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Old 02-06-2025, 06:16 PM   #81
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For me Turtle Mania died with TMNT III but still lived just a bit longer when that SNES Tournament Fighters came out. That felt for me like the last hurrah.
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Old 02-06-2025, 06:49 PM   #82
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While the franchise was definitely waning by 1993, I'd say 1996 is a good cut-off point.

- Mirage Volume 2 ended in 1995.

- Archie TMNT Adventures ended in 1995

- Fred Wolf cartoon ended in 1996

Once those 3 series ended by 1996, it was basically the end of the original run of Turtlemania. Then of course 1997 was Next Mutation and Image, but that was basically during the "dead years" where they were trying to keep it going.
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Old 02-06-2025, 06:59 PM   #83
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While the franchise was definitely waning by 1993, I'd say 1996 is a good cut-off point.

- Mirage Volume 2 ended in 1995.

- Archie TMNT Adventures ended in 1995

- Fred Wolf cartoon ended in 1996
But all of those things were on life support by that point. I could feel it all as a kid in real-time. In 1993 it was like TMNT got shot with a mortal wound... but it took it until 1996 to completely bleed out.

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but still lived just a bit longer when that SNES Tournament Fighters came out.
I still don't know one person who in real life ever actually played that game except me. Even guys who were big TMNT fans. It was considered at large like a baby version of Street Fighter, for people who suck at Street Fighter. Which was kind of sad, in a way. Not unlike "playing" the TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG by yourself, because other actual TMNT fans who want to play a tabletop TMNT RPG don't really exist.
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Old 02-06-2025, 08:42 PM   #84
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But all of those things were on life support by that point. I could feel it all as a kid in real-time. In 1993 it was like TMNT got shot with a mortal wound... but it took it until 1996 to completely bleed out.



I still don't know one person who in real life ever actually played that game except me. Even guys who were big TMNT fans. It was considered at large like a baby version of Street Fighter, for people who suck at Street Fighter. Which was kind of sad, in a way. Not unlike "playing" the TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG by yourself, because other actual TMNT fans who want to play a tabletop TMNT RPG don't really exist.
When I was a kid I remember beating Streetfighter 2 multiple times on medium difficulty. I have never beat any of the Tournament Fighters games ever period. Those games are super difficult to me. Especially the Genesis one.
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