There was a time during my formative years in the early 90s where the sheer mention of "mutant", "turtle", "sewer", "pizza" and words I'd never heard of before like "cowabunga", "Leonardo", "Donatello", "Michelangelo" and "Raphael" got me all giddy inside. (I did actually know of the artists before a few mutated turtles and a rat popularised them to heights they'd never thought they'd ever be known for, but that's another story altogether.)

Ahem. Anyway, a few fans of the TMNT arcade and console classics of old have put together a free-to-play mashup with 60 playable characters.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Rescue-Palooza! is a passion project from a handful of fans and is available to play now. And if "free" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" wasn't enough to get you hyped, just watch a trailer for the game embedded below.

Turtle power.