They should grow up with the games I grew up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xxe0TXGg-8

>>11857760
First off, it was well made with appealing characters and cool concepts. The early seasons of the 89 show, the original comic, first movie, and the Konami games all hold up well. The quality was objectively high for a lot of it.

But I think it was also the perfect mix of ideas for the late 80s/early 90s. At the time, a few things were super popular. Marvel comics and mutant super heroes were huge, X-Men was the most popular comic, and TMNT even started as a Daredevil parody. Ninjas and martial arts were also super big culturally back then. At the same time martial arts movies were super popular and cool, also one of the reasons games like Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat took off so much. Ninjas appeared in comics all the time (Wolverine going to Japan, Daredevil fighting The Hand, etc.) as well as everywhere else.

Basically, TMNT was perfect for the time it came out, because it was a mix of all of the coolest stuff in the world back then. In addition to mutation and martial arts, you had robots, aliens, alternate dimensions, and all kinds of other cool things.
>tldr
TMNT was awesome in the perfect way for 80s/90s kids.