Before the TMNT became way too feminine, they where the 80's to 90's cheese of their time. An idea series spun-off from Marvel's Dare-Devil series. They started out as a graphic novel about a mutant rat and his turtles after revenge for their master's murder. My, didn't this end up very dark as hey killed actual humans instead of robots like you see in the 80's cartoons. And yes, there's the 00's cartoon series done by 4kids, and while it did have it's editing problems, it was probably their only good feature.
However, while the arcade series was based on the 80's cartoon series, it became it's own cannon on it's own. The shredder would do evil deeds like kidnap the busty reporter April O'Neil who seem to get herself into trouble and dress inappropriately (the two main things of reporter should NEVER do!) to stealing the statue of liberty to hold for ransom. Remember, the 80's cartoon shredder was a big-baby parody of his former self; with a loud-mouth alien Craig who is the most annoying in his anime form.
The fun thing about brawlers is that they are simple and yet complicated all at the same time. Each of the four turtles have their advantages: Mikey the cool dude before the annoying dude-bro became a plague of rats with a leaping attack, Donny has range with his bow-staff, and Raf has the shortest attack but most damage with his angerisum under his belt. The characters where designed around their flaws, and in later games, they gain their special attacks that trades their health for high damage.
While the arcade was downgraded for the NES, it was more of a creative port as it was a legit way to play the arcade game at home and helped make Konami a lot of quarters at the time before the arcades went down at the time. However, there where exclusive levels which added challenge as well as the NES was known for hard games. There was even a few games for the gameboy and the Sega Genesis that where considered to be very good to ok.
Turtles in Time is considered the best brawler within the series, and while Ubisoft tried to recreate the experience, the original still has aged well to this day and is considered one of the best Super Nintendo games besides all the other brawlers. It has the exciting music, colorful backgrounds as they travel though time, and, of course, fan-service for both the fans of the 80's cartoon and the 90's movies that actually works. It's considered the best TMNT game of all time.
Sadly, Konami lost the rights for better and worst as they moved on to other projects like the renowned Silent Hill series and the Metal Gear Solid games. However, Konami has formed an unhealthy relationship with it's developers such as the harshness to the creator of Silent Hill to Kojima's resent shadiness. Meanwhile, the TMNT went into isolation until their 4kids counterpart. While some of their games where good, they weren't as memorable and some of them wasn't any good at all. (I'm looking at you, GBA GAME with bad engrish!)
Now, I just don't care for them anymore. The latest I heard of the TMNT is that they're teaming up with batman in a cross-over event. While it is not their first cross-over, as they teamed up with the ghost-busters before, this could end up well. But as a franchise, I sold the figures years ago. With the latest price, I should have invested them for profit, but it's best just to bury them respectively so their "Children" can take their place realistically. Sounds like something Simpsons and family guy should have done ages ago.
Now if you excuse me, I probably have an angry fanboy at my door. I'm going to have to empty out the literal skeletons in my closets. Never mess with an angry introvert ...
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