Comic-Con 2022: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection Gets Release Date

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The Heroes in a Half Shell are coming out of the sewers next month. As part of this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, IGN exclusively reveals that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection will be released on August 30, 2022. The Cowabunga Collection assembles thirteen classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle video games from the 8-bit and 16-bit eras, all made by Konami. The Cowabunga Collection will be available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. The included games – and their original gaming systems – are:

    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 IV: Turtles in Time (SNES)

    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist (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)

    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (NES)

    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (SNES)

    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (Genesis)

This excites me more than pretty much any new game release they could announce. Much of my childhood revolved around the Turtles, and I had a lot of these games. Some of them may seem redundant at first – all three versions of Tournament Fighters, for example, or including both Turtles in Time and The Hyperstone Heist, which are virtually the same game – but each port has differences from the others, so it’s nice to give people the choice (or let them play all versions of the games). The release date is also four weeks before Shredder’s Revenge arrives in its hard copy form, so players like me who chose to forgo the digital release can reacquaint themselves with the Turtles’ video game history before tackling this year’s throwback.

Are you looking forward to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection? What’s your favorite Turtles game? Does the video game world’s refusal to make us choose between Bebop and Rocksteady and Tokka and Rahzar automatically make it the supreme outlet for the franchise? Let us know in the comments, and stay tuned to Geeks + Gamers for more from Comic-Con 2022!