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Spanish Meatloaf
Title: Denim Clad Road Warrior
Joined: Feb 24 2010
Location: Olympia, WA
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I have been lolling around the interwebs and found plenty of NES top tens, but in each one (including syd's) its lists TMNT II the arcade game in the top ranks instead of TMNT III the Manhattan project. Why no love for the sequel? It was always my favorite. Is there something I'm missing? Is it considered inferior?
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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I emailed Syd about this six years ago, before I joined. He personally voted for TMNT III, but not a lot of others did. Since TMNT II came closest to surpassing Super Mario Bros. without actually doing so and The Manhattan Project is technically superior, logic would dictate that it be in the top 10 (where Bubble Bobble is, personally, which would've made for a more interesting poll involving Chrono Trigger), but it's not as fondly remembered, which is a shame.
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Spanish Meatloaf
Title: Denim Clad Road Warrior
Joined: Feb 24 2010
Location: Olympia, WA
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Thanks for clearing that up, 3 was the only one I got to play as a kid, and I feel like i'm living in some weird negative universe where no one acknowledges it's existence.
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anorexorcist
Title: Polar Bear
Joined: May 21 2008
Location: The Cock and Plucket
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I played the first one and III a fair bit as a kid. I played II a bit in my teens and I definitely have always been drawn most to III. I don't see it in stores as much as II and was pretty happy to grab it a couple months ago, brings back a lot of memories.
I personally enjoy III more than II, but more people may have played II I think due to III's release kind of late into the systems life.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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2 was also a port of a very popular arcade game, released at the height of Turtlemania. TMNT was in a slow downward spiral when TMNT 3 came out.
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Valdronius
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Title: SydLexia COO
Joined: Aug 22 2005
Location: The Great White North
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Manhattan Project also had the weird mechanic that you could use your power move with one life bar left and not die. So whenever I played and got down to one life, Raphael turned into a flying headbutt machine.
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LeshLush
Joined: Oct 19 2009
Location: Nashville, TN
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| Manhattan Project also had the weird mechanic that you could use your power move with one life bar left and not die. So whenever I played and got down to one life, Raphael turned into a flying headbutt machine. |
Thank you for bringing back one of my fondest NES memories. I also did this, but I haven't thought about TMNT III in years.
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GeorgeTaylor
Title: Miss Madness 99
Joined: Sep 09 2012
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| 2 was also a port of a very popular arcade game, released at the height of Turtlemania. TMNT was in a slow downward spiral when TMNT 3 came out. |
Agreed
I played 3 and while still a good game in its own right it couldn't capture the magic TMNT 2 for NES had during the Golden Era of Turtle Power It being the arcade game everyone wanted helped it alot as well.
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Cameron
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Joined: Feb 01 2008
Location: St. Louis, MO
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Huh, before this thread I was unaware that this was even debated. I always thought TMNT III was superior in every way.
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