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Heroes in a half-shell – turtle power! They're the world's most fearsome fighting teens, they're heroes in a half-shell and they're green.
Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Leonardo. Famous painters? I don't think so, they're mutant ninja turtles… Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to be precise and they were huge when I was growing up. There were comics and cartoons and movies and videogames and, and, and. You get the idea.
Well, they're back (not that they ever really went away) and they're coming to the Nintendo DS in a new retro-ish game that is "a tribute to the coin-op classics." Entitled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Arcade Attack, the game is part of the 25th anniversary "shell-ebration," and it's a side-scroller with the heroes going up against Shredder. What more could you want? Pictures? We've got those too!
