Konami and Digital Eclipse are serving up a tasty pizza pie of a retro assortment with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection, out now on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X. Featuring a pizza baker’s dozen titles from three consoles, one handheld, and some arcade originals — plus the Japanese variations the place relevant and oodles of idea artwork — it’s a retro feast.

Since the gathering has so many titles to select from, we’re going to take a look at which pizza toppings within the tough are value testing. Beyond the beloved arcade beat-’em-up classics, listed below are 5 video games included within the Cowabunga Collection which are value testing.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist (Sega Genesis)

The Sega Genesis will get a foul rap for its extra restricted colour palette and crunchier sound chip in comparison with the SNES, however its sooner processor typically excelled at speedy arcade motion (thanks Blast Processing!). Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist remixes ranges and enemies from each acclaimed beat-’em-up arcade video games with just a few authentic touches into its personal distinctive expertise.

The Hyperstone Heist can also be the one TMNT online game to characteristic Tatsu, Shredder’s bald henchman performed by Toshishiro Obata from the unique Ninja Turtles live-action films, as a boss.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Back From The Sewers (Game Boy)

Much like its predecessor, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Back From The Sewers is a side-scrolling beat-em-up alongside the strains of Bad Dudes. You transfer your turtle from left to proper beating up Foot Soldiers till you attain a boss on the finish of every stage.

Back From The Sewers ups the ante of the unique with bigger, extra distinct graphics. In truth, the sprites are so giant it may possibly make it exhausting to dodge tasks like Krang’s missiles or flying ninja stars. Not an extended sport by any stretch, that is enjoyable as a fast diversion with nice graphics for the system.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: The Manhattan Project (NES)

The follow-up to a best-selling port of the well-known arcade sport, a beat-’em-up not in contrast to Final Fight, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: The Manhattan Project takes the heroes in a half shell from the seaside to Krang’s Spaceship.

A late launch for the NES, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: The Manhattan Project is a graphical marvel with a punchy soundtrack. Slowdown does happen when too many enemies seem on the display screen, nevertheless it’s value it to play by means of this ignored traditional.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: The Radical Rescue (Game Boy)

Far higher than it has any proper to be, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 has players begin as Michelangelo on a valiant quest to rescue his terrapin brethren from a big fortress. An early instance of the Metroidvania style, gamers discover from room to room, gaining skills, combating bosses, and ultimately attending to play as the opposite ninja turtles.

Despite the sport forcing gamers to be Michelangelo proper off the bat, the sport’s groovy cowl artwork incorporates a pissy Leonardo stuffed with ’90s rage like a mutant rat in a cage. There’s a powerful scope at play with a excessive stage of problem. It’s not simply the rescue that’s radical right here.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (NES)

Fighting video games brought about an arcade revival within the mid- to late ’90s with the one-two punch of Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat. While 16-bit techniques have been filled with combating video games, the getting older NES barely bought any.

One of the final video games launched for the system, the NES model of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters is a novel tackle a well-worn style. For causes, the turtles combat with out weapons and have totally different colours to make it simpler to inform the distinction of who’s enjoying who in every match.

Aside from every character having a particular transfer (frustratingly, the Story Mode is barely turtle centric, though you possibly can play as extra characters within the multiplayer modes), a random fireball drops onto the enjoying area. Sort of like a proto Poké Ball, when gamers choose it up they will do a particular transfer. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters is best than you may count on on NES.