On the half shell they're the heroes four...

Ultra Games' NES-powered top-down-platformer hybrid Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles title was ported to the Amiga in 1990 twice, on each occasion by an independent developer separated by the Atlantic Ocean. Geography is relevant here because telephonic cabling wouldn't stretch that far, so there was a bit of a breakdown in communication. Hey, it's as good an explanation as any other I've heard.

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Our domain is the shadow... strike hard and fade away without a trace.

Crazy as it sounds, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the coin-op arcade game was also made available for all the major 8 and 16-bit home computer platforms. I mention it not due to random happenstance, but because this is my review of said absurd phenomenon. Well, not this, within the linked ebook I mean. Whatever next, another TMNT game designed specifically for home computers? I wonder if it would be ported to run in an arcade cabinet.

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You mean you have to use your hands. That's like a baby's toy!

Back to the Future II will forever be remembered for tricking us into believing that one day we'd be ecstatically flabbergasted to find a hoverboard in our Christmas stocking. That in just 30 years time, cars would fly and everything - no matter how convenient and effortless it already was - would be automated, just for the hell of it.

I examine the fantastic, timeless (hoho!) movie and assess how successfully it was translated to the medium of 8 and 16-bit home computer gaming by Image Works in 1990.

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