You'll fight your way through sixteen levels of increasing difficulty until you get to the main baddie himself, who is looking to make turtle soup out of you all. All four turtles (Leonardo, Donatello, Michaelangelo, and Raphael) jump into action to stop his plot, along with some help from a few friends, as they take on enemies of all kind in this side-scrolling beat'em up. The premise is pretty simple as The Shredder has come back and is looking to cause chaos everywhere he can, from the streets of '90s New York City all the way to Dimension X.
Credit: Dotemuįor those of you who haven't seen this yet, Shredder's Revenge is a callback to the classic group arcade titles where four players could get together and take on the challenge at hand, while also serving as a tribute to the original 1989 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the 1991 Turtles In Time arcade titles, both produced by Konami. But how does this new version stack up to arcade games of old? We grabbed four controllers with friends, ordered a large pizza, and cried out "Turtle Power!" to review the game. Dotemu along with developer Tribute Games got together with the current rights owner Nickelodeon and put together what essentially is a love letter to that era of the franchise with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge. But you can't talk about TMNT at that time without talking about the video games, especially the arcade titles like Turtles In Time where you and three friends could blow $10 each on a couple of hours of four-player action at an arcade. Many of us who grew up in the late '80s and early '90s vividly remember the original cartoon series, the action figures, the merch, the deal with Pizza Hut, the Coming Out Of Their Shells Cassette and Tour (which I actually went to), and more.
When the announcement came out last year that we'd be getting a brand new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game, we were simply in awe.