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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection
Developer(s)Digital Eclipse
Publisher(s)Konami
SeriesTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Platform(s)
ReleaseAugust 30, 2022
Genre(s)Various
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection is a 2022 video game compilation developed by Digital Eclipse and published by Konami. It features 13 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video games developed by Konami between 1989 and 1994. The compilation includes the Western and Japanese versions of most titles, and adds online capabilities in certain games.

The Cowabunga Collection was released for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S on August 30, 2022.

Content

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The Cowabunga Collection adds save states, rewind functions, button mapping, as well as online capabilities in certain games and local co-op in all games where it was originally intended.[1] It features an in-game museum that offers previously unseen development art, sketches and game design material for the titles.[2] Almost every game includes both the Western and Japanese versions, with the exceptions being the arcade version of Turtles in Time and the NES version of Tournament Fighters, which did not have Japanese versions.[3]

The Cowabunga Collection compiles 13 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games developed by Konami between 1989 and 1994, listed below.[4][5][6]

Titles included in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection
Released (NA) Title Original system Local players Online multiplayer
1989 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES video game) NES Single-player No
1989 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (arcade game)[a] Arcade Multiplayer Yes
1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game NES Multiplayer No
1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan Game Boy Single-player No
1991 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Arcade Multiplayer Yes
1991 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back from the Sewers Game Boy Single-player No
1992 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project NES Multiplayer Yes
1992 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time SNES Multiplayer Yes
1992 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist Sega Genesis Multiplayer Yes
1993 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue Game Boy Single-player No
1993 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (SNES version) SNES Multiplayer Yes
1993 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (Genesis version) Sega Genesis Multiplayer No
1994 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (NES version) NES Multiplayer No

Development and release

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The compilation was developed by Digital Eclipse, who had previously worked on other retro collections, such as The Disney Afternoon Collection and Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection.[3] The Cowabunga Collection was announced as part of the PlayStation State of Play event on March 9, 2022.[7] Charles Murakami of, the senior producer at Konami pitched a collection of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle themed game collection that would include other promotional material related to the comic series and the animated television series.[8] Digital Eclipse developed the project and worked with Rich Whitehouse who was the ROM engineer on the project and was able to reverse-engineer the games.[8] Material related to the game was collected from a weeks worth of research at The Strong. Konami went through their archive in Japan and found about 2,000 pages of design documents and promotional art which were scanned and translated or captioned to be included as bonus material in the release.[8]

Release and reception

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection was featured at San Diego Comic-Con 2022. It was released for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S on August 30, 2022.[25][26] A limited edition physical version of the game was also released, containing a cloth poster, an acrylic diorama, an enamel pin set, 12 Tournament Fighters cards, and a 180-page artbook. The box art and cloth poster were designed by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman.[27][28]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection received "generally favorable" reviews, according to the review aggregator Metacritic.[9][10][11][12] By April 7, 2023, the release had sold over 1 million copies.[29]

Retro Gamer magazine complimented the bonus features and quality of life features such as the ability to rewind some games and remove flickering on others, and the high quality emulation that had a "tiny bit of input lag in some games, but nothing that hampered play".[20]


Notes

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  1. ^ The version used is based on the Arcade1Up countercade release.

References

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