Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist 

Play it on: Genesis, Cowabunga Collection

You can’t throw enemies out of the screen in The Hyperstone Heist, the Sega Genesis’ answer to Turtles in Time, but you do get a dedicated dash button and punchier gameplay. What it lacks in the number and variety of levels it makes up for with longer, more detailed side-scrolling environments and better graphics.

Hyperstone Heist has long struggled to get out from under the long shadow cast by Turtles In Time, but it’s far more than just a clone. Even if it begins like the SNES game with Shredder making the Statue of Liberty disappear, and ends with a familiar showdown against the Foot Clan boss, it has its own subtly distinct flavor and texture. There aren’t as many unique voiced lines, cameos, or Easter Eggs from the Turtles universe, but its fast-paced boss rush structure is everything you could want from a ‘90s beat ‘em up. And if you were a Sega Genesis kid, it was just obvious that it was way better than Turtles in Time. — Ethan Gach

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