Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Update Adds A Feature Fans Have Been Begging For
A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection game update now includes an online multiplayer feature.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection just got its first big update, bringing a host of fan-requested in-game features to a baker’s dozen TMNT games bundled up in a single title. The most notable addition is the online multiplayer feature for 1991’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time for Nintendo’s SNES console, whose games are now accessible on Nintendo Switch.
According to GameSpot, while notable, the online multiplayer functionality for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time isn’t the most important feature added to the gaming collection. Other notable features include color filters options for Game Boy handhelds, a customizable button mapping option, and an inconsequential update regarding the game’s Home menu button, which now resembles the one from The Cowabunga Collection’s box art—which is, admittedly, a welcomed aesthetic tweak.
The Game Boy Color filter option is a welcomed addition for the fans of Nintendo’s iconic handheld, which allows players to choose between emulating the differently colored Nintendo Game Boy consoles, including Black and White, GB Green, GB Pocket Green, and GB Light Blue. Button mapping in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection is another significant addition, as it allows gamers to assign a different button to different actions across several different games—a very important feature for fighting games.
Online functionality across all bundled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection gaming titles has been improved, with the exception of TMNT III: The Manhattan Project (NES), which is supposed to receive an online mode in a future update. For the games that had their respective multiplayer components tweaked, besides the enhanced online stability, two of the arcade games in the collection now have a customizable lobby size limited to two, three, or four players.
A host of other improvements have been introduced to the game. This includes various enhancements for TMNT: Tournament Fighters for both Super Famicom and SNES, including the toggle option for Ultimate Attacks. The Super Famicom version also has a Group Mode toggle, though this option is only available in the Japanese version of the game. The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade, both North American and Japanese, has an adjustable number of lives per coin now, ranging from one to five.
The same game also has adjustable difficulty now and a togglable Game Loop option. Pretty much the same enhancements were made to the US arcade version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time, where the number of lives per coin can be adjusted from one to eight. The difficulty is now also adjustable, as well as the Game Loop option.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have seen a spike in popularity among gamers, thanks to The Cowabunga Collection and several other gaming releases featuring the four turtles, like the popular Shredder’s Revenge—according to the game’s developer, this title won’t receive any DLCs past what was already released. The Cowabunga Collection is now available for PlayStation and Xbox platforms, Nintendo Switch, and PC.
