Arcade cabinet maker Raw Thrills has confirmed it’s currently working on a new machine featuring the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 version, which is currently in it’s 5th season on Nickelodeon.
The new game is apparently being built from scratch with new assets to mirror the current TV show and with an eye toward modernizing the genre past Turtle games hailed from.
Raw Thrills told Arcade Heores: “This new version of TMNT is a completely new re-imagining of the brawler concept. There are more moves, more environmental interaction, cool Turtle Power special attacks, voiceover from the entire cast (including Seth Green and others)… it’s really amazing.”
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
A NEW 4 PLAYER ARCADE NINJA TURTLE BEAT EM' UP IS COMING OUT
AHHHHH pic.twitter.com/S7LeCbgsmW— Matt McMuscles (@MattMcMuscles) October 20, 2017
For many people, this will be their first experience with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in Arcade format. While those of the older set will remember the awesomeness that was the Konami Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade games – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Arcade Game & Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time; or their NES & SNES ports of the same name. The old Konami games were brutal coin-eaters but some of the most entertaining games of the era.
The new cabinets will use HD screens and measure about nine feet tall and four and a half feet across with the company planning to demo the game at this year’s International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions expo mid-November.
The new TNMT cabinets are just one in a long line of arcade-based revivals Raw Thrills has attempted over the last decade. The company entered the business in the early 2000s, long after the rise and fall of arcades, with gambling games for bars before moving onto movie adaptations like The Fast and the Furious arcade.
After that they moved onto collaborate with Konami on Guitar Hero Arcade and later teamed up with Specular Interactive to produce a sequel to the 90s speedboat racer Hydro Thunder.
Just this year, the company began testing an Injustice arcade cabinet adaptation that tried to re-create NetherRealm’s fighting game with a card collecting element.
As a long time TMNT fan, who has spent years talking the movies, toys and video games on this very site; I hope that Raw Thrills takes a lot of ideas from the old school Konami era games and gives us something worth playing… Unlike most modern era games which have been rated from “What the fuck is this shit” to “kill it with fire”…
