With only a few days to go until Christmas, Konami and Digital Eclipse released the first major update toTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection. The news came just four months after the release ofThe Cowabunga Collection, which contained 13Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesgames that were originally released from 1989 to 1994 for arcade machines and consoles such as the Game Boy and the SNES.
The Cowabunga Collectionwas released on August 30 on multiple platforms, shortly after the release ofTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge.It served asa nice trip down memory lane forTMNTfansof all kinds. Though it was not without flaws and lacked some features that fans requested, such as online multiplayer for specific titles, developer Digital Eclipse worked to fulfill the requests since launch.
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According to the patch notes, online multiplayer functionality has been added for the SNES version ofTurtles in Time, which is regarded by fans as one ofthe top games inThe Cowabunga Collection. Digital Eclipse stated that, in a future update, the NES version ofThe Manhattan Projectwill also receive online multiplayer capabilities. Furthermore, the Home Menu icon for the Switch version of the collection has also been updated to match the box art, joystick support has been implemented for the PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S versions, and the Game Boy games have had some color enhancements added. Players can now choose to enable Game Boy Color mode, and can now swap the game screen color palettes between filters such as monochrome and “Game Boy green” to match the nostalgia factor that fans may want.
Audio adjustments for games and menus were also included, as well as some enhancements to the arcade games that allow players to change how many lives can be added per “coin inserted” into the game. In addition, some missing manual pages forTurtles in Timehave been fixed and put back in the museum, and visual settings are now saved per game, rather than for the entire compilation. Though this update does not include all thefixes forThe Cowabunga Collectionthat fans may want, Digital Eclipse stated that it remains dedicated to supportingTMNTgames, no matter how recent or retro they are, and will continue to release updates forThe Cowabunga Collectionin 2023.
The Cowabunga Collectionupdate caps off a busy 2022 for theTMNTbrand. With at leastone moreTMNTgame to come in 2023, the party will continue for the foreseeable future, and the heroes in a half-shell will be ready.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collectionis available now for PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
