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Wikipedia isn't the most trust worthy of sources. And even if it is true that April is Splinter's daughter in that NES game, that is a mistake on the designers part.
Splinter and April have always had a father and daughter like relationship in most incarnations. And in this version they sort of use each other in surrogate versions of roles of a father and daughter.
While April's father was in captivity, she emotionally turned to Splinter as a father figure in her life. And even with her father returned to her...(not counting the moments he was mutated, and kraangified) she has continued to think of Splinter as a second father and was just as devastated as the turtles to witness his demise.
Splinter on the other hand has emotionally adopted April as his daughter. He knows she can never replace Miwa, but April does give him an idealized view of what Miwa could have been like if she had lived (with him).
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