Today Konami revealed the TMNT: The Cowabunga Collection. This collection contains the following titles -
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Arcade)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (Arcade)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game (NES)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project (NES)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (NES)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time (Super Nintendo)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (Super Nintendo)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist (Sega Genesis)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (Sega Genesis)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of The Foot Clan (Game Boy)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back From The Sewers (Game Boy)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue (Game Boy)
This is easily a day 1 purchase for me. Can't wait to play some of the game boy games again. Fall of the Foot Clan was one of the few GB games I actually owned.
https://youtu.be/R-78FD9xvc0
The TMNT arcade game was greatness. The Ultra NES TMNT was frustration boxed and sold.
Quote from: Grindspine on March 10, 2022, 06:26:21 PM
The Ultra NES TMNT was frustration boxed and sold.
I found it funny that they advertised the save and rewind feature just before they showed the game footage of that game.
underwater stages are the worst
I went ahead and preordered. Best Buy says Dec 31st, Please tell me that's a place holder date and it'll be out quicker!
well... after how long it took for the Lego Skywalker Saga to come out, I would no longer assume something is a placeholder lol ;D
GREAT POST
@CreepinDeth ... I am going to pre-order as well. This is quite a collection!
watch - all the trophies and achievements work around NOT using the rewind function!
@targetrasp - Word on the street is June for the release. I don't think anything definitive has said.
@BLUEVOODU - Thanks! I'm glad there are a few of you who enjoyed these games as much as I did back in the day. Definitely going to play this on my Steam Deck! 8)
With the rumors Shredders Revenge is releasing June 16th wouldn't it seem more likely this game gets released much later
Release date has been announced.
August 30th, 2022
Been really enjoying this collection. I've ran through the first nes game and the first arcade game. Really good at satisfying that nostalgia itch
By "ran through the first game" I am not taking that as you beat it, right? Because, seriously, after stage four, that game is super difficult. I think I spent most of 5th grade trying to beat that game. That NES TMNT made by Ultra was Turtles, but it doesn't hold a candle to the TMNT arcade game.
That water level with the electrified seaweed still gives me shivers.
The NES TMNT Arcade game was really good for how much it was downgraded to work on the NES.
I still throw this on every now and then.
https://youtu.be/7rTVHFfqD_o
yeah i beat it! Back in the day I had to beat it with the game genie to figure out where everything was. trick is don't lose a turtle and find the buildings and sewers with a pizza close by; go in, heal up, get out, repeat.
Where I always struggle is in the technodrome. I always get decimated. using Donnie or Leo on the clearable parts and ralph or mikey as the sacrificial lambs in that last part part before shredder is the only way i can make it through. As long as Donnie is alive; Shredder doesn't get a hit in.
Renee and I played through Turtles in Time in one sitting. There is a bit of nostalgia there, but that game's responsiveness has not aged well.
I think we'll have to go straight back to the TMNT arcade game. I spent so many quarters on that back in the nineties!
I do not want to ever play the NES original TMNT game by Ultra though. That water level still gives me the shivers!
I absolutely hated that level when that game was new, matter of fact I never revisited the game until the Cowabunga Collection just because of said level.
This time around it didn't seem so hard. I "cheated" and looked at a map because always ran out of time back tracking. As a kid, getting killed a billion times trying to sketch out a map was part of it. Unless Nintendo Power had a map you were completely blind. If there was one back then, I must have missed that issue or it was on the back of one of the posters hanging in my room.
The NES TMNT was one of those games that I beat once, then never picked it up again. That game was hard beyond the point of challenging and far into the zone of being frustrating. I spent most of 5th grade trying to beat that game. I think that 7th grade was dominated by Castlevania III, then 8th grade into freshman year was Mega Man 7. Those three games were all a pain to beat. I remember Castlevania more fondly though.
castlevania was difficult for sure... there's a brick wall i run into late game that I just can't get past, even taking advantage of the rewind function on the anniversary collection i haven't been able to get past it. Super frustrating!
Sometimes brick walls have meat.
;D