Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection review — It’s still time for turtles
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II for NES is one of the earliest games I can ever remember playing. That first level set in a burning apartment building — and the inexplicably smooth boulders that roll down those stairs — are forever ingrained into my brain.
My nostalgia extends to all of the TMNT beat-’em-ups from the 8-bit and 16-bit eras. Heck, I think that Turtles in Time was as synonymous with the Super Nintendo as Super Mario World for a lot of kids.
So it’s always been a bummer to have no easy way to play those games on modern platforms. Now The Cowabunga Collection comes to the rescue. Releasing on August 30 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC, this compilation includes every Game Boy, NES, SNES, and Genesis TMNT game, along with the franchises iconic first two arcade offerings.
In total, that means 13 titles. Not all of them are heroes in a half shell. Again, the SNES version of Turtles in Time is a beat-’em-up classic. It might seem simple compared to modern genre hits like Streets of Rage 4, River City Girls, or even the recent Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge, but Turtles in Time still has a lot of charm and a bit more depth than you may expect. It also has one of the best soundtracks of its era.
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The collection also has some surprises, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue for the Game Boy chief among them. This is,
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