Konami anticipates the release of Shredder’s Revenge with TMNT The Cowabunga Collection. A compilation of 13 retro Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games available on Super Nintendo, Megadrive…
Unsure if this is a long-term project or a reaction to Dotemu’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge, Konami is bringing its Ninja Turtles out of the closet. This is the TMNT The Cowabunga Collection.
The fight!
The four brothers Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo are all the rage in 2022. Rather than risk screwing up a new game, Konami is banking on an anthology of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection
A compilation that contains no less than 13 retro games released in arcades or on consoles (NES, SNES, Megadrive, Game Boy) at the time. 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 Raid (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)
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To dust off all of this, Konami has teamed up with Digital Eclipse, which has various builds to its credit. Among others, 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 compilations cited, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection will feature more recent improvements. This includes a instant backup
With online functions : TMNT (Arcade), TMNT: Turtles in Time (Arcade), TMNT: The Hyperstone Heist, TMNT Tournament Fighters (Super Nintendo).
Given the old-fashioned difficulty that might annoy today, the publisher has planned to introduce a digital guide in every software.
And when is it coming out? At what price ? The compilation will be available in 2022 for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC. The TMNT: The Cowabunga Collection costs $39.99in both dematerialized and physical versions.
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