I think that during the covid lockdown years, that math changed considerably. WW2 was changed from a make a billion in the theatres to “let’s drive subscriptions to HBO Max using it”.  There’s a lot of hidden unknowns in terms of how successful that was, and what the expectations were.

It’s the oddall of the bunch, but after spending a lot more time with it, I’ve found that it has a lot of positive aspects that make up for the flaws. It's a tough game, even when you learn your way through the levels. But it's hard in a way that you have tons of room to keep getting better at it. It's one that I…

Wrong! Or rather, I politely beg to differ. Driving the turtle van, fighting the technodrome, the roof level with the rope swinging, the cut scenes with Shredder... I loved it then and I still love it.

I have such fond memories of playing the the TMNT NES game on Christmas morning of (I think) 1990.

Yeah the difficulty of the dam is way overblown. Try the caves in stage 5 or the Technodrome itself for the real challenge.

While I have a certain amount of nostalgia for the first NES game, despite its difficulty, I think the third NES game, The Manhattan Project was better.  It expanded on the TMNT 2: The Arcade Game’s formula and was a solid original title rather than being a port.  

When NES TMNT was run at a GDQ like 6 or 7 years ago, I prepared myself for like 3 minutes of absolutely precise play when the runner got to the dam stage. My mind was blown when it turned out the runner’s strategy was to just...take damage. Swim through the electricity, touch the seaweed! It doesn’t actually do that…

Regarding that first NES game: I personally never found the dam level that hard (though I admit the swimming controls are really finicky).

I feel like its just one of the first really tense levels many millennial kids played. I was a huge TMNT fan as a kid, so I loved the game, but I had a terrible time getting past that level because it felt so much harder than it was. I was also only like 6 or so, and hadn’t done a lot of other gaming. Once I played a…

Yes. The real terrible level part is that corridor with the astronaut laser guys right before the final boss.

Agreed, once you know the best path it’s pretty easy - if still nerve-wracking. I will add though if you’re trying to complete the game without the use of cheats/save states, your success on the dam level pretty much determines if you need to burn a continue at the beginning of stage 3 as there's not a lot of easy…

Yeah, it’s just rote memory once you get the hang of it.  No different than running a kinda hard level of Mario.

Are you saying WE are the shareholders? Do I have a cache of movie industry money that I don’t know about? Fuck.

This probably has something to do with it being the best game in the series. Aside from maybe Resident Evil 7, which let’s be honest, was a big tone shift.

This movie is so charming and disarming throughout. I love how the introduction of Superfly is kind of this homage to the Joker introduction in The Dark Knight — as well as an homage to Heat, which is what Nolan is always using as his heist template.

Hey, I’m with you. Some of the best memories of my life are trash talking on the couch with 3 friends. And I still have a group of friends that get together every once in a while for Smash, Kart, Halo, Soul Calibur etc. But I would imagine the best play for the developer to get the game in front of the most people…

Its a niche category not because a lack of demand, but because game makers just don’t inlcude the feature anymore. I still crave playing with my friends on the same room, it was a dissapointment that Diablo IV only had 2 player coop instead of 4 like Diablo 3 did, I just wish more games implemented local co op, but…

Yeah, it took me a while to get used to the natural peanut butter, but once I did it made the sweetened stuff seem practically inedible.

I didn’t read the first slide and I am far too lazy to go back and check. is there a reason that only Creamy was chosen for this list? because crunchy is the way to go and the lack of crunchy offerings means the headline is just straight false.

Sweetened peanut butter is more like cake frosting than peanut butter.