What comic book game did you play the most in the Red and White era, Dragon Ball, The Marvel Series, or the Disney Series?
I believe that when I was a child, everyone should have a box with "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" to get a 4-in-one cassette, this classic blockbuster comic, from books, movies and television to games are full of money, just like the previous "Ninja Cat" article said, the 90s is the era of comic X games, even the general comic works have adapted games, as the world's top IP "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" is certainly not lacking in manufacturer cooperation.
About the original manga
After the end of the Cold War, the United States experienced a new wave of wind, and many comics have gone up in this wave, and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" came into being during this period. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a 1984 manga series by Mirage Studios, created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Rattle, and published by Mirage Studios. I've already thought about the scene when I was creating a comic:
Kevin: The superhero Little Turtle has no head.
Peter: There are a lot of superhero comics these days.
Kevin: Japanese ninjas save the world without messing heads.
Peter: That's not as good as a superhero.
Kevin: What about superhero turtles and Japanese ninjas?
Peter: Hurry up!
Thus was born Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was an instant hit when it first debuted as a black-and-white manga in 1984, airing in an animated television version in 1987, and winning the Annie Award in 1988, one of the highest honors in the field of animation, with the 17th Edition of Best TV Animation and Best TV Dubbing (Pat Fraley).
Now young people may not know much about these four little turtles, but they are very familiar to the post-80s and post-90s, whether it is from comics, animations or games, let me remember these four pizza-loving superheroes. At the same time, he also created many classic characters, such as the rat master Sprint (Hamado Ryo), the heroine April, the villain Rhinoceros Pig Face, and the foot gang leader Schrader (Koruzaki).
The plot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has been changing since the announcement of animation, and the plots of the 1987 version, the 2003 version, and the 2012 version are all different. But the four "superheroes" are still the same, the brave and serious leader Leonardo Da Vinci, the impulsive but kind Raphael, the optimistic Michelangelo, and the tech genius Turtle Donatello. Their names come from Renaissance artists, who had different personalities, but were all good-hearted and jealous, a group of righteous "artists" who lived in the dark sewers of the city but did something that shone brightly.
Well-deserved bad reviews and inexplicably fantastic sales
Nintendo released Zelda Legend 2 in 1987, compared to the generation of bold innovation, the game also bears the cost of innovation, the evaluation is a mixed reputation, and finally global sales of 438W. "The Legend of Zelda 2" is an ARPG game, the game lens is divided into a top view and a horizontal scroll, of course, the game has been released by peers to "borrow", Konami in 1987, 1988 respectively released "Moonwind Demon" and "Konami World" can see the shadow of Zelda 2.
The anime of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" has had a huge impact in China, and the red and white machine game of the same name is not much more. At that time, if there was a disc of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 or 3, it would be the best choice for friends to gather.
Compared with the 2nd and 3rd generations that are widely circulated in China, the first generation on the red and white machine is not played by so many people. The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was a very "mash-up" game, one like Contra and the other like Red Fortress. Looking at it now, this game may have too many elements, in fact, some of them are also Konami's last resort.
When the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon began to be produced, the Americans approached Konami in Japan to discuss the development of the game. But as soon as the contract was finalized, Cornee found that things were not so simple: this animation was not finished at all, and the Us side only provided a few comics and an unfinished animation setting, saying that you Japanese people watch and do it.
How? Brain supplement.
Therefore, the original "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" not only has a great difference in content and animation, but even the official translation is a temporary head-slapping "Turtle Ninja Legend" (the Japanese version of the name at the time) - but the game is not "exciting" at all, and the turtle ninja in the sewer will fall into the water...
Konami was also difficult to produce "The Legend of the Turtle Ninja", the game began to be based on manga, and the development resources provided to The Mirage Studio were only a few manga and anime design drawings, which made Konami feel that he had directly bought "Grandpa". The development content provided is completely insufficient to support this ARPG game, the production team can only break the jar and break, directly do the original monster on the game content, in addition to the BOSS, a large number of enemies may not even have seen the original fans, fortunately, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" is not famous in Japan. The development of the game to the later stage is also a lot of problems, the number of bosses is not enough to fill the game with too large content, simply after the direct film version of the character also moved out. In the end, the game was officially released, although the game criticized a lot, the game information station GameSpot even scored a super low score of 2.7 (out of 10 points), but the good news is that the game market performance is extremely excellent, and the global sales of 400W also let Konam know that this IP is indeed a sweet potato.
A year later, I finally saw what the anime looked like, and konami made an arcade version of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", and this time it became a normal and popular version. Immediately after, the transplanted arcade version of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (that is, the second generation of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" we are familiar with) debuted on the red and white machine, although the number of support was reduced to two, but the conscientious Konami added two new levels and bosses (polar bears), and the quality was not worse than the arcade version.
"The Legend of The Turtles and Teenage Mutants" is also a "test of the waters" of its predecessors, and konami launched the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game on arcade in May 1989 after obtaining the right to adapt the game. The game is a large map overlook, and the battle into the level becomes a side scroll. In the game, the player can control any of the 4 turtles, and can avoid the turtles from being captured without blood by changing people in time. The game is extremely unbalanced, and due to the attack distance, it becomes Donatello's single-player speed brush. The difficulty of the game also belongs to Hardmode, and there are only a few people who can pass the level in China.
Our domestic players are most exposed to the FC port version, at the end of 1990, the arcade platform of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" ported to FC, the U.S. version of the name of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Arcade Game", indicating that this is the second generation of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" game, and is a ported arcade platform, the game was released in Japan as "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", without the label of 2nd generation and subtitle, the game also changed from ARPG to a scroll action game.
Arcade version transplanted to FC "castration" is already a common thing, the original arcade content is very luxurious, "four black" opening scene gorgeous and lively, once became the popular arcade hall, this work is also a good result. However, on the FC, it directly became a double open, the game music and character skills were castrated one by one, and the removal of the character must kill also reduced the game's combat feel. Interestingly, the game is sponsored by Pizza Hut, and U.S. players can receive a small pizza for free if they purchase a game cartridge, but only for the first game cartridges after release.
The following is our domestic players are very familiar with the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Manhattan Project", the game was released on December 13, 1991, from the previous generation of the Japanese version and the American version of the game serial number has been misplaced, the Japanese version of the game is called "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Manhattan". This game is the same as the previous generation, but it is not an arcade transplant work, it is an exclusive FC platform. The reason why the country is familiar is that many of them are 4-in-1 cassettes, unlike Japan and the United States, which are released in time and year, 4 divine turtle games on a cassette, as the same type of 3 generations are much more popular.
The Manhattan Project can be seen as a powerful version of the 2nd generation, whether it is from the picture, music, feel and other aspects have a good improvement, I believe that the beginning of the gorgeous plot cutscene should make you remember deeply. At that time, some domestic cassettes were self-modified versions, and the opening was directly 9 lives, the difficulty of the game was relatively reduced, and the domestic clearance rate was also very high.
Learning the lesson of castration of the 2nd generation, this game provides exclusive kills for 4 god turtles, but each use costs one block of health as a price, if the health value is one block, you can launch the kill skill indefinitely, but it is directly burped when touched, which is also a game on the tip of the knife.
Not only has the feel of the action improved, but the game has also worked hard in the picture and music, it should be known that Nintendo's SFC has been released in August 1991, and Sega's 16-bit MD console has also been "in service" for 3 years. KONAMI not only did not perfunctory, but also increased the number of bosses to 12 bits, and the game flow is not short, and it is now going to be called Japan's "stupid donkey". At the end of this game, the boss is still Schrader, and there is an Easter egg that will turn the turtles into small turtles, that is, what they looked like before they were mutated.
The follow-up KONAMI also released several games of different platforms through the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" hit IP, such as arcade, SFC, GB and other platforms, domestic players did not contact in the early days, the most familiar is "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Fighting", domestic called "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Kombat" or "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4", which is also the last work of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" series on the FC platform.
On other platforms, KONAMI has also released Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fighting games, and the FC is not a ported work, and there is no connection between them, whether it is the game system or the gameplay. Because of the limited FC skills, whether it is a character or a must kill compared to other platforms have shrunk, it is more obvious that the FC platform of the god turtle is bare-handed, but the game must kill is unlimited release, you and your friends play when there are no two people crouching for ten or twenty seconds first. What is interesting about this game is that the character super must kill, the mouse master will launch the "super must kill orb" in the battle scene, and after picking it up, it will launch the super kill, and the fighting game has also become a battle for the orb.
This game is a bit difficult to compare with the "Turtle Fighting" on the MD and SFC platforms, but it is still a good fighting game on FC. Released in late 1994, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Became the last Turtle game of the 90s, and the subsequent game IP was directly refrigerated, due to the continuous low sales and low popularity prompted a 9-year absence. It should be known that from the release of a game in 1989 to 1994, there were more than a dozen Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games in just 7 years, arcade machines, consoles, and handhelds all over the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and then it was not until 2003 that Mirage Studios began to make the latest TV animation before a sequel was released. Today, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" has long been without the previous scenery, from the game to the movie is regrettable, I hope to see the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" works once again landed on the mainstream game platform in the near future.