Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection Puts Other Retro Collections To Shame

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That Exoprimal State of Play… well, it sure happened didn’t it? Although most reptile lovers were left screaming ‘where is Dino Crisis?!’ into a well-worn pillow, fans of a certain group of adolescent evolved samurai tortoises had such a good night that they might as well have just been told that The Next Mutation never happened.

By far one of the biggest surprises of the presentation was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection, a compilation of 13 different games from the Turtle’s past, including massive hits like the arcade original, Turtles in Time, and even the massively underrated Tournament Fighters. With this and Shredder’s Revenge, TMNT lovers are eating good this year, huh?

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Far from just being a nice surprise, The Cowabunga Collection is a show of how retro gaming collections can, and should, be done. More often than not, these collections usually feature three games that are gussied up a bit with some extra art, maybe a few tracks from the OST, and a few bits of trivia if you’re lucky. That’s the Disney Classic Games Collection experience, at least.

Sometimes they’re even worse than that and miss out some games that really could have been included, or have barely anything in the way of extra features. Where the fuck was Super Mario Galaxy 2, Nintendo? Actually, don’t even get me started on Nintendo, which seems keen to do retro gaming in the worst possible way every console generation, and even cocked up its N64 emulation until recently.

This isn’t the case with the Cowabunga Collection. Rather than three titles, or maybe a cheeky four when you later add in Aladdin, there are nine games here, rising to 13 if you count