Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection is a compilation of classic Konami titles for the Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S and X, released on August 30, 2022. It includes 13 different TMNT games that were originally released for the arcades, Game Boy, NES, SNES and the Sega Genesis.
Included games[]
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989 video game) (NES)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (arcade game)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game (NES)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (video game)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time (SNES)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back from the Sewers
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (Super NES game)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (Genesis game)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (NES game)
Additional features[]
- Strategy guides for all games.
- Eleven Japanese regional versions, minus the arcade version of Turtles in Time and the NES version of Tournament Fighters due to the lack of a Japanese release.
- Enhancement mode for all games which is accessed by highlight each game in the main menu. The amount that is available is dependent on game used. Several examples include:
- God Mode giving the player near-invincibility and the ability to defeat enemies with little effort.
- Removing the previous flickering or slowdown issues with all the NES titles due to the limited memory issues those versions have.
- Additional or unlimited lives.
- The ability to watch the CPU play the game in a perfect play via accessing it when highlighting the game from the main menu. Also includes a rewind and fast forward feature when watching the footage. The player able to join in to take over gameplay at any time at any time.
- In Radical Rescue however, the CPU does not pick up any Life Ups.
- Save and rewind functions
- Online play and local play but only for both arcade games, Hyperstone Heist and the SNES version of Tournament Fighters, but omits the extra features for those games.
- Museum gallery which is listed as "Turtles' Lair".
- Music player for all games.
- Box art and instruction manuals for all console-based games.
- The original advertisements for the several games.
- Behind the Scenes artwork for character designs and game designs for most of the NES, Game Boy, and SNES titles excluding Radical Rescue and the NES version of Tournament Fighters.
- Episode pictures and comic book covers with the original release dates.
- While it does have the option of listing character names for the ones seen in the episode pictures and comic book covers, only the characters that appeared in any of the games for this collection are included.
- Due to the minor role of the Triceratons outside the original comics prior to the 2003 series, the Triceraton characters are listed as "Triceraton" in all the pictures they appear in.
- Consists of almost every episode of the 1987, 2003, 2012, and Rise of the TMNT series. The only exception is the 1987 series episodes "Planet of the Turtleoids" and "Rock Around the Block".
- Several mistakes for the episode listing of the 1987 series is that while the episodes in the seasons are listed by the ones seen in the official DVD Listing (which included the Vacation in Europe Sideseason being released as part of Season 7), however the information and pictures for the first two episodes of Seasons 7-10 are listed in the preceding season when seen in the gallery.
- Due to the delay of the 2003 series episode "Insane in the Membrane" in the US due to content issues, the original airdate for the UK version October 14, 2006 is used instead.
- Comic book covers for the Mirage (1-61 only, minus 23-26), Archie (minus 32-27), IDW (1-100 only) and Urban Legends series. IDW's other limited run series Turtles in Time and Universe are also listed as separate entries. Variant covers are also included.
- While it does have the option of listing character names for the ones seen in the episode pictures and comic book covers, only the characters that appeared in any of the games for this collection are included.
Trivia[]
- In the original English release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game, in the first two levels there were minor references seen in the background to the pizza restaurant chain "Pizza Hut". However as the license to this reference had already expired, the game received editing similar to the Japanese version in this release to remove those references.
- The Main menu music for the game is directly taken from the first stage of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 video game)
- Since March 29, 2024, this game is no longer available on all platforms' online stores in Japan, while other regions are not affected. [1]
Videos[]
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles- The Cowabunga Collection Announcement Trailer
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles- The Cowabunga Collection @SDCC 2022!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles- Cowabunga Collection at San Diego Comic Con 2022 Radical Recap!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles- The Cowabunga Collection - Kick some shell August 30th
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles- The Cowabunga Collection Launch Trailer