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    Good Riddance: Turtles in Time Getting Delisted in the U.S.

    And so ends the sad story of one of the most disappointing games from the past decade. Joystiq reports that Turtles in Time: Re-shelled—the remake of the classic SNES game that added terrible graphics and removed great music and levels—will be delisted from the PlayStation Network as of June 30. (Other sites are reporting that it’ll … Continue reading "Good Riddance: Turtles in Time Getting Delisted in the U.S."

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    What the Crap?: Difficulty Settings and Modes

    Why, cruel videogame industry, are we forced to play Goldilocks when sitting down to play our games? Games all have their own ideas of what Easy and Hard mean, have different rewards (and sometime none at all) for choosing a more difficult setting, and really produce a schism in groups of people who say they've beaten a game. I really don't care if you've beaten the game on "Super Easy," you shmuck!

  • Turtles in Time Remake?

    From what I understand, this upcoming XBLA remake of Turtles in Time is going to be exactly like the original...except that it's going to have ugly 3D graphics.

  • Captain Eric’s Super Thumb Feature Presentation

    Welcome to this EXTRA SPECIAL edition of THE THUMB! Since this is the extra special JANISH only a extra special version of the 'Cola's greatest feature of all time would do. SOOooo for this issue we w

  • Captain Eric’s Super Thumb Feature Presentation

    Greetings and welcome to the next ACTION PACKED issue of Super Thumb! In this issue I shall be giving you my thoughts on the immortal Donkey Kong, the Ninja Turtles and even some SURPRISE legends. Oh

  • Versus Mode: Turtles in Time vs. Hyperstone Heist

    I didn't even know that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist existed until Matt gave it to me as a birthday present last year. He didn't even know that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist existed until he saw it for sale at GameStop last year, and decided to give it to me as a birthday present. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time, on the other hand, we had been playing together for years. To me, this bets a couple of questions: How could a Ninja Turtles title for a major console have slipped by the radar of two video game fans who were just as obsessed with TMNT as the next 80's born boy? Could it be because we knew that Nintendo is what Segain't, or could it be that there is something terribly wrong with The Hyperstone Heist? The truth lies somewhere between these two choices.