns, released twenty-five years ago today on June 19th, 1992 was the last Tim Burton directed, Micheal Keaton starring movie before the franchise was torpedoed by Joel Schumacher and eventually rebooted by Christopher Nolan in 2005 with Batman Begins. Though perhaps not remembered as fondly as Burton’s first outing with DC’s iconic character in 1989, it’s…
Did you ever wonder what a movie tie-in game for a blockbuster comic book movie would look like if it was made during the days of the NES? I’m not talking about a game from the LJN library like Beetlejuice, Jaws, Friday the 13th and countless others, but rather something more along the lines of the classics…
For the first time ever, the Did You Know Gaming video series is turning its attention to one of the longest running comic book properties in the video game world: the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The latest episode delves into such mysteries as why the first NES TMNT game doesn’t quite feel right and how at least according to its booklet, TMNT 2 on…
When I was growing up and starting my seemingly life long love of video games, I started with the NES, which didn’t have the best track record when it came to licensed games, at least starting out. When I became aware of the X-Men through comics, the animated series, Marvel trading cards and the Toy…
Between the rumour that Japanese developer Platinium is possibly making a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game and the new trailer that was released for 2016’s Out of the Shadows, it put me in a Turtles mood and I decided to revisit the game that started it all: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Konami/Ultra for the NES. Buy why look back…
In 2015 I looked at Acclaim’s roster of in-house produced comic book video games, and in 2016 I’m taking the year-long feature concept further and will determine what is the greatest Marvel console video game of all time. There are some things I’d like to clarify before the feature starts in the new year, the…
With the popularity of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the late 80’s, it looked like everyone was trying to create the next big anthropomorphic property: There was the Battletoads video game franchise, Biker Mice from Mars, and Street Sharks among a few others. One of the earliest attempts that spawned a short-lived animated series and a one wave action…
In August, I’m taking you back to a time when we rented Nintendo tapes, Sega was giving Nintendo a run for its money, bracelets slapped on, pants snapped up the side and game news came from magazines. Every Friday in August I’m going to be looking at a game every Friday that could only exist…
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