User blog:Urkelbot666/Turtles.

Personally, I have to applaud Nintendo for their faith in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. The first NES TMNT game was awkward, hard, and only employed one player technology. When the arcade game came out (a far superior title) and Nintendo got the rights to release their version of the game, did they forget, or even discount their initial Ninja Turtles game? No. They released a game t hat shared no similarities to, had no ties to, and was completely unreliant on the first game.

Yet they called the game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Arcade Game. They could have gone the route of all these modern movie studios, pretending the original didn't exist, or calling their product a "REBOOT" but they didn't. They owned up to the fact that they released what could be considered a sub-standard game, and didn't try to erase said game from history.

Even at the point when they changed game systems, they could have totally disregarded the franchise history. Yet, they released one of the greatest games in history on the Super Nintendo, and titled it Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4: Turtles in Time. They STILL didn't omit the first turtles game from history. That's dedication. That's owning up to personal shortcomings. That, is what earns my respect..