Imagine if you will a TMNT version of Puzzle Game "SwordQuest"

[Refractive Reflections]

I was reflecting over my old Atari 2600 games in my basement and I rediscovered SwordQuest and I was thinking how cool would it be if there was a TMNT version of SwordQuest. (I was way too young to understand it was a puzzle game, and played it many, many years after the game already came out.) Imagine clues within this TMNT version, where if it was put together correctly, it would invite you to compete in another contest for an EXTREMELY RARE & VALUABLE TMNT collector's item (worth tens of thousands of dollars)...or simply a monetary prize by itself.

If you guys have NO CLUE what SwordQuest was for the Atari 2600, and the massive promotion for it in the early 80s, watch this video summary of it by the Angry Video Game Nerd before reading this post any further to grasp my idea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWltQ9UN5vE

So imagine this….a video game that was a combination of the NES TMNT 1 (platform action game, maybe not as difficult) and the “special weapons” (shurikens, boomerangs, and scrolls) and any hidden rooms/battles provided clues along the game's journey. …Basically two games in one.

These clues would point you to anything that was TMNT merchandise related! Comics (Mirage, Image, Archie, IDW), cartoons (1987, 2003, and 2012), live-action series, movies (1990, 1991, 1993, and 2007), action figures, previous TMNT video games, concerts, and even food products. Clues ranging from the more obvious and general (i.e. plot twist or introduction to new characters and their history) to others with the most minute detail (i.e. what voice actor mix-up/animation mistake in one moment of one episode in the 80s toon, to a small drawn item in the corner of one panel within a whole comic book). These “answered” clues can only be submitted once online and with a serial number.

So a video game that not only is entertaining in being just that, but also rewards your TMNT fandom!! LOL, what do you guys think? How dedicated would you be in solving it if they gave a 3-5 month window period before the contest closed? Could this ever be legitimately possible considering how fast information spreads in this Internet Age (unlike in SwordQuest before the Internet)?

While also following this SwordQuest theme, what if this puzzle solving game was actually composed of 4 separate games/contests (instead of SwordQuest’s Earthworld, Fireworld, Waterworld, and Airworld….there would be one game/contest for each Turtle! Maybe the prize could be jewel encrusted weapons for each respective turtle/contest similarly to the jewel encrusted prizes in Swordquest.) ...With an ultimate contest at the end for the four winners!

This is just an idea I’m shooting in the dark and its imaginatively exciting, LOL; who knows if somewhere and sometime it could….ever…be a reality.

I could see this teaser of a tagline on this game: "You've watched, played, read, and grown up with TMNT, but how much do you really know about TMNT?"