What was Turtlemania like?

[Coola Yagami]

Yeah, I never thought of that but you have a point. Having videogames, especially a 4-player beat-em-up at the arcade definitely helped. Another thing though, I don't seem to remember them selling He-Man episodes or anything on VHS back then. Most I remember was owning a record that was about The Secret of the Sword, but I don't remember He-Man (or She-Ra) cartoon episodes to buy on VHS like with the Turtles.

Also I'm not 100% sure but wasn't the He-Man live action movie also a few years too late? I think it came out around the time the franchise was winding down instead of more at the peak of its popularity. The first 2 live action Turtle movies came out when the series was still red hot, it was the third movie that was made near the end of its lifespan.

Similarly TMNT Tournament Fighters came out when fighting games were the new craze, but it was still during the time the turtles were winding down. Too bad though, because it was a solid fighting game.

Y'see, back then, there were types of fighting games. Ones based on actual arcades like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, and ones that were console originals like ClayFighter or Shaq Fu. Most of the originals sucked, like for the most part the only good fighting games for the SNES/Genesis were ones based on pre-existing arcades that were already good.

But Tournament Fighters (the SNES anyway) played very similar to Street Fighter's combo system but with a bit more speed and super special moves, that even Street Fighter itself lacked. It played very good and it was made before the super special moves became overly complicated motions (looking at you SNK).

I can predict a lot of newbies buying the Cowabunga Collection for the first time are gonna be pleasantly surprised with just how solid of a fighting game the SNES Tournament Fighters turned out to be.