The Ultimate Visual History (June 2014)

Andrew Farago · 06-25-2014, 12:16 PM

I'm sorry I wasn't able to get more information on the video games into the book, although I'm glad I was able to score an interview with one of the programmers who worked on the first TMNT games. The folks at Surge and Mirage weren't very hands-on in the game development process and didn't have many stories to tell beyond "we gave Konami the license to make some video games," and Konami's story didn't go much beyond "we got the license to make some games, and then we did that."

In the end, it made sense to treat the games the same as the other non-Playmates merchandise, since the alternative would have been holding the book up another few months while I locked myself in my house playing video games. (As it was, I spent more time than I should have playing Turtles games on my NES.)

06-25-2014, 12:16 PM	#21
Andrew Farago Official TMNT Staff/Cast Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: California Posts: 102	I'm sorry I wasn't able to get more information on the video games into the book, although I'm glad I was able to score an interview with one of the programmers who worked on the first TMNT games. The folks at Surge and Mirage weren't very hands-on in the game development process and didn't have many stories to tell beyond "we gave Konami the license to make some video games," and Konami's story didn't go much beyond "we got the license to make some games, and then we did that." In the end, it made sense to treat the games the same as the other non-Playmates merchandise, since the alternative would have been holding the book up another few months while I locked myself in my house playing video games. (As it was, I spent more time than I should have playing Turtles games on my NES.)