Many gamers wanted a port of Konami's arcade beat-'em-up of the same name instead, but had to wait until 1991, when a port of the arcade classic came to the NES under the TMNT 2 moniker.
32 years after the ill-fated pilot for a cartoon adaptation of Rare's NES classic Battletoads ... "the hope was that it would take off the way TMNT did." Obviously, given the fact that Battletoads ...