The new game is being built from scratch with new assets to mirror the Nickelodeon's current CG-animated TMNT series and with an eye toward modernizing the genre past Turtle games hailed from. Raw Thrills told Arcade Heores “This new version of TMNT is a completely new re-imagining of the brawler concept. There are more moves, more environmental interaction, cool Turtle Power special attacks, voiceover from the entire cast (including Seth Green and others)… it’s really amazing.”
RT added that the company has been working to create novel forms of entertainment, particularly something multiplayer that brings four people close to each other, working together to play through the game and defeat bosses.
Fans of a certain age may have fond memories of playing Konami’s 1989 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles beat-’em-up arcade game. It was based off the hit original cartoon which began airing thirty years ago and later ported to the NES. It was a brutal coin-eater, especially if you played alone, but helped pave the way for a follow-up, Turtles in Time.
The new cabinets will use HD screens and measure about nine feet tall and four and a half feet across. The game will be a scrolling brawler and promises more depth than brawlers of yore, with an emphasis on environmental attacks and team-up moves. It will also similar control style of the original games and will feature fast-paced four-player action. The cabinet will feature a joystick for each player and attack buttons. However, instead of two buttons, there are three, indicating that the third button could be for some kind of special move.
Raw Thrills is planning to demo the game at this year’s International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA) expo in Orlando, Florida mid-November, for distribution in arcades sometime in 2018.
The new TNMT cabinets are just one in a long line of arcade-based revivals Raw Thrills has released over the last decade. The company entered the business in the early 2000's, with gambling games for bars before moving onto movie adaptations like The Fast and the Furious arcade adaptation. After that they moved onto collaborate with Konami on Guitar Hero Arcade and later teamed up with Specular Interactive to produce a sequel to the 90s speedboat racer Hydro Thunder. Raw Thrills are also behind such games as Batman: The Arcade Game and H2Overdrive.
Just this year, the company began testing an Injustice arcade cabinet adaptation, Injustice Arcade, that re-creates NetherRealm’s fighting game with a card collecting element.
There’s no exact word on when the game will be available in arcades, but considering it’s just about ready for a convention debut, fans are probably not too far off. Get your quarters and pizza ready, because this game could likely make you say Booyakasha!
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Sources: Destructoid, Kotaku, ComicBook, Sound Books.
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