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Leonardo. Donatello. Michelangelo. Raphael. Fine artists, for certain, however over the previous 30 years their names have turn out to be synonymous with sewers, pizza, and martial arts. The historical past of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles can’t be informed with out touching upon the numerous video video games they starred in, and we coated their largest yr in video games again in episode 230, in addition to their most up-to-date sport in episode 470.

This week’s episode is completely different. Rather than cowl a single sport or perhaps a single yr, host Bob Mackey, Henry Gilbert, and Digital Eclipse’s Chris Kohler (a voice our listeners ought to know very effectively by now) cowl the brand-new Cowabunga Collection from Konami which incorporates 13 8- and 16-bit releases, from the 1989 arcade brawler to the 1994 NES model of Tournament Fighters. 13 video games in 5 years? Yes, the TMNT phenomenon was that massive.

The crust of this episode particulars the exhaustive work that Digital Eclipse put in to convey these video games to fashionable platforms together with organizing 1000’s of pages of Konami paperwork in order that they could possibly be included within the assortment for followers to get pleasure from; nonetheless, we nonetheless make time to debate the precise video games, highlighting one specifically that many followers might need missed when it was new. Do take word that Konami sponsored this episode and offered Retronauts with evaluate code of the Cowabunga Collection previous to its retail launch.

Description: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection is lastly right here, that means we now have the prospect to formally play over a dozen TMNT video games from the eight and 16-bit period—most of which by no means noticed a re-release! But how did this compilation come collectively, and what are the precise quirks of the numerous, many turtle-based video games it incorporates? On this episode of Retronauts, be part of Bob Mackey, Henry Gilbert, and Digital Eclipse’s Chris Kohler for an inside take a look at how the ooze is made.

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