The intro of the 2003 cartoon still hasn't be topped imo

A quick thing. The Triceratons were never a dude, they were always a species. In fact the Triceratons and Fugitoid actually predate the Ninja Turtles themselves.

'03 was my favorite TMNT series. The games never fully lived up to it, but they were still mostly fun overall. EDIT: Slight side note, but the Triceratons originally were a whole species. Mirage actually created them before even the TMNT, iirc.

My childhood, 2k3 was my introduction to TMNT, first show to truly meld the feel of the original comics and the 80's cartoon like the 1st live action film, probably my favorite version of the Shredder and Baxter Stockman, always gonna have a special place in my heart.

1:00 Man, Agent Bishop was a beast. I remember one episode where he took on all four turtles, plus Karai, plus Hun, all at the same time, using his tie.

Ended up liking the 2012 TMNT the most, but the 2003 series is what i grew up on and still have fond memories of

There has *NEVER* been an instance where the Triceratons were just one guy. Even the 87' cartoon had them as an invading force. There may have been a point where only one showed up as a boss in a video game, but if you assumed that meant there was only one, that's on you unfortunately.

So Ninjara is actually owned by the creators of that run of Archie comics so she has not appeared in anything for the TMNT but she does have her own comic run created after the end of the Archie comics

I've actually been watching the 2003 show lately, so this is a treat. That theme is in my head so much now!

there is always something sort of endearing, but also scuff as hell about: a pre-rendered cutscene, thats at a higher framerate that the gameplay, but is using high detail models, but THOSE have low quality textures, and have perpetually clenched fists. bonus points if their hands are heavily used in the cutscene to interact with things thus making it look really awkward. bonus-er points if they are massive ham hands that take the awkwardness to another level. edit: i didnt think it was gonna get more scuff, but then we see 2 models of humans who dont move their mouths when they talk despite everybody else doing so.😅 i only saw movement when they werent talking, which makes it even weirder.

I recall the GBA games all being pretty solid platformers with lovely pixel art.

I will never not love this game. Through all its jank and horrible difficulty spikes, it’s the game that defined my favorite tmnt series

The nostalgia of my heart tells me that the '87 series is the best, the brain of my head tells me that the '03 series is.

The in-game cut scenes remind me of that Ed, Edd, and Eddy game that was on GameCube. Definitely a flophouse plays

I think this game has an unlockable arcade version of Turtles in time. I played it right up until it was unlocked and then never touched the main game again.

22:58 Pretty sure Ninjara can't appear in others TMNT media, as she's owned by her original creator, and I doubt Viacom would want to use a character they'd have to license.

I still think the 2003 gba game is great (and the Turtles in Time Shredder theme remix is awesome).

You should of used Donny instead of Raph. He straight up murdered a tricereton by stabbing it with his broken staff. That nerd ain’t no punk.

I will never get tired of that theme song, and holy shit I had no idea they made multiple 3D games. I have nothing but fond memories with the GBA one though!

Remember that time Mikey dated a Triceraton princess and apparently knocked her up and then he got sent to a prison and then led a genocide on another dinosaur alien species? No? No one? Huh.

Battle Nexus (2) was for sure the best of the games based on the 03 turtles. I loved Mutant Melee (the smash clone) as a kid for what it is, it's been forever since i gave it another shot.

The 2003 TMNT theme is such a banger; as well as the series itself.

I must have had a cursed copy of this game because I remember it being unplayable. All I remember for certain is that I couldn't even clear the second stage due to the AI and maybe the camera acting up. I don't even remember the yellow machines in that stage so maybe some of the objectives never loaded in and softlocked the game? I'll never know for sure.

Woolie's favorite is donnie

So I didn't recall a character named Ninjara but you mentioning her being a fox lady made me think of Alopex from the IDW books, quick Google search later and turns out Alopex is the new IDW comic version of Ninjara, but what makes this extra weird for me though is that I feel like I've made this comment or something like it before but can't remember, wild

To give this game credit, it has the best soundtrack of the 2003 games.

While I agree that a single Triceraton is cool, a whole race of them is awesome.

Man the ‘03 theme song goes so hard

TMNT and Futurama are the crossover I need in my life.

1:24 wouldn't be the first time the turtles get some big dumb upgrade in later seasons. OG turtles got the ability to hulk out into "slash-like" versions of themselves.

I got this game when I was little and never played it. I still have it, but only because it came with turtles in time

I loved this show as a kid. best intro song too.

Platinum Games actually did make a TMNT game many years back. It's called Mutants in Manhattan. Sadly, it's no longer sold anywhere, digitally at least. I'm not sure how costly the physical prints are these days.

I grew up watching the 2003 TMNT series, it’s my favorite version of the turtles.

that show was awesome. if only i knew back then that konami still made tmnt games...

26:22 S tier Futurama reference, I died laughing hearing that

2003 TMNT is the superior version, IMO

This is my favorite Era of teenage mutant ninja turtles

I played the first and it was all I had as a kid, beat it 100% multiple times

This was honestly the best of the 2003 games (on console, not counting the GBA versions) which is sad, because that's not saying much. The one thing setting this game apart from the previous two is the fact you have all 4 turtles present at all times and the upgrade system for making each character better. It is cool they follow the story of the season the game's based on (like the first two did), except this one spills across multiple seasons of the show. I felt the same way personally about the first game on Xbox, even back when I was a teenager and it first came out. That game was so boring and hard to get through due to its repetitive nature, and awkward camera angles and controls. I never got to try the 2nd game for long but it improved slightly over it, and then the 3rd game was pretty fun. Just none of it invoked the same feeling of nostalgia and replayability as the old Konami games did. At least the GBA versions were pretty nice when I tried them out.

I found the first 2 fun. Never got to pick this one up, I still want to.

2003 series was my favorite Turtles series, mainly cuz I was a fan of the Mirage comics. I was never that into the 80s cartoon. Looks like they switched from animated cutscenes to CG because the Fugitoid didn't return during these episodes. Ninjara was only in the Archie Comics. A similar character named Alopex appeared in the IDW comics, and then a version of her also appeared in the 2012 cartoon.

I have to say that the GBA games are more solid than the console versions. At least in my case.

Battle Nexus was my favorite turtles game. Never knew there was a third

I remember this one being my favorite of the 2003 turtle games. Especially when you unlocked turtles in time

The one thing this game has is a port of Turtles in time (with a new soundtrack).

naah that's no oxygen, they are slurping their capri sun packs xD

I like how in the CG cutscene the hands are stuck as fists

Cowabunga, dude!

Best version of these games where the GBA games they where so underrated

One of the best things about this game is the unlockable Turtles in Time.

The triceratons were an alien race along with the styracodon ceratops sub species in the original comics not an individual

I LOVED this as a child

Forget Ninjara. Alopex is where it's at.

you can unlock Turtles in Time in this game. It's a bad version of Turtles in Time, but still.

The 03 turtles are my turtles 🐢 I hope Matt gives them a second chance someday

I'm eagerly waiting for the TMNT series to get the Arkham treatment.

Matt after looking up ninjara I think you may be interested in IDW TMNT character called alopex

I played the first two liked them as a kid never heard of this one till now

15:34 holy shit, the turtles' hands don't animate. they're just closed fists for everything.

Appreciated.

has anyone given the NES version of Tournament Fighters a proper showoff? Remember reading about that in Nintendo Power and being impressed that a fighting game was being made for the NES

Can't you unlock the arcade games in Mutant Nightmare? I'm pretty sure you could in the previous game.

Actually Mutant Nightmare = '03 > Battle Nexus > Mutant Melee

Yea.. what if PlatinumGames made one 😂 Mutants in Manhattan isn't bad in my opinion (I'm very much biased) and I would recommend anyone to at least try it - but with friends for sure! The CPU are not very good and it can be frustrating to be play with them. Love your videos as always!

Ah, I see why they suddenly switched to the CG cutscenes. They basically rewrote the story using these CG cutscenes, presumably to make the story more action heavy for the sake of gameplay and skip past parts of the story that are a bit slower. Professor Honeycutt didn't return to Earth on the show until later, after Donatello convinced the Triceratons that he wasn't on Earth by teaching them that they can scan for his energy since technology on Earth wasn't advanced enough to have that tech yet. Then they return as well and use this info to track him and this makes keeping him away from them much harder. And that's only the halfway point of the arc.

Basically any 2003 Tmnt game I can imagine being obscure, especially the gameboy and ds ones, Jesus Christ.

What would make a pretty good or decent modern free roam 3D tmnt game? Something like a PS2 Shinobi with dash Batman Arkham knight? Or Devil May Cry 3 meets Spiderman ps4? or abit of all 4. Give the turtles skate-boards and vehicles, wall-climb but slow to faster upgrades, and wall runs, mostly acting like a bat-man ninja then slowly becoming spider-man like ninja, faster and nimble. And Ninjara yeah I remember her, she was like Ralph's girl friend for a while, well she was like a villain at first? who later became a friend to the turtles? I think she's like Usagi yojimbo, got her own comic series and universe.

Ranking the turtles TV themes? (Not the shows overall, just the theme songs. I suspect I'd probably put TMNT 2012 above Rise AND 1987.) 1. TMNT 2003 (Sorry. It's extremely catchy and not, overly, expository.) 2. TMNT 1987 (Yeah. Slightly catchier than 2003, but the theme song as character exposition thing is...bad.) 3. Rise of the TMNT (There is one rap verse, but it's mostly a "techno R&B" vibe.) 4. TMNT 2012 (Woof. Rap theme songs for cartoons have...almost never worked. Danny Phantom and One Piece are actually the highlights.)

I think it’s really silly that the theme song has the lyric “never fight unless someone else starts”. Like, I know that’s generally a rule of martial arts, but…they’re ninjas. Assassins. That’d kind of their thing.

The 03 TMNT series was one of the best to ever do it

There was a THIRD?! wait hold on... THERE WAS A SECOND?!

I loved 2013 TMNT . Suggestion for Matt, Matt can you please please The Dark Phantom a Persian/Iranian game it's good it's also from 2013 and it got nominated as The best game of that year by site i don't remember, meta credit was it , i don't remember.

Yeah the 2003 TMNT Series was by far the best!!

I think that fox character appeared in 2012 tmnt for one episode I am not sure if it's the same character tho

Fun fact, the first japanese opening (the one that sounds like a Naruto op) for the 2003 tmnt dub in japan used production art from the first ps2/gamecube game for it's visuals, which is curious because that game wasn't released on japan.

I would love to see a showdown between the Triceratons and the Jem'Hadar.

I have this trilogy on PS2. I always remember this one being the weakest because it felt the most repetitive out of the bunch.

LOVED this show. Anyone know how/where to watch it these days? Was it ever released into Blu-ray or anything?

oof, this game looks so rough and boring. The barren levels with that camera was hard to watch. Im glad I missed this gen of turtle games. Made me appreciate Shredder's Revenge that much more

Matt, does this mean you would prefer Professor Farnsworth's suppository over the lost city of Atlanta's mouth tube?

classics

Do the gba tmnt games those were fun from what I remember.

That opening cutscene holds up pretty well to be 17 years old.

8:08 😂😂

Sidescrollers for sure

you ahould try first and second games of 2003 game adaptations

Been a while since I did ps2 emu, which version of 'totally legit playstation 2' is the generally agreed upon hotness these days, I assume stability & compatibility is pretty damn good these days?

I remember seeing this series a lot. It’s a combination of both the 80s and comic version,due to it serious nature. Even though Crang wasn’t in this new iteration of this series,but the awesome twist is that they made Shredder an alien. Of course that Konami made this game cause who else will make a licensed game based around the TMNT franchise.

Request for Flophouse Plays: Mad World (Wii)

So the fugitive droid is called "fugidriod"? What was his name before he escaped?

TMNT2: Battle Nexus was the best, I believe, even the GBA version is great.

I was 13 when this show came out and was like "naw looks like shit". But I'm gonna give it a try. I've been enjoying the 87' cartoon recently even if it is really dumb at times.

You should be able to upgrade the AI for the other turtles so they stop running into mines.

Matt, do you like shredders revenge? My only issue with that game is that when youre with 4 other people, theres so much happening on screen that you can't tell what the hell is going on sometimes lol

You know what the turtles are missing as a team? A pilot type, and why not Mikey. Sure Don might seem obvious, but he already does a lot of the heavy lifting plot wise and Mikey just seems like a better fit to "feel out" how some new vehicle rides.

10:32 extreeeeme.

Didn't Ninjara get replaced with Alopex?

this hacking minigame is similar to Nier Automata.

I played 2 and 3 a lot. 2 was better I think. I wasn't a fan of how they did 3 compared to 2. I rented the first one and then never found it again after that