Game:

Ninja Gaiden (1988)

Duration: 1:15:00

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Hero Turtles?
Back in the 80s, USA had a ninja craze. We had ninjas in comics, in videogames, in movies, ninjas everywhere!
In the UK, they have an organization called BBFC that rates every video that are released commercially, like cinemas, home videos, etc.
Home videos were pretty new in the 80s and BBFC had no legal requirement to classify them yet, which means that any underage kids could rent or buy movies like Driller Killer and I Spit On Your Grave.
It didn't take long until the public whined that their kids should not have access to these "video nasties", which resulted in some rushed out laws that allowed BBFC to ban or censor whatever they wanted.
Popular ninja weapons like nunchucks and throwing stars appeared in violent ninja movies, so BBFC decided to censor them to prevent young kids from emulating such behavior and hurt themselves or others. Guns and swords were left alone for some reason.
The Turtles cartoon cut away every scene where Michelangelo is shown using his nunchucks, every time somebody says the word "Ninja" it is either changed to "Hero" or the whole scene is cut, and they added sound effects in the fights to make them sound funnier.
...because fighting is fun, right?
This of course resulted in some strange scenes if Michelangelo unarm some thugs with his nunchucks or destroys something.
And since ninja was such a bad word, they had to rename it to Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles.
And of course the rest of Europe had to keep the same name. At least the nunchucks were uncensored in the rest of Europe.
And they were untouched in the game.
Other games, like Ninja Gaiden, got name changes as well. Ninja Gaiden got delayed one year and was renamed into Shadow Warriors.

As for the gameplay...
I pick different routes compared to my Teename Mutant Ninja Turtles run, and I'm kill... letting the enemies capture Raphael so I can show where to rescue captured turtles.
...the last one is almost not worth it, it cost too much health and you can easily die if you are unlucky.
Oh, and I show the "correct" way to complete the last corridor before Shredder, much easier than tanking it.

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