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Nintendo celebrates 40 years of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on Switch (www.nintendo.com)
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[–] mercano@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How do they get 40 years? The first Ninja Turtles game was released on the NES on May 12, 1989. That’s only 35 years by my reckoning.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Not sure why you're downvoting this guy.....math checks out. Pretty sure the comic didn't even start until the mid-80s, and it's not like you just start an (at the time) unheard of low budget comic book and expect to release the video game on day 2. It took a few years for that to happen. And good thing too, since if they DID release the game as soon as the comic launched, I'm not even sure the NES would have been released in America. We were still dealing with the video game crash of the early 80s at that point. It's hard to imagine, but at the time Ninja Turtles was a no-name series, and Nintendo of America had about 20 employees total, with no console having ever been released in America. They were BOTH small fishes. Ninja Turtles was a small fish in an ocean, while Nintendo was a small fish in the dried up pond that no longer had water.

Creative differences aside (because the first NES game was total crap), the game would have flopped HARD if it were released for the Atari in 1983. We'd be talking about the Ninja Turtle games burried in landfills.

[–] kalimari@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago

The original comic released in 1984, 40 years ago.