Cowabunga dudes! Grab your nunchucks and order a pizza because we’re diving shell-first into the radical world of the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video game! This gnarly beat ’em up brought the heroes in a half-shell to GameCube, Game Boy Advance, PS2, and Xbox faster than you can say “Turtle Power!”
Join us as we team up with Isaac Fisher from Definitive Film to dissect this game like Donatello dissects a circuit board. Isaac’s currently knee-deep in mutagen, working on a bodacious documentary called TMNT: Evolution, Mutation, & Reboot chronicling 40 years of TMNT history with the rest of the team at Definitive Film. So strap in, because this episode is gonna be more action-packed than a showdown with the Shredder in a pizza parlor!
Learn such things as:
What can reboots do to breath new life into a franchise?
How do Hollywood politics effect smaller projects?
How do you balance playing time on a team like this?
And so much more!
You can find Definitive Film on Twitter @definitive_film, Instagram @definitivefilm, or on Facebook @definitivefilm if you’re looking for a social media connection. Of course there’s also the main Definitive Film website and the Kickstarter campaign for TMNT: Evolution, Mutation, & Reboot.
If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.
If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.
Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.
You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicscaston Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Groupon Facebook.
A big thanks to Capes on the Couch and Not If I Reboot You First for the promos today.
Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who can’t pick a favorite turtle, but if pressed would probably say Franklin.
Support Play Comics by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/playcomics
Read transcript