Of course the poster is of 8bitfetish high quality with dark blacks and popping greens. It looks stunning next to the other two posters. I am glad I went this route. The cover of this game confused me as a kid cause they all had red. Instead of the blue,orange and purple. At that point I had no idea that the Turtles was even a comic. I just thought it was some mistake. I remember talking about the the cover art at the lunch table and asking friends if they noticed the mistake.

After reading the comics now, it came to light that this cover art came straight from TMNT issue 4.

Must be when they were coming up with ideas for covers some guy at the table said "Hey why don't we just rip a cover from one of the comics? Cheap and saves time!" I do love the cover art since its a intense battle and its just edging like the turtles should be but I do think it loses a few points for just ripping issue 4. Since Turtles was blowing up I am sure the game was pushed asap and that had something to do with it. In fact I would say more people identify this cover with the game more then the comic. 

The game its self.... One of the most frustrating things you will ever pop into you're NES. This game was the first game I ever rented, I remember still loving it even though the game kicked my ass for hours. I even got it got Christmas.. See:

Now I could be frustrated everyday. Santa brought me the greatest Mario ever and coal basically. I will say I did play it like crazy despite how hard it was. It was the first turtle game and I didn't care how hard it was or that it was nothing like the show(you don't remember chain saw guy?) . I wanted to see Shredder so bad but it never happened. I could only reach the part where you drive the Turtle van around. I was dead meat after that. The game just throws a shit ton of bad guys at you with impossible platforming. That is why arcade(part 2) was such a big hit. It was like the cartoon and beatable. I still think its fun to play and revisit. But I can't take much of it. I like the cover art a lot more than the game. I want to thank 8bitfetish again for sending their amazing posters and if you are interested in buying this TMNT one you can find it here for $11.99 with fast and free S&H.

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