Old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!

Wow a lot of turtle news today. About a week ago someone leaked a video of a the old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game for Xbox Live Arcade. That's fan-fucking-tastic. Especially the fact that you can cooperatively play 1-4 players locally or over Xbox Live. This is definitely a release day purchase for me.

I spent hours playing the NES TMNT game as a child which, to my eternal shame, I have never beaten. Then around a year later I found the arcade game in my local Domino's Pizza and played to the detriment of many an allowance. In fact, I can remember three arcade games I played more than any others while I was growing up: Street Fighter II, Area 51, and this particular game. I am even more excited about this than I am about the new game coming out.

New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

This is going to rock something fierce. Though I do wonder, with all of those target systems, if they are making multiple games or porting the same game to multiple systems (or a mix of the two). Despite rumors saying the opposite, I'm really hoping they have around 3 completely different games of which 1 is targeted for the hand held systems, 1 is for the next gen systems, and 1 is for the previous gen systems. I can't imagine a port to that many systems would be any good. Just look at what happened to Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter. It was fantastic on the 360, bad on the original Xbox, and simply terrible on the PS2.

I really hope it does well on at least one system that I own...