June 2025 – DaveGladow.com

This section of the countdown might seem a little like the department of redundancy department.

The next few titles we’ll be featuring in this space are games in series that I love that already had representation in the countdown, and yet, here I am, saying you should play this other game too.

The onus then falls on me to make the case for why people should play not just the game that falls higher on the list (in this case, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time“), but for them to play that game AND this one.

In the case of the arcade classic beat ‘em up “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” we’re going to be looking at three distinct things, I’d say.

The importance of the coin-op brawler as a genre within video games.
The massive cultural relevance of the ninja turtles.
Why this game, itself, is fun.

So yeah, let’s get to it. Why should someone play that other turtles game … and this turtles game too?

Let’s read on to find out!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at a glance:
Genre: Beat ’em up
Released: 1989
Platform: Arcade
Konami’s highest-grossing arcade game.

Hey y’all, I thought I would take a short diversion from regular programming to talk about the Nintendo Switch for a little while.

The system’s successor, the aptly named “Switch 2,” makes its debut in, well, several hours at this point, meaning the old trusty Switch is going to be on its last legs in terms of product support going forward.

This gives us the perfect reason to celebrate the Switch by talking about what it did so darn well. For me, with all apologies to its unique trailblazing nature as a home/portable hybrid console, that’s primarily the looooooong list of great games it housed.

I wanted to hone in on some of the highlights of that killer library – the true cream of the crop – and so I started to think about things in terms of the Switch’s “Mt. Rushmore,” the games that were truly stellar and synonymous with the system.

That list quickly grew beyond four, so I decided, let’s go for an even 10 and call it a day.

The following are in my view the 10 most impactful, representative, elite games on the Nintendo Switch … with a few caveats beforehand.

Month: June 2025

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at a glance:

The top 10 Nintendo Switch games