Arcade Game manual oddity

[serpentnight]

Here's some food for thought. The game manual for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game makes mention of Shredder having fallen into a garbage truck; a reference to the events of the 1990 film rather than the previous game. I found that odd as a kid but later I learned the writing of manuals for U.S. releases of Japanese games were usually sourced to third party companies who had little to no lines of communication with the developers. Strange as this may seem now, at the time that’s how it was done. I’m guessing whoever wrote this summary was working off of a generic knowledge of the franchise and hadn't been given much to work with as far as the game’s backstory.