Trivia / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time

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• Keep Circulating the Tapes: For a very long time, the original arcade version with the original music was never re-released on a home console. The only way to play it at home was via emulation. It took until 2019 for a proper "arcade perfect" home port, with the release of the Arcade1Up series of miniature arcade machines you can play at home, one of which contains both TMNT arcade games. Assuming you have several hundred bucks, that is.
  • For those without infinite money, 2022's Cowabunga Collection came with every version of every classic TMNT game (including Turtles in Time) for only around 40 bucks... and on Xbox, Playstation, Switch and PC.
  • Played straight with Re-Shelled, which was delisted in 2011, and hasn't been given a rerelease since then. The only way to legally play it is if you got it back when it was available, or if you got a used console that has it in there.
• Market-Based Title:
  • The Japanese release of the Super Famicom version did not carry a number.
  • Meanwhile, Hyperstone Heist's Japanese title is TMNT: Return of the Shredder.
• Manual Misprint: The SNES manual claims that the "Box of Hard Knocks" (the Bomb Pizza) costs one of your extra lives. It doesn't; your extra lives are safe. This is even lampshaded in the in-game tips manual included in The Cowabunga Collection:
  "Scared to grab the Box of Hard Knocks because the manual says using it will cost you an extra life? Don't worry — that tip's bogus!"
• No Export for You: Inverted. The arcade cabinet was never released in Japan despite being developed by a Japanese company. It's believed to have been given a test run in a few Japanese locations, but never given a full wide release.
• The Other Darrin:
  • The port of the game in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Nightmare and Re-Shelled use the voice actors from the 2003 series for their '87 counterparts. with the four turtle actors also doubling for most of the bosses.
  • Similarly, despite being released around the same time as one another, Krang doesn't have the same voice actor for Turtles Forever reprise him for Re-Shelled, being voiced by Wayne Grayson instead.
• Screwed by the Lawyers: The Mutant Nightmare port and Re-Shelled had to change the soundtrack; Fred Wolf Films owns the original version of the 1987 TV theme song and it's either too expensive or they won't let them have it.
• What Could Have Been: According to the development materials included in The Cowabunga Collection:
  • April was going to be kidnapped (again) by the Foot Solders alongside Krang stealing the Statue of Liberty in the opening.
  • The Cement Man boss fight at the end of "Prehistoric Turtlesaurus" from the arcade version was planned to be reallocated to the middle of the level before the new fight with Slash in the SNES version but was scrapped for unknown reasons.
  • The SNES level "Technodrome: Let's Kick Shell!" was originally named "We Gotta Find The Technodrome!!" like the Technodrome level of the first arcade game.

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