We chat to Dotemu and Tribute Games about the road from 1987 to 2022.
It feels like an age ago now, but when Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge was announced it triggered excitement among gamers of all ages. For sure, some of the reaction came from players of a certain vintage that remember the original show and the TMNT arcade game, from which this new game draws heavy inspiration. Plenty will also remember console ports and sequels in the ’90s. Retro has been ‘cool’ for a good while now, though, so the love of older titles runs through generations, helping to explain the surge of remasters and retro sequels in the past five years, as well as Digital Eclipse’s upcoming Turtles compilation, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection.
In the case of Shredder’s Revenge, updates were relatively infrequent through 2021, barring the occasional character reveal, but that’s now changed as promotion steps up a gear. Though still a ‘Summer’ release, it’s clearly close to the finish line; we’ve had a chance to play the same PC demo that made its debut at PAX East recently, and also talk to a couple of key figures behind the game.
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