Were you more of a MK or TMNT kid as a ninja obsessed geek in the early 90s?
>>12001320X-men
>>12001320Utterly obsessed with TMNT, still have a soft spot for those guys. Some of my earliest gaming memories are playing the NES TMNT II on my best friend's dad's HUGE rear projection TV, it was really mindblowing at the time.
>>12001331Is she really a ninja or just Asian (well a British woman who psychically took over an Asian woman's body and just kept it or whatever her batshit story is)
>>12001495British Telepath had her brain scooped out and put in the body of a ninja assassin named Kwannon. Kwannon was believed to be dead for a long while but came back in the other body claiming to be the real Betsy Braddock. There was a mystery about who was really whom for a while as both had traits from both, then the British body got mutant aids and died and that was basically the end of it for a long while. Recently Kwannon came back. They undid the swap. Fixed the mutant aids issue and now both are horrible.
>>12001519>Recently Kwannon came backOh and by recently I mean like 10 years ago
>>12001320TMNT felt like Hannah-Barbera cartoons to me. Like you watch it if there's nothing else on tv, and it feels like you're supposed to like it a lot if you're a certain age but if you watch the cartoon nowadays it's kinda whatever. MK had cool violence and a cool movie, and therefore was better. I will give it to TMNT though, that they had cool beat 'em ups.
>>12001550The first live action TMNT movie is kino, never cared about the cartoon
By the time MK became popular, TMNT was already in decline. X-Men and Spiderman were cool.TMNT at its peak was million times better than MK though.
I liked MK better. I had a crush on Shinnok and would draw pictures of us holding hands and kissing. I never really got into TMNT cause one time in middle school a bunch of older kids ganged up on me in the computer lab and showed me a porn gif of all the turtles running a train on April.
>>12001320Was more into TMNT kid but of course I loved MK and Subzero/Scorpion like everyone else.
>>12001320Not video games.
>>12002526what
>>12002630what
>>12002313this desu senpai.By the time MK hit its peak the Turtles were old hat and had been replaced by The Power Rangers
>>12002648That was 1993 when Power Rangers premiered, people seem to forget Turtles had two "booms" so to speak, the 1987 cartoon, and then the live action movie in 1990, MK blew up before MMPR
>>12002848A "boom" can last for months to years, and booms can peak at any point during their time.The Turtles, whose large popularity lasted from the cartoon in 87 (which ran for 10 seasons) to after the first two films up until around 92 or even 93. Mortal Kombat debuted in 92, MK2 in 93, the film and MK3 in 95. Power Rangers debuted in 93 with the film in 95.You can argue that once a cartoon, tv show or video game receives a Hollywood film adaption, that could be regarded as the peak of that boom in terms of mainstream attention. And remember culture moved a little slower in the pre-internet days and things could remain in peoples attention a little longer as well.The Turtles, MMPR and MK were around for a long time but the actual boom periods could be seen as;>Turtles boom87 - 92>MK boom92 - 95>MMPR boom93 - 95There's a definite crossover with the Power Rangers and Mortal Kombat, a time when the Turtles were waning in popularity.
>>12002321>one time in middle school a bunch of older kids ganged up on me in the computer lab and showed me a porn gif of all the turtles running a train on April.That's so sad, anon. I'm sorry for your loss.
>>12001320Transformers, too bad Transformers video games sucked ass until Fall/War for Cybertron.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAJcJsmH14A
>>12003737>>12003741>>12003749>>12003751>>12003759>>12003763How about contributing something relevant to the thread dipshit
In terms of being obsessed with the setting, lore, characters, etc, MK definitely. Turtle Mania was a bit before my time, so I only caught the occasional rerun when I was a kid. However, I definitely thought Turtles in Time was better than any MK game.
As others have said they weren't really from the same period. TMNT was a mostly late 80s thing as far as the cartoon and toys went, then peaked in 1990 with the movie, maybe hung on a year or two more and then was hardly talked about. MK came out in late-ish 1992 and even then I don't think it was massively popular right out the gate but instead likely took a few months for word to spread. I was utterly obsessed with both during their respective time periods, being born in 1983 it almost felt like each was made to fit perfectly with my age, TMNT for toddlers and younger children and MK for older children and teens. If anything, I'd say it was Street Fighter that intersected/competed with TMNT as it was more lighthearted and cartoony and came out early enough to coincide with the tail end of TMNT mania.
>>12003885It's a bot.
>>12004006>TMNT was a mostly late 80s thing as far as the cartoon and toys went, then peaked in 1990 with the movie, maybe hung on a year or two more and then was hardly talked about.Sounds pretty close, though it was still big in the early 90s even if the peak was earlier. I remember TMNT toys and other merchandise was still everywhere in the early 90s, and the games were popular. Probably died more around the time TMNT 3 came out in '93, that movie was a huge letdown.
>>12001320I was both in 2000s
>>12004006>being born in 1983 it almost felt like each was made to fit perfectly with my age, TMNT for toddlers and younger children and MK for older children and teens.This fits my experience. I was super into TMNT and when MK came around I was at just the right age for the more mature content to appeal to me. But also MK was kind of the last big hurrah of ninjas in popular culture, which pretty much ended when UFC dispelled the illusion of traditional martial arts. Interesting time to grow up.
>>12004039That's a dog
>>12004376>the last big hurrah of ninjas in popular culture>what is Naruto
>>12005645
>>12005645Naruto is a big disconnect from the classic ninja in Chinese and American media. Naruto also wasn't like a huge phenomenon, such as say Pokemon or DBZ which are similar anime that did meet the level of pop culture of TMNT or MK, so idk if it really counts muchLike you're probably going to find Naruto fans who are more general shonen fans, not so much part of the "ninja craze" that really began with 80s martial arts flicks and all revolved around the idea of shady assassins with masks and pajamas
>>12004376Well it was also around that time shit like surf ninjas and three ninjas came out, and TMNT rip offs like warriors of virtue, once something slips into unintentional parody the trend is usually done
>>12004009The art style always kept me from these games
>>12001320They don't have to be mutually exclusive, OP.Anyway, I was hard into TMNT and then MK, but even when MK was a thing, I'd still bust out my Technodrome set and play it with my best friend. Shit ruled.
>>12001320MK. I always felt like I was doing something I shouldn’t be when I played it in the arcades or at a friends house.
>>12007905>Technodrome setLoved that thing
>>12001320both but i definitely leaned more into mk as i got older and became more of an edgelord
