![]() ![]() Radical Rescue begins as the evil Shredder launches his most comprehensive kidnapping scheme yet. That would explain its drastically higher price on the secondary market. Beyond that, both the original TMNT toy line and its accompanying cartoon show were finally starting to lose steam by 1993, so I suspect Radical Rescue moved far fewer copies than the previous two Game Boy installments. Those almost always struggle for recognition. ![]() With such a premise, you’d think it would be more famous in classic gaming circles. I only recently learned of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue, a 1993 Game Boy release from Konami that bucks this trend by taking the form of a Metroid style exploratory platformer. That’s simply the nature of the genre, at least for me. These can be great fun with friends, especially in a proper arcade, but I find they make for rather hollow, repetitive single-player sessions. No, it’s because the lion’s share of Turtles tie-ins were multiplayer beat-’em-ups. It’s not that I despise the characters, although I was never a big fan like I was of, say, He-Man or G.I. ![]() Given their popularity and numbers back in the ’90s, you might be surprised by how rarely I play Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games. ![]()
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