Trivia / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Stern)

• Content Leak: The game was leaked twice before its official announcement at the tail end of May 2020:
  • The first time came in late April 2020, when George Gomez shared a screen capture of several Stern employees having a meeting over Zoom. Looking closely at the edge of Dwight Sullivan's screen revealed a banner that appeared to show the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles logo. After the game was released, the banner was proven to be real.
  • The second time was right before the proper reveal at the end of May 2020, when podcast host Kaneda posted several details about the game to his Facebook account. These included pictures of the playfield, the Limited Edition cabinet, and a overhead picture of the same edition's playfield. He also revealed that the game would forgo using the original cartoon's voice actors in favor of soundalikes.
• Executive Meddling: In this episode of Loser Kid Pinball Podcast, programmer Dwight Sullivan noted that the game was originally planned to use the actual theme song from the 1987 cartoon before Nickelodeon (which owns the franchise) insisted they use a cover version.

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