Konami is anticipating the release of Shredder’s Revenge with TMNT The Cowabunga Collection. A compilation of 13 retro Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games released on Super Nintendo, Megadrive…
Unsure if this is a long-time project or a reaction to Dotemu’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge, Konami is bringing their Ninja Turtles out of the closet. This is the TMNT The Cowabunga Collection.
The fray !
The four brothers Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo are all the rage in 2022. Instead of taking the risk of screwing up with a new game, Konami is betting on an anthology of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection.
A compilation that includes no less than 13 retro games released at the time in arcades or on consoles (NES, SNES, Megadrive, Game Boy). Titles of different genres, from versus fighting to beat’em up.
- 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)
TMNT The Cowabunga Collection: “Never pay full price for a late pizza”
To dust off all this, Konami has teamed up with Digital Eclipse, which has various compilations to its credit. Among other things, the company was responsible for Samurai Shodown NeoGeo Collection, Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection and Disney Classic Games: Aladdin and The Lion King.
Like the cited compilations, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection will have more current enhancements. This includes a instant backupthe rewind to repair an error and editable controls. Similarly, some will be playable online:
With online features : TMNT (Arcade), TMNT: Turtles in Time (Arcade), TMNT: The Hyperstone Heist, TMNT Tournament Fighters (Super Nintendo).
Given the old-fashioned difficulty, which may put the nerves today, the publisher has planned to introduce a digital guide in each software.
And when is it coming out? At what price ? The compilation will be available in 2022 on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC. The TMNT: The Cowabunga Collection will cost 39.99€in dematerialized as well as in physical version.
Are you nostalgic to the point of succumbing to the charm of these retro games? Do you consider the requested price reasonable in view of the number of titles? Tell us everything in comments.
