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Konami and Digital Eclipse serve up a tasty pizza pie from a retro collection with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collectionnow available for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X. Featuring dozens of pizza chef titles on three consoles, a handheld and a few arcade originals – plus the Japanese versions where applicable and masses concept art – it’s a retro party.

Since the collection has so many titles to choose from, let’s take a look at which raw pizza toppings are worth checking out. In addition to the much-loved arcade beat-’em-up classics, here are five games included in the Cowabunga Collection that are worth seeing.

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

The Sega Genesis gets a bad rap for its narrower color palette and crunchier sound chip compared to the SNES, but its faster processor often excelled at fast arcade action (thanks Blast Processing!). Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist remixes levels and enemies from both critically acclaimed beat ’em-up arcade games with a few original touches to create its own unique experience.

The Hyper Stone Robbery is also the only TMNT video game to boss Tatsu, Shredder’s bald henchman, played by Toshishiro Obata from the original Ninja Turtles live-action movies.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Back from the Sewer (Game Boy)

Like its predecessor, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Back from the Sewer is a side-scrolling beat-em-up along the lines of bad guys. You move your turtle from side to side as you beat up foot soldiers until you reach a boss at the end of each stage.

Back from the sewers ups the ante of the original with bigger, more pronounced graphics. In fact, the sprites are so big that it’s hard to dodge projects like Krang’s missiles or flying ninja stars. Not a long game, this is fun as a quick diversion with great graphics for the system.

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

The sequel to a best-selling port of the famous arcade game, a beat-’em-up similar to Last fight, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: The Manhattan Project takes the heroes in a half shell from the beach to Krang’s spaceship.

A late release for the NES, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: The Manhattan Project is a graphic marvel with a punchy soundtrack. Delay occurs when too many enemies appear on screen, but it’s worth playing this overlooked classic.

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

Much better than it has any right to be, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 let gamers start out as Michelangelo on a brave quest to rescue his terrapin brethren from a large fortress. An early example of the Metroidvania genre, players explore from room to room, gaining skills, battling bosses, and eventually playing as the other ninja turtles.

Despite the game forcing players to be Michelangelo right away, the game’s groovy cover art features a 90s pissed-off Leonardo full of fury as a mutated rat in a cage. There is an impressive scope in the game with a high level of challenge. It’s not just rescue that’s radical here.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (NES)

Fighting games saw a revival of arcades in the mid-to-late 90s with the one-two punch of Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat. While 16-bit systems were full of fighting games, the aging NES barely got any.

One of the last games released for the system, the NES version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters is a new take on a worn-out genre. For reasons, the turtles fight without weapons and are different colors to make it easier to tell the difference between who is playing against whom in each match.

Aside from the fact that each character has a special move (frustratingly, the story mode only focuses on turtles, although the multiplayer modes allow you to play with more characters), a random fireball falls on the playing field. A bit like a proto Poké Ball, when players pick it up, they can do a special move. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters is better than you’d expect on the NES.