TMNT (Arcade) Part 1 - Welcome to 'The Cowabunga Collection' Playthrough!
2The first video in this new series covering Ninja Turtles games (and games featuring Ninja Turtles). It occurred to me one day that I had gotten Shredder's Revenge and the Cowabunga Collection at roughly the same time as I also had a number of games that are not specifically TMNT games but in which you can play as Ninja Turtles regardless. With all of this content, I decided, "Why not start a new series?"
My favourite franchise ever as a kid was the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. As a kid I also had limited access to content (no internet - that's how old I am). It didn't always work out time-wise to watch the show, and I wasn't into comic books yet, but I watched the first three movies on repeat for much of my early childhood.
In this first video I cover the general introduction to the series as well as the first two stages of the original arcade game. I'll finish the arcade game in the next video.
The play order that I've decided on for this collection (which probably won't make sense to anyone other than me) is as follows...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Arcade, 1989)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan (Gameboy, 1990)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back From the Sewers (Gameboy, 1991)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue (Gameboy, 1993)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES, 1989)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game (NES, 1990)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project (NES, 1991)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles In Time (Arcade, 1991)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles In Time (SNES, 1992)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Hyperstone Heist (Genesis, 1992)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (SNES, 1993)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (Genesis, 1993)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (NES, 1994)
(Yes, the NES version of Tournament Fighters came out AFTER the SNES version. I have no idea why.)
I am both looking forward to this series and dreading some of the games (some of these were before video games started being player-friendly). At least The Cowabunga Collection is providing save states to make it a little easier. As I'm uploading this, I had just done the Dam level on the first NES game and now I'm worried about how the rest of that game is gonna go. *Nervous Lol*
Because each game takes a different amount of time to get through, but I still wanna keep videos between 20-30 minutes whenever possible, it's hard to say exactly how they're gonna be scheduled each week, but I will probably aim for morning releases for most of them (8:00 AM Eastern Standard Time). And I'd like to get through one game per week. That may mean I end up releasing multiple videos in one day with some of them, but I'll try and avoid that lol.
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