Is Turtles in Time overrated?

[CyberCubed]

This was the 4th game in the series, time travel seemed like the next logical step. There's only so many street or sewer levels you can do over and over. Plus the Turtles traveling to the prehistoric with dinosaurs, the future, pirate ships, the 1800's have all been done in Mirage and other universes at some point or another.

[Heyowakka]

My one wish for Turtles in Time is that I wish there were more time travel levels. I may come off as selfish but only five time periods go by in a flash.

[IMJ]

You know, I'm not sure if I ever played The Manhattan Project. I know I never owned it......

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by IMJ

The original Arcade Game felt like playing in the most appropriate TMNT universe and settings and so on.

Turtles in Time was great in every way except for the weird time travel angle. Time travel / space travel all of that just seems like a step away from the primary rules of the I.P. It was like when TMNT '03 went all "The matrix in the computer". It was just.... a step away from the rules.

Not a HUGE Leap obviously, but a step away from the "Daredevil mutant ninjas of Hell's Kitchen".

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

This was the 4th game in the series, time travel seemed like the next logical step. There's only so many street or sewer levels you can do over and over. Plus the Turtles traveling to the prehistoric with dinosaurs, the future, pirate ships, the 1800's have all been done in Mirage and other universes at some point or another.

Plus remember they did a time travelling two-parter in the cartoon around the time Turtles in Time was developing with that Easter Bunny named Hokum. Perhaps time travelling was a popular trope in the 90s?

Originally Posted by Heyowakka

My one wish for Turtles in Time is that I wish there were more time travel levels. I may come off as selfish but only five time periods go by in a flash.

Yeah, only about half the game actually involves time travelling. It's the Turtles game where you get to the Technodrome the earliest, in fact. It's only the 4th leve in the game. You return to it in the final level but it's just a boss fight. The actual Drome level is played on the first visit.

Originally Posted by IMJ

You know, I'm not sure if I ever played The Manhattan Project. I know I never owned it......

I only owned NES TMNT 1 as a kid. As a young adult I finally got Turtles in Time. The other NES, SNES and GB games I've only played on emulators.

As for 21st century games, I own the GC version of Battlenexus and PS2 version of TMNT 2007. And ofc, Shredder's Revenge on Steam and the Cowabunga Collection on the Switch.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Originally Posted by Prowler

Plus remember they did a time travelling two-parter in the cartoon around the time Turtles in Time was developing with that Easter Bunny named Hokum. Perhaps time travelling was a popular trope in the 90s?

Time travel has been a popular trope since 1895, when The Time Machine by Herbert George Wells was first published.

And when Once Upon a Time Machine first aired and Turtles in Time hit the video arcades, both in March 1991, it may have been an attempt on riding on the Back to the Future (1985–1990) wave.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by Original TMNT Cartoon Fan

Time travel has been a popular trope since 1895, when The Time Machine by Herbert George Wells was first published.

And when Once Upon a Time Machine first aired and Turtles in Time hit the video arcades, both in March 1991, it may have been an attempt on riding on the Back to the Future (1985–1990) wave.

Perhaps. I had completely forgotten about Back to the Future when making that post for some reason. It's a classic of that time period, indeed.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by IMJ

You know, I'm not sure if I ever played The Manhattan Project. I know I never owned it......

I believe when I was a kid I never owned it either, I'd just rent it from Blockbuster, beat it within an hour, and then never play it again until I was an adult and emulation.