Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection is pure nostalgia

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Though it’s looking great, Shredder’s Revenge isn’t the only game to look forward to this year for brawler fans. A wide-ranging TMNT compilation is also on the way, as announced during today’s State of Play. Konami tapped Digital Eclipse for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection, a package containing arcade, console, and handheld titles.

What retro games are included? Essentially, all of them. There’s “13 console and arcade games and their regional versions,” which spans Turtles in Time, The Hyperstone Heist, the NES games, the Game Boy games, and multiple versions of Tournament Fighters.

The arcade inclusions — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time — will let “you and up to three friends have the arcade experience at home on your couch or online,” according to Konami. “The 8-bit TMNT II: The Arcade Game, TMNT III: The Manhattan Project, and the 16-bit TMNT IV: Turtles in Time, and The Hyperstone Heist will also have all the local multi-player fun of yesteryear.”

We’re dipping back into the 8- and 16-bit era, which is a partially comfy, partially nerve-wracking time for TMNT games. Thankfully, that’s where modern features can lend a hand.

“Combined with Rewind and Save Anytime, we’re designing custom game guides harkening to the aesthetic of the video game magazines from the ’80s and ’90s to help get players through some of those notoriously tricky parts,” notes Konami senior producer Charles Murakami. “You know what we’re talking about!”

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection will launch on PS4 and PS5 in 2022. Presumably, like most other classic Konami collections, this will spread to other platforms.