#8 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Travel back in time with me to a period where Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles took up a decent chunk of your childhood. You had the bedsheets, the pizza-shooting action figures, the movies on VHS (yes, even that ungodly third entry) and best of all, your favorite Konami-developed TMNT arcade and home console games.
It’s quite telling that taking the heroes in a half shell into the realm of 3D hasn’t been cutting it. One needs to only look at Ubisoft’s Turtles in Time Re-Shelled remake and Activision’s Out of the Shadows to see that. They gel far better as 2D beat-em-ups that don’t expect you to master various button combos. Jump, attack and a two-button special move are all you really need to make a TMNT game fun. And of course, it has to have that fourth wall-breaking move where you hurl a Foot Soldier into the TV screen. The chances of Konami getting ahold of the TMNT license again seems unlikely in the near future, but I’d totally be up for something reminiscent of the Konami era of beat-em-ups that could make us forget that this Michael Bay-produced TMNT movie ever existed.
