Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection
Developer Digital Eclipse
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection is a 2022 video game compilation developed by Digital Eclipse and published by Konami. It features 13 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video games developed by Konami between 1989 and 1994. The compilation includes the Western and Japanese versions of most titles, and adds online capabilities in certain games. The Cowabunga Collection was released for Nintendo… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
935 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Steam reviews, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
164 positive · 19 negative
95% range 84–93%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluesky * | 36 | 8 | 606 |
| Steam reviews | 164 | 19 | 0 |
| Lemmy * | 2 | 0 | 51 |
| Mastodon * | 3 | 0 | 46 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
What players are saying
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 188 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (915 of 1,042 positive).
Players praise the collection's extensive extras, including guides, cheats, and museum content. [1][2][3] Some reviewers note the games are fun but best bought on sale due to price concerns. [4][5][6] A few players report technical issues with controller support and video options. [7][8]
- [7]
A good collection of games, a bad selection of video options. I don't consider myself too picky but there are no interpolation options leaving you stuck with hard edge nearest neighbour pixels. This would be fine except for the games not having consistent pixel sizes resulting in shimmering with motion. There are several filters to choose from but they're not filters so much as overlays. One adds scanlines, which is …
- [1]
Easily sets the standards for how retro compilations should be. Multiple region choices? Cheats? Rewinds for fixing mistakes? Guides? An entire playthru of each game to watch? Even small clips of certain tricks to do as examples? So much here, above and beyond the usual. The collections in the museum is top notch. Soundtracks. Game boxes. Game manuals. Arcade flyers. Ads. Comic book covers. TV show stills. Tons of …
- [4]
So let me start off by saying that I paid under $15 for this game. At the full price of $40, I would not recommend it, even with all of the added features and extras. It's just too steep for a bunch of old games that can be finished in 30 minutes. The Cowabunga Collection ultimately succeeds because it answers the fundamental question that all of these compilations face -- "Why wouldn't I just play this on an …
- [15]
It has saves and rewinds so you and your deteriorated middle-aged reflexes can finally get past that terrible seaweed level! Let's be real, though, you're probably just here for Turtles in Time, particularly as quite a few of these other games either haven't aged well or weren't ever good in the first place (looking at you, Back From The Sewers).
- [6]
It's buggy. It's a mess. It's an old-school port. It's over-priced. It's still fun. Good couch co-ops are hard to find and this one is one of the better ones. It does not add anything to the originals and it would have been nice if they would have put some effort into making them full screen, but does scratch the nostalgia itch. It does have controller support (using X-box controllers). Solid $15 game. 7 out of 10 …
Summarised from 34 of the 509 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
89% of the 188 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection. The complaint that keeps coming up: overpriced at full retail price. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Reactions
60 of 935 · most liked firstI’ve waited 50 years to see War sing “Why Can’t We Be Friends” with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and today that dream came true 🥲
neutral · AI labelView post →Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 🍕🐢!!
neutral · AI labelView post →Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 🐢🍕✨
neutral · AI labelView post →*to the tune of “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”*
neutral · AI labelView post →happy world turtle day now that the game has been out for 24 hours i can reveal that the topline melody of the bridge on the end credits theme for TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: TACTICAL TAKEDOWN was made by drawing raph in midi
neutral · AI labelView post →NOT ONLY IS STRANGE SCAFFOLD MAKING A TMNT GAME NOT ONLY IS IT A TURN-BASED BEAT-EM-UP But they let me kill Splinter and Shredder—so we can tell the story of what comes next This is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown, FRESH from the PC Gamer Show store.steampowered.com/app/3229100/...
neutral · AI labelView post →CREATIVE CONSTRAINTS ARE THE ONLY WAY I COULD DEAL WITH THE EXISTENTIAL TERROR OF BEING TOLD I COULD DO WHATEVER I WANTED WITH THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES BTW YOU SHOULD WISHLIST OUR COOL TMNT GAME store.steampowered.com/app/3229100/...
neutral · AI labelView post →You can sing "Bluesky's DMs aren't encrypted" to the tune of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
neutral · AI labelView post →Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection (Multiplatform, 2022)
neutral · AI labelView post →BREAKING: Paramount halts production on “tasteful” pornographic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film
neutral · AI labelView post →That's not all! Stay tuned for more info about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem and Avatar Legends!
neutral · AI labelView post →TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES II: BACK FROM THE SEWERS KONAMI 1991 (Captured on Game Boy Pocket)
neutral · AI labelView post →Frank Miller has drawn his first ever comic cover for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. (Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...)
neutral · AI labelView post →First teaser for the ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin' video game 🐢
neutral · AI labelView post →TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES IV: TURTLES IN TIME KONAMI 1992 SNES
neutral · AI labelView post →Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a pretty simple game, but it features one screen where the game scrolls diagonally. By holding diagonally down-right and attacking, the scrolling can be broken, leading to being able to wall the boss out.....literally.
neutral · AI labelView post →Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles x Godzilla #1 Cover D by Sean Galloway
neutral · AI labelView post →Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #art
neutral · AI labelView post →Shredder and Krang will appear in ‘TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM 2’.
neutral · AI labelView post →✨Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, after Eastman✨
neutral · AI labelView post →✨Scarlet Witch "No More Mutants", but Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' April O'Neil✨
neutral · AI labelView post →Back in 2024 I did some artwork for Unmatched Adventures: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a tabletop board game by Restoration Games. I was in charge of the Raphael and Casey Jones deck. The game has been out for a little bit now, so I think it's safe to share these.
neutral · AI labelView post →✨I'm 46 today...anyway, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Hot Rodding Teenagers VHS homage✨
neutral · AI labelView post →Dungeons & Dragons Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Warduke Shredder
neutral · AI labelView post →Listening to Living Colour makes me want to play the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video game for NES.
positive · AI labelView post →TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES II: THE ARCADE GAME KONAMI 1990 NES
neutral · AI labelView post →NEW EPISODE! It's the first comic crossover between Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Why am I releasing it at Midnight? BECAUSE I CAN. youtu.be/1w1pgig_5xM
neutral · AI labelView post →✨In a perfect world, I'd be drawing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles stuff everyday✨
neutral · AI labelView post →Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - artwork by John Hebert from #TMNT Adventures, 1996.
neutral · AI labelView post →*to the tune of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles*
neutral · AI labelView post →Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and their rogues.
neutral · AI labelView post →✨Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collage variant✨
neutral · AI labelView post →Various Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES) development art.
neutral · AI labelView post →Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Arcade, Konami, 1989)
neutral · AI labelView post →TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES III: RADICAL RESCUE KONAMI 1993 (Captured on Game Boy Pocket) Shout-out @yokoikids.bsky.social game of the month
neutral · AI labelView post →We're making a TMNT Game! AHHH!! Introducing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown store.steampowered.com/app/3229100
neutral · AI labelView post →TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES II: THE ARCADE GAME KONAMI 1990 NES
neutral · AI labelView post →"The world you grew up in no longer exists" & it's just a screenshot of the seaweed level from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles NES game.
neutral · AI labelView post →Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue - Game Boy box artwork.
neutral · AI labelView post →✨Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, after Eastman✨
neutral · AI labelView post →This is a historic moment for the Video Game Soda Machine Project. Across 37 years and 50+ games, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles battled through sewers and streets without encountering a single soda machine. Until now. Feast your eyes on the Pond Cola machine from TMNT: Shredder's Revenge.
neutral · AI labelView post →✨Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Happy Halloween!✨
neutral · AI labelView post →✨Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage homage rough sketch progress✨
neutral · AI labelView post →Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge (Steam) is $9.99 on Humble buff.ly/JsNBcs5 #ad Deck verified also on Game Pass Premium
neutral · AI labelView post →🎃 Happy #blacktober 🎃 Edit of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 🐢 💜❤️🧡💙 #tmnt | #edit | #lyssiesart
neutral · AI labelView post →Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES) enemy concept artwork and in-game sprites.
neutral · AI labelView post →New sub! Episode 345 - Hero Turtles “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game” Tonight I dine on middle-aged comedian soup! pastebin.com/raw/F0mn2XCf
neutral · AI labelView post →📺 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time // Super NES // PVM-1354Q via RGB
neutral · AI labelView post →The final episode of the original run of the animated series ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ (aka ‘Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles’) aired on CBS thirty years ago this week (November 1996) 🍕🧬🥷🐢 #OTD
neutral · AI labelView post →Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) 🎬💚 Directed by Steve Barron
neutral · AI labelView post →when you drop acid and watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
neutral · AI labelView post →Didn’t announce this yesterday, because we were ironing out some tiny details, but… TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: TACTICAL TAKEDOWN IS OUT ON SWITCH IN EUROPE! Today’s a good day to give your release manager(s) a hug. This aspect of game development often has “unsung hero” status.
neutral · AI labelView post →🔴 Live now playing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1989 Arcade Game (Cowabunga Collection port)! 🐢❤️ Come hang out! 😊👇 m.twitch.tv/christina_ro...
positive · AI labelView post →Easily sets the standards for how retro compilations should be. Multiple region choices? Cheats? Rewinds for fixing mistakes? Guides? An entire playthru of each game to watch? Even small clips of certain tricks to do as examples? So much here, above and beyond the usual. The collections in the museum is top notch. Soundtracks. Game boxes. Game manuals. Arcade flyers. Ads. Comic book covers. TV show stills. Tons of development art and even some translations for some of the japanese notes.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This image gives me hope.. It's a red-eared slider turtle! 🐢 This was photographic proof that NONE OF THE ROBOTS OF THE TECHNODROME could actually see these turtles. Because image recognition in the 1990s was *shit*. [All together now](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOQPp1Yvtm8): *T-U-R-T-L-E Power* *T-U-R-T-L-E Power* *T-U-R-T-L-E Power* *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles* Actually, this complex image of reptilian stealth pushes even human cognition, because back when I submitted this,…
neutral · AI labelView post →What breed of turtle were the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?. Bonus: What breed of turtle would make the best ninja turtle?
neutral · AI labelView post →Everyone hates *that* level! #TMNT #TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles #NES
negative · AI labelView post →You'd think a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game wouldn't be a sicko pick... but it's a wildly undersold, highly experimental turn-based scrolling brawler by Stange Scaffold, makers of Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator. It manages to feel shockingly like TMNT arcade despite the genre shift.
positive · AI labelView post →Downtown Montreal tonight on Halloween 🎃: Four dudes walking around dressed as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. They see a dude across the street wearing a Bruins jersey and immediately yell: “Fuck Boston!” 😅
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm 40 years old, and when Republicans start yelling about "communism" it just confuses me. I didn't grow up fearing the Soviet Union. It died when I was still watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoons. I figure they're communicating to really old people (which is bizarre since I feel extremely old). It's the equivalent of yelling at cavemen about saber tooth tigers.
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