{"id":18279,"date":"2025-03-28T16:37:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T15:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-was-the-hardest-game-i-ever-played-so-why-am-i-back-dominik-diamond\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T16:37:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T15:37:45","slug":"teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-was-the-hardest-game-i-ever-played-so-why-am-i-back-dominik-diamond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-was-the-hardest-game-i-ever-played-so-why-am-i-back-dominik-diamond\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was the hardest game I ever played \u2013 so why am I back? | Dominik Diamond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It drove me to distraction on the ZX Spectrum and now that a new version  available on a PlayStation collection, I had to test myself against it once more \u2013 with inevitable consequences<\/p>\n<p>I do not replay games. Don\u2019t see the point. I don\u2019t reread books either, and I rarely rewatch movies or TV shows. There\u2019s too much new, bigger and better stuff coming out every day, and too little time to consume it. However, I made an exception with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Because the original was so special.<\/p>\n<p>It came along towards the end of my ZX Spectrum playing days. I was at university and was previously only interested in a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle if it came in a tall glass and was at happy hour prices in the Mandela Bar. But the game hooked me one summer back home and became the hardest video game that I ever completed. And that\u2019s what worried me when I started the rerelease on the PS4 that comes as part of the TMNT Cowabunga Collection. (Playstation Plus Essentials March)<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2025\/mar\/28\/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-game-zx-spectrum-playstation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d52ebbdcf572b4ecc82f1744c7461e7b7812674d\/241_0_1017_610\/master\/1017.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=172eb793955c5215ab3bf085197560c7\" title=\"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was the hardest game I ever played \u2013 so why am I back? | Dominik Diamond\" \/>It drove me to distraction on the ZX Spectrum and now that a new version  available on a PlayStation collection, I had to test myself against it once more \u2013 with inevitable consequences<br \/>\nI do not replay games. Don\u2019t see the point. I don\u2019t reread books either, and I rarely rewatch movies or TV shows. There\u2019s too much new, bigger and better stuff coming out every day, and too little time to consume it. However, I made an exception with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Because the original was so special.<br \/>\nIt came along towards the end of my ZX Spectrum playing days. I was at university and was previously only interested in a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle if it came in a tall glass and was at happy hour prices in the Mandela Bar. But the game hooked me one summer back home and became the hardest video game that I ever completed. And that\u2019s what worried me when I started the rerelease on the PS4 that comes as part of the TMNT Cowabunga Collection. (Playstation Plus Essentials March) Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It drove me to distraction on the ZX Spectrum and now that a new version available on a PlayStation collection, I had to test myself against it once more \u2013 with inevitable consequences I do not replay games. Don\u2019t see the point. I don\u2019t reread books either, and I rarely rewatch movies or TV shows. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-was-the-hardest-game-i-ever-played-so-why-am-i-back-dominik-diamond\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was the hardest game I ever played \u2013 so why am I back? | Dominik Diamond<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18279"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}