Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection

[CreepinDeth]

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.

[Grindspine]

The TMNT arcade game was greatness.  The Ultra NES TMNT was frustration boxed and sold.

[CreepinDeth]

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.

[targetrasp]

underwater stages are the worst

[targetrasp]

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!

[BLUEVOODU]

well... after how long it took for the Lego Skywalker Saga to come out, I would no longer assume something is a placeholder lol 

GREAT POST @CreepinDeth  ... I am going to pre-order as well.  This is quite a collection!

[targetrasp]

watch - all the trophies and achievements work around NOT using the rewind function!

[CreepinDeth]

@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! 

[targetrasp]

With the rumors Shredders Revenge is releasing June 16th wouldn't it seem more likely this game gets released much later

[CreepinDeth]

Release date has been announced.

August 30th, 2022

[targetrasp]

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

[Grindspine]

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.

[CreepinDeth]

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.

[targetrasp]

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.

[Grindspine]

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!

[targetrasp]

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.

[Grindspine]

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.

[targetrasp]

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!

[Grindspine]

Sometimes brick walls have meat.