Rescue-Palooza! was downloaded an unprecedented 100,000 times in its first month, played by everyone from die-hard turtleheads to SNES enthusiasts who needed some much-needed 'cowabunga' in their life.
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Fans are able to play a game that feels like a genuine '90s throwback with a fresh story and a full complement of brand new characters. Thanks to the time and effort of Merso X and his volunteers, Turtle-Palooza! is a faithful replica of the iconic '90s NES Turtles style.
"It was very time consuming, but somehow less tedious than adapting the sprites of Tournament Fighters characters." Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube "For characters like Irma, Burne, Mona Lisa, Miyamoto Usagi, and others, I created all-new sprites by taking screenshots of the show, resizing them, and placing pixels on top, one by one, using an already defined colour palette," he explains. However, the team soon realised it would be quicker to design some of the characters from scratch. Undeterred, he assembled a team of volunteers to edit completely unrelated sprites, such as the Joker’s goons from Sunsoft’s Batman game, which became Ace Duck after significant alterations. However, for many of his favourite cartoon villains, there were no suitable sprites available because they had never appeared in a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game before. The resulting story took inspiration from old-school Turtles lore to give the game that classic Turtles feel, and makes Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Rescue-Palooza! feel just like an official game.Īs well as coming up with a story to accompany his edited and updated sprites, Merso X wanted new characters – and lots of them. He sent his draft script to some of the biggest Turtleheads he knew, including the owner of the world’s biggest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collection known as “The Sewer Den” Jon Zelenak, and retro toy blogger Eric Setzke.
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For the story, he took inspiration from the classic TV show. If his workload was a lot when he was remastering the game, it increased tenfold with the new direction. So, to make it more fun for myself, development-wise, I decided to use the original games just as a template, while creating essentially a new game." "But, I knew that if I were to take these liberties, the game would stop being a faithful adaptation of the originals. "I wanted to have some flexibility in terms of enemy placement and behaviour," he explains. So, he decided to take it in a different direction, pivoting his game from a faithful remaster to a brand new title.
The updates were meticulous, as he was keen to maintain accuracy to his beloved TV show.īut, when he was looking into the details of these games with such intense scrutiny, Merso X started to take issue with small discrepancies between the game and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles lore. "For characters that appeared in the original NES games, like the turtles themselves, I took the original sprites and recoloured and edited them in Photoshop," explains Merso X. "Since then, I’ve wanted to see every NES and Game Boy game get a SNES do-over." But updating the classic arcade games himself took a lot more work than he’d initially expected. "That was the first time I saw an 8-bit videogame get a re-release with music and graphic updates," he tells Nintendo Life.
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