The sewer adventures of Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo are being revived in a new collection titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection.
Konami has teamed up with Nickelodeon and developer Digital Eclipse to bring back thirteen "radical" TMNT games across the 8-bit, 16-bit and arcade era. This collection will also include the 11 Japanese versions, online support and local support select titles, along with quality-of-life enhancements such as save, rewind and button mapping features. There's digital guides for each game, too.
This collection will be available in physical and digital form on Xbox and multiple other platforms at some point this year for $39.99 or your regional equivalent. Here's the full list of games contained within the collection:
• 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)
*11 Japanese regional versions total -No Japanese versions released for TMNT (Arcade) and TMNT: Tournament Fighters (NES)
**Titles with online functionality -TMNT (Arcade), TMNT: Turtles in Time (Arcade), TMNT: The Hyperstone Heist, TMNT Tournament Fighters (Super Nintendo)
Here's a bit of extra PR, revealing the collection will also include a musuem of TMNT's artwork and history:
"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."
Will you be checking out this collection when it surfaces on Xbox? Comment below.
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Yes!!! No remasters but I will enjoy them running at 60fps.
This is awesome, I may actually buy copies for both Xbox and Switch!
Sounds rad. Will definitely pick it up on sale. Bit pricey, especially when you do the Australia tax conversion. Not overpriced given the amount of games and licensing they'd need to do, mind. Just more than I'm willing to pay.
Bodacious! I never thought we would get a TMNT collection this extensive. Cowabunga dudes!
definitely on the list.
Was even more shocked to see another gundam game, gundam evolution (the overwatch clone), is also coming to xbox.
my plates already stacked an yet more just keeps falling.
I’m kind of surprised by this. Not only are there quite a few games in this collection, but the fact that Konami is actually working with somebody to release a game. Digital Eclipse is probably doing all the work, but still. Going to mark this one down in the calendar, something other than a pachinko machine coming from Konami.
Definitely be picking this up day one!
I can’t wait to play this with my five year old! Though, I’m not looking forward to the dam level… I still have PTSD in water levels thanks to that level.
This will go nicely with my castlevania collection
I had Turtles in time on snes. I still remember the baxter stockman boss fight. This game kicks ass! Will definitely be picking this up on switch just for tmnt iv!
Day 1 for me lmaooooo. I'm not kidding.
Wait, 13 games, but several of them are just the same ones that were released and different consoles? Maybe I'm just being dumb, but that wouldn't really be 13 games then.
"Bury my shell at wounded knee..."
Day one although I'll get it physical on switch!
This looks great but I tend to go switch for these types of games. I'll wait and see how they run before deciding, but realistically they should run well on switch.
@KilloWertz Back in the 8-bit and 16-bit era, games were not 1:1 ports. The consoles had much different capabilities and sometimes the SNES and Genesis versions were even done by completely different development teams. So even though they were the "same game" they really weren't. Don't know if that's the case with Tournament Fighters but I wouldn't be surprised. As far as TMNT Arcade and Turtles In Time go, the SNES versions had longer levels than the arcade. I'm personally happy as hell they're including all the versions. TMNT Arcade is one of the only reasons I keep my X360 plugged in and Turtles in Time Re-Shelled was awful.
this is funny i just taught my 2 year old nephew how to say Cawabunga Dudes!!! now this well i cant wait to throw down my 40$
What a great archive. Hopefully a scanline option and the ability to turn hardware slowdown on and off.
@XxEvilAshxX @KilloWertz The Tournament Fighter games are all different unique games for each system only thing similar is the name. The NES, Genesis and SNES version have their own roster of characters with the 4 Turtles only being the same character and their own story so yes they are 3 different games.
The first TMNT Arcade is similar in the NES and Arcade version however the NES removed 4 players due to limitations of the NES but added two new levels and bosses.
Turtles in Time was a bit different as well as the SNES Added a Shredder Battle, added Bebop and Rocksteady as bosses in the Pirate level and added Slash as the boss in the Dinosaur level. The SNES also added a side mode that can be selected from the Title screen a one on one fighting game Street Fighter style where you select one of the four Turtles.
And Hyperstone Heist is an odd game. It's kinda of a remix of the two arcade games level wise with a unique level thrown in.
So while they look similar they are indeed different games.
Man I would love a 16 bit remake of Manhattan Project...
I was not sure if this was coming to Xbox.. at it's reveal yesterday at the PS State Of Play it only stated PS4 and PS5. So Stoked to hear Xbox is getting a version of this, and cool to hear they are doing a physical version too. I'm curious to see what major differences Sega, Nes, and Snes versions of games will really be. Either way, really looking forward to this.
@Tasuki
Wow thanks for the info!!
@XxEvilAshxX Thanks for all that info. Knowing that, it makes more sense then. It would kind of suck for people who want to 100% every release to have to essentially play similar games multiple times, but since I'm not one of those, having the extra content is not a bad thing. I'll likely only play the "best" version of each of the games included, but still, it's good to have options.
Day 1 for me. Im still in shock they are doing the arcade versions of the tmnt version. I would of thought they would of done the console version. Bring it on.
This looks great, not sure if i’d pay £39.99 tho??? Will surely come to Game Pass or PS+ eventually!!?
@Stoned_Patrol SNES had better graphics than Megadrive, Master System had better graphics than NES. Apart from that they were pretty similar.
Too much money I'll wait for a sale
please come to gamepass
@sjbsixpack Word, and at least for the fighting game, each console had a couple different characters also... But throwing them all in the way they are, does kinda feel like a cheap way to say they have 13 different Turtles games in the package... When it is more like 8 or something. But either way, if they really have online multiplayer for Turtles in Time, I will be gettin this day one.
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