Digital Eclipse and Konami Reveal The Cowabunga Collection's Trove of TMNT Content
Few media franchises have the enduring appeal of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo remain relevant pop culture icons in 2022, over thirty years after their original appearance. Konami's TMNT video games, released throughout the 80s and 90s, played a major role in fostering early turtlemania, and now Digital Eclipse and Konami are releasing a compilation of these influential beat 'em ups, fighters, and platformers with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection.For fans who grew up on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles show, comics, and games that defined an era, this collection could be a dream come true.
Game Rant spoke with Charles Murakami, a senior producer at Konami Digital Entertainment, and Chris Kohler, the editorial director of Digital Eclipse, about the wealth of extra content and features in this collection. Regardless of whether players are old-school shellheads or newcomers who discovered the turtles thanks to the recent release of Shredders Revenge, they will want to keep an eye out for this radical collection when it releases on August 30.
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The centerpiece of The Cowabunga Collection is Konami's catalog of TMNT games, including 13 US releases and all 11 Japanese releases. Kohler hopes new and returning players alike will be able to discover a new game, since few had the opportunity to play every Konami title when they were originally released.
«Unless you had two arcade cabinets and four different consoles in your house when you were a kid, you probably didn’t get to experience all of these. So I want people to be able to play a brand-new Turtles game, or return to a game they maybe bounced off
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