Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection

The Cowabunga Collection adds save states, rewind functions, button mapping, as well as online capabilities in certain games and local co-op in all games where it was originally intended. It features an in-game museum that offers previously unseen development art, sketches and game design material for the titles. All games can be played in English or Japanese, excluding the arcade version of Turtles in Time and the NES version of Tournament Fighters, which were never released in Japan. The Cowabunga Collection compiles 13 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games developed by Konami between 1989 and 1994, listed below. == Development==

The compilation was developed by Digital Eclipse, who had previously worked on other retro collections, such as The Disney Afternoon Collection and Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection. Charles Murakami of, the senior producer at Konami pitched a collection of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle themed game collection that would include other promotional material related to the comic series and the animated television series. Digital Eclipse developed the project and worked with Rich Whitehouse who was the ROM engineer on the project and was able to reverse-engineer the games. Material related to the game was collected from a week's worth of research at The Strong. Konami went through their archive in Japan and found about 2,000 pages of design documents and promotional art which were scanned and translated or captioned to be included as bonus material in the release. ==Release and reception==

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection was featured at San Diego Comic-Con 2022. It was released for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S on August 30, 2022. A limited edition physical version of the game was also released, containing a cloth poster, an acrylic diorama, an enamel pin set, 12 Tournament Fighters cards, and a 180-page artbook. The box art and cloth poster were designed by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman. The game was delisted on Steam in Japan in March 2024, making it only available for people who have purchased the game prior to delisting. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection received "generally favorable" reviews, according to the review aggregator Metacritic. Retro Gamer magazine complimented the bonus features and quality of life features such as the ability to rewind some games and remove flickering on others, and the high quality emulation that had a "tiny bit of input lag in some games, but nothing that hampered play". ==Notes==