For the record I do like the console versions of the TMNT beatemups! Turtles In Time on SNES is great, and Hyperstone Heist is truncated but still a fairly acceptable version of that. But in the arcade, these games just play bad. Hardly a beat-em-up and more like a 'politely-gesture-a-hitbox-in-their-direction'-up

This game's legendary status feels like it comes from that GI Joe brand of nostalgia for """the good old days""" of testosterone-laden boy's action figures - and like, I ain't gonna give shit for people liking the things they liked as kids, no matter how self indulgent, but you can't gaslight entire generations into simping for this konami quarter-muncher schlock, man.