Two years after the latest Game Boy installment, Back from the Sewers, Konami gave the TMNT franchise yet another try—third time’s a charm, as they say. For Radical Rescue, in my opinion, the statement holds true. The first game, Fall of the Foot Clan, didn’t have any meat to the bone, that was corrected with the second installment, although the visual representation of the Turtles themselves could be called questionable. This time around, the beat ’em up genre evolved into a real Met...| Game Boy on Jefklak's Codex
It only took Konami one year to go from an average Turtles entry point to this awesome second installment subtitled Back From the Sewers. I replayed this a year ago and while doing it again to collect screenshots for this article, I forgot how great this actually is, and what a quantum leap in presentation, gameplay, and sound this is, compared to Fall of the Foot Clan! Where to even begin? Select one of four Turtles to fight through six stages. Perhaps it’s best to start with the bad parts...| Game Boy on Jefklak's Codex
The release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge last month made my inner child very happy. That child still remembers fondly the old TNMT (typing Teenage Mutant… is getting old) Game Boy games, and although I never owned the first one back then, I reckoned I’d start there: Konami’s 1990 release and first attempt to draw some ninja shells in a petite resolution devoid of color. How will these Turtles now be recognized? By their weapon, of course! Fall of the Foot Clan i...| Game Boy on Jefklak's Codex