Greetings from Cracked! (And a question for the mods...)
 

Hey there! I'm Max Yezpitelok, a writer at Cracked and lifelong turtle enthusiast. I've written a couple of Cracked articles involving the TMNT before (not leaving the links so I don't look like a spambot, but you can find them easily enough), and I'm working on another one right now. The idea of my current article is: I'm gonna force myself to play every single official TMNT video game every published in a set period of time (a month? a week? haven't decided yet). And I mean EVERY SINGLE ONE, including Konami/Tiger handhelds, plug and plays, Nickelodeon browser games, and even Turtle Challenge.

I actually came here to start a thread in the Buying/Selling/Trading forum with the list of rare games I need to buy for the article, but it looks like I don't have permission to do that yet. I've definitely met the "account must be older than 7 days" requirement (turns out I registered in 2007 and never posted, for some reason), but I still need to make 20 posts to gain permission. The thing is, I don't wanna spam, and unfortunately I'm under a deadline, so I also can't wait for 20 posts to come about naturally.

So my question is: Is there any way I could bypass that rule and start a thread in the B/S/T forum? I promise I'm a real person!

I remember noticing a few months back how your Cracked articles were pretty good. I have nothing to offer in the way of games or information, but I just wanted to say good luck and I expect nothing less than a splendillyriffic article from you! :trazz:

I've had a hard time enjoying Cracked lately so it's good to know I have something to look forward to from them and you. :)

Sadly, that's all up to Krang, and he's a reclusive guy these days.

Just go ahead and spam us, mate. We'll pretend to look the other way.

Besides, given the staggeringly immature* posts some of us make (you know who you are, creators of polls), we won't notice the difference.

*Go watch Wild Target right now.

Heck, pimp your articles. I'm not sure I've read them...and maybe others missed them too.

Yeah, those poll makers are so bogus bro.

I've got an idea but I want to run it by the other mods first.

Make a post here with a link to each of your articles so that will help you reach the 20 minimum needed and reply to comments as single posts...

I have a spare NES TMNT video game but sadly I don't know where it is or if it works...

I have nes Tmnt, too. It does work. I have no use for it anymore, either.

Heh, okay, I'll follow your advice!

Hey, good luck with your collection!

I actually have all the console games already, between me and my co-writer for this article (Asher Cantrell) and friends of ours. I'm looking for harder to find stuff like the LCD handhelds of the 90s (I found all the Konami ones on eBay, no luck on the Tiger ones) and the plug and play games of the 00s.

Thank you! I'll make sure to stop by here and let you guys know when the article is published (between me writing it and them laying it out and editing it, it could take a couple months).

I rarely see him outside a suit, come to think of it.

Like by replying to every post individually? I would never do such a thing!

If you insist!

The first one was a Christmas article about underwhelming action figures from otherwise cool series: http://www.cracked.com/article_19625...toy-lines.html Fun fact: this was gonna be called "20 TMNT Action Figures That Were Neither Mutants Nor Ninjas Nor Turtles" but they asked me to open it up to other franchises.

(Don't get me wrong, I got a lot of mileage out of my Pizzaface... but I still remember opening the present on my birthday, hoping to see Rocksteady or Bebop like I'd asked for, and seeing some ugly fat cook instead.)

The second was about characters you might not know live in the same universe: http://www.cracked.com/article_19323...g-ways_p2.html #1 is about the Daredevil/TMNT connection, which blew my mind when I found out about it since I'm a fan of both. I remember at the time they told me "No one's gonna know who Daredevil is", but the article did pretty well anyway.

Someone should start a "Do polls suck or rule?" poll.

For the article, I'm actually gonna play the DOS port of that game. I think it's interesting that it's literally unwinnable unless you glitch past a certain jump (I might pretend I didn't know that for comedic effect).

Look at that. Almost halfway there already!