Ninja Turtle fans can get ready to play all their favorites once more with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection
The Ninja Turtles are coming back to us in a hard way once more, as it looks like Konami is gearing up to bring us many of the past games in one solid setting. Not only in a solid setting but jumping from the very old generation systems to the PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Switch, and PC. All with the help from Digital Eclipse that has been able to do similar things in the past. Get ready to pick up the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection sometime in 2022 and get thirteen of these classics back in your hands and all fixed up to run with the modern technology that is out there. It is time to invest in controller tethers once more to save the screens.
The full list of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles can be seen a bit lower down but it ranges over quite a bit of time for the teens fighting the Foot. In addition to all of that, we will also be seeing quite a few other extras mixed in from not only the games but the 80s TV show and comics as well. Those that pick up the collection in physical or digital forms will also get treats in the way of sketches, art, game design elements, and other museum-style elements from the vast collection of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It seems like we will see many days’ worth of gaming and content in one solid package. You cannot be upset with that at all.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection — Reveal Trailer
Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo are back from the sewers with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection! In collaboration with Nickelodeon, thirteen radical games from Konami’s entire archive of retro 8-bit, 16-bit, and arcade Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) titles and their Japanese versions will be coming to PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC Steam in 2022.
This incredible collection of thirteen original classics gives chasing down Shredder, fighting the Foot, and tangling up with Bebop and Rocksteady a fresh look at why Konami’s adaptations of the heroes in a half shell set the standard in beat ‘em up, action games. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection includes:
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Arcade)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles In Time (Arcade)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game (NES)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project (NES)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (NES)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles In Time (Super Nintendo)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (Super Nintendo)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist (Sega Genesis)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (Sega Genesis)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall Of The Foot Clan (Game Boy)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back From The Sewers (Game Boy)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue (Game Boy)
Konami partnered with game developer Digital Eclipse to expertly adapt these classics for modern gaming systems with a fantastic set of quality-of-life features including save anytime and rewind, button mapping, and added online play for certain games with local couch play for all titles were originally intended. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection will also come with a digital game guide for each title to help players fight and sometimes swim through difficult areas.
The games are based on the characters and themes of the 80’s children’s cartoon and comic book series, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles often taking place in a fictionalized New York City, around the sewers, inside futuristic enemy bases, and even across time itself! In collaboration with Nickelodeon, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection will also include loads of extras using imagery from the original cartoons, comics, and other historic TMNT media content in a compiled Museum connecting the franchise across the various mediums. Additionally, never-before-seen development art, sketches, and game design material will also be included.
Have you been hoping to see all of these Ninja Turtle titles back out there in the wild or did you think they were lost to the retro gaming space? Do you think they will all still be as difficult as they were before or will the quality of life improvements fix some of those issues? Could we see some of the cheat codes come back in to it all or will we have to go at the games as they are intended? Give us all of your thoughts on this down in the comments and then feel free to discuss it all as you wish. If we have more to share for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection, know that it will all be here. Just keep an eye out for all of that and much more.