The Cowabunga Collection brings back 13 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games

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Konami  has announced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection, a sepia-tinged feast for nerds of a certain age (me). The Japanese publisher acquired the rights to the series in 1987, just as it began to explode in popularity, and set about producing a bunch of titles across different platforms: probably the most well-known being the 4-player TMNT arcade game.

The Cowabunga Collection includes 13 TMNT games total, though there's a bit of tripling up with variants of one game. It contains all three versions of TMNT: Tournament Fighters, and they do have major differences—whether you'll want to do a deep-dive on a NES fighting game in 2022 is one question, but for the sake of completionists everywhere it's good to have them in here.

And the nicest thing about this compilation is that it exists at all: with something like TMNT, the biggest barrier to re-releases is working out the licensing (Nickelodeon now owns the franchise and is on-board).

TMNT: The Cowabunga Collection includes:

The collection is being handled by Digital Eclipse, which has worked on things like the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection, the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection, and the Blizzard Arcade Collection.

The games are being shown some love, with the most notable addition being online co-op for four of the titles: TMNT (Arcade), TMNT: Turtles in Time (Arcade), TMNT: The Hyperstone Heist, and TMNT Tournament Fighters (Super Nintendo). There's also a save anytime feature, the ability to rewind, button mapping, and in-game guides for especially fiendish sections.

Here's the announcement trailer. Some childish part of me loves how you get the 'Rated T for Teen' message at the start.

Other notable aspects are the inclusion of Japanese