Classic beat ‘em ups used to litter various arcades back in the 90s. You couldn’t turn your head with running into a Battletoads or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade cabinet. And with the rise of services such as Xbox Live Arcade, the PlayStation Network Store and the Wii Virtual Console/Wiiware, such games have been brought back into the limelight.

When Konami’s 1989 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles graced its way onto Xbox Live Arcade, many wondered: would we see more? Well now, that question seems to have been answered with a revamped version of Konami’s follow up to the 1989 arcade game, 1991’s TMNT: Turtles in Time, for the Xbox Live Arcade.

Unveiled as part of the TMNT 25th Anniversary bus tour, the game appears to be in playable form. As an added bonus, the game has been revamped, rendered in 3D, though still retaining the same gameplay and style from the original version. No announcement has been made on when the game will be released but it would definitely be a welcome addition to XBLA.

And who knows? Maybe soon we’ll start seeing rereleases of that Uncanny X-Men arcade game or, my personal favorite, the old 1991 Simpsons game. Ah…one can dream.

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